If you don't want people receiving the wireless signals you broadcast, either don't broadcast them, or shield them so they don't escape. If you only care about the content, encrypt them.
So, when in public, we should all speak in a secret language if we don't want our conversations to be recorded and sold by big corporations?
Apple put all their effort in building "the perfect" user interface. However, people are getting more educated and tech-savvy in general. They don't need Apple to hold their hand anymore.
There's this saying: Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. (George Bernard Shaw)
Now, older people may still depend on easy one-button interfaces. However, this group of people clashes with the "image" that Apple tries to associate itself with. The youth understands this and is not falling for their marketing tactics anymore.
There's another saying: Once your parents use a particular technology, it has lost its coolness.
If these companies could put their greed aside, we'd already be running apps from one OS on another OS, and the interoperability would be seemless. The technology is there. Everything would be simpler. And less development effort would go to waste.
There's only one way to do it right, so they must have done it like this: 1. Take one set of universes, call it A, all with snakes. 2. Duplicate those universes into B. 3. Now, remove snakes from the universes in A. 4. Apply small irrelevant distortions to the universes in A and B. 5. Wait a gazillion years. 6. See if humans developed similarly in A and B.
So let's dispense with the bad metaphor. The behavior isn't predatory.
Let me formulate it in this way then (sticking to biology): Capitalism is analogous to evolution (survival of the fittest). In this respect, the monopolist is analogous to humans (the species that conquers them all).
So, according to this reasoning, what Amazon is doing is completely "natural". (Not that I'm in favor of it).
I want an automatic chef cook. Because when I go home from work, I still have to sit in the car for 1 hour, and I still have to prepare my food for 45 minutes.
Now, without a driverless car, but having a chef cook, I'd have to sit in the car for 1 hour, and have a meal waiting for me. A net reduction of 45 minutes.
Talking about nerds, I'm still wondering what kind of nerd actually wants to work for Google.
There is little glory in writing advertisement software, and data-mining people's behavior. I guess they have a company culture that makes them believe otherwise.
The problem, however, is that you are lobbying publicly, and if it gets big enough, surely the press will be watching too. So nobody in congress would be able to actually accept your dollars. In fact, I suspect that those people will even be driven to the "other side".
But I have a better idea: what if Google scholar implemented a user-forum for each of the papers they list? That would mean that instantly, this service would become available for any paper from any journal.
You haven't solved security (obscure stupid java classes leaks encryption keys or password due to bad design).
Should that be Mozilla's responsibility? Truly, and I mean truly, solving that problem still requires a serious research undertaking (for example, tracing dataflow at runtime, making sure data does not travel along the wrong paths), and may even require language extensions (for example, to be able to bundle proofs with the code).
Still PNaCl is probably where everything will be heading
Last time I checked NaCl, I was actually hoping they would choose a more portable approach. Great to see they are working on that now.
If you want, you can even use Firefox to run one of the virtual machines written in Javascript, boot a virtual Linux distribution and run Chrome on it.
You know as well as I that isn't going to give a level of performance that comes near running stuff inside NaCl. I'm hoping that eventually performance comes close or surpasses the performance of virtual machines like virtualbox or vmware.
Indeed. There should be a rule that says that any money you own now, you should spend in the coming ten years, or you lose it. Kind of like those cellphone contracts, where you buy a bundle of text-messages that is valid for only one month. We should give capitalism a taste of its own medicine.
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Same way they do as JS.
That's not particularly reassuring.
Well, since the bytecode they are presumably using is much simpler than the mess javascript is, it should actually be easier to make it secure.
Don't program what they say, but what they mean.
That's just a trick played by users, with the intention that they can always break the contract due to noncompliance.
Nobody has a clue what it's for.
Perhaps it is a woman-thing.
Is this for anti glare or something?
Actually, with a curved display, there's more probability of glare.
... as consumer confidence plummets ...
As if the average facebook user cares about privacy.
If you don't want people receiving the wireless signals you broadcast, either don't broadcast them, or shield them so they don't escape. If you only care about the content, encrypt them.
So, when in public, we should all speak in a secret language if we don't want our conversations to be recorded and sold by big corporations?
YouTube is a Google product, ...
