What world do you live in that cost of production is given to the consumer in the form of discounts? The price is initially set in a way to recoup the R&D to get the efficient systems in place, then it is just increased profit margins. The continual adjustment and broadening of the patent system allows the prevention of competition and undercutting to a small handful of equally greedy companies, and the money continues to trickle up to the people at the top.
True, but I believe the ratio is significantly greater, a support/maintenance team of 5 can take care of a system that replaces 100+ workers. Though I do say outsourcing is a larger threat then robots depending on your level and expertise. If you are a coder, customer relations etc... outsourcing is a bigger threat, if you are a laborer, manufacturing person etc... robots are a bigger threat.
Oh absolutely, it will make the local headlines every time, and if worded right someone might send it in to Leno to get some attention there. However the bean jokes won't really make it past the local news.
Sounds to me more like googles saying this isn't a priority security vulnerability, but a minor bug. Which looking at the necessary hurdles, I can't really disagree with them. Looks like the target vector is people who don't trust google enough to use google but do enough to use chrome. Click links mindlessly but aren't planning to log into hotmail, gmail, facebook, their bank etc... The quanity of potential targets is so small, and the people it would likely target have to be so gullible I can't see this exploit ever being usable in the wild.
Hardly a relevant statement. When it is in reference to long-term friends vs a girl you just met, that is where the bro's before ho's comes into play. If you are thinking which you would rather look at or listen to when neither has a history, if a male chooses bro over ho, that would imply homosexuality.
Uhh.. yeah you can go to court yourself and represent yourself in a patent or fair use case. A handicapped person can also race a professional athlete to the top of a 2 mile long staircase. It doesn't make it a fair match. Being right, and being able to BS your way through court are 2 completely different things.
Most people figure it out after hitting enter when it takes them to the wrong page. If the wrong page is a link farm or something along those lines people figure it out quickly. If the wrong page is similar design carrying similar products, many people would assume the design has just changed. Note it is terrible business practice to only cater your business to people with an IQ over 60. That will cost over half of potential customers, and in many cases the ones with the most disposable income (or at least the ones with the loosest grip on the money they have)
IMO Libya falls into that category. They did 70% of the legwork themselves. That strikes me as them standing up and showing they are ready for a change. Iraq, Afghanistan and pretty much everything else around there, I'm not so optimistic on. IMO freedom has to be earned, you can have some outside assistance but if you don't do the bulk of it, it just dosn't work. Who here wants to imagine telling with pride a story of America earning it's independence from Brittan, if our story were more like "And then the colonists hid inside their bunkers while the french defeated the british". French revolution, same thing. Admitted modern times don't bode as well for that (Due to the rapidly increasing gap between war weapons available to the government, and normal weaponry available to the people.
I did not say either was impossible. Women do get out of that situation all the time, usually after an abusive relationship is broken off, they get years of therapy, and work to change the way they think. When you mass scale it from a person to a country... it takes alot more years. Basically the 2 sane options are. 1. Agree to lock in, keep thousands of troops there for 20 years or so to stabilize the country, or 2 note that it is a more or less lost cause. Sending countless of your own people to their grave, and millions of other people's money, then walking away turning your head accomplishes nothing for them, and costs you greatly. Banning slavery within the US was fairly easy by comparison, mainly because it was the US chosing to ban it, and the US stayed around to keep it enforced. Now what if slavery in the US were ended by lets say, the french sailing to america, declaring war on the US, winning the war and leaving, do you think there is any assurance it would have stayed abolished?
I partially agree with you that the amount of housecleaning the former government did is a large factor. The part on women though is not blaming the victim, it is basic psychology in how the human mind works. People tend to stick to what they are used to, and wind up repeating roles. In the scenario I gave, it is not the woman's fault, if anyone would be to blame directly in that example it would be the abusive father that adjusted the hypothetical person to it. It dosn't take any research or source to know that humans, do not always or even often gravitate towards the healthiest relationship, but every relationship going back to the parent effects their tendencies. People who were abused (of both genders), tend to move to relationships that will also be abusive. The underlying cause for why someone gets into a relationship, if they are not dealt with, will cause a leaning towards returning to the same situation. It takes a change of the way they have been thinking for years, some people quickly learn their lesson the first time, most will repeat the same mistake a few times.
Define freed? Does tearing down an oppressive organization that will later be replaced by another that will be similarly oppressive? The problem with another group winning your freedom for you, especially in the middle east is that people that are used to being oppressed and enslaved, the oppressed middle eastern countries, are like girls with an abusive father. They grow up move out, and move in with an equally abusive boyfriend. A white knight "saves" her from the abusive boyfriend, he goes to jail or whatever, without massive amounts of therapy, guess where she'll be in 2 years. 9 times out of 10, with a new abusive husband.
