> So those hackers who think they don't hurt anyone. You are wrong.
Well, that's demonstrably not true- plenty of hackers haven't hurt anyone. More importantly, it perpetuates the downsides of the 80s style hacker mythology- that there's this group of elites who have this power to break in, or not. The problem with this mythology isn't how true it is- it seems to be pretty accurate, and it pretty fun and interesting. The problem is with how people naturally react to it. "Ok, find the bad guys and put them in jail" is the obvious response. Hacks are the rain- you need to build a roof. The fact that there's an endless array of endlessly insecure systems is the problem, and busting the very few bad hackers doesn't solve the problem- it just provides some justice here and there.
It's a double standard because no one judges Windows by its non-existent native cross platform support, but routinely people will say stuff like "Linux doesn't run XYZ", meaning the developers of XYZ never made a Linux version. Even the fucking language is backasswards.
Given that Vulkan just launched and has no real anythings using it just yet, experimental support is more than fine at this stage. This way by the times games are using Vulkan, they'll have a clear path to more than just Microsoft's increasingly closed ecosystem.
Lack of support for Linux games doesn't hold Windows back, but somehow lack of support for Windows games does hold Linux back. It's an unfair double standard, but it is what it is. Linux gaming, and Windows gaming under Linux, will definitely decrease the barriers to entry to Linux for a lot of power users and gamers. More importantly, this REVERSES the calculus of a game developer- currently the options for cross platform support result in more hassle and cost in order to support the, as you say, 14 Linux gamers- as such many companies often go Windows only. Hell, some of the big names in crowdfunding promise a Linux version and cancel or delay it indefinitely as soon as they get all the money from the passionate few Linux guys, a massive bait and switch. But with relatively seamless support, using an engine that works with Vulkan will let you support Linux for way less effort than it takes today.
The downside to cash, of course, is that you have to go refill the cash periodically, and some times it is not faster. It's not faster to buy gas with cash, because you have to walk in the store and (usually) wait in line. In places not overly paranoid, that's your only time-tax, but in other places you have to walk in first, hand over more cash than you plan to pay, walk back out, fill up, walk in, get your change.
But in all cases, you have to go and get cash, and then worry about denominations to some degree- what if you don't end up with the right amount to tip with? Etc.
I gave up using Siri for a lot of tasks I thought she could or should do. Tasks where, if I type the question into google, the answer is pretty plainly displayed, or anything involving the state from a previous question. I have found stuff she's good at, and I use her for that, but I would definitely have to hear that there was an improvement to go back to asking the more complex stuff that I would expect a voice assistant to be able to do.
It's not old fashioned though. The thing you are complaining about- loading tons of executable code on the destination machine- is absolutely horseshit. It's terrible at every level, and the majority of it is used to track, advertise, and shut down known good interfaces. And the result is poorly written content whose entire point was to get their code to run on your machine. It's absolutely awful- that's not an old fashioned opinion, it's a fact.
I think there's a pretty sharp cap for where slashdot can go, as far as participants. Websites now compete on controversy, and slashdot, as an early entrant into this, only flirts with it- it's too information heavy to swing in that arena. You can't dogpile someone with downvotes or jerk yourself off by upvoting platitudes, instead you only have a few mod points some of the time, and have expectations for using them to get actual conversations. You can't have a whole thread with everyone saying the same thing because people can post anonymous. It just doesn't give you the same sense of "I belong to a team, and we are ENFORCING THE LAW" that later evolutions do.
But what it can do is be ACTUALLY GOOD, and I agree completely that the new editors are doing a great job of pushing that envelope. Very pleased.
The data is encrypted with a key only Apple knows. Maybe in the future it will be encrypted with a key only YOU know- but the point is that Amazon or Google can't get the data.
> The only benefit of Linux is the less than 2% market share.
People said this when Windows had spy and monitor services listening to the naked internet, that got whole boxes owned. People said this during the shit festival than was Internet Explorer. People said this when Windows had every user running as admin. People said this when Windows was the only guy on the block not using ASLR.
Now they say it in a world where Windows lacks SE Linux level security entirely, in a world where much of the code is still written with a plug-n-chug factory mentality, in a world where critical code is kept hidden for competitive reasons- and most importantly, in a world where Windows boxes are routinely malicious piles of shit, and almost nothing else is.
