That's not been an issue if the user isn't blindly putting in their password to everything that pops up - the box that pops up for authentication is presented by the authentication library and gives the name of the calling application and is somewhat generic. The historic Software Update box has always looked unique, and lists what updates it would be downloading and immediately asks for your password upon clicking "install" and is identified as Apple Software Update. Now, they are done through the App Store, which would be even harder to spoof.
I see what you are saying though - yes it's probably possible to go through some form of convoluted combination of exploits and vulnerabilities to "own" someone, but that is the case with every OS. The fact that it hasn't happened in 15+ years says something about how difficult it would be to do, though it isn't the complete story by any means.
"Democratic governments need to spend their time and resources cracking open the door in closed markets for us to make more money and not pay taxes on."
The good news is that even on the absolute first version of OS X, if you wanted to do anything that was outside the user home folder, or even with the user's keychain, it would ask for your password.
I don't know about you, but if you go to a web site and then it starts asking for your system password, YOU DO NOT PUT IT IN.
You are correct that Safari auto-expanding compressed archives wasn't a good idea. However, the inherent security design that the actual engineers managed to persuade Jobs to keep in the OS prevented major damage from things like that, to the point that even Jobs was recounting his at-the-time skepticism and praising that design and those engineers in on-stage interviews years later.
No operating system is without flaws. However, mix a bit of common sense in with good design, and you come out ahead of just good design.
Wait a second... are we returning to the days of "beleaguered" Apple? Do we get to pull that off the shelf again? It's been like 20 years since we've been able to use that...
If you were in South Florida, I'm guessing you were driving on I-95 which really is the wild west, even compared to other US states and different highways in Florida. If you were to use the Florida Turnpike instead which is basically a parallel route, it's far more calm and usually much quicker to get somewhere because all the circus animals are being assholes for "free" on I-95.
Amazing what a tiny toll does for cleaning up behavior.
You forgot that there are other 5-year-olds that are "forking" your drawings, which creates an essentially unlimited supply. Just like Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Etherium, et. al.
"Only so many coins to go around" == "only so much hype to inflate the bubble before it all comes crashing down in hilarity for those smart enough to not get involved"
So all we need to do is wait for the global banking system to fail, and count on no action being taken by anyone to prevent it, as well as all governments to sit on their hands and do absolutely nothing while billions of people are plunged into poverty.
That should happen Real Soon Now(tm)...
But hey, at least you'll have some outrageously valued bits on your SSD that you won't be able to access because the electricity is shut off due to the global economic collapse! That should keep you warm and your belly full!
Maybe because both of their values during their respective hype bubbles far outstripped their real value?
At least with the beanie baby, you have a tangible, physical thing that you could potentially burn to release energy, level a shaky piece of furniture, or use to wedge open a door - so it still has some marginal residual value. You can't ever recover the energy spent to "mine" bitcoin, it doesn't physically exist anywhere except as a pattern of electrons in a computer, and it only has any value because of the delusion of the masses.
If energy cost was factored into bitcoin, it would probably have negative value.
Don't forget that the supply isn't really that limited if everything is paid for in fractional bitcoin, and there's no effective limit to how small the fractions get. At least with regular government currencies, the denominations are limited to whatever the government creates, e.g. the penny, nickel, dime, quarter, $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, and $100.
Hey look guys, I just came up with my own crypto-currency that uses blockchain and many other buzzwords called CryptoBlock! It has a limited supply of 10 blocks, and each block is worth $10M because I say so! Of course, you can still buy a loaf of bread for 0.0000004 CryptoBlocks! Now get to 'mining' and spending a shit ton of real money on energy and equipment in order to accomplish essentially nothing!
You are extolling the creation of fabricated financial instruments, that outstrip the available supply (according to you) of a completely made up thing on the Internet with amazing volatility (according to TFA), and backed by nothing by blind faith, from fly-by-night institutions that mostly didn't exist 5 years ago, some of which already do not exist today due to borderline (if not outright) criminal behavior.
I see no problems with this whatsoever. Next up: Jesus futures. Buy today and get in on the ground before it ascends into the clouds!
