This is the other side of the coin that was my comment/post. The diversity of mankind is based on the small failures here and there. If we correct these perceived failures genetically, how do we decide which genetic inconsistencies to fix, and which to not 'fix'? One of the truly useful traits of humans is their ability to adapt, adopt, and learn. How and who decides what is perfect or 'right' so that genetics can be used to improve mankind. I think the Germans did some early research into this.
My point, I think, is that we should learn better how to help everyone be the best that they can be rather than figure out how to fix them. The movie Gattica illustrates the problem quite well. When you deign to decide what humans should be, you begin to play god. God has a lot of followers because they want to be on the side that is 'normal' and good and right, but the truth is that we are ALL right, no matter how failed or fallible. God apparently created man in his image, so I sometimes imagine how fscked up god must be. If only christians were more like christ. If it were that religious people were as compassionate as they claim, perhaps we would not have to worry about how genetics would affect mankind. Sadly, this is not so.
We can cure cancer, correct autism etc. but we need to stop there. When we move towards making 'perfect' humans, or try to, we have gone too far. Sure it can be said that there are those who will opt to have the best they can get, just as there are those who choose plastic surgery et al. I don't really think that makes them better people.
In robotics and AI there is often heated debate about what intelligence is. I believe that there is no clear link between intelligence and a physical form. With the brain and genetics they are inextricably linked (wetware), but a bad body does not mean a bad intelligence. Mr Hawking can explain that a bit more for you. Would he be what he is without his affliction? Is it not part of the human race to overcome adversity? Without such failures and adversity would we be the community that we are today? Will genetic manipulation do more good than harm?
These are all questions that should be asked and answered when a story like this comes up. If we don't ask them it becomes a real possibility that we would consider some people as 'discards' and in doing so, lose all that makes us admirable now.
It took a couple readings to get it, but I like that reply. Bad is good in this situation. There is no right and wrong, so what does genetic discoveries bring us? Where is this leading us? How doe we deal with it?
But... you do see the futility of my point. There is NO answer. Fixing things only leads to problems. There is NO answer. So who do we trust to decide? That is the real problem. What is normal, what is acceptable? It's not a problem that most of us want to think about, but we should.
You missed it.... I say there is no god, that is a negative. To disprove that you have to prove that there IS a god. I was indoctrinated at birth, I know all that there is for evangelicals. There is no proof of a god, there is only belief. If anyone has proof, let them speak. I am stating a negative. There is NO god. The ONLY refutation is to prove there IS a god. Do you have that proof?
I'm not only a preacher's son, but I'm a libertarian!!!! I'm allowed to disobey any government that is oppressive, my constitution says so. I do not have to prove there is no god, I only have to ask for your proof that there is a god. I say that there is no god, I do not have to prove that as there is no proof of the existence of a god. I claim this. I say there is no proof, and if you wish to argue, you have to prove existence of a god. It's true, you cannot prove a negative, but those who do not share my opinion say there is a god, let them prove it.
As for your knowledge of Christianity, well, I'm far more qualified than you, trust me. I AM a pentecostal preacher's child.
I am NOT obligated to obey anything or anyone. I do so to make my life tolerable at my choosing. I do not have to prove there is no god, others have to prove that there is one if they want me to believe in that god.
You also did not see. I said we are all fscked, some less than others. The question I posed was acerbic in it's best form. If we fix all the people, what do we do with them, where do we draw the line about what is right and what is wrong? How do we decide what a 'normal' human is?
Genetics is a dangerous slope to climb. When you fix one trait for cancer, cool. What happens when you find you can fix the genetic trait for being gay? What happens when you find the genetic trait for wanting sex other than missionary position? Where do you stop?
What happens if you find you can abort a fetus that has traits that cannot be fixed?
I will reply to your post in answer to all so far. I never said we SHOULD throw them away. I asked in a provocative manner what should be done. It's an insane question, an insane problem. Beethoven was deaf for fsck sake. I did not imply that all should be aborted, only that there is a moral problem with all this discovery of genetic problems. What is correct, who is perfect?
Go ahead, get pissed off, I am. How do we deal with this? China already has a problem. The Western world will soon. The challenge was how to deal with it, not how pissed off can you be because you don't see yourself as a perfect human.
I never said what was or was not perfect, in fact I said we are all fscked.
