During high school, my friends and I joked that one day, every book that needs to be written will have been written. then we will not need to write any more books! Joking aside, maybe video gaming is getting there. If I had infinite free gaming time right now, I want to go back and play the Bioshock series, and the Doom expansions I never played, and a bunch of adventure games that my friends played and I didn't, and the Final Fantasy games I missed, and the Frictional Games (SOMA, Penumbra). Yes, I want to play Red Dead Redemption 2... but that's $60, whereas the other games I listed are like $10 on Steam. So... why buy a new game?
I know this talk frightens the game companies and they try to make it hard on me. But they finally discovered it is better to sell old games than to have people pirate them.
Back in the 1990s, I got my first credit card. The first few times I had to sign the slip, I noticed it said I agreed to some cardholder agreement and then some other agreement. I thought "What's in that agreement?" Everybody thought I was crazy for even caring.
We failed to stop this train long ago. You implicitly agree to contracts when you buy a pack of bubble gum from a store, open an app, or make a phone call. It's too much.
We recently saw an article about a reported who tried to go without Amazon, Google, or Facebook for a week. How about trying to go a week without implicitly signing a contract? You would probably starve to death.
This has been the vast majority of security bugs for 30 years. This is why every new language in the last 20 has sort of automatic memory management. Even C++ has moved in this direction with the vast selection of smart pointers.
By coming together in one place like this, all it takes is one person with measles to decimate them. I would expect them to be concerned about this, even if they do not wish to be vaccinated. I wonder if the adults are vaccinated? Like, were they vaccinated as children, yet they don't want their children vaccinated?
This is super helpful because I have an IR remote control for my computer that sends these keypresses. The remote has been useless since Microsoft stopped supporting Windows Media Center Edition and I had to move all my streaming services to the browser. 3 years ago, I could turn on my TV with that remote, select a channel like Hulu, Netflix, etc, and pause/play/rewind with it. Fast forward 3 years and Microsoft dropped support for Windows MCE. So I had to go back to a keyboard and mouse to stream.
Where did the government come in? "You" and "company" were mentioned...
I interpreted "you" to mean "the people" as in "the citizens paying taxes." I did so because of the context established by the statement "When you give your money to a company to build the road, they will make sure they own the road." You also later say "government needs to be watched" and reference Rand who talks about government.
I figured you were referring to how building networking infrastructure kinda works. You and I pay taxes, government has telecoms build infrastructure, then telecoms treat it like they own it since they have an exclusive contract with the state.
Just dont be a psychopath about it.
To your original point, we have to watch them because they may well be psychopaths.
Now I want someone to write a parallel story in the world of "Atlas Shrugged" from the perspective of one of the other railroad operators or from the other steel manufacturing company. The ones that want the regulations limiting the speed of rail cars and how much of the special metal each railroad could use.
If the government pays for something then gives ownership to a corporation, that's the government's fault not the corporations. Of course, Rand would never have had the government paying the corporations to build the road. She would have had the corporations do it with their own money.
My son got such a watch for Christmas, and upon opening it and trying to read the Engrish, and finding an app that has to be sideloaded by downloading the APK from a web site... I got too skeeved out. Maybe I am just xenophobic. There's nothing inherently wrong with a Chinese app -vs- a Russian app -vs- a British app. The only reason I might trust a US or European app is that there is at least some due process of law. It's pretty unlikely that the Chinese are concerned with the locations of children in the US, as though there was some clandestine operation. But I don't have time to evaluate the basic security of something like this. I'm really glad the EU has some laws around this. In the US there is really no liability for security breaches and no organization to evaluate them.
I can't speak for tribal reservations, but in the American big cities the exact opposite happened. The small telecoms that rented lines from the bigger companies died. They couldn't compete on either price or service. The prices they leased the lines for didn't let them become competitive, they couldn't offer quality service because the telecoms had no incentive to upgrade or maintain lines that were being used by what was essentially a competitor.
This same stuff happens with the credit system, and the government had to step in and make regulation. And this is what happens with no-fly lists, where people show-up to an airport and the helpful man behind the counter says they are on the list, but can't say how or why or what to do about it. YouTube has a list now too, and there's no due process there either. The more we automate decision-making, the farther away we are from human judgement.
Your OS manufacturer can take software away from you, and there's no appeals process. Amazon can revoke e-book licenses without notice or due process. Your BIOS can tell you what software you can install. Artists are blocked from streaming their own music due to the invisible copyright gestapo. We are getting their with the legal process too, with automated plea deals being offered. The only thing this person can do is let it happen and sue YouTube, or move to another platform.