Yeah. They can totally get in the wayback machine and start building recycling plants 5 years ago to deal with a sudden loss of handling capacity today.
This isn't SimCity. What do they do with the plastics that are in the recycling bin today? Next week? Plus, they still need to have someone take the recycled material from them and use it for something, or you have shredded sorted plastics piling up. Most plastic shit is made in China and shipped elsewhere, so it was a natural fit to ship discarded plastic shit back to China to recover materials for new plastic shit. Giant ships traversing the oceans filled with plastic shit, both ways.
There is no benefit to China being "nice" - in fact, there is strategic advantage to them not being nice and cutting people off, which is why they did it. When smaller nations that consume in excess of what they can domestically handle, China will be in a better negotiating position once the smaller nation is swimming in waste plastics.
Sure, but at that point what's the advantage over a traditional database that allows very computationally inexpensive inserts and updates? Buzzword-compliance?
Please tell me why it's this guy's responsibility to police Twitter, and not Twitter's. And while you are at it, please tell me why Twitter's Terms of Use don't apply to people doing things you like, but should apply to other people doing things you don't like.
Until you can do that (and it's valid), everything you said is complete horseshit.
Why couldn't his bot use the same identifying techniques (which appear to be "match name with row from database of questionable origin") and instead of replying, report it to Twitter?
Oh, because of exactly what I was saying - this is just soft-core vigilantism. This guy decided it's on him to "inform" people in an attempt to shame or silence them, and he was doing it without vetting any sources other than "crowdsourced" and "curated" database, whatever the fuck that means.
He violated the terms of use. He might have been trying to make Twitter a better place (likely not possible) through his violation, but it's a violation just the same. He did not abide by the published rules which govern the use of that private system, so the private owners have decided he doesn't get to use their property any more.
I was in Bangkok a few weeks back, and it occurred to me that people riding motorcycles and scooters in that city probably get places twice as fast as cars, because at every red light, people on two-wheeled vehicles split lanes and move to the front - this appears to be perfectly legal there. Every time a light turns green, there's a flock of motorcycles and scooters at the front of the line, riding until they catch up to the next red light, where they then filter to the front again.
More time on the go, less time standing still. One hell of a recipe for getting somewhere quicker.
What I don't understand is why Android seems to treat tablets like the adopted kid nobody likes - they've been around forever and you still find apps that are just expanded phone versions that don't work in landscape mode, as well as other oddities that make no sense that only occur on Android tablets.
I've had two iPads and two Android tablets now, and the iPad was a more complete and polished experience 4+ years ago than the latest version of Android on a tablet is today. The only reason I haven't gone back to an iPad is because Apple seems to have forgotten that the iPad Mini still is a thing, so they are selling it with a CPU that they introduced in 2014 at the same price. No thanks.
It's really too bad, too - I love the performance of the tablet I've got, and I do enjoy some of the software features Android is sporting that still elude Apple. I just wish it was more consistent. And apparently that won't be happening because Google has decided to eject from yet another product leaving customers in the lurch.
How is it that the carriers get any decision at all in who gets a software update on their hardware or not?
This is why Android is a clusterfuck - even if you are lucky enough that the guys who created the god damn hardware and sold it to you make a new software version, you have to get some shithead Telco's permission first before installing it. Google should have fixed that shit contractually a long way back, especially with Google branded hardware.
"Advertised concern about ethnic Ukrainians and Belarusians had been proffered as justification for the Soviet invasion of Poland" - sound familiar to the horseshit being used to justify "annexing" the useful / nice bits of Ukraine?
Isn't it amazing how extremism presents in the same fashion, though the extremists come from amazingly disparate starting points?
I'm also constantly amazed how the people that preach diversity and tolerance are the first to pick up a baseball bat when a group of people are practicing their freedom of assembly but happen to be saying things they don't like.
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That's not been an issue if the user isn't blindly putting in their password to everything that pops up - the box that pops up for authentication is presented by the authentication library and gives the name of the calling application and is somewhat generic. The historic Software Update box has always looked unique, and lists what updates it would be downloading and immediately asks for your password upon clicking "install" and is identified as Apple Software Update. Now, they are done through the App Store, which would be even harder to spoof.