I accept no deity. 'Twas not me who said God loves all the little children, or that he has the whole world in his hands, nor was it me that said Jesus saves. I think we are all fscked. Some of us less so than others. There also is no devil or evil deity, only humanity's desire for self-destruction. You can blame either on whatever imaginary friend you like, but I will still hold you accountable when you fsck with my life. Funny how our supposedly christian laws in the USA don't let you choose the 'devil made me do it' option when pleading before the courts. Of course, judging by historical experience, pleading that the devil made you do it is probably not a sane defense anyway if you want to live much longer than the length of the trial.
I'm forcefully unwilling to accept any deity. When one comes down and hands me the amount I owe on my mortgage, I'm in church for life, whether it's the good church or bad one, I don't care. When some deity actually does *SOMETHING* for ME, perhaps I'll think about changing my thinking. Until then, keep praying for me bro' because I know you need a hobby.
There are several studies available on "the Google" where you can find that genetically, we as a species are bound to obey the genetic code we are born with, whether that is good or bad. This is just another example. You'll see in my journal that the MWNN regarding atheists. This supports the atheist understanding of the world. We are born as we are, mostly accidental, or luck of the draw regarding genetics. There is no deity responsible for this. What a reprehensible thought that an all powerful and all knowing deity would do this to people?
As a hobby, I try to build small autonomous robots, and generally speaking most people believe that the human experience is the 100% value or perfect way of interacting with the world. What they forget, and what I like to call 'failure mode' is that we humans are anything but perfect: bad vision, autism, this story's problem, and many other failures. Ever bump into the wall in the dark? There is another failure.
We are far from perfect, hardly worthy of being called a creation of an all powerful being. Destructive behavior is what we excel at. Brilliant design, eh?
Back on topic: for the most part, we are finding genetic reasons for many problems with the human race. Even if they could all be corrected, I'm not sure it will improve our situation. I sometimes think that we are trying to save nature's discards. Amazing really. Apparently war fixes some of the overpopulation, or used to.
The answer to such problems is fantastically unimaginable. How do you fix the discards and keep population withing the realms of what the planet can support? China has taken a step in that direction and it has caused unimaginable hardships for their population; selling babies, hiding from the government, fear of things that are only natural.
So, what are we to do with things like this? What are we to do with people like this? Fix them, or abort them?
Yes, their network setup looks.. uhmmm... temporary and built with something less than a multimillion dollar budget. So, how would you build a wireless network for '9000' hackers?
Pretend you have some assets already plus $10,000 to spend. How would you build the temporary network?
I've seen a lot of 'how they did it' infrastructure articles, and lots of smirking here, so how would YOU build that network?
If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, did it make any noise?
If you weren't there in person, did it really happen? Apparently not. Seems like we should apply this to a lot of the news being reported by MSM these days. I don't care for sports and don't think the US Athletes, never mind the president, should be there in China. I *WOULD* have liked some coverage of the Russian fighting. I could only find that on the Internet. MSM? meh They seem like nothing but tosspots and whitehouse mouthpieces.
Science fiction turning into reality now. 1984 started late. I wonder what Capital W was actually doing in China? When not smacking volley ball players on the ass.
1_Your demos suck, so nobody risks buying first 2_Your marketing sucks, so nobody is interested (see #1) 3_Gamers are tired of spending money on crap games (This sounds vaguely familiar to the RIAA's problems) 4_You have no concept of how to sell games (See #1-#3) and comments that nobody knows of your games. 5_Your games are not written for multiple government regulatory bodies, so often pirating is the only way to play your game.
Proforma summary: Video games are not like baseball: Build it and they will come does not apply.
You have to market your games just like anyone else with a product to sell. From personal experience I can say that the average person does not see/notice games advertisements. I can't tell you what games are out there, but I know a few places to find mainstream news of them. Perhaps you might advertise there, and you know, do some marketing when you have a clearly playable non-sucky game?
Or are there others seeing the humor in finding out the Whitehouse and Pentagon are protected by such easily defeated locks?
Layered security indeed! I bet that had to put shivers down the spine of some security people. I wonder what the budget is for locks at the Whitehouse?
There is nothing like a good idea that is too trusted. Ex: Where I work, the IT guys thought it smart to map a couple of drives for everyone (against my better judgment) and guess what found it's way across those drive mappings? Yep, a virus. What saved me was using the Engineering VPN instead of the normal server.
Does anyone know if MWT has been declared a terrorist yet?