Facebook is treating this as a critical problem internally, we're told, as the affected apps simply don't launch on employees' phones anymore.
So forget the Facebook VPN scandal for a moment here. Apple can, at their whim, make an application not work on your device. That's dangerous. The economic damage one company could do by simply revoking a critical app could outstrip the impact of the 9/11 attacks.
We absolutely must not allow companies to wield this kind of power. Amazon should not be able to revoke e-book licenses, Apple and Microsoft and Google should not be able to revoke application licenses, etc. Imagine if they chose to do it to a competitor. Our reliability on the good will of these companies is so dangerous it makes everyone complaining about Trusted Computing back around 2000 look like prescient geniuses.
At first glance, I 100% agree with this point and wish I had mod points. This is what I fear about Microsoft sooo much. One day framework XYZ is the future, the next day it's obsolete.
But then, I realized this is a discussion about JavaScript, which is the one language that is far far worse in this aspect. Frameworks about 6 months old are considered obsolete and left to die. We chose SystemJS 2 years ago because it was super popular,, and it's like nobody's ever heard of it today. We thought we were in front of the curve when we jumped into Gulp over Grunt, and now it's the has-been. Angular 2? pfffftt.. they are on Angular 6 now. The only plus side to all this is that the young developers (1-2 years) have already seen the pain of obsolescence cycles, so they quickly learned some respect for stable platforms.
I would like the NSA to partner with corporations to secure these devices. It would be great if they started educating the public about exploits and helping manufacturers to close holes. Even foreign manufacturers. It is in the best interest of national security for the US not to have another major internet outage caused by insecure IoT devices.
We also need oversight in this area. Capitalism only works if the consumers know what they are buying. But people don't know. Similar to how we don't sell food without an ingredients list, we shouldn't sell network devices without an open ports list, and a list of hard-coded credentials, etc. Just the mere act of requiring a label will curb idiotic practices. It forces manufacturers to think about it, and it induces liability if they fail to do so.
So how are we ever to move things from "non-existing" to existing, other than to spend money on them? 2 years ago, a reusable stage 1 rocket was a "non-existing solution" and so was a "sky crane that lowers a giant rover onto Mars" and "A taxi that drives by itself and picks up passengers."
Imagine a world where Comcast users could get to some web sites, and AT&T users could see different web sites, and Verizon customers could see yet different web sites. That was the online world of the 1990s, only the players were AOL, Product, and Compuserve. That is the world of the future if we continue to allow content providers and content deliverers to merge. What broke that triad was the Internet: an open system where everyone could access anything.
But even in THAT era, almost all television programs were available to anyone regardless of what cable provider they used.
Today streams their stuff, Disney streams theirs, Nickelodeon streams theirs, and Hulu, and HBO, etc. We should not allow a company to control both the content production and content delivery. NetFlix making content and joining the MPAA is bad for the streaming industry.
Is the FDA shut down? I wonder if this could delay the release & approval of any medical devices or drugs. Now THAT would be a spectacular failure. Imagine the headlines: "Shutdown over border wall funding prevents release of life-saving drug." Or the reverse: what if a device or drug is approved in a rush since they fall behind, and due diligence is not done, and the device/drug kills someone?
Did you just make up a term, while trying to define a made-up term? I just looked for "bucket term" on Google and didn't find it. Even urbandictionary doesn't have it. Next you'll tell me that it's a perfectly cromulent word.
The reviews for the app reveal several levels of stupidity: Reviewer 1: "Just started using still unknown" Reviewer 2: "you are asking me and I just now installed the app" ^^^ Facepalm 1: Then why did you post the review?? ^^^ Facepalm 2: Why does Android prompt people to review apps just after they installed them?
What does Google do once they find this? The walled garden requires, in theory, that you know who the author is. Does Google try to prosecute the hackers? Of all the companies on Earth who should be able to track someone down, Google and Facebook seem like they could do it.
Windows 7 expanded the search menu so that most things that I used to use win+r for, I can do just with win. And that search is more forgiving, in case I can't remember that computer management is "compmgmt.msc" or system restore is "rstrui,exe" I can type win+"restore" and it finds "system restore" for me. That was super helpful. But when it started giving me Bing results, it became useless again.
This same issue happens with the combined search/URL bars in browsers. I type in "server1427north" because I wanted to go to http://server1427north/ but I spelled it wrong and it does a google search for that. A DNS failure would have been more helpful.
