"Banks don't have any authority to give out "free money" "
What's the basis of that statement? Why can't a business give away money, if they wish, and there's internal approval (i.e. not just an offer from some rogue employee)?
The lock manufacturer is not the building owner. But, your argument is simply begging the question. Breaking and entering is a physical act, and can occur even if there is no lock. Even if one follows the analogy, with FTP you're not "entering," you're asking for them to come outside.
How is anon FTP not authorized? I give my "name" (anonymous), and credentials (email address), and the system makes the decision to let me in , based on the configuration the sysadmin set. If that's not authorization, what is?
How do you think that ATM checks an account balance? By physically sending an inquiry using pneumatic tubes? Nope, it uses a communications network, which makes it vulnerable to software flaws.
"Most people who aren't chip architects don't really care one way or another about transistor density, other than that it was a convenient proxy for performance"
Nope. People do care about density, which provides the ability to condense useful functions which used to require a desktop sized computer or a large video camera onto a pocketable device like a smartphone. People don't care about performance. We've got computers a thousand times faster than they were 20 years ago, but they're only slightly faster to the user. Why? Because people simply don't care about actual performance. They're happy to trade it away to have gimmicky UI doo-dads on their screens.
The difference is, when Microsoft abandons support for a version of Windows, there's nothing a customer (ATM manufacturer and/or bank) can do about newly discovered security holes. If using an open source OS, they have the source and the opportunity to do patches themselves (which may only involve a backport).
What's amazing (or maybe not, based on their history) is that Google doesn't know what Moore's law says.
"order of magnitude better...performance per watt for machine learning. This is roughly equivalent to fast-forwarding technology about seven years into the future (three generations of Moore's Law)"
Uh, no. Moore's law says nothing at all about performance. It speaks to the number of transistors. It was Dave House who predicted a doubling in performance every 18 months (Moore predicted doubling transistor counts every 2 years). Both were based on the size and/or speed of transistors, neither took changes in processor architecture into consideration.
Don't you ever wonder why your friends are laughing and you just don't understand? It's true, Aspies don't recognize sarcasm, and have poor social skills.
The public has exactly the same right to use stingrays as do the police - that is, none, since they have no license to broadcast on the frequencies involved.
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"Banks don't have any authority to give out "free money" "
What's the basis of that statement? Why can't a business give away money, if they wish, and there's internal approval (i.e. not just an offer from some rogue employee)?
The lock manufacturer is not the building owner. But, your argument is simply begging the question. Breaking and entering is a physical act, and can occur even if there is no lock. Even if one follows the analogy, with FTP you're not "entering," you're asking for them to come outside.
How is anon FTP not authorized? I give my "name" (anonymous), and credentials (email address), and the system makes the decision to let me in , based on the configuration the sysadmin set. If that's not authorization, what is?
They should also take unlicensed emissions seriously. Why aren't they imposing significant fines on the use of Stingrays without a warrant?
How is that honest?
"[W]orking, and half-way reliable" are mutually exclusive.
Not like the others? No one's heard of San Fransisco, either.
How do you think that ATM checks an account balance? By physically sending an inquiry using pneumatic tubes? Nope, it uses a communications network, which makes it vulnerable to software flaws.
"Most people who aren't chip architects don't really care one way or another about transistor density, other than that it was a convenient proxy for performance"
Nope. People do care about density, which provides the ability to condense useful functions which used to require a desktop sized computer or a large video camera onto a pocketable device like a smartphone. People don't care about performance. We've got computers a thousand times faster than they were 20 years ago, but they're only slightly faster to the user. Why? Because people simply don't care about actual performance. They're happy to trade it away to have gimmicky UI doo-dads on their screens.
The difference is, when Microsoft abandons support for a version of Windows, there's nothing a customer (ATM manufacturer and/or bank) can do about newly discovered security holes. If using an open source OS, they have the source and the opportunity to do patches themselves (which may only involve a backport).
What's amazing (or maybe not, based on their history) is that Google doesn't know what Moore's law says.
"order of magnitude better...performance per watt for machine learning. This is roughly equivalent to fast-forwarding technology about seven years into the future (three generations of Moore's Law)"
Uh, no. Moore's law says nothing at all about performance. It speaks to the number of transistors. It was Dave House who predicted a doubling in performance every 18 months (Moore predicted doubling transistor counts every 2 years). Both were based on the size and/or speed of transistors, neither took changes in processor architecture into consideration.
"add some more products to the "good" list: Android... YouTube ... Waze"
None of which were created by Google.
This is what happens when a company has no adults to provide supervision.
"when I applied for a taxi driver's license in the 80's I had to pee in a bottle."
That wasn't a drug test, they just wanted to be sure you could sit at a taxi stand for long periods.
"I don't see how anyone apart from facebook is going to get financially better from this."
Think of the ISPs!
He got "false morels" wrong.
"Public radio tends to be quite good."
You can stream NPR (and France Info, etc. it seems), so that's not a good response to the OP.
Don't you ever wonder why your friends are laughing and you just don't understand? It's true, Aspies don't recognize sarcasm, and have poor social skills.
Whoosh.
You didn't even read the full summary... "to a different couple of news organizations..."
"You could explain APIs from now until 2020 and half of them still wouldn't get it."
APIs are like dog commands - sit, down, stay. Implementations are the individual dogs and how a dog was trained to follow that command.
So, you're saying it may have been theft (or misappropriation) of public property?
The public has exactly the same right to use stingrays as do the police - that is, none, since they have no license to broadcast on the frequencies involved.
"You sound like you have something to hide."
Everybody's got something to hide but me and my monkey.
"Minor quibble: Smallpox was eliminated in the 1970s"
Minor quibble: Smallpox was not eliminated in the 1970s. It still exists in government <strike>bio-warfare</strike> research labs.
"Really, what's the difference?"
Are you really such a naif? Google wants to send you ads. The government can send you to prison.