This problem is only going to grow in the future. You can't control or reliably censor information on a free and open internet. The only way to ensure that nothing "bad" happens on the internet is to completely lock it down and whitelist everything that is posted. This isn't going to happen.
In a few years blockchain based messaging apps will be launching and they will not be controlled by Facebook or anyone else. You won't be able to ban anyone. This is something we are going to have to accept and deal with. There will be things you don't like on the internet.
The fact it went to (high number) is a once in a generation fluke
This has happened 3 times in Bitcoin's 10 year history. Not so much of a one time fluke now is it? People said this exact same sentence during the last two bubbles.
Your logic: The iPhone was just an improved version of a phone. Phones have existed forever. Therefore phones are just an old technology and haven't made anything better.
I have kids and I manage to keep my OS on a version that came out less than 15 years ago and also keep the oil in my car filtered and maintained. I must be a super human.
Modern coins are no longer using Proof of Work but instead using Proof of Stake. So really it's just the Bitcoin dinosaur that's wasting all of this electricity. The crypto currencies that will matter the most in the future (Ethereum (Soon), NEO, NANO, etc) are proof of stake and require very little power to run. Some can even be run on mobile phones.
Black markets aren't moving away from Bitcoin because it's "too unstable". They are moving away from it because it's not private/anonymous. Which is kind of important when buying illegal goods. Now that true privacy coins like Monero are available there is little reason to accept Bitcoin.
I don't think transaction speeds are a technological problem. Bitcoin can do nothing to make transactions happen quickly at scale with any technological model with the way cryptocurrency is currently set up. It's a political problem that currently has no solution and worst yet as far as I know nobody has even come up with a pie in the sky solution that might work either.
Visa has to process millions of transactions every second. Visa spends a TON of money on data centers and ways to process all of that load. There is currently no good incentive for miners to create the massive infrastructure needed to make a real time transaction system work in the real world. It's either wait more than 5 minutes (unacceptable) or charge multi dollar fees on top of the price of what's being bought (also unacceptable). The only way Bitcoin will be viable is to work fast and cheap. It's neither.
Hacking is sort of like solving puzzles. You find the systems, analyze them, and look for loopholes and edge cases. It's mentally challenging and varied. Sure the hacks might follow a few standard techniques after a while but each specific instance is different and carries its own risks.
I have a software engineering job that I would say is fairly challenging but I also do a whole bunch of grunt work and google pasting solutions for one off things. I wouldn't say my job is vastly better than his except for maybe the retirement plan. But even then if he got lucky he could out earn me quickly for finding a key exploit for a hot new game and milking it for a while.
Apple TV is one of the least popular streaming devices out there. Amazon giving Apple exclusivity for Prime Video would not be an equitable trade and Apple would be paying out the nose for that kind of deal.
View source is a relic of how the internet used to be. It's not coming back and I would argue should be hidden by default in browsers. It's akin to decompiling the source of an.exe file to look at the code (which some people do) and learn how it does things. Not a good method.
What you really want for learning and teaching techniques is to view the real source code. The source code with comments, with context, and with reproducibility in full. This is what open source projects and those demo websites do. They intentionally format the code in a readable way for the purposes of learning.
Someone learning to code on the web should not be looking at production code in a scalable web app, they should be following tutorials and using demo projects like you do in every single other language. The web isn't special it just had the quirk of the View Source button that was neat at the time but is now out of date and a relic of a bygone era.
In *every* part of the US, that will define you as rich. If you can afford a $50,000 car, you are rich. If you can afford a 2000+ sqft home, you are rich. If you can afford to buy a decaf latte grande every day, you are rich. *Most* americans live paycheck to paycheck and are vastly in debt. Slashdotters are not typical people. Moreover, most slashdotters don't even know anyone who isn't rich. They will live in a rich neighborhood, and work with rich people, and buy everything online, or from stores staffed by the children of rich people.
You are mistaking middle class for rich. And you apparently think poor people (who work at wal mart and other retail jobs) are middle class. I feel like you need to brush up on what actually defines the economic classes we use in America. Most lawyers and office professionals are middle class. The 1% big shot partner lawyers and leading trauma surgeons are rich.
Rich means not having to worry about money. Losing your job isn't a big deal. Rich means having investments that provide you with income regardless of what you do for "work".
Middle class means a two story house in a major suburb with 2.5 kids. That's not rich. If the people you are calling rich lose their job tomorrow then they would be scrambling to find a new one before their 3-6 months of buffer runs out (if they're lucky).
Poor means living paycheck to paycheck. You lose your job today and you could literally be homeless in a week.
I know it's fun to hate on Microsoft but it's worth noting that Linux has no protection from this kind of malware either. With this change the user directory on Windows will actually be more secure than the user directory in Linux.