Talk about marketshare all you like, Windows has been a total pile of shit on security and always fucking will be. At this point it would take like twenty fucking years of flawless performance to reverse this well deserved reputation. It's never been safe, it's not safe now, but Windows users will put up with ANYTHING- and then rationalize it, lol.
So the FBI will demand a kill switch. After all, if someone is running from cops we know they are guilty of something, because running from cops is illegal. If they can demand your phone have a backdoor, your car is obviously MUCH more important- a car can commit way more crimes than a phone!
The fact that these will be hackable is also just so amazing.
What a terrible fucking idea. I hope that people don't fall for this shit, but I'm afraid that they will.
There's absolutely no comparing a reasonably open and Unix-based OS like OS X to Windows. If your standard of freedom and control is Linux or BSD, sure, Apple doesn't touch them there. But they have never done with Microsoft is doing now. NEVER!
> You let me know when you have to suddenly go out of your way to prevent having your car replaced with a shittier version that spies on you.
Nailed it. This would be like, you can't get maintenance done on your car because all the mechanics will replace it with the shittier version that spies on you. Your only choice is to become a mechanic yourself to drive your car. That's ludicrous.
"Well, a computer science major with time on his hands can technically prevent the upgrade from occurring... for now..."
1)- This will require some idiotic set top box. The set top box will go next to everything you already have for this purpose, add two wires to however many you have (so if you have a nest it got crappier, and if you are a minimalist you now have a nest). This means that whatever your solution for inputs to your TV is (select with a remote, autodetection, whatever you got) will also get slightly crappier. You already have at least one box here, and this one would be useful very rarely compared to those. 2)- The set top box will ASSUREDLY show you ads- that's pretty much the only reason to give you a locked down box like this. This will be an absolute ad festival. 3)- Fifty dollars is a lot of money for a single movie. In order for this to be a decent deal, you either need to invite everyone over, or have the family all want to see it. 4)- Your home setup is weak compared to a modern theater. If you didn't spend a zillion bucks on it, then it is *hella* weak compared to a modern theatre.
Consumer upsides: 1)- You can eat well, or eat cheap, and you aren't thirsty. A lot of theaters have drama with food and drink, and even if you are lucky enough to live next to one that is reasonable (serves food to you, doesn't give you grief for carrying in, doesn't give you water in a urine sample cup), it's still stuff you don't have to worry about with this. 2)- You can fit it around your schedule. 3)- You don't need to deal with theater hassle. Again, to some, this is no big deal, but if the close theater isn't nice, and if the nice theater isn't close, this could be a big deal. 4)- You can easily come in over 50 bucks taking even just one person to a movie theater, depending, and if you have a bunch of people (family or friends) you can easily save money with this setup. 5)- No one will scream a spoiler about Han Solo from the back of a slow moving pickup truck as you walk into the theater.
So, that's interesting, right? But there's also some other effects. Movie theaters are a *rough* business, and first run movies on opening night is sort of their big draw. Most (and in some cases effectively all) of a ticket sale go directly to the studio, leaving theaters forced to upcharge to stay around. Some do this sketchily with strange and aggressive setups for candy sales, others do this more straightforward by serving you a restaurant quality meal (often with optional booze), but all have been pinched to some degree by the pricing structure. Theater operators may simply flip out at the attempted erasure, causing drama. Meanwhile, studios might not trust the technology wholeheartedly, or be willing to go through the efforts of getting all the movies over to the service, leaving you with the fifth box next to your television that offers pay per view content... but not the pay per view content you actually want.
What's this base 1010 drama? Everyone knows in binary ALL primes end in "1".
Jokes aside, the fact that there's plenty of bases to choose from means that what they are really talking about is the modulo remainders of primes having a pattern- and modulo division and primes have had a pretty flirty relationship. Unquestionably interesting. The thing with the prime number set is that it's immutable- a set of fixed numeric stars shining the same light since before time began, and yet even with that constancy, many functions involving the prime number web have proven frustrating to calculate for large values- there's hardly any shortcuts compared to the integer math you run into on a daily basis.
He said they would need a warrant for pot plants, and not for if you were shooting people.
The Supreme Court case is for if two people are in the home (residents) and one says "please come in" and the other says "get a warrant". In that case, they have permission. Basically, they found that cops operate by Vampire Rules, which is strangely appropriate.
"The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police may search a home without a warrant when two occupants disagree about allowing officers to enter, and the resident who refuses access is then arrested."
That's VERY different than what was implied- that cops are entering without a warrant routinely. The Supreme Court found that entering was an "or" function, not an "and" function. That's very different from implying that cops can stroll in apropos of nothing.