Actually the problem is Google isn't a jackass with patents. Google offered a ton of things that Facebook didn't have on day 1. Intelligent group sharing, easy controls, easy to understand following, video chat (you could argue that Facebook didn't do video chat as reactionary, but as soon as Google began hinting at getting into the social network business, it was pretty strongly known that they were going to do video chat, considering they have it in everything else). In the month following Google+'s launch, facebook added more actual features to their page then they had in the previous year. If microsoft, apple or any other company had been the company to launch the equivalent of G+, you could bet your ass that they'd have patented each of those features and taken facebook to court for every single one of them.
60% drop in public posts I believe. At a service that's selling point was that most posts don't have to be public and you can send them specifically to the groups you want them to go to. I would be far from surprised if most of face-books "increasing activity" turned out to be 80% "Take care of this dying cow for me" farm ville posts. I can say I have about half the number of friends on G+ that I had on facebook, yet there are twice as many posts with actual interesting information then I ever saw on facebook.
Diaspora was a great concept, and an abysmally failed execution. They managed to simultaneously launch to fast and too slow. They failed to launch (or at least publicly advertise or even point out the pods that were available) anywhere near the time they had hype or interest (dropping them from the radar for anyone but the extreme tinfoilhats and hardcore geeks), Then when they did finally show what they had, it was so buggy, security hole filled and flawed, that the tinfoil hats and 3/4ths of the geeks who were interested ran away. Say what you will about G+, but they actually do have at least a niche that uses and likes their product. I haven't really heard of anyone using diaspora as more then a slight curiosity.
I do admit one flaw in googles approach, microsoft more or less was very forceful in their approach to ensure the mobile carriers did things their way, while google's approach was to allow the carriers to do what they wanted to the system and for the carriers to have the last word on what happens to the phone. Google's idea was great in theory, but forgot to account for the fact that the carriers are all assholes.
It was easy update 98% of them. In microsoft's offices for their direct employees they just ran to their desks and swapped out the free phone they gave them, for a new free phone for their employees. They just couldn't track down the 2% of their phones that were bought by people intentionally.
Well flicking your finger will deal enough force to unlock anything in that scale from that demonstration, By the same logic real trains are subject do danger of a medium sized bird lifting them off of the tracks. The question isn't how easy is it to change the alignment on a air hockey puck sized object. The question is how it will scale when you are working with a multi ton train.
I wouldn't claim the machine is smarter then the smartest humans, but I would be willing to bet it is smarter then the average human (Just look around walmart, what you see represents the majority of the people on the road).
Not really, I'm not saying they are flawless, but when they do work, when they save a life, or prevent an accient, it does not make the news. Would you care to even ballpark the human error vs mechanical error ratio on car accidents? 50 human errors for every 1 technical one? or maybe closer to 100? We've all heard the stories on the news from the 2 or 3 flaws. That batch of cars that had trouble breaking, I believe there were like 20 accidents as a result, and that was considered an epidemic of mass proportions in terms of mechanical failures in vehicles. Yet you have to think that huge disaster, wasn't even a blip on the radar as far as total number of accidents.
You call apples lawyers and inform them those magazines are deceptively ripping off the ipad's design and they should have the court halt their shipments until things are sorted out.
heh well fortunately I really doubt you would ever have to worry about a glaring security hole on webos (even if there were some huge massive security hole that allowed someone to completely copy everything from as little as visiting a webpage, who would bother to exploit it, they might as well be looking for holes in BEOS or other operating systems that while technically great, died before ever reaching a noticeable userbase. That being said for most people this option is a great option, assuming some critical app comes out that they can't live without owners of the touchpad have the option to install android to run it. That is what makes hacks great, it is an option that will never be forced on you if you don't need them.
Heck even something like this can cause instability. One of their neighbors see's a large "missile" launch from iran, or one of these rockets crash lands on soil of a neighbor and either the neighbor fears it is in attack and pre-emptively counters, or there's an argument over who gets the wreckage. As Iran's technology rises, the probability of a war involving them in the near future approaches 100%. Especially if they are not announcing a project like this to make people aware of what they are attempting. Actually you know it would be kinda funny if it turns out that the first mission failed due to anti-aircraft fire from the US or another neighbor.
The rotton wood analogy breaks down due to the fence being left in the exact condition it was. I would consider a loose board he could slide up and down as a better analogy. He slid open the loose board, walked in, took pictures of the house and valubles, then brought the pictures to the home owner. He is guilty of trespassing and invasion of privacy, but not destruction of property, and the price of the fence should not be charged to him IMO. The only way I could even half way see the rotton wood analogy working were if he had publicly announced the vulnerability, turning the fix into a more time sensitive problem.