And soon, we shall be a Google product too.
Here's the true problem:
Apple put all their effort in building "the perfect" user interface.
However, people are getting more educated and tech-savvy in general.
They don't need Apple to hold their hand anymore.
There's this saying:
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
(George Bernard Shaw)
Now, older people may still depend on easy one-button interfaces. However, this group of people clashes with the "image" that Apple tries to associate itself with.
The youth understands this and is not falling for their marketing tactics anymore.
There's another saying:
Once your parents use a particular technology, it has lost its coolness.
If these companies could put their greed aside, we'd already be running apps from one OS on another OS, and the interoperability would be seemless.
The technology is there.
Everything would be simpler.
And less development effort would go to waste.
Capitalism is just working against us here.
I'd like to see the methodology behind this study
There's only one way to do it right, so they must have done it like this:
1. Take one set of universes, call it A, all with snakes.
2. Duplicate those universes into B.
3. Now, remove snakes from the universes in A.
4. Apply small irrelevant distortions to the universes in A and B.
5. Wait a gazillion years.
6. See if humans developed similarly in A and B.
I guess the monopoly would become the government.
The classical strategy of a pure liberal is this:
1. Simply ignore that argument.
This is one of the reasons why structural economic reform will never happen.
Black hole firewalls don't really exist.
Indeed. A firewall would be useless. Any virus trying to penetrate the event horizon would be turned into harmless spaghetti code anyway.
So the flying spaghetti monster could, one day, be for real...
The nearest black hole is 1600 light-years away
Famous last words...
So let's dispense with the bad metaphor. The behavior isn't predatory.
Let me formulate it in this way then (sticking to biology):
Capitalism is analogous to evolution (survival of the fittest).
In this respect, the monopolist is analogous to humans (the species that conquers them all).
So, according to this reasoning, what Amazon is doing is completely "natural". (Not that I'm in favor of it).
I don't want a driverless car.
I want an automatic chef cook. Because when I go home from work, I still have to sit in the car for 1 hour, and I still have to prepare my food for 45 minutes.
Now, without a driverless car, but having a chef cook, I'd have to sit in the car for 1 hour, and have a meal waiting for me. A net reduction of 45 minutes.
Never underestimate the creativity of the government when it comes to taxes.
Talking about nerds, I'm still wondering what kind of nerd actually wants to work for Google.
There is little glory in writing advertisement software, and data-mining people's behavior.
I guess they have a company culture that makes them believe otherwise.
If you start that project, you have my support.
The problem, however, is that you are lobbying publicly, and if it gets big enough, surely the press will be watching too. So nobody in congress would be able to actually accept your dollars. In fact, I suspect that those people will even be driven to the "other side".
Why don't we start a counter-lobbying service, that is funded by the crowd?
Something like kickstarter, but for lobbying.
This is great news, and about time.
But I have a better idea: what if Google scholar implemented a user-forum for each of the papers they list?
That would mean that instantly, this service would become available for any paper from any journal.
Great points.
You haven't solved security (obscure stupid java classes leaks encryption keys or password due to bad design).
Should that be Mozilla's responsibility?
Truly, and I mean truly, solving that problem still requires a serious research undertaking (for example, tracing dataflow at runtime, making sure data does not travel along the wrong paths), and may even require language extensions (for example, to be able to bundle proofs with the code).
Still PNaCl is probably where everything will be heading
Last time I checked NaCl, I was actually hoping they would choose a more portable approach. Great to see they are working on that now.
If you want, you can even use Firefox to run one of the virtual machines written in Javascript, boot a virtual Linux distribution and run Chrome on it.
You know as well as I that isn't going to give a level of performance that comes near running stuff inside NaCl. I'm hoping that eventually performance comes close or surpasses the performance of virtual machines like virtualbox or vmware.
Indeed. There should be a rule that says that any money you own now, you should spend in the coming ten years, or you lose it. Kind of like those cellphone contracts, where you buy a bundle of text-messages that is valid for only one month. We should give capitalism a taste of its own medicine.
No more we nerds should work under them capitalists --- they need us MUCH MORE than we need them
As long as nerds keep executing orders like slaves, they will continue to treat us like slaves.