I see what you are saying though - yes it's probably possible to go through some form of convoluted combination of exploits and vulnerabilities to "own" someone, but that is the case with every OS. The fact that it hasn't happened in 15+ years says something about how difficult it would be to do, though it isn't the complete story by any means.
No, just duplicating it, wasting even more resources and causing more market confusion.
But I'm sure the next few "initial coin offerings" of the next hype-chain crypto currencies will fix all of that.
"Democratic governments need to spend their time and resources cracking open the door in closed markets for us to make more money and not pay taxes on."
The good news is that even on the absolute first version of OS X, if you wanted to do anything that was outside the user home folder, or even with the user's keychain, it would ask for your password.
I don't know about you, but if you go to a web site and then it starts asking for your system password, YOU DO NOT PUT IT IN.
You are correct that Safari auto-expanding compressed archives wasn't a good idea. However, the inherent security design that the actual engineers managed to persuade Jobs to keep in the OS prevented major damage from things like that, to the point that even Jobs was recounting his at-the-time skepticism and praising that design and those engineers in on-stage interviews years later.
No operating system is without flaws. However, mix a bit of common sense in with good design, and you come out ahead of just good design.
Maybe he was referring to Michael Spindler? It would be just as comical...
He did manage to get PowerPC out the door, I guess.
Wait a second... are we returning to the days of "beleaguered" Apple? Do we get to pull that off the shelf again? It's been like 20 years since we've been able to use that...
If you were in South Florida, I'm guessing you were driving on I-95 which really is the wild west, even compared to other US states and different highways in Florida. If you were to use the Florida Turnpike instead which is basically a parallel route, it's far more calm and usually much quicker to get somewhere because all the circus animals are being assholes for "free" on I-95.
Amazing what a tiny toll does for cleaning up behavior.
Gee, it's almost like there are exactly zero countries that tie their currency to gold anymore.
Your point?
Building on your hilarious analog:
You forgot that there are other 5-year-olds that are "forking" your drawings, which creates an essentially unlimited supply. Just like Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Etherium, et. al.
"Only so many coins to go around" == "only so much hype to inflate the bubble before it all comes crashing down in hilarity for those smart enough to not get involved"
So all we need to do is wait for the global banking system to fail, and count on no action being taken by anyone to prevent it, as well as all governments to sit on their hands and do absolutely nothing while billions of people are plunged into poverty.
That should happen Real Soon Now(tm)...
But hey, at least you'll have some outrageously valued bits on your SSD that you won't be able to access because the electricity is shut off due to the global economic collapse! That should keep you warm and your belly full!
Maybe because both of their values during their respective hype bubbles far outstripped their real value?
At least with the beanie baby, you have a tangible, physical thing that you could potentially burn to release energy, level a shaky piece of furniture, or use to wedge open a door - so it still has some marginal residual value. You can't ever recover the energy spent to "mine" bitcoin, it doesn't physically exist anywhere except as a pattern of electrons in a computer, and it only has any value because of the delusion of the masses.
If energy cost was factored into bitcoin, it would probably have negative value.
Don't forget that the supply isn't really that limited if everything is paid for in fractional bitcoin, and there's no effective limit to how small the fractions get. At least with regular government currencies, the denominations are limited to whatever the government creates, e.g. the penny, nickel, dime, quarter, $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, and $100.
Hey look guys, I just came up with my own crypto-currency that uses blockchain and many other buzzwords called CryptoBlock! It has a limited supply of 10 blocks, and each block is worth $10M because I say so! Of course, you can still buy a loaf of bread for 0.0000004 CryptoBlocks! Now get to 'mining' and spending a shit ton of real money on energy and equipment in order to accomplish essentially nothing!
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You are extolling the creation of fabricated financial instruments, that outstrip the available supply (according to you) of a completely made up thing on the Internet with amazing volatility (according to TFA), and backed by nothing by blind faith, from fly-by-night institutions that mostly didn't exist 5 years ago, some of which already do not exist today due to borderline (if not outright) criminal behavior.
I see no problems with this whatsoever. Next up: Jesus futures. Buy today and get in on the ground before it ascends into the clouds!
