The content industry controls the government, so the government will do whatever the content industry tells it to do. There may not have been any public demands by the content industry, but you can be pretty sure that there were backroom deals....
This sounds like new lipstick on the Windows UAC pig. From the UAC page:
User Account Control (UAC) helps defend your PC against hackers and malicious software. Any time a program wants to make a major change to your computer, UAC lets you know and asks for permission.
This new "feature" looks like yet another security prompt that the user is going to click through.
It is way too early in Swift lifetime to come to any sort of real opinion about using Swift and maintaining Swift projects over the course of many years.
The prospects for the merger going through must look quite bleak in order for Comcast to get on its knees in front of the regulators and lay out its plans for campaign contributions to change the lay of the regulatory land in the future.....
...As the amount of electricity you draw from their generators goes down, they're going to reach the point of needing to charge you a flat fee just for the connection to the power lines, plus the usual fees for actually using their electricity....
I already pay separately for delivery (i.e., connection to lines) vs. generation (i.e., use of electricity). so no change needed here.
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Having said that, I do have some agreement with the utilities on this item: utilities say that solar-generated electricity flowing out of houses and into a power grid designed to carry it in the other direction has caused unanticipated voltage fluctuations that can overload circuits, burn lines and lead to brownouts or blackouts.
The popularity of Wikipedia is due more to the convenience of citing an article in it, and not necessarily the accuracy of those articles. You can usually be assured that, no matter the topic, there's an article on the topic in Wikipedia, and that google will return a link to that article near or at the top of search results.
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It is easy to use Wikipedia,
It is that ease to use, rather than accuracy, that has made Wikipedia as popular as it is.
... Included is also a chart showing that editing participation in Wikipedia has "atrophied" since 2007...
As Kohs says, "I think this has proved, beyond a reasonable doubt, that it's not fair to say Wikipedia is 'self-correcting.'"...
I could have told you that, and have been telling you that.
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The big problem with Wikipedia is that in spite of what the publicity says, it is only a small number of people who contribute, and a surprisingly large number of those people have an agenda for what they edit.
imo, with Wikipedia, truth is not the goal. A certain point of view is the goal.
NTP.org is its own problem. Even when there was more than a single person maintaining it, the development looked less than favorably upon code improvement suggestions from the community.
... I do believe that there is a tendency associated with [open source] to take certain things for granted....
You've hit on the main problem. It is not open source, per se, as you imply in your message. It is community involvement.
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Where you have a community that is involved and stays involved, bugs are shallow. When you have a community, such as NTP.org, where suggestions are pushed away, bugs become very deep.
... He notes how the Heartbleed bug serves as a counter example to "Linus's Law" that "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."...
I think the big issue with the Heartbleed bug was that the OpenSSL code base was so egregiously poorly written and maintained that eyeballs started bleeding whenever they looked at it. imo, the OpenSSL code base never had enough eyeballs looking at it to make its bugs shallow. It was painful to look at, so eyeballs avoided looking at it.
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I still think that Linus' Law hold true, or at least is a very good guideline. I think exceptions like the OpenSSL code base are needed to hone the point that Linus' Law makes.
I also take issue with the headline, as I do not think there is any one right solution for improving security. The improvement of security is a multi-faceted endeavour and an ongoing process.
...we're seeing the beginning of a change in how untrained people can monitor their own health....
So untrained people are now monitoring their health using uncalibrated devices in uncontrolled circumstances.
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Yup, that sounds like a recipe for success to me.
Surprisingly, though, those very same untrained people will be saying how wonderful it all is. If for no other reason than to try to justify the fashion accessory on their wrist.
Slashdot Mirror
So Microsoft bullies in the courtroom.
This will result in unique identification of people. It is not for passwords, it is for identifying.
The content industry controls the government, so the government will do whatever the content industry tells it to do. There may not have been any public demands by the content industry, but you can be pretty sure that there were backroom deals....
User Account Control (UAC) helps defend your PC against hackers and malicious software. Any time a program wants to make a major change to your computer, UAC lets you know and asks for permission.
This new "feature" looks like yet another security prompt that the user is going to click through.
Comcast says they support it
I've been using Comcast's IPv6 for well over a year. Not one problem with it.