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During high school, my friends and I joked that one day, every book that needs to be written will have been written. then we will not need to write any more books! Joking aside, maybe video gaming is getting there. If I had infinite free gaming time right now, I want to go back and play the Bioshock series, and the Doom expansions I never played, and a bunch of adventure games that my friends played and I didn't, and the Final Fantasy games I missed, and the Frictional Games (SOMA, Penumbra). Yes, I want to play Red Dead Redemption 2 ... but that's $60, whereas the other games I listed are like $10 on Steam. So... why buy a new game?
I know this talk frightens the game companies and they try to make it hard on me. But they finally discovered it is better to sell old games than to have people pirate them.
Back in the 1990s, I got my first credit card. The first few times I had to sign the slip, I noticed it said I agreed to some cardholder agreement and then some other agreement. I thought "What's in that agreement?" Everybody thought I was crazy for even caring.
We failed to stop this train long ago. You implicitly agree to contracts when you buy a pack of bubble gum from a store, open an app, or make a phone call. It's too much.
We recently saw an article about a reported who tried to go without Amazon, Google, or Facebook for a week. How about trying to go a week without implicitly signing a contract? You would probably starve to death.
This has been the vast majority of security bugs for 30 years. This is why every new language in the last 20 has sort of automatic memory management. Even C++ has moved in this direction with the vast selection of smart pointers.
By coming together in one place like this, all it takes is one person with measles to decimate them. I would expect them to be concerned about this, even if they do not wish to be vaccinated. I wonder if the adults are vaccinated? Like, were they vaccinated as children, yet they don't want their children vaccinated?
This is super helpful because I have an IR remote control for my computer that sends these keypresses. The remote has been useless since Microsoft stopped supporting Windows Media Center Edition and I had to move all my streaming services to the browser. 3 years ago, I could turn on my TV with that remote, select a channel like Hulu, Netflix, etc, and pause/play/rewind with it. Fast forward 3 years and Microsoft dropped support for Windows MCE. So I had to go back to a keyboard and mouse to stream.
Where did the government come in? "You" and "company" were mentioned...
I interpreted "you" to mean "the people" as in "the citizens paying taxes." I did so because of the context established by the statement "When you give your money to a company to build the road, they will make sure they own the road." You also later say "government needs to be watched" and reference Rand who talks about government.
I figured you were referring to how building networking infrastructure kinda works. You and I pay taxes, government has telecoms build infrastructure, then telecoms treat it like they own it since they have an exclusive contract with the state.
Just dont be a psychopath about it.
To your original point, we have to watch them because they may well be psychopaths.
Now I want someone to write a parallel story in the world of "Atlas Shrugged" from the perspective of one of the other railroad operators or from the other steel manufacturing company. The ones that want the regulations limiting the speed of rail cars and how much of the special metal each railroad could use.
If the government pays for something then gives ownership to a corporation, that's the government's fault not the corporations. Of course, Rand would never have had the government paying the corporations to build the road. She would have had the corporations do it with their own money.
My son got such a watch for Christmas, and upon opening it and trying to read the Engrish, and finding an app that has to be sideloaded by downloading the APK from a web site... I got too skeeved out. Maybe I am just xenophobic. There's nothing inherently wrong with a Chinese app -vs- a Russian app -vs- a British app. The only reason I might trust a US or European app is that there is at least some due process of law. It's pretty unlikely that the Chinese are concerned with the locations of children in the US, as though there was some clandestine operation. But I don't have time to evaluate the basic security of something like this. I'm really glad the EU has some laws around this. In the US there is really no liability for security breaches and no organization to evaluate them.
I can't speak for tribal reservations, but in the American big cities the exact opposite happened. The small telecoms that rented lines from the bigger companies died. They couldn't compete on either price or service. The prices they leased the lines for didn't let them become competitive, they couldn't offer quality service because the telecoms had no incentive to upgrade or maintain lines that were being used by what was essentially a competitor.
I do remove that battery.
But not the other battery.
This same stuff happens with the credit system, and the government had to step in and make regulation. And this is what happens with no-fly lists, where people show-up to an airport and the helpful man behind the counter says they are on the list, but can't say how or why or what to do about it. YouTube has a list now too, and there's no due process there either. The more we automate decision-making, the farther away we are from human judgement.
Your OS manufacturer can take software away from you, and there's no appeals process. Amazon can revoke e-book licenses without notice or due process. Your BIOS can tell you what software you can install. Artists are blocked from streaming their own music due to the invisible copyright gestapo. We are getting their with the legal process too, with automated plea deals being offered. The only thing this person can do is let it happen and sue YouTube, or move to another platform.
I cannot post my facepalm or crying emojis, since Slashdot does not support Unicode.
Facebook is treating this as a critical problem internally, we're told, as the affected apps simply don't launch on employees' phones anymore.
