NO THANKS, Once we have robots of such intelligence the last thing I want is for them to be become susceptible to human failings and manipulation through feelings. how about we simply aim for them to ALWAYS err on the side of caution when dealing with humans.
She is a huge google SHILL, I don't generally like accusing anyone of shilling as it is massively overused, especially on this forum. But FFS look at her blog history and work history, she constantly blogs defending googles evil practises while condemning the same from anyone else. Of course she trusts google, they are a constant source of income for her.
most places that require airgap's also have strict rules around what is allowed through the door let alone near a computer. e.g. one of the places I work at you must check ALL electronic devices into a locker before even getting past the front desk. USB ports on terminals are disabled and they don't have optical drives, all data enters and leaves through a controlled point. The USB in the parking lot trick is really only effective in lower security areas, not places with air gaps, air gaps have a lot higher vigilance (not perfect) and the USB in the parking lot is a well known trick that is in standard training for any place that cares the least bit about security let alone a place going to the extent of air gapping. It is interesting from a technical standpoint, but completely implausible.
NO, the air gap computer wasn't hacked. If you require them to install malware on it then it wasn't actually hacked, the air gapping is to prevent any malware from getting in. This is like a heap of other sensational articles from security researchers that claim how weak somethings security is as long as they had physical access or admin access, yeah no shit Sherlock, if you can install software on a computer you can do all sorts of nifty shit.
b) While drones might allow for lower collateral damage (because the drone won't be afraid of death), a drone also will not object to illegal or immoral orders.
Neither do most humans. soldiers are generally drilled by most countries to obey orders and respect the chain of command, it goes against everything they are taught to make moral judgements of orders.
I mean, can I sue a site for forcing me to use an easy password, which then gets hacked?
Can they sue you if you expose your account details? something like 1 in 3 machines have some sort of malware on them (yet if you ask people nearly everyone will say there machine is clean, 1 in 3 of them are wrong), I can't really blame any site for being unwilling to let any additional software apart from your browser interact with credential fields on their site if the site holds anything of value.
oops, replied to wrong post originally. this belongs here
It's hothardware, what do you expect. plenty of quality hardware sites out there to get decent reviews if your interested. As it is hothardware you can guarantee that they are at least a month behind the more reputable sites.
It's hothardware, what do you expect. plenty of quality hardware sites out there to get decent reviews if your interested. As it is hothardware you can guarantee that they are at least a month behind the more reputable sites.
surely there must be a 3rd option? being screwed by H.265 patents or getting a subpar VP9 codec controlled by google that is less efficient and MUCH slower to encode with seems to be asking which would you like to be stabbed with the rusted razor blade or the filleting knife. Either way you lose.
Uber has a right to sway public opinion, they even have a right to openly challenge the laws in court. they DO NOT have a right to openly ignore the law and this is what they are doing in many many regions of the world.
Taxi drivers are upset that they finally have competition and for once they have to compete in a fair market place. If I need to get from point A to point B and my choices are a Taxi, or Uber, I'll always pick Uber because it's a better car, a better car ride, driven by someone who is actually qualified to drive me and someone who cares about more then earning a dollar. Taxi drivers are unsafe, unstable, wreckless, road navigators that ignore safety and rules all to make a dollar, It's time they learn that the public shouldn't have to put up with it.
I don't like the taxi industry, but the whole point is that Uber AREN'T competing in a fair marketplace, they are intentionally avoiding competing fairly by claiming they don't have to pay the same fees or abide by the same regulations as Taxi's and hence are able to undercut them.
Stores are governed by many MANY more regulations than even the taxi industry and yes those costs are directly passed onto you when you buy a chocolate bar. What you have basically just said is that stealing chocolate bars from stores is ok.
Uber is not a black person. A company should NEVER get to determine what is a good law and what is a bad law. Civil Disobedience is for individuals not companies, the last thing this world needs is companies getting to decide which laws are good and which are bad, especially when the execs making such decisions can be internationally based and out of reach of the consequences.
losing money to another company is not an issue unless you are using unfair competitive practises. In this case they are claiming that is what Uber is doing by ignoring the regulations so they can undercut them.