Maybe you should go to the Comcast HSI forum on dslreports.com and ask some questions.
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At best, this is little more than puppy-love.
The prospects for the merger going through must look quite bleak in order for Comcast to get on its knees in front of the regulators and lay out its plans for campaign contributions to change the lay of the regulatory land in the future.....
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If the sun were ten times hotter, there wouldn't be life on Earth.
If humans needed to breathe in methane instead of oxygen, there wouldn't be humans on Earth.
See, I can play the game as well....
...As the amount of electricity you draw from their generators goes down, they're going to reach the point of needing to charge you a flat fee just for the connection to the power lines, plus the usual fees for actually using their electricity....
I already pay separately for delivery (i.e., connection to lines) vs. generation (i.e., use of electricity). so no change needed here.
.
Having said that, I do have some agreement with the utilities on this item: utilities say that solar-generated electricity flowing out of houses and into a power grid designed to carry it in the other direction has caused unanticipated voltage fluctuations that can overload circuits, burn lines and lead to brownouts or blackouts.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Do the two networks share a piece of networking equipment at any point on the plane? Is it just two subnets with a [buggy] firewall between them?
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It is easy to use Wikipedia,
It is that ease to use, rather than accuracy, that has made Wikipedia as popular as it is.
... Included is also a chart showing that editing participation in Wikipedia has "atrophied" since 2007 ...
As Kohs says, "I think this has proved, beyond a reasonable doubt, that it's not fair to say Wikipedia is 'self-correcting.'"...
I could have told you that, and have been telling you that.
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The big problem with Wikipedia is that in spite of what the publicity says, it is only a small number of people who contribute, and a surprisingly large number of those people have an agenda for what they edit.
imo, with Wikipedia, truth is not the goal. A certain point of view is the goal.
Once notebook computers became a fashion accessory that happens to compute, this result was inevitable.
There, I fixed the headline for you.
That's because you shared your password
Password is shared with no one. It is just me watching.
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The Netflix recommendations I'm watched were out of my range of likes and/or taste.
So, based upon my experience with the Netflix recommendation algorithm, I'd be wary of this new application.
What with all the politics today?
You say "incompetent," I say "politician."
... expect her to say provocative things just for the sake of drawing attention to herself. Why else would someone go on Fox News?
... Just last month we learned that NTP...
NTP.org is its own problem. Even when there was more than a single person maintaining it, the development looked less than favorably upon code improvement suggestions from the community.
... I do believe that there is a tendency associated with [open source] to take certain things for granted....
You've hit on the main problem. It is not open source, per se, as you imply in your message. It is community involvement.
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Where you have a community that is involved and stays involved, bugs are shallow. When you have a community, such as NTP.org, where suggestions are pushed away, bugs become very deep.
...Most of the shit we all use, trust and take for granted was coded in someone's basement over the weekend a long time ago. ...
... and the code written in nice air-conditioned offices in Redmond, Washington has shown itself to be so much more secure over the years ....
...So let's everyone ask ourselves this question: how many times do we personally browse open source code...
"Everyone" does not need to do it. You've set up a premise that fails on face value.
... He notes how the Heartbleed bug serves as a counter example to "Linus's Law" that "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."...
I think the big issue with the Heartbleed bug was that the OpenSSL code base was so egregiously poorly written and maintained that eyeballs started bleeding whenever they looked at it. imo, the OpenSSL code base never had enough eyeballs looking at it to make its bugs shallow. It was painful to look at, so eyeballs avoided looking at it.
.
I still think that Linus' Law hold true, or at least is a very good guideline. I think exceptions like the OpenSSL code base are needed to hone the point that Linus' Law makes.
I also take issue with the headline, as I do not think there is any one right solution for improving security. The improvement of security is a multi-faceted endeavour and an ongoing process.
...we're seeing the beginning of a change in how untrained people can monitor their own health....
So untrained people are now monitoring their health using uncalibrated devices in uncontrolled circumstances.
.
Yup, that sounds like a recipe for success to me.
Surprisingly, though, those very same untrained people will be saying how wonderful it all is. If for no other reason than to try to justify the fashion accessory on their wrist.