Businesses like to have 24/7 support so they can point fingers at someone else. Anyone who has supported Solaris for the last 10 years knows that supporting Linux is a walk in the park. Having forums and "The Google" is a bonus.
In my current day-time job, they are adopting F/OSS based on cost. After the initial 2-4 year honeymoon the PHBs have finally realized that the knowledge base in-house is as good as what they can pay for, and community support is often faster than a phone call, things have worked out smoothly. We pay for minimum support to ensure timely patches, that's it. Some systems that are not 100% mission critical fall to Fedora or CentOS and in-house admins to manage it.
We have 40-75% of hardware hitting end-of-life and the choice to move to commodity hardware with Linux OS is becoming very easy, almost expected. Its a point where is seems a no-brainer, just whack in a blade server with a LAMP stack and configure.. what's the hold up? what do you mean it will be 3 weeks? Seriously. Now that they see the competence of F/OSS on commodity hardware it is the go-to configuration because of in-house knowledge and skill and the fact that owning the skills makes it a true zero cost option compared to others.
Come on now. If you are reporting the black hat conference, what better way to show you know what you're reporting on than to hack?
Personally, despite any failure on the part of the organizers, I think it admirable that they did a 'little' hacking. Perhaps we can get a new "meme that is never spoken"(TM) like male sportscasters all have stupid ties and bad hair and female sportscasters are Playboy bunny wouldhavebeens. Hacking conference reporters are all hackers.
Amazingly, you'd think that anyone going there would be paranoid enough to try to protect their computers? I don't even trust people at Starbucks, never mind a conference full of hackers? WTF?
Jokes: _Black Hat reporters ARE the news _Reporters at Black Hat: news when we recover our data _Journalism in America: Booted at Black Hat, Hired by TSA; a day in the life of a journalist _Former football player turned journalist: Colbert's nightmare; bears that hack!
I'm with you on that one AND isn't it a bit old hat this week to refer to mere 1.1PB storage arrays as big? Don't we have news of actual databases that big or bigger?
When we have 1.5 TB drives being made ready for market isn't a PB storage system rather mundane, or at least getting there? Simple RAID-5 Terabyte arrays are common. When you split the storage space across 50 systems, meh, it doesn't really sound like that much. Sure, it's a lot of hardware, and I bet it makes some fan noise but is it really news worthy? The big news is that they are tracking a lot of objects and that is cool. Does mentioning storage space make it more important? Perhaps it's just me, but it read like a Microsoft advertisement...
You beat me to it, though I'd have mentioned a couple other places as well. Most of them involve people who wear guns for their occupation (or tasers) but then, that's a given... isn't it?
This is exactly right. I dusted off an old Win98 machine this year. Loaded Ubuntu on it for testing. My wife has since claimed this machine. It now has Hardy Heron on it, CD, 60GB HD, 1.2G AMD cpu, and until this week only 512MB RAM. She was very happy with it... except sometimes (rarely) when she got too much stuff running it would start swapping to disk and slow down a bit. Now It's got 1G RAM and she couldn't be happier. THAT would NEVER happen with Vista. No matter how polished a turd it is... I just won't buy it. Hell, Ubuntu HH will run on a i386 700Mhz laptop with only 256M RAM. Windows? not so much.
I agree with you but think you missed a point: IBM has a vested interest in seeing F/OSS grow exponentially. Their business plan is based on that happening. Lets try to finish his thought:
I'm tired of waiting.... so I'm going to try to goad you developers into starting a few new projects. The trouble (as mentioned) is what projects are needed? What industry/sector is missing applications? Are those industries covered by in-house software already? Are the applications so specific that joe bloggs can't possibly write it and test it from his mom's basement? Is there already a project that half covers the need but needs some extra work? Without specifics it is impossible to talk about such a complaint.
The title and summary suggest that phishers are somehow less. Lazy? What, are drug dealers not lazy? Pimps more business savvy?
That is just bothering me. Anyone else think that is just wrong? Lazy? WTF exactly would a non-lazy phisher do? Setup a data center in the Caymans? Seriously!
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This is the other side of the coin that was my comment/post. The diversity of mankind is based on the small failures here and there. If we correct these perceived failures genetically, how do we decide which genetic inconsistencies to fix, and which to not 'fix'? One of the truly useful traits of humans is their ability to adapt, adopt, and learn. How and who decides what is perfect or 'right' so that genetics can be used to improve mankind. I think the Germans did some early research into this.
