Because the instant you allow hosting on one of the clients you make it a LOT more likely that some kind of hack (as in god mode, wallhacks and such) is going to be deployed.
If you 100% control the server it is far less likely.
As an example, in WoW's early days the server trusted client information too much resulting in people running around at insane speeds. Glide, I believe the hack was called. Imagine how that would go down if a random player had actual access to the server information.
Give us socialized medicine and a proper safety net and it pretty much makes car insurance obsolete.
I didn't realize socialized medicine is supposed to pay to have your car repaired after it gets t-boned. That is still going to be quite costly and will still require insurance of some sort. It is possible that it will start falling under the standard homeowner's insurance the more common autonomous cars become and the fewer accidents they cause/are involved in.
Depends on the kind of intrusion. If their e-commerce site essentially got turned into a keylogger, which seems likely given everything seems to have been taken except login details, then the security code gets grabbed just like all the other fields.
And in five years the person on welfare today may have gotten a job and be paying taxes, while the person paying taxes today may have been laid off and is on welfare. That is why the welfare system exists, because no one is guaranteed employment for their entire life and the alternative - resorting to crime to survive - is worse.
Laws allowing free speech can be equated to alloing you to yell things from the rooftops or the town square.
Today, Facebook and Twitter ARE those rooftops and town squares. That's the whole problem with saying that companies don't have to allow any kind of speech with which they disagree for whatever reason.
If I see an ad on Tuesday, and buy something from that ad on Saturday, how can the advertiser with any kind of reasonable certainty say that I saw the ad in the first place or just ignored it completely?
Unless I'm actually looking at Facebook ads while walking into the store related to those ads there are so many other factors at play in a time span of just minutes that it becomes a crapshoot at best.
I'm not talking about a willful desire to avoid eternal life.
Bacteria is one thing. If larger lives, think mammals, reptiles, birds and so on were able to survive eternally then evolution would be stagnant - that, or the planet would eventually be so full of identical life that there would be no room for any more lives to be added.
It is difficult to put into words, especially since English isn't my native language, but nature and evolution would be in trouble if things were able to, well, not die. That is what makes cancer a failsafe, a means of renewal in the bigger picture, a certainty that older creatures will eventually give way to younger ones.
At the end of the day, cancer comes from the degradation of cells, shortening of some connectors whose names escape me at the moment. It is as close to a law of nature as you can get, a physical constraint on how long a given body can last. Some make it past 100, some only make it to 60, but those hundred years are still a long, LONG way from living forever.
Video isn't exactly a new thing. If it's still going to take fifteen years (cold fusion is just twenty years away!) to make it easily searchable then it IS an issue with the format itself.
Very similar to what my mother's coworker once said, that cancer is simply nature's failsafe to make sure that eternal life just does not happen. Survive all the other stuff and the cancer WILL get you eventually.
Here's the really, REALLY big question.
Do you want to live a life of fun, good food, fun entertainment and hot beverages, then die at 70, or do you want to live a life of measuring everything daily in a state of panic that you might get cancer and then die at 74 - that is, if you don't accidentally walk in front of a bus when you're 40?
Let's assume the aliens are advanced enough to pick up our TV signals and realize this isn't just background noise. At that point the time it will take them to figure out WHAT these signals are would probably be negligible; let's say ten or twenty years since the signals aren't encrypted in any way. 1500 year round trip minus those twenty years is 1480, which means some 740ish light years distant. That's on the optimistic end of the "1000 light years give or take a few hundred" spectrum.
It will be a good while before video becomes easily searchable.
Take game walkthroughs. Stuck at the Butcher's Paradise or some such nonsensical level name in a game? Easy to search for in a five megabyte walkthrough, NOT so easy to search for in a video. Automatic transcript? Let's hope the player speaks the level name at some point.
It's starting to seem like these things are falling into the same trap of normal computer hardware, but for different reasons.
It used to be that people could hem and haw about updating their computers since they would be obsolete practically before you were done setting them up. Hardware advanced, newer and shinier things came along. However, at least you would get OS updates, security updates, it would run all the things except maybe not quite as flashy after a while.
This is... something different. I don't buy an overpriced watch with the expectation of buying a new one two years later because, umm... because hackers can take control of it, apparently. That is just ridiculous.
The logical conclusion would be to wait, and wait, and essentially wait until the heat death of the universe because the stuff you buy is planned to die long before it is supposed to PHYSICALLY die.
There is a very simple counter-point to the whole religion = morality thing, at least to the not-entirely-rabid proponents.
Animals do not, generally, behave as amoral rapists, murderers and child molesters. Ergo animals either have religion or they can figure out how to behave in a way that keeps their groups functional. If base animals can figure that out surely humans with our vastly superior intellects can too.
Conversely, Origin offered Bejeweled 3 as an 'on the house' thing at one point. I downloaded it, played it, put it away.
Some time later, reinstalled Origin, went to re-download Bejeweled 3 because I felt like playing it for a bit, and was told I didn't own that game. Too bad, so sad, give us money.
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Because the instant you allow hosting on one of the clients you make it a LOT more likely that some kind of hack (as in god mode, wallhacks and such) is going to be deployed.
If you 100% control the server it is far less likely.
As an example, in WoW's early days the server trusted client information too much resulting in people running around at insane speeds. Glide, I believe the hack was called. Imagine how that would go down if a random player had actual access to the server information.
Give us socialized medicine and a proper safety net and it pretty much makes car insurance obsolete.
I didn't realize socialized medicine is supposed to pay to have your car repaired after it gets t-boned. That is still going to be quite costly and will still require insurance of some sort. It is possible that it will start falling under the standard homeowner's insurance the more common autonomous cars become and the fewer accidents they cause/are involved in.