I've long believed the GPL has a major flaw that excludes it from wide adoption: there are too few ways to monetize GPL code. Now I'm sure some people are thinking "good, that's what the GPL is about", but they'd be wrong. The GPL is about freedom, and it's flaws force those interested in being paid for their work to often reinvent GPL code to monetize the software; closing it up entirely.
This problem is especially prelevant in industries like computer games, and hardware drivers; coincidentally two of the areas GPL code has constantly lagged behind. To fix this I would propose a provision, or perhaps a sub license that would allow a person or organisation to keep secret their source modifications for a period of time. Perhaps something like 1 or 2 years. This would give incentive to enterprise to build their products upon current GPL code as they could save money by not "reinventing the wheel", while also ensuring that their modifications would have a monetization period.
Your provision doesn't actually solve the problem. some of those drivers lag not just because a company doesn't want to reveal secrets but because they have 3rd party licensed implementations within their codebase that they simply are not legally permitted to reveal without breaking other licenses or contracts.
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companies are there to make a profit, if they see profit in making the drivers they will make a better effort. If the user base for your personal choice in OS is too small then you are shit out of luck. This isn't spite on their part, it is business reality, most hardware manufacturers are churning out so much stuff every year that resources simply have to be pushed where they get best ROI.
slavery is actually very efficient. But that isn't what they are doing. Governments should not be directly engaging in business, the most efficient mechanism though hated by many is regulation as it puts equal requirements on everyone while not making the government a direct competitor to business.
There are many organisations far more worthy of the money, I can understand giving family members the finger. But why not do so in a constructive manner, their are good charities and causes out their, no need to flush it down the shitter by giving it to church. Hell I would understand leaving it to a pet dog or cat better than the church,.
Additional: I do agree though that removing media center was a dick move. One that seems idiotic given the small devices and the increasingly common appearance of computers in the living room.
yep, better rip that t shirt off and replace it with your tin foil hat. If they wanted to remotely monitor you they have had the ability to do that for the last 2 decades, nothing really new here except a usable interface for users. The forced updates is only for home edition, which in my opinion is a long overdue addition, anyone serious about their IT setup is either not using windows or at least not using home edition.
you can drive the distance in half a day from Germany to Italy, why would somewhere that you can easily hop in your car in the morning and be there in the afternoon be a dream destination, especially for a so called world traveller
The government DOES provide it. They do so through legislation that requires hire car businesses to have a certain percentage of vehicles on the roads
Oh, you mean slavery.
So first you whine that the government isn't doing anything, now you whine because it is pointed out they are doing something and doing it in probably the most tax efficient manner.
Most parking space are not handicapped spaces. You only need enough to serve.
If this is a service that is needed by people, then it should be provided by government, and not forced upon private enterprises. Towns and cities themselves should operate transport for the disabled. Government should also foot the bill for wheelchair access and the like. I'm not against accessibility, just against forcing business owners to pay for it in cases other than necessities.
The government DOES provide it. They do so through legislation that requires hire car businesses to have a certain percentage of vehicles on the roads at all times that are accessible, the cost is then passed on through higher average fees across all vehicles. In essence this is one of the taxi industries complaints (and a justified one at that), Uber by ignoring the regulations avoids costs that legitimate businesses pay and hence can undercut the market.
I regularly work with large corp's and governments building large HPC, mainframe replacements, large clusters and you appear to be falling into the same trap a lot of them do. As others have said, it isn't the hardware, anyone that tells you what is best based on your summary doesn't have a clue as it is all about the SOFTWARE. I recently watched an organisation spend the best part of a million dollars on high core count machines only to then find the app doesn't perform well in parallel and in fact scales much better on high clocked low core count machines that would have cost them less than a quarter of the price. Memory, Core count, machine architecture, core clock speed are all essential items that can only truly be determined by good application profiling, absent that you are just pissing money in the wind. PS: Don't build these sort of machines yourselves, the amount of integration testing and trouble you can run up against with these type of configs costs you more than you can save by not going with a recognised vendor.
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NO THANKS, Once we have robots of such intelligence the last thing I want is for them to be become susceptible to human failings and manipulation through feelings. how about we simply aim for them to ALWAYS err on the side of caution when dealing with humans.