It's really simple. Your phone is yours, and should do what you say. If you opt out of managing your phone (as San Bernadino did), and allow your murderous employee to be the guy with the encryption code because it's easier to not pay an admin, then you pay the obvious and logical price. Using that to try to strip encryption globally- and make no mistake, that is what the FBI is requesting, and what Obama JUST STATED- is ruinous.
The President of the United States, a constitutional scholar, just implied that we shouldn't have access to math because someone, somewhere, is jacking off to a 2003 jpeg of a then-12-year-old Russian chick.
You should be fucking quaking with fear right now dude. This is how speech dies.
Computers can easily be rendered "a black box". This has been the case to a great degree since the 90s, and absolutely since the mid-aughties.
Here's the logical results of this kind of shitbaggery coming to pass:
1)- When you mandate the mobile guys make backdoors, this will also mean that you can't EVER have an open source phone. Because the open source stuff won't have a backdoor. 2)- Since phones are just computers, this law, however it is written, can be interpreted to apply to ANY general purpose computer. You can wholesale ban all encryption that way, but most importantly, you can and MUST ban open source firmware, open source OS, every single thing.
These things aren't "slippery slopes" or hypotheticals- any law that is passed WILL INEVITABLY be that. It may not be ENFORCED as that immediately, but I could claim your PC is a phone by any legal definition the government sees fit to use.
Literally no presidential candidate is on the correct side of this issue, and neither is the president. Congress hasn't been clueless... yet. Surprisingly.
Good grief. My point is that it pushes system integration to the user, and that's crappy for most users. Default bundles don't change that much, and even risk adding inefficiency (even if you don't use a scripting language). I didn't think that was the core of your post- if the root of your suggestion is a bunch of pieces you can compile together, that's... you know what that is, that's not any kind of help.
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> So those hackers who think they don't hurt anyone. You are wrong.
Well, that's demonstrably not true- plenty of hackers haven't hurt anyone. More importantly, it perpetuates the downsides of the 80s style hacker mythology- that there's this group of elites who have this power to break in, or not. The problem with this mythology isn't how true it is- it seems to be pretty accurate, and it pretty fun and interesting. The problem is with how people naturally react to it. "Ok, find the bad guys and put them in jail" is the obvious response. Hacks are the rain- you need to build a roof. The fact that there's an endless array of endlessly insecure systems is the problem, and busting the very few bad hackers doesn't solve the problem- it just provides some justice here and there.
It's a double standard because no one judges Windows by its non-existent native cross platform support, but routinely people will say stuff like "Linux doesn't run XYZ", meaning the developers of XYZ never made a Linux version. Even the fucking language is backasswards.
Given that Vulkan just launched and has no real anythings using it just yet, experimental support is more than fine at this stage. This way by the times games are using Vulkan, they'll have a clear path to more than just Microsoft's increasingly closed ecosystem.
Lack of support for Linux games doesn't hold Windows back, but somehow lack of support for Windows games does hold Linux back. It's an unfair double standard, but it is what it is. Linux gaming, and Windows gaming under Linux, will definitely decrease the barriers to entry to Linux for a lot of power users and gamers. More importantly, this REVERSES the calculus of a game developer- currently the options for cross platform support result in more hassle and cost in order to support the, as you say, 14 Linux gamers- as such many companies often go Windows only. Hell, some of the big names in crowdfunding promise a Linux version and cancel or delay it indefinitely as soon as they get all the money from the passionate few Linux guys, a massive bait and switch. But with relatively seamless support, using an engine that works with Vulkan will let you support Linux for way less effort than it takes today.
So it's not a huge deal, but it is a big deal.
The downside to cash, of course, is that you have to go refill the cash periodically, and some times it is not faster. It's not faster to buy gas with cash, because you have to walk in the store and (usually) wait in line. In places not overly paranoid, that's your only time-tax, but in other places you have to walk in first, hand over more cash than you plan to pay, walk back out, fill up, walk in, get your change.
But in all cases, you have to go and get cash, and then worry about denominations to some degree- what if you don't end up with the right amount to tip with? Etc.
I gave up using Siri for a lot of tasks I thought she could or should do. Tasks where, if I type the question into google, the answer is pretty plainly displayed, or anything involving the state from a previous question. I have found stuff she's good at, and I use her for that, but I would definitely have to hear that there was an improvement to go back to asking the more complex stuff that I would expect a voice assistant to be able to do.