So it is fine for open source software to have known and understood bugs that no one ever bothers to take the time to fix?
A known but unfixed bug (in this case not an exploit, but it could be) is far worse than a completely unknown bug.
I thought you'd need a pocket knife to whittle off the breasts considering what Ken dolls look like.
Depends on the kind of intrusion. If their e-commerce site essentially got turned into a keylogger, which seems likely given everything seems to have been taken except login details, then the security code gets grabbed just like all the other fields.
From TFS:
Many states implement drug-testing programs to qualify for benefit programs so that states feel they are not wasting the value they dole out.
And in five years the person on welfare today may have gotten a job and be paying taxes, while the person paying taxes today may have been laid off and is on welfare. That is why the welfare system exists, because no one is guaranteed employment for their entire life and the alternative - resorting to crime to survive - is worse.
Assumption of guilt.
The poor have to do drug tests to get their tax benefits.
The rich do not have to do drug tests to get their tax benefits.
How is that treating people equally?
Laws allowing free speech can be equated to alloing you to yell things from the rooftops or the town square.
Today, Facebook and Twitter ARE those rooftops and town squares. That's the whole problem with saying that companies don't have to allow any kind of speech with which they disagree for whatever reason.
In that case, GG, game over, Citigroup for playing.
They have trademarked THANKYOU in relation to loyalty programs. NO OTHER EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE can now be used for a loyalty program!
Is that the kind of trademark law you want?
Correlation and causation.
If I see an ad on Tuesday, and buy something from that ad on Saturday, how can the advertiser with any kind of reasonable certainty say that I saw the ad in the first place or just ignored it completely?
Unless I'm actually looking at Facebook ads while walking into the store related to those ads there are so many other factors at play in a time span of just minutes that it becomes a crapshoot at best.
I'm not talking about a willful desire to avoid eternal life.
Bacteria is one thing. If larger lives, think mammals, reptiles, birds and so on were able to survive eternally then evolution would be stagnant - that, or the planet would eventually be so full of identical life that there would be no room for any more lives to be added.
It is difficult to put into words, especially since English isn't my native language, but nature and evolution would be in trouble if things were able to, well, not die. That is what makes cancer a failsafe, a means of renewal in the bigger picture, a certainty that older creatures will eventually give way to younger ones.
At the end of the day, cancer comes from the degradation of cells, shortening of some connectors whose names escape me at the moment. It is as close to a law of nature as you can get, a physical constraint on how long a given body can last. Some make it past 100, some only make it to 60, but those hundred years are still a long, LONG way from living forever.
American Idol isn't what's going to make the aliens decide to give us a wide berth.
World War II is.
Video isn't exactly a new thing. If it's still going to take fifteen years (cold fusion is just twenty years away!) to make it easily searchable then it IS an issue with the format itself.
Very similar to what my mother's coworker once said, that cancer is simply nature's failsafe to make sure that eternal life just does not happen. Survive all the other stuff and the cancer WILL get you eventually.
Here's the really, REALLY big question.
Do you want to live a life of fun, good food, fun entertainment and hot beverages, then die at 70, or do you want to live a life of measuring everything daily in a state of panic that you might get cancer and then die at 74 - that is, if you don't accidentally walk in front of a bus when you're 40?
No they're not.
Let's assume the aliens are advanced enough to pick up our TV signals and realize this isn't just background noise. At that point the time it will take them to figure out WHAT these signals are would probably be negligible; let's say ten or twenty years since the signals aren't encrypted in any way. 1500 year round trip minus those twenty years is 1480, which means some 740ish light years distant. That's on the optimistic end of the "1000 light years give or take a few hundred" spectrum.
Less than that, even, since we're not even getting into the distribution of solar systems across the galaxy, arms vs. the gaps between them and so on.
It will be a good while before video becomes easily searchable.
Take game walkthroughs. Stuck at the Butcher's Paradise or some such nonsensical level name in a game? Easy to search for in a five megabyte walkthrough, NOT so easy to search for in a video. Automatic transcript? Let's hope the player speaks the level name at some point.
Which part of "will be all video" was hard to understand?
It's starting to seem like these things are falling into the same trap of normal computer hardware, but for different reasons.
It used to be that people could hem and haw about updating their computers since they would be obsolete practically before you were done setting them up. Hardware advanced, newer and shinier things came along. However, at least you would get OS updates, security updates, it would run all the things except maybe not quite as flashy after a while.
This is ... something different. I don't buy an overpriced watch with the expectation of buying a new one two years later because, umm ... because hackers can take control of it, apparently. That is just ridiculous.
The logical conclusion would be to wait, and wait, and essentially wait until the heat death of the universe because the stuff you buy is planned to die long before it is supposed to PHYSICALLY die.
What if the gun was stolen?
There is a very simple counter-point to the whole religion = morality thing, at least to the not-entirely-rabid proponents.
Animals do not, generally, behave as amoral rapists, murderers and child molesters. Ergo animals either have religion or they can figure out how to behave in a way that keeps their groups functional. If base animals can figure that out surely humans with our vastly superior intellects can too.
Still waiting, though. .
That's politics, not religion.
Which, admittedly, is a distinction the islamist extremists have a lot of trouble with.
Conversely, Origin offered Bejeweled 3 as an 'on the house' thing at one point. I downloaded it, played it, put it away.
Some time later, reinstalled Origin, went to re-download Bejeweled 3 because I felt like playing it for a bit, and was told I didn't own that game. Too bad, so sad, give us money.
Then it becomes an interesting question whether a sale actually took place when no money was paid.