She is a huge google SHILL, I don't generally like accusing anyone of shilling as it is massively overused, especially on this forum. But FFS look at her blog history and work history, she constantly blogs defending googles evil practises while condemning the same from anyone else. Of course she trusts google, they are a constant source of income for her.
most places that require airgap's also have strict rules around what is allowed through the door let alone near a computer. e.g. one of the places I work at you must check ALL electronic devices into a locker before even getting past the front desk. USB ports on terminals are disabled and they don't have optical drives, all data enters and leaves through a controlled point. The USB in the parking lot trick is really only effective in lower security areas, not places with air gaps, air gaps have a lot higher vigilance (not perfect) and the USB in the parking lot is a well known trick that is in standard training for any place that cares the least bit about security let alone a place going to the extent of air gapping. It is interesting from a technical standpoint, but completely implausible.
NO, the air gap computer wasn't hacked. If you require them to install malware on it then it wasn't actually hacked, the air gapping is to prevent any malware from getting in. This is like a heap of other sensational articles from security researchers that claim how weak somethings security is as long as they had physical access or admin access, yeah no shit Sherlock, if you can install software on a computer you can do all sorts of nifty shit.
b) While drones might allow for lower collateral damage (because the drone won't be afraid of death), a drone also will not object to illegal or immoral orders.
Neither do most humans. soldiers are generally drilled by most countries to obey orders and respect the chain of command, it goes against everything they are taught to make moral judgements of orders.
I mean, can I sue a site for forcing me to use an easy password, which then gets hacked?
Can they sue you if you expose your account details? something like 1 in 3 machines have some sort of malware on them (yet if you ask people nearly everyone will say there machine is clean, 1 in 3 of them are wrong), I can't really blame any site for being unwilling to let any additional software apart from your browser interact with credential fields on their site if the site holds anything of value.
oops, replied to wrong post originally. this belongs here
It's hothardware, what do you expect. plenty of quality hardware sites out there to get decent reviews if your interested. As it is hothardware you can guarantee that they are at least a month behind the more reputable sites.
It's hothardware, what do you expect. plenty of quality hardware sites out there to get decent reviews if your interested. As it is hothardware you can guarantee that they are at least a month behind the more reputable sites.
surely there must be a 3rd option? being screwed by H.265 patents or getting a subpar VP9 codec controlled by google that is less efficient and MUCH slower to encode with seems to be asking which would you like to be stabbed with the rusted razor blade or the filleting knife. Either way you lose.
Uber has a right to sway public opinion, they even have a right to openly challenge the laws in court. they DO NOT have a right to openly ignore the law and this is what they are doing in many many regions of the world.
Taxi drivers are upset that they finally have competition and for once they have to compete in a fair market place. If I need to get from point A to point B and my choices are a Taxi, or Uber, I'll always pick Uber because it's a better car, a better car ride, driven by someone who is actually qualified to drive me and someone who cares about more then earning a dollar. Taxi drivers are unsafe, unstable, wreckless, road navigators that ignore safety and rules all to make a dollar, It's time they learn that the public shouldn't have to put up with it.
I don't like the taxi industry, but the whole point is that Uber AREN'T competing in a fair marketplace, they are intentionally avoiding competing fairly by claiming they don't have to pay the same fees or abide by the same regulations as Taxi's and hence are able to undercut them.
Stores are governed by many MANY more regulations than even the taxi industry and yes those costs are directly passed onto you when you buy a chocolate bar. What you have basically just said is that stealing chocolate bars from stores is ok.
Uber is not a black person. A company should NEVER get to determine what is a good law and what is a bad law. Civil Disobedience is for individuals not companies, the last thing this world needs is companies getting to decide which laws are good and which are bad, especially when the execs making such decisions can be internationally based and out of reach of the consequences.
losing money to another company is not an issue unless you are using unfair competitive practises. In this case they are claiming that is what Uber is doing by ignoring the regulations so they can undercut them.