Move to Linux. "Unsupportable" software becomes "support it ourselves if need be". You can't do that now, with MS, and you cannot do that in the future, with MS.
If they can't support their systems running Windows, which is much easier to maintain and have user's accept, then they definitely won't be able to support Linux on their shoestring budget. Supporting software themselves? Hah.
It doesn't matter where you live in Europe that is a fantastic wage. That's the equivalent of $93,158/year. So I'm not sure if you're bragging or complaining or what but your comment is either insidious or ignorant.
WebAssembly doesn't allow your code to do anything more than what normal JavaScript can do. It's really just a faster way to run JavaScript. It's not any kind of major shift except for allowing faster apps to be developed. There's really no need for signing as you wouldn't sign JavaScript either.
It's interesting seeing Facebook taking on YouTube. It's always good to have more competition but it feels like Facebook is a different experience and will make it much harder to "watch real videos".
Right now Facebook is stream oriented and we do watch some short videos while scrolling but that will never turn into the kind of engagement that incentivizes ads. They will likely make a separate portal, but how many people will actually go there? The other "portals" Facebook currently has like shopping, offers, games, etc are not very popular and hard to integrate with the stream.
Also the huge hurdle is getting a video app onto all of the players out there. Android TV, Apple TV, Roku, DVRs, Bluray players, etc. That's... not going to happen fast. The only way you will be able to watch these videos is through a phone and that's not a great experience.
Encryption is not tied to any one country. If they switch from AES (which has no backdoors) to ANYTHING ELSE then it is by definition less secure. There is no security benefit from using their own encryption. Even a conspiracy theorist would admit that the chances of AES being broken by even the NSA is close to 0.
So this change by China is not about protecting itself from foreign governments but is completely about controlling information and allowing itself to spy on its citizens.
Same reasons as always. Lazy and incompetent IT staff at corporations, low knowledge techies that disable Windows Update, long beards who only install certain updates manually after reading the associated KB article and self-determining whether or not they need an update.
This is one of the reasons that Microsoft set Windows Update to be automatic in Windows 10. It makes the OS much safer and generally makes the internet safer as a whole.
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This problem is only going to grow in the future. You can't control or reliably censor information on a free and open internet. The only way to ensure that nothing "bad" happens on the internet is to completely lock it down and whitelist everything that is posted. This isn't going to happen.
In a few years blockchain based messaging apps will be launching and they will not be controlled by Facebook or anyone else. You won't be able to ban anyone. This is something we are going to have to accept and deal with. There will be things you don't like on the internet.
The fact it went to (high number) is a once in a generation fluke
This has happened 3 times in Bitcoin's 10 year history. Not so much of a one time fluke now is it? People said this exact same sentence during the last two bubbles.
Slashdot was also very against the iPod and other major innovations. This website is ironically filled with Luddites.
I found the guy who doesn't know what inflation is. You are one of today's lucky 10,000.
It takes a hell of a lot more work to create a Bitcoin than to grow a tulip.
Your logic: The iPhone was just an improved version of a phone. Phones have existed forever. Therefore phones are just an old technology and haven't made anything better.
I have kids and I manage to keep my OS on a version that came out less than 15 years ago and also keep the oil in my car filtered and maintained. I must be a super human.
Modern coins are no longer using Proof of Work but instead using Proof of Stake. So really it's just the Bitcoin dinosaur that's wasting all of this electricity. The crypto currencies that will matter the most in the future (Ethereum (Soon), NEO, NANO, etc) are proof of stake and require very little power to run. Some can even be run on mobile phones.
Black markets aren't moving away from Bitcoin because it's "too unstable". They are moving away from it because it's not private/anonymous. Which is kind of important when buying illegal goods. Now that true privacy coins like Monero are available there is little reason to accept Bitcoin.
I don't think transaction speeds are a technological problem. Bitcoin can do nothing to make transactions happen quickly at scale with any technological model with the way cryptocurrency is currently set up. It's a political problem that currently has no solution and worst yet as far as I know nobody has even come up with a pie in the sky solution that might work either.
Visa has to process millions of transactions every second. Visa spends a TON of money on data centers and ways to process all of that load. There is currently no good incentive for miners to create the massive infrastructure needed to make a real time transaction system work in the real world. It's either wait more than 5 minutes (unacceptable) or charge multi dollar fees on top of the price of what's being bought (also unacceptable). The only way Bitcoin will be viable is to work fast and cheap. It's neither.
Hacking is sort of like solving puzzles. You find the systems, analyze them, and look for loopholes and edge cases. It's mentally challenging and varied. Sure the hacks might follow a few standard techniques after a while but each specific instance is different and carries its own risks.
I have a software engineering job that I would say is fairly challenging but I also do a whole bunch of grunt work and google pasting solutions for one off things. I wouldn't say my job is vastly better than his except for maybe the retirement plan. But even then if he got lucky he could out earn me quickly for finding a key exploit for a hot new game and milking it for a while.