My point, I think, is that we should learn better how to help everyone be the best that they can be rather than figure out how to fix them. The movie Gattica illustrates the problem quite well. When you deign to decide what humans should be, you begin to play god. God has a lot of followers because they want to be on the side that is 'normal' and good and right, but the truth is that we are ALL right, no matter how failed or fallible. God apparently created man in his image, so I sometimes imagine how fscked up god must be. If only christians were more like christ. If it were that religious people were as compassionate as they claim, perhaps we would not have to worry about how genetics would affect mankind. Sadly, this is not so.
We can cure cancer, correct autism etc. but we need to stop there. When we move towards making 'perfect' humans, or try to, we have gone too far. Sure it can be said that there are those who will opt to have the best they can get, just as there are those who choose plastic surgery et al. I don't really think that makes them better people.
In robotics and AI there is often heated debate about what intelligence is. I believe that there is no clear link between intelligence and a physical form. With the brain and genetics they are inextricably linked (wetware), but a bad body does not mean a bad intelligence. Mr Hawking can explain that a bit more for you. Would he be what he is without his affliction? Is it not part of the human race to overcome adversity? Without such failures and adversity would we be the community that we are today? Will genetic manipulation do more good than harm?
These are all questions that should be asked and answered when a story like this comes up. If we don't ask them it becomes a real possibility that we would consider some people as 'discards' and in doing so, lose all that makes us admirable now.
It took a couple readings to get it, but I like that reply. Bad is good in this situation. There is no right and wrong, so what does genetic discoveries bring us? Where is this leading us? How doe we deal with it?
But... you do see the futility of my point. There is NO answer. Fixing things only leads to problems. There is NO answer. So who do we trust to decide? That is the real problem. What is normal, what is acceptable? It's not a problem that most of us want to think about, but we should.
You missed it.... I say there is no god, that is a negative. To disprove that you have to prove that there IS a god. I was indoctrinated at birth, I know all that there is for evangelicals. There is no proof of a god, there is only belief. If anyone has proof, let them speak. I am stating a negative. There is NO god. The ONLY refutation is to prove there IS a god. Do you have that proof?
I'm not only a preacher's son, but I'm a libertarian!!!! I'm allowed to disobey any government that is oppressive, my constitution says so. I do not have to prove there is no god, I only have to ask for your proof that there is a god. I say that there is no god, I do not have to prove that as there is no proof of the existence of a god. I claim this. I say there is no proof, and if you wish to argue, you have to prove existence of a god. It's true, you cannot prove a negative, but those who do not share my opinion say there is a god, let them prove it.
As for your knowledge of Christianity, well, I'm far more qualified than you, trust me. I AM a pentecostal preacher's child.
I am NOT obligated to obey anything or anyone. I do so to make my life tolerable at my choosing. I do not have to prove there is no god, others have to prove that there is one if they want me to believe in that god.
You also did not see. I said we are all fscked, some less than others. The question I posed was acerbic in it's best form. If we fix all the people, what do we do with them, where do we draw the line about what is right and what is wrong? How do we decide what a 'normal' human is?
Genetics is a dangerous slope to climb. When you fix one trait for cancer, cool. What happens when you find you can fix the genetic trait for being gay? What happens when you find the genetic trait for wanting sex other than missionary position? Where do you stop?
What happens if you find you can abort a fetus that has traits that cannot be fixed?
Does that answer your question?
I will reply to your post in answer to all so far. I never said we SHOULD throw them away. I asked in a provocative manner what should be done. It's an insane question, an insane problem. Beethoven was deaf for fsck sake. I did not imply that all should be aborted, only that there is a moral problem with all this discovery of genetic problems. What is correct, who is perfect?
Go ahead, get pissed off, I am. How do we deal with this? China already has a problem. The Western world will soon. The challenge was how to deal with it, not how pissed off can you be because you don't see yourself as a perfect human.
I never said what was or was not perfect, in fact I said we are all fscked.
I accept no deity. 'Twas not me who said God loves all the little children, or that he has the whole world in his hands, nor was it me that said Jesus saves. I think we are all fscked. Some of us less so than others. There also is no devil or evil deity, only humanity's desire for self-destruction. You can blame either on whatever imaginary friend you like, but I will still hold you accountable when you fsck with my life. Funny how our supposedly christian laws in the USA don't let you choose the 'devil made me do it' option when pleading before the courts. Of course, judging by historical experience, pleading that the devil made you do it is probably not a sane defense anyway if you want to live much longer than the length of the trial.