I've long believed the GPL has a major flaw that excludes it from wide adoption: there are too few ways to monetize GPL code. Now I'm sure some people are thinking "good, that's what the GPL is about", but they'd be wrong. The GPL is about freedom, and it's flaws force those interested in being paid for their work to often reinvent GPL code to monetize the software; closing it up entirely. This problem is especially prelevant in industries like computer games, and hardware drivers; coincidentally two of the areas GPL code has constantly lagged behind. To fix this I would propose a provision, or perhaps a sub license that would allow a person or organisation to keep secret their source modifications for a period of time. Perhaps something like 1 or 2 years. This would give incentive to enterprise to build their products upon current GPL code as they could save money by not "reinventing the wheel", while also ensuring that their modifications would have a monetization period.
Your provision doesn't actually solve the problem. some of those drivers lag not just because a company doesn't want to reveal secrets but because they have 3rd party licensed implementations within their codebase that they simply are not legally permitted to reveal without breaking other licenses or contracts.
companies are there to make a profit, if they see profit in making the drivers they will make a better effort. If the user base for your personal choice in OS is too small then you are shit out of luck. This isn't spite on their part, it is business reality, most hardware manufacturers are churning out so much stuff every year that resources simply have to be pushed where they get best ROI.
slavery is actually very efficient. But that isn't what they are doing. Governments should not be directly engaging in business, the most efficient mechanism though hated by many is regulation as it puts equal requirements on everyone while not making the government a direct competitor to business.
There are many organisations far more worthy of the money, I can understand giving family members the finger. But why not do so in a constructive manner, their are good charities and causes out their, no need to flush it down the shitter by giving it to church. Hell I would understand leaving it to a pet dog or cat better than the church,.
Could have been a church too. I have a few relatives that bypassed their families,
Bypassing one's family in a last will and testament is not necessarily a mark of senility.
Sometimes it is a mark of sanity.
It is when you replace them with an even more greedy bloodsucking group of people (i.e. a church).
Additional: I do agree though that removing media center was a dick move. One that seems idiotic given the small devices and the increasingly common appearance of computers in the living room.
yep, better rip that t shirt off and replace it with your tin foil hat. If they wanted to remotely monitor you they have had the ability to do that for the last 2 decades, nothing really new here except a usable interface for users. The forced updates is only for home edition, which in my opinion is a long overdue addition, anyone serious about their IT setup is either not using windows or at least not using home edition.
you can drive the distance in half a day from Germany to Italy, why would somewhere that you can easily hop in your car in the morning and be there in the afternoon be a dream destination, especially for a so called world traveller
The government DOES provide it. They do so through legislation that requires hire car businesses to have a certain percentage of vehicles on the roads
Oh, you mean slavery.
So first you whine that the government isn't doing anything, now you whine because it is pointed out they are doing something and doing it in probably the most tax efficient manner.
Most parking space are not handicapped spaces. You only need enough to serve.
If this is a service that is needed by people, then it should be provided by government, and not forced upon private enterprises. Towns and cities themselves should operate transport for the disabled. Government should also foot the bill for wheelchair access and the like. I'm not against accessibility, just against forcing business owners to pay for it in cases other than necessities.
The government DOES provide it. They do so through legislation that requires hire car businesses to have a certain percentage of vehicles on the roads at all times that are accessible, the cost is then passed on through higher average fees across all vehicles. In essence this is one of the taxi industries complaints (and a justified one at that), Uber by ignoring the regulations avoids costs that legitimate businesses pay and hence can undercut the market.
I regularly work with large corp's and governments building large HPC, mainframe replacements, large clusters and you appear to be falling into the same trap a lot of them do. As others have said, it isn't the hardware, anyone that tells you what is best based on your summary doesn't have a clue as it is all about the SOFTWARE. I recently watched an organisation spend the best part of a million dollars on high core count machines only to then find the app doesn't perform well in parallel and in fact scales much better on high clocked low core count machines that would have cost them less than a quarter of the price. Memory, Core count, machine architecture, core clock speed are all essential items that can only truly be determined by good application profiling, absent that you are just pissing money in the wind. PS: Don't build these sort of machines yourselves, the amount of integration testing and trouble you can run up against with these type of configs costs you more than you can save by not going with a recognised vendor.