Or less generally, generalizing from a sample of "me".
But people are egoists, whether they realize it or not. "Of course, my opinion matters more. I'm normal. Anyone who disagrees with me is probably too dumb to matter."
If you're even fainly unprejudiced, you'll realize there are two undeniable truths underpinning GPP's assertions:
The self-evident "meh"-ness of Samsung's concept device, and the Pavlovian responsiveness of Apple's advocacy.
As to your assertion, I'm pretty sure my 7-year-old could come out with something better than this loser from Samsung. Apple's engineering varies between fairly good and awesome, but you don't even have to be fairly good to get over the ridiculously low bar this proposed POS sets.
You see, for the people doing this stuff on behalf of the NSA, their actions are completely justified: to beat the criminals, they needed to become better criminals than the criminals.
Apparently, they've spent so long staring into the abyss that not only is the abyss staring back, it's come up and offered them some free cool aid.
Make sure to mention that line of thinking if you get called to jury duty. I'm sure the victim doesn't want you on the jury any more than you want to be on the jury. Perhaps even more.
Oh, no one said anything about "reviving" someone from 500 years ago. Just "thawing".
This is where successful organ vitrification mitigate AGAINST being revived, even if it were possible. You're more valuable as a well-frozen transplant source. A corpsicle. A frozen commodity.
On a hot summer's day, the cheerful music and bright bell-ringing of the ice brain truck will bring crowds of happy, yelling, excited zombie children from all up and down the block. It'll be a big part of their fond child-zombiehood memories.
Inigo Montoya: He's dead. He can't talk.
Miracle Max: Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
Inigo Montoya: What's that?
Miracle Max: Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with.
In context, that means that if you can make people afraid of trying to hack you, you don't need their respect (or actual competence on your part) to avoid being hacked. Once you've fully domesticated the sheep, you can expect that they won't test their fences any more.
Of course, this strategy is pre-ordained to fail: the psychology of black-hat is full of a kind of irrational sense of invincibility. Like many other sociopaths, they're always the ones most surprised when they're busted. So the lessons of fear are lost on them. But it certainly seems cheaper to the service provider than actually hardening and resolving exploitable holes.
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Or less generally, generalizing from a sample of "me".
But people are egoists, whether they realize it or not. "Of course, my opinion matters more. I'm normal. Anyone who disagrees with me is probably too dumb to matter."
Give me a break!
squiggleslash, allow me to introduce you to Nathan Poe.
Ah, I see you've already met.
a teensy weensy sharpie mark along one side, of course.
If you're even fainly unprejudiced, you'll realize there are two undeniable truths underpinning GPP's assertions:
The self-evident "meh"-ness of Samsung's concept device, and the Pavlovian responsiveness of Apple's advocacy.
As to your assertion, I'm pretty sure my 7-year-old could come out with something better than this loser from Samsung. Apple's engineering varies between fairly good and awesome, but you don't even have to be fairly good to get over the ridiculously low bar this proposed POS sets.
Indeed. A Top Shelf Single-Malt Party is Change I Can Believe It.
Wake me when the National Hurricane Center expands the Saffir-Simpson scale so that it goes to 11.
You see, for the people doing this stuff on behalf of the NSA, their actions are completely justified: to beat the criminals, they needed to become better criminals than the criminals.
Apparently, they've spent so long staring into the abyss that not only is the abyss staring back, it's come up and offered them some free cool aid.
How many kilos of high-value cargo would that be?
Will buying one of these put you on a watch list in one of the Wars on <noun>?
Redundant. "Douche" is French.
Your contention is "He was just asking for it"?
Make sure to mention that line of thinking if you get called to jury duty. I'm sure the victim doesn't want you on the jury any more than you want to be on the jury. Perhaps even more.
And let's face it... this particular shitstorm was "flying during Ramadan, while looking like a brown-skinned Godless fur'ner".
Because corporates don't respond to popular low-level politics.
The closest corporates come to grass-roots activism is astroturfing.
Indeed. And here's another strangely apt one.
The last experiment in Arab Democracy voted in a theocratic autocracy.
You're right, sometimes the result of regime change isn't just autocracy or theocracy.
That was back in '85. I'm sure that in 2013 plutonium is available in every corner drug store, but in 1985 it was a little hard to come by.
enter a web property as opposed to a brick and mortar store or other place.
Crippling unnoticed fallacy: there's no such thing as web property. Otherwise, where's the web deed? Where's the web plat book?
(And don't try to cite the DNS system. The DNS system confers no ownership.)
the bigger question is *why* would society want to thaw someone from our time 500 or even 5000 years ahead?
Cheap transplant organs from rights-less involuntary donors
Oh, no one said anything about "reviving" someone from 500 years ago. Just "thawing".
This is where successful organ vitrification mitigate AGAINST being revived, even if it were possible. You're more valuable as a well-frozen transplant source. A corpsicle. A frozen commodity.
We haven't had a good laugh in weeks!
How many people died in the protests after "Amish Mafia" debuted?
I heard the incidence of Amish drive-by shootings skyrocketed.
"clop, clop, clop, BANG, clop, clop, BANG, clop, clop..."
Except that secret vampire attacks don't happen, whereas FISA-authorized data center tapping does.
True.
On a hot summer's day, the cheerful music and bright bell-ringing of the ice brain truck will bring crowds of happy, yelling, excited zombie children from all up and down the block. It'll be a big part of their fond child-zombiehood memories.
Why piss off everybody who might help you?
Why not crush everybody who might embarrass you?
Or, as another sharp analyst put it:
In context, that means that if you can make people afraid of trying to hack you, you don't need their respect (or actual competence on your part) to avoid being hacked. Once you've fully domesticated the sheep, you can expect that they won't test their fences any more.
Of course, this strategy is pre-ordained to fail: the psychology of black-hat is full of a kind of irrational sense of invincibility. Like many other sociopaths, they're always the ones most surprised when they're busted. So the lessons of fear are lost on them. But it certainly seems cheaper to the service provider than actually hardening and resolving exploitable holes.
Yes. A fine example of the "courage of his convictions."
Of course, the further irony is that neither of us are posting here under anything resembling a real name.
Anonymity is hard. And also, as Douglas Adams* once said, summarizing his summary of a summary: "People are a problem."
*Assuming that was his real name.