Can you explain the joke for those of us who didn't grow up with antennas?
Apple TV is one of the least popular streaming devices out there. Amazon giving Apple exclusivity for Prime Video would not be an equitable trade and Apple would be paying out the nose for that kind of deal.
View source is a relic of how the internet used to be. It's not coming back and I would argue should be hidden by default in browsers. It's akin to decompiling the source of an .exe file to look at the code (which some people do) and learn how it does things. Not a good method.
What you really want for learning and teaching techniques is to view the real source code. The source code with comments, with context, and with reproducibility in full. This is what open source projects and those demo websites do. They intentionally format the code in a readable way for the purposes of learning.
Someone learning to code on the web should not be looking at production code in a scalable web app, they should be following tutorials and using demo projects like you do in every single other language. The web isn't special it just had the quirk of the View Source button that was neat at the time but is now out of date and a relic of a bygone era.
In *every* part of the US, that will define you as rich. If you can afford a $50,000 car, you are rich. If you can afford a 2000+ sqft home, you are rich. If you can afford to buy a decaf latte grande every day, you are rich. *Most* americans live paycheck to paycheck and are vastly in debt. Slashdotters are not typical people. Moreover, most slashdotters don't even know anyone who isn't rich. They will live in a rich neighborhood, and work with rich people, and buy everything online, or from stores staffed by the children of rich people.
You are mistaking middle class for rich. And you apparently think poor people (who work at wal mart and other retail jobs) are middle class. I feel like you need to brush up on what actually defines the economic classes we use in America. Most lawyers and office professionals are middle class. The 1% big shot partner lawyers and leading trauma surgeons are rich.
Rich means not having to worry about money. Losing your job isn't a big deal. Rich means having investments that provide you with income regardless of what you do for "work".
Middle class means a two story house in a major suburb with 2.5 kids. That's not rich. If the people you are calling rich lose their job tomorrow then they would be scrambling to find a new one before their 3-6 months of buffer runs out (if they're lucky).
Poor means living paycheck to paycheck. You lose your job today and you could literally be homeless in a week.
I know it's fun to hate on Microsoft but it's worth noting that Linux has no protection from this kind of malware either. With this change the user directory on Windows will actually be more secure than the user directory in Linux.
Move to Linux. "Unsupportable" software becomes "support it ourselves if need be". You can't do that now, with MS, and you cannot do that in the future, with MS.
If they can't support their systems running Windows, which is much easier to maintain and have user's accept, then they definitely won't be able to support Linux on their shoestring budget. Supporting software themselves? Hah.
It doesn't matter where you live in Europe that is a fantastic wage. That's the equivalent of $93,158/year. So I'm not sure if you're bragging or complaining or what but your comment is either insidious or ignorant.
Zero. XP is unsupported and there is no reasonable assumption that it is secure.
WebAssembly doesn't allow your code to do anything more than what normal JavaScript can do. It's really just a faster way to run JavaScript. It's not any kind of major shift except for allowing faster apps to be developed. There's really no need for signing as you wouldn't sign JavaScript either.
It's interesting seeing Facebook taking on YouTube. It's always good to have more competition but it feels like Facebook is a different experience and will make it much harder to "watch real videos".
Right now Facebook is stream oriented and we do watch some short videos while scrolling but that will never turn into the kind of engagement that incentivizes ads. They will likely make a separate portal, but how many people will actually go there? The other "portals" Facebook currently has like shopping, offers, games, etc are not very popular and hard to integrate with the stream.
Also the huge hurdle is getting a video app onto all of the players out there. Android TV, Apple TV, Roku, DVRs, Bluray players, etc. That's... not going to happen fast. The only way you will be able to watch these videos is through a phone and that's not a great experience.
We'll see how they fare I guess.
Java and Javascript are two distinct words. You can't just chop a word in half and call it quits. Th wou b sil.
If we're going to be pedantic we should at least be pedantically correct.
Encryption is not tied to any one country. If they switch from AES (which has no backdoors) to ANYTHING ELSE then it is by definition less secure. There is no security benefit from using their own encryption. Even a conspiracy theorist would admit that the chances of AES being broken by even the NSA is close to 0.
So this change by China is not about protecting itself from foreign governments but is completely about controlling information and allowing itself to spy on its citizens.
You need a citation that security updates make a computer safer?
Same reasons as always. Lazy and incompetent IT staff at corporations, low knowledge techies that disable Windows Update, long beards who only install certain updates manually after reading the associated KB article and self-determining whether or not they need an update.
This is one of the reasons that Microsoft set Windows Update to be automatic in Windows 10. It makes the OS much safer and generally makes the internet safer as a whole.