At least with diamonds you can shine them up and put them in rings and stuff. Can't even do that with bitcoin.
Yeah. They can totally get in the wayback machine and start building recycling plants 5 years ago to deal with a sudden loss of handling capacity today.
This isn't SimCity. What do they do with the plastics that are in the recycling bin today? Next week? Plus, they still need to have someone take the recycled material from them and use it for something, or you have shredded sorted plastics piling up. Most plastic shit is made in China and shipped elsewhere, so it was a natural fit to ship discarded plastic shit back to China to recover materials for new plastic shit. Giant ships traversing the oceans filled with plastic shit, both ways.
There is no benefit to China being "nice" - in fact, there is strategic advantage to them not being nice and cutting people off, which is why they did it. When smaller nations that consume in excess of what they can domestically handle, China will be in a better negotiating position once the smaller nation is swimming in waste plastics.
Sure, but at that point what's the advantage over a traditional database that allows very computationally inexpensive inserts and updates? Buzzword-compliance?
Please tell me why it's this guy's responsibility to police Twitter, and not Twitter's. And while you are at it, please tell me why Twitter's Terms of Use don't apply to people doing things you like, but should apply to other people doing things you don't like.
Until you can do that (and it's valid), everything you said is complete horseshit.
Why couldn't his bot use the same identifying techniques (which appear to be "match name with row from database of questionable origin") and instead of replying, report it to Twitter?
Oh, because of exactly what I was saying - this is just soft-core vigilantism. This guy decided it's on him to "inform" people in an attempt to shame or silence them, and he was doing it without vetting any sources other than "crowdsourced" and "curated" database, whatever the fuck that means.
He violated the terms of use. He might have been trying to make Twitter a better place (likely not possible) through his violation, but it's a violation just the same. He did not abide by the published rules which govern the use of that private system, so the private owners have decided he doesn't get to use their property any more.
Why is that hard to understand?
I was in Bangkok a few weeks back, and it occurred to me that people riding motorcycles and scooters in that city probably get places twice as fast as cars, because at every red light, people on two-wheeled vehicles split lanes and move to the front - this appears to be perfectly legal there. Every time a light turns green, there's a flock of motorcycles and scooters at the front of the line, riding until they catch up to the next red light, where they then filter to the front again.
More time on the go, less time standing still. One hell of a recipe for getting somewhere quicker.
What I don't understand is why Android seems to treat tablets like the adopted kid nobody likes - they've been around forever and you still find apps that are just expanded phone versions that don't work in landscape mode, as well as other oddities that make no sense that only occur on Android tablets.
I've had two iPads and two Android tablets now, and the iPad was a more complete and polished experience 4+ years ago than the latest version of Android on a tablet is today. The only reason I haven't gone back to an iPad is because Apple seems to have forgotten that the iPad Mini still is a thing, so they are selling it with a CPU that they introduced in 2014 at the same price. No thanks.
It's really too bad, too - I love the performance of the tablet I've got, and I do enjoy some of the software features Android is sporting that still elude Apple. I just wish it was more consistent. And apparently that won't be happening because Google has decided to eject from yet another product leaving customers in the lurch.
How is it that the carriers get any decision at all in who gets a software update on their hardware or not?
This is why Android is a clusterfuck - even if you are lucky enough that the guys who created the god damn hardware and sold it to you make a new software version, you have to get some shithead Telco's permission first before installing it. Google should have fixed that shit contractually a long way back, especially with Google branded hardware.
No, see, it was okay because they came from a "crowdsourced database."
That's so different than a Nixonian enemies list. Because database, and crowdsourcing!
Why not both? It wouldn't be the first time they teamed up to screw someone over.
This comes to mind.
"Advertised concern about ethnic Ukrainians and Belarusians had been proffered as justification for the Soviet invasion of Poland" - sound familiar to the horseshit being used to justify "annexing" the useful / nice bits of Ukraine?
Isn't it amazing how extremism presents in the same fashion, though the extremists come from amazingly disparate starting points?
I'm also constantly amazed how the people that preach diversity and tolerance are the first to pick up a baseball bat when a group of people are practicing their freedom of assembly but happen to be saying things they don't like.