OS X is for dolphins, Windows is for monkeys, standard BSDs are for superior alien beings, and Linux is for robot overlords with laser eyes.
There's nothing wrong with Sourceforge. That's a 2015-era complaint, get modern!
It's not old fashioned though. The thing you are complaining about- loading tons of executable code on the destination machine- is absolutely horseshit. It's terrible at every level, and the majority of it is used to track, advertise, and shut down known good interfaces. And the result is poorly written content whose entire point was to get their code to run on your machine. It's absolutely awful- that's not an old fashioned opinion, it's a fact.
> They seem to have no idea how massively complex project a modern web browser engine is.
Yes they do lol. They already maintain a browser fork of firefox, I'm sure they know a lot about what they need to do.
I think there's a pretty sharp cap for where slashdot can go, as far as participants. Websites now compete on controversy, and slashdot, as an early entrant into this, only flirts with it- it's too information heavy to swing in that arena. You can't dogpile someone with downvotes or jerk yourself off by upvoting platitudes, instead you only have a few mod points some of the time, and have expectations for using them to get actual conversations. You can't have a whole thread with everyone saying the same thing because people can post anonymous. It just doesn't give you the same sense of "I belong to a team, and we are ENFORCING THE LAW" that later evolutions do.
But what it can do is be ACTUALLY GOOD, and I agree completely that the new editors are doing a great job of pushing that envelope. Very pleased.
The data is encrypted with a key only Apple knows. Maybe in the future it will be encrypted with a key only YOU know- but the point is that Amazon or Google can't get the data.
> The only benefit of Linux is the less than 2% market share.
People said this when Windows had spy and monitor services listening to the naked internet, that got whole boxes owned.
People said this during the shit festival than was Internet Explorer.
People said this when Windows had every user running as admin.
People said this when Windows was the only guy on the block not using ASLR.
Now they say it in a world where Windows lacks SE Linux level security entirely, in a world where much of the code is still written with a plug-n-chug factory mentality, in a world where critical code is kept hidden for competitive reasons- and most importantly, in a world where Windows boxes are routinely malicious piles of shit, and almost nothing else is.
Talk about marketshare all you like, Windows has been a total pile of shit on security and always fucking will be. At this point it would take like twenty fucking years of flawless performance to reverse this well deserved reputation. It's never been safe, it's not safe now, but Windows users will put up with ANYTHING- and then rationalize it, lol.
Just use ublock origin. It blocks ads with no drama. The only acceptable ad is a dead ad.
So the FBI will demand a kill switch. After all, if someone is running from cops we know they are guilty of something, because running from cops is illegal. If they can demand your phone have a backdoor, your car is obviously MUCH more important- a car can commit way more crimes than a phone!
The fact that these will be hackable is also just so amazing.
What a terrible fucking idea. I hope that people don't fall for this shit, but I'm afraid that they will.
There's absolutely no comparing a reasonably open and Unix-based OS like OS X to Windows. If your standard of freedom and control is Linux or BSD, sure, Apple doesn't touch them there. But they have never done with Microsoft is doing now. NEVER!
> Just use your Windows in a 32GB partition.
That's the workaround? I mean, I bet that works. It's just like... Windows users will put up with ANYTHING!
> You let me know when you have to suddenly go out of your way to prevent having your car replaced with a shittier version that spies on you.
Nailed it. This would be like, you can't get maintenance done on your car because all the mechanics will replace it with the shittier version that spies on you. Your only choice is to become a mechanic yourself to drive your car. That's ludicrous.
"Well, a computer science major with time on his hands can technically prevent the upgrade from occurring... for now..."
Consumer downsides:
1)- This will require some idiotic set top box. The set top box will go next to everything you already have for this purpose, add two wires to however many you have (so if you have a nest it got crappier, and if you are a minimalist you now have a nest). This means that whatever your solution for inputs to your TV is (select with a remote, autodetection, whatever you got) will also get slightly crappier. You already have at least one box here, and this one would be useful very rarely compared to those.
2)- The set top box will ASSUREDLY show you ads- that's pretty much the only reason to give you a locked down box like this. This will be an absolute ad festival.
3)- Fifty dollars is a lot of money for a single movie. In order for this to be a decent deal, you either need to invite everyone over, or have the family all want to see it.
4)- Your home setup is weak compared to a modern theater. If you didn't spend a zillion bucks on it, then it is *hella* weak compared to a modern theatre.