So forget the Facebook VPN scandal for a moment here. Apple can, at their whim, make an application not work on your device. That's dangerous. The economic damage one company could do by simply revoking a critical app could outstrip the impact of the 9/11 attacks.
We absolutely must not allow companies to wield this kind of power. Amazon should not be able to revoke e-book licenses, Apple and Microsoft and Google should not be able to revoke application licenses, etc. Imagine if they chose to do it to a competitor. Our reliability on the good will of these companies is so dangerous it makes everyone complaining about Trusted Computing back around 2000 look like prescient geniuses.
At first glance, I 100% agree with this point and wish I had mod points. This is what I fear about Microsoft sooo much. One day framework XYZ is the future, the next day it's obsolete.
But then, I realized this is a discussion about JavaScript, which is the one language that is far far worse in this aspect. Frameworks about 6 months old are considered obsolete and left to die. We chose SystemJS 2 years ago because it was super popular,, and it's like nobody's ever heard of it today. We thought we were in front of the curve when we jumped into Gulp over Grunt, and now it's the has-been. Angular 2? pfffftt.. they are on Angular 6 now. The only plus side to all this is that the young developers (1-2 years) have already seen the pain of obsolescence cycles, so they quickly learned some respect for stable platforms.
I would like the NSA to partner with corporations to secure these devices. It would be great if they started educating the public about exploits and helping manufacturers to close holes. Even foreign manufacturers. It is in the best interest of national security for the US not to have another major internet outage caused by insecure IoT devices.
We also need oversight in this area. Capitalism only works if the consumers know what they are buying. But people don't know. Similar to how we don't sell food without an ingredients list, we shouldn't sell network devices without an open ports list, and a list of hard-coded credentials, etc. Just the mere act of requiring a label will curb idiotic practices. It forces manufacturers to think about it, and it induces liability if they fail to do so.
So how are we ever to move things from "non-existing" to existing, other than to spend money on them? 2 years ago, a reusable stage 1 rocket was a "non-existing solution" and so was a "sky crane that lowers a giant rover onto Mars" and "A taxi that drives by itself and picks up passengers."
yes, whoops
Imagine a world where Comcast users could get to some web sites, and AT&T users could see different web sites, and Verizon customers could see yet different web sites. That was the online world of the 1990s, only the players were AOL, Product, and Compuserve. That is the world of the future if we continue to allow content providers and content deliverers to merge. What broke that triad was the Internet: an open system where everyone could access anything.
But even in THAT era, almost all television programs were available to anyone regardless of what cable provider they used.
Today streams their stuff, Disney streams theirs, Nickelodeon streams theirs, and Hulu, and HBO, etc. We should not allow a company to control both the content production and content delivery. NetFlix making content and joining the MPAA is bad for the streaming industry.
Is the FDA shut down? I wonder if this could delay the release & approval of any medical devices or drugs. Now THAT would be a spectacular failure. Imagine the headlines: "Shutdown over border wall funding prevents release of life-saving drug." Or the reverse: what if a device or drug is approved in a rush since they fall behind, and due diligence is not done, and the device/drug kills someone?
It exists as a bucket term.
Did you just make up a term, while trying to define a made-up term? I just looked for "bucket term" on Google and didn't find it. Even urbandictionary doesn't have it. Next you'll tell me that it's a perfectly cromulent word.
The reviews for the app reveal several levels of stupidity:
Reviewer 1: "Just started using still unknown"
Reviewer 2: "you are asking me and I just now installed the app"
^^^ Facepalm 1: Then why did you post the review??
^^^ Facepalm 2: Why does Android prompt people to review apps just after they installed them?
Reviewer 3: "Thanksgiving"
Reviewer 4: "Totally awesome"
^^ WTH?
What does Google do once they find this? The walled garden requires, in theory, that you know who the author is. Does Google try to prosecute the hackers? Of all the companies on Earth who should be able to track someone down, Google and Facebook seem like they could do it.
Windows 7 expanded the search menu so that most things that I used to use win+r for, I can do just with win. And that search is more forgiving, in case I can't remember that computer management is "compmgmt.msc" or system restore is "rstrui,exe" I can type win+"restore" and it finds "system restore" for me. That was super helpful. But when it started giving me Bing results, it became useless again.
This same issue happens with the combined search/URL bars in browsers. I type in "server1427north" because I wanted to go to http://server1427north/ but I spelled it wrong and it does a google search for that. A DNS failure would have been more helpful.
I'm unclear why you insulted me when you provided an example that proved my point. ??? Your example is a good use of text messaging, thank you.
It's in a sealed container.