I'm forcefully unwilling to accept any deity. When one comes down and hands me the amount I owe on my mortgage, I'm in church for life, whether it's the good church or bad one, I don't care. When some deity actually does *SOMETHING* for ME, perhaps I'll think about changing my thinking. Until then, keep praying for me bro' because I know you need a hobby.
Try this: http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/08/another-olympic-secret-who-was-actually-singing-as-the-national-flag-entered-the-stadium/ and now tell me how offtopic I was?
There are several studies available on "the Google" where you can find that genetically, we as a species are bound to obey the genetic code we are born with, whether that is good or bad. This is just another example. You'll see in my journal that the MWNN regarding atheists. This supports the atheist understanding of the world. We are born as we are, mostly accidental, or luck of the draw regarding genetics. There is no deity responsible for this. What a reprehensible thought that an all powerful and all knowing deity would do this to people?
As a hobby, I try to build small autonomous robots, and generally speaking most people believe that the human experience is the 100% value or perfect way of interacting with the world. What they forget, and what I like to call 'failure mode' is that we humans are anything but perfect: bad vision, autism, this story's problem, and many other failures. Ever bump into the wall in the dark? There is another failure.
We are far from perfect, hardly worthy of being called a creation of an all powerful being. Destructive behavior is what we excel at. Brilliant design, eh?
Back on topic: for the most part, we are finding genetic reasons for many problems with the human race. Even if they could all be corrected, I'm not sure it will improve our situation. I sometimes think that we are trying to save nature's discards. Amazing really. Apparently war fixes some of the overpopulation, or used to.
The answer to such problems is fantastically unimaginable. How do you fix the discards and keep population withing the realms of what the planet can support? China has taken a step in that direction and it has caused unimaginable hardships for their population; selling babies, hiding from the government, fear of things that are only natural.
So, what are we to do with things like this? What are we to do with people like this? Fix them, or abort them?
Yes, their network setup looks.. uhmmm... temporary and built with something less than a multimillion dollar budget. So, how would you build a wireless network for '9000' hackers?
Pretend you have some assets already plus $10,000 to spend. How would you build the temporary network?
I've seen a lot of 'how they did it' infrastructure articles, and lots of smirking here, so how would YOU build that network?
If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, did it make any noise?
If you weren't there in person, did it really happen? Apparently not. Seems like we should apply this to a lot of the news being reported by MSM these days. I don't care for sports and don't think the US Athletes, never mind the president, should be there in China. I *WOULD* have liked some coverage of the Russian fighting. I could only find that on the Internet. MSM? meh They seem like nothing but tosspots and whitehouse mouthpieces.
Science fiction turning into reality now. 1984 started late. I wonder what Capital W was actually doing in China? When not smacking volley ball players on the ass.
Why not send authentication query via SMS or standard phone lines? No keyboard required.
1_Your demos suck, so nobody risks buying first
2_Your marketing sucks, so nobody is interested (see #1)
3_Gamers are tired of spending money on crap games (This sounds vaguely familiar to the RIAA's problems)
4_You have no concept of how to sell games (See #1-#3) and comments that nobody knows of your games.
5_Your games are not written for multiple government regulatory bodies, so often pirating is the only way to play your game.
Proforma summary: Video games are not like baseball: Build it and they will come does not apply.
You have to market your games just like anyone else with a product to sell. From personal experience I can say that the average person does not see/notice games advertisements. I can't tell you what games are out there, but I know a few places to find mainstream news of them. Perhaps you might advertise there, and you know, do some marketing when you have a clearly playable non-sucky game?
Or are there others seeing the humor in finding out the Whitehouse and Pentagon are protected by such easily defeated locks?
Layered security indeed! I bet that had to put shivers down the spine of some security people. I wonder what the budget is for locks at the Whitehouse?
There is nothing like a good idea that is too trusted. Ex: Where I work, the IT guys thought it smart to map a couple of drives for everyone (against my better judgment) and guess what found it's way across those drive mappings? Yep, a virus. What saved me was using the Engineering VPN instead of the normal server.
Does anyone know if MWT has been declared a terrorist yet?