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What world do you live in that cost of production is given to the consumer in the form of discounts? The price is initially set in a way to recoup the R&D to get the efficient systems in place, then it is just increased profit margins. The continual adjustment and broadening of the patent system allows the prevention of competition and undercutting to a small handful of equally greedy companies, and the money continues to trickle up to the people at the top.
True, but I believe the ratio is significantly greater, a support/maintenance team of 5 can take care of a system that replaces 100+ workers. Though I do say outsourcing is a larger threat then robots depending on your level and expertise. If you are a coder, customer relations etc... outsourcing is a bigger threat, if you are a laborer, manufacturing person etc... robots are a bigger threat.
Oh absolutely, it will make the local headlines every time, and if worded right someone might send it in to Leno to get some attention there. However the bean jokes won't really make it past the local news.
Sounds to me more like googles saying this isn't a priority security vulnerability, but a minor bug. Which looking at the necessary hurdles, I can't really disagree with them. Looks like the target vector is people who don't trust google enough to use google but do enough to use chrome. Click links mindlessly but aren't planning to log into hotmail, gmail, facebook, their bank etc... The quanity of potential targets is so small, and the people it would likely target have to be so gullible I can't see this exploit ever being usable in the wild.
Hardly a relevant statement. When it is in reference to long-term friends vs a girl you just met, that is where the bro's before ho's comes into play. If you are thinking which you would rather look at or listen to when neither has a history, if a male chooses bro over ho, that would imply homosexuality.
Uhh.. yeah you can go to court yourself and represent yourself in a patent or fair use case. A handicapped person can also race a professional athlete to the top of a 2 mile long staircase. It doesn't make it a fair match. Being right, and being able to BS your way through court are 2 completely different things.
Most people figure it out after hitting enter when it takes them to the wrong page. If the wrong page is a link farm or something along those lines people figure it out quickly. If the wrong page is similar design carrying similar products, many people would assume the design has just changed. Note it is terrible business practice to only cater your business to people with an IQ over 60. That will cost over half of potential customers, and in many cases the ones with the most disposable income (or at least the ones with the loosest grip on the money they have)
IMO Libya falls into that category. They did 70% of the legwork themselves. That strikes me as them standing up and showing they are ready for a change. Iraq, Afghanistan and pretty much everything else around there, I'm not so optimistic on. IMO freedom has to be earned, you can have some outside assistance but if you don't do the bulk of it, it just dosn't work. Who here wants to imagine telling with pride a story of America earning it's independence from Brittan, if our story were more like "And then the colonists hid inside their bunkers while the french defeated the british". French revolution, same thing. Admitted modern times don't bode as well for that (Due to the rapidly increasing gap between war weapons available to the government, and normal weaponry available to the people.
I did not say either was impossible. Women do get out of that situation all the time, usually after an abusive relationship is broken off, they get years of therapy, and work to change the way they think. When you mass scale it from a person to a country... it takes alot more years. Basically the 2 sane options are. 1. Agree to lock in, keep thousands of troops there for 20 years or so to stabilize the country, or 2 note that it is a more or less lost cause. Sending countless of your own people to their grave, and millions of other people's money, then walking away turning your head accomplishes nothing for them, and costs you greatly. Banning slavery within the US was fairly easy by comparison, mainly because it was the US chosing to ban it, and the US stayed around to keep it enforced. Now what if slavery in the US were ended by lets say, the french sailing to america, declaring war on the US, winning the war and leaving, do you think there is any assurance it would have stayed abolished?
I partially agree with you that the amount of housecleaning the former government did is a large factor. The part on women though is not blaming the victim, it is basic psychology in how the human mind works. People tend to stick to what they are used to, and wind up repeating roles. In the scenario I gave, it is not the woman's fault, if anyone would be to blame directly in that example it would be the abusive father that adjusted the hypothetical person to it. It dosn't take any research or source to know that humans, do not always or even often gravitate towards the healthiest relationship, but every relationship going back to the parent effects their tendencies. People who were abused (of both genders), tend to move to relationships that will also be abusive. The underlying cause for why someone gets into a relationship, if they are not dealt with, will cause a leaning towards returning to the same situation. It takes a change of the way they have been thinking for years, some people quickly learn their lesson the first time, most will repeat the same mistake a few times.
Define freed? Does tearing down an oppressive organization that will later be replaced by another that will be similarly oppressive? The problem with another group winning your freedom for you, especially in the middle east is that people that are used to being oppressed and enslaved, the oppressed middle eastern countries, are like girls with an abusive father. They grow up move out, and move in with an equally abusive boyfriend. A white knight "saves" her from the abusive boyfriend, he goes to jail or whatever, without massive amounts of therapy, guess where she'll be in 2 years. 9 times out of 10, with a new abusive husband.
Well considering it looks for things to flag people as "suspicious", I would say only sending encrypted e-mail, counts as suspicious.