Consumer upsides:
1)- You can eat well, or eat cheap, and you aren't thirsty. A lot of theaters have drama with food and drink, and even if you are lucky enough to live next to one that is reasonable (serves food to you, doesn't give you grief for carrying in, doesn't give you water in a urine sample cup), it's still stuff you don't have to worry about with this.
2)- You can fit it around your schedule.
3)- You don't need to deal with theater hassle. Again, to some, this is no big deal, but if the close theater isn't nice, and if the nice theater isn't close, this could be a big deal.
4)- You can easily come in over 50 bucks taking even just one person to a movie theater, depending, and if you have a bunch of people (family or friends) you can easily save money with this setup.
5)- No one will scream a spoiler about Han Solo from the back of a slow moving pickup truck as you walk into the theater.
So, that's interesting, right? But there's also some other effects. Movie theaters are a *rough* business, and first run movies on opening night is sort of their big draw. Most (and in some cases effectively all) of a ticket sale go directly to the studio, leaving theaters forced to upcharge to stay around. Some do this sketchily with strange and aggressive setups for candy sales, others do this more straightforward by serving you a restaurant quality meal (often with optional booze), but all have been pinched to some degree by the pricing structure. Theater operators may simply flip out at the attempted erasure, causing drama. Meanwhile, studios might not trust the technology wholeheartedly, or be willing to go through the efforts of getting all the movies over to the service, leaving you with the fifth box next to your television that offers pay per view content... but not the pay per view content you actually want.
What's this base 1010 drama? Everyone knows in binary ALL primes end in "1".
Jokes aside, the fact that there's plenty of bases to choose from means that what they are really talking about is the modulo remainders of primes having a pattern- and modulo division and primes have had a pretty flirty relationship. Unquestionably interesting. The thing with the prime number set is that it's immutable- a set of fixed numeric stars shining the same light since before time began, and yet even with that constancy, many functions involving the prime number web have proven frustrating to calculate for large values- there's hardly any shortcuts compared to the integer math you run into on a daily basis.
He said they would need a warrant for pot plants, and not for if you were shooting people.
The Supreme Court case is for if two people are in the home (residents) and one says "please come in" and the other says "get a warrant". In that case, they have permission. Basically, they found that cops operate by Vampire Rules, which is strangely appropriate.
Let me copypasta that for you:
"The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police may search a home without a warrant when two occupants disagree about allowing officers to enter, and the resident who refuses access is then arrested."
That's VERY different than what was implied- that cops are entering without a warrant routinely. The Supreme Court found that entering was an "or" function, not an "and" function. That's very different from implying that cops can stroll in apropos of nothing.
It's really simple. Your phone is yours, and should do what you say. If you opt out of managing your phone (as San Bernadino did), and allow your murderous employee to be the guy with the encryption code because it's easier to not pay an admin, then you pay the obvious and logical price. Using that to try to strip encryption globally- and make no mistake, that is what the FBI is requesting, and what Obama JUST STATED- is ruinous.
The President of the United States, a constitutional scholar, just implied that we shouldn't have access to math because someone, somewhere, is jacking off to a 2003 jpeg of a then-12-year-old Russian chick.
You should be fucking quaking with fear right now dude. This is how speech dies.
Computers can easily be rendered "a black box". This has been the case to a great degree since the 90s, and absolutely since the mid-aughties.
Here's the logical results of this kind of shitbaggery coming to pass:
1)- When you mandate the mobile guys make backdoors, this will also mean that you can't EVER have an open source phone. Because the open source stuff won't have a backdoor.
2)- Since phones are just computers, this law, however it is written, can be interpreted to apply to ANY general purpose computer. You can wholesale ban all encryption that way, but most importantly, you can and MUST ban open source firmware, open source OS, every single thing.
These things aren't "slippery slopes" or hypotheticals- any law that is passed WILL INEVITABLY be that. It may not be ENFORCED as that immediately, but I could claim your PC is a phone by any legal definition the government sees fit to use.
Literally no presidential candidate is on the correct side of this issue, and neither is the president. Congress hasn't been clueless... yet. Surprisingly.
Good grief. My point is that it pushes system integration to the user, and that's crappy for most users. Default bundles don't change that much, and even risk adding inefficiency (even if you don't use a scripting language). I didn't think that was the core of your post- if the root of your suggestion is a bunch of pieces you can compile together, that's... you know what that is, that's not any kind of help.