Can I add a bit to that? ok, sure I will.
Businesses like to have 24/7 support so they can point fingers at someone else. Anyone who has supported Solaris for the last 10 years knows that supporting Linux is a walk in the park. Having forums and "The Google" is a bonus.
In my current day-time job, they are adopting F/OSS based on cost. After the initial 2-4 year honeymoon the PHBs have finally realized that the knowledge base in-house is as good as what they can pay for, and community support is often faster than a phone call, things have worked out smoothly. We pay for minimum support to ensure timely patches, that's it. Some systems that are not 100% mission critical fall to Fedora or CentOS and in-house admins to manage it.
We have 40-75% of hardware hitting end-of-life and the choice to move to commodity hardware with Linux OS is becoming very easy, almost expected. Its a point where is seems a no-brainer, just whack in a blade server with a LAMP stack and configure.. what's the hold up? what do you mean it will be 3 weeks? Seriously. Now that they see the competence of F/OSS on commodity hardware it is the go-to configuration because of in-house knowledge and skill and the fact that owning the skills makes it a true zero cost option compared to others.
Journalists ARE hacks... right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_writer
Come on now. If you are reporting the black hat conference, what better way to show you know what you're reporting on than to hack?
Personally, despite any failure on the part of the organizers, I think it admirable that they did a 'little' hacking. Perhaps we can get a new "meme that is never spoken"(TM) like male sportscasters all have stupid ties and bad hair and female sportscasters are Playboy bunny wouldhavebeens. Hacking conference reporters are all hackers.
Amazingly, you'd think that anyone going there would be paranoid enough to try to protect their computers? I don't even trust people at Starbucks, never mind a conference full of hackers? WTF?
Jokes:
_Black Hat reporters ARE the news
_Reporters at Black Hat: news when we recover our data
_Journalism in America: Booted at Black Hat, Hired by TSA; a day in the life of a journalist
_Former football player turned journalist: Colbert's nightmare; bears that hack!
Shall I continue?
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I'm with you on that one AND isn't it a bit old hat this week to refer to mere 1.1PB storage arrays as big? Don't we have news of actual databases that big or bigger?
When we have 1.5 TB drives being made ready for market isn't a PB storage system rather mundane, or at least getting there? Simple RAID-5 Terabyte arrays are common. When you split the storage space across 50 systems, meh, it doesn't really sound like that much. Sure, it's a lot of hardware, and I bet it makes some fan noise but is it really news worthy? The big news is that they are tracking a lot of objects and that is cool. Does mentioning storage space make it more important? Perhaps it's just me, but it read like a Microsoft advertisement...
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You beat me to it, though I'd have mentioned a couple other places as well. Most of them involve people who wear guns for their occupation (or tasers) but then, that's a given... isn't it?
If the price was only 9.99, it would not have been yanked, and he'd probably have made the same amount of money... sigh
This is exactly right. I dusted off an old Win98 machine this year. Loaded Ubuntu on it for testing. My wife has since claimed this machine. It now has Hardy Heron on it, CD, 60GB HD, 1.2G AMD cpu, and until this week only 512MB RAM. She was very happy with it... except sometimes (rarely) when she got too much stuff running it would start swapping to disk and slow down a bit. Now It's got 1G RAM and she couldn't be happier. THAT would NEVER happen with Vista. No matter how polished a turd it is... I just won't buy it. Hell, Ubuntu HH will run on a i386 700Mhz laptop with only 256M RAM. Windows? not so much.
I agree with you but think you missed a point: IBM has a vested interest in seeing F/OSS grow exponentially. Their business plan is based on that happening. Lets try to finish his thought:
I'm tired of waiting.... so I'm going to try to goad you developers into starting a few new projects. The trouble (as mentioned) is what projects are needed? What industry/sector is missing applications? Are those industries covered by in-house software already? Are the applications so specific that joe bloggs can't possibly write it and test it from his mom's basement? Is there already a project that half covers the need but needs some extra work? Without specifics it is impossible to talk about such a complaint.
Will foreign polar bears be able to cross into US territory without proper cavity searches by DHS employees?
The title and summary suggest that phishers are somehow less. Lazy? What, are drug dealers not lazy? Pimps more business savvy?
That is just bothering me. Anyone else think that is just wrong? Lazy? WTF exactly would a non-lazy phisher do? Setup a data center in the Caymans? Seriously!