Actually the problem is Google isn't a jackass with patents. Google offered a ton of things that Facebook didn't have on day 1. Intelligent group sharing, easy controls, easy to understand following, video chat (you could argue that Facebook didn't do video chat as reactionary, but as soon as Google began hinting at getting into the social network business, it was pretty strongly known that they were going to do video chat, considering they have it in everything else). In the month following Google+'s launch, facebook added more actual features to their page then they had in the previous year. If microsoft, apple or any other company had been the company to launch the equivalent of G+, you could bet your ass that they'd have patented each of those features and taken facebook to court for every single one of them.
60% drop in public posts I believe. At a service that's selling point was that most posts don't have to be public and you can send them specifically to the groups you want them to go to. I would be far from surprised if most of face-books "increasing activity" turned out to be 80% "Take care of this dying cow for me" farm ville posts. I can say I have about half the number of friends on G+ that I had on facebook, yet there are twice as many posts with actual interesting information then I ever saw on facebook.
Diaspora was a great concept, and an abysmally failed execution. They managed to simultaneously launch to fast and too slow. They failed to launch (or at least publicly advertise or even point out the pods that were available) anywhere near the time they had hype or interest (dropping them from the radar for anyone but the extreme tinfoilhats and hardcore geeks), Then when they did finally show what they had, it was so buggy, security hole filled and flawed, that the tinfoil hats and 3/4ths of the geeks who were interested ran away. Say what you will about G+, but they actually do have at least a niche that uses and likes their product. I haven't really heard of anyone using diaspora as more then a slight curiosity.
I do admit one flaw in googles approach, microsoft more or less was very forceful in their approach to ensure the mobile carriers did things their way, while google's approach was to allow the carriers to do what they wanted to the system and for the carriers to have the last word on what happens to the phone. Google's idea was great in theory, but forgot to account for the fact that the carriers are all assholes.
It was easy update 98% of them. In microsoft's offices for their direct employees they just ran to their desks and swapped out the free phone they gave them, for a new free phone for their employees. They just couldn't track down the 2% of their phones that were bought by people intentionally.
Well flicking your finger will deal enough force to unlock anything in that scale from that demonstration, By the same logic real trains are subject do danger of a medium sized bird lifting them off of the tracks. The question isn't how easy is it to change the alignment on a air hockey puck sized object. The question is how it will scale when you are working with a multi ton train.
I wouldn't claim the machine is smarter then the smartest humans, but I would be willing to bet it is smarter then the average human (Just look around walmart, what you see represents the majority of the people on the road).
Not really, I'm not saying they are flawless, but when they do work, when they save a life, or prevent an accient, it does not make the news. Would you care to even ballpark the human error vs mechanical error ratio on car accidents? 50 human errors for every 1 technical one? or maybe closer to 100? We've all heard the stories on the news from the 2 or 3 flaws. That batch of cars that had trouble breaking, I believe there were like 20 accidents as a result, and that was considered an epidemic of mass proportions in terms of mechanical failures in vehicles. Yet you have to think that huge disaster, wasn't even a blip on the radar as far as total number of accidents.
I take it you've never had to work in a cubical before.
You call apples lawyers and inform them those magazines are deceptively ripping off the ipad's design and they should have the court halt their shipments until things are sorted out.
heh well fortunately I really doubt you would ever have to worry about a glaring security hole on webos (even if there were some huge massive security hole that allowed someone to completely copy everything from as little as visiting a webpage, who would bother to exploit it, they might as well be looking for holes in BEOS or other operating systems that while technically great, died before ever reaching a noticeable userbase. That being said for most people this option is a great option, assuming some critical app comes out that they can't live without owners of the touchpad have the option to install android to run it. That is what makes hacks great, it is an option that will never be forced on you if you don't need them.
Heck even something like this can cause instability. One of their neighbors see's a large "missile" launch from iran, or one of these rockets crash lands on soil of a neighbor and either the neighbor fears it is in attack and pre-emptively counters, or there's an argument over who gets the wreckage. As Iran's technology rises, the probability of a war involving them in the near future approaches 100%. Especially if they are not announcing a project like this to make people aware of what they are attempting. Actually you know it would be kinda funny if it turns out that the first mission failed due to anti-aircraft fire from the US or another neighbor.
The rotton wood analogy breaks down due to the fence being left in the exact condition it was. I would consider a loose board he could slide up and down as a better analogy. He slid open the loose board, walked in, took pictures of the house and valubles, then brought the pictures to the home owner. He is guilty of trespassing and invasion of privacy, but not destruction of property, and the price of the fence should not be charged to him IMO. The only way I could even half way see the rotton wood analogy working were if he had publicly announced the vulnerability, turning the fix into a more time sensitive problem.