Why bash Apple or big banks? Whatever these companies are doing is within a legal framework. If you don't like it change the legal framework. Every brand will attempt to protect their product lines and profits and will do whatever they can to do so.
Yeah, you know Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon also has Irish offices just to ship out it's US profits as to side-step US taxes and frustrate lawmakers. Big companies are always going to look for the cheapest ways to maximize profits and they'll have an army of lawyers and accountants making sure that whatever they do is entirely legal.
I've worked for a company that made the machines that makes the burgers for McD. The reason burger flipping is so 'easy' (even though it still requires training to do it consistently and correct) is because some really smart engineers made it possible for them to do so.
The same is true with programming. It's really easy for a burger flipper to make a website (go to a hosting company and select the "Wordpress" option, 5 clicks and $15/mo later you have a really nice looking website). If you want to make adjustments to the size of the burger, you're back to the engineer.
How about instead of giving you a hammer, I give you a toolbox. That's what all of these 'tools' are, they're toolboxes. And unless you got training in the specific tools to use, you will probably and eventually get the job done... poorly. A craftsman will know which tools to use and when to use them.
There is no difference in programming. Everyone can program these days. There are plenty of languages that are easily understood. However when you can buy a toolbox at Home Depot for $300, everyone becomes a craftsman in their own mind.
I wonder if the writer has ever seen the monstrosities programmed in BASIC/VB, COBOL or HyperCard by the resident business manager. People in general have no clue about programming or mathematics. People in general, don't go for higher education. People in general have an IQ of about 100. People in general can't work with a computer when the outline of things changes or the buttons move around. And you want those people to program a math equation that requires 2 years of college math... and they need to place the buttons themselves?
Hell, take things "programmed" in Excel for that matter. I've seen people use 3 columns to do things which could've been written in 1 operation especially when it comes to adding percentages to a value (they'll calculate 4%, then add it's outcome to the source value to get a +4% and then hide the other 2 columns instead of just doing 104%). That will take them 2 hours to complete.
The Web is fine. Plenty of people understand HTML, even without much education. People UNDERSTAND that things within a document need to be described at some point. Plenty of people can even understand basic JavaScript, even without much education.
The reason the web and most of programming in general is so kludgy and broken in many places is because we've let those people that understand HTML and basic JavaScript make websites and entire applications. We have told business managers that they can describe their business in a common and easily understood language and the business manager did describe their business but then they've gotten in way over their head where they themselves can't even understand what they've done. And then those business managers moved on and started claiming they had programming experience and then they went to another company to make ever bigger monstrosities. And REAL programmers get a bad name because programming these days is so easy, anyone can do it.
OTP encryption can't be broken. There are still encrypted WWII messages that aren't broken. The question is, how long will your sensitive information be sensitive. It is physically impossible for something to be perpetually valued (unlike what Disney wants you to believe, if Steamboat Willy loses it's copyright it is not going to break the box office, it is just a historical curiosity).
Within 100 years, Goldman Sachs probably won't be around anymore and all their clients will have died. What numbers are in that account today will be a historical curiosity, even if it were damning the entire company today, when it's broken they'll just put in a formal apology for crimes past. Even so, if it was created today, what bits do you think will be left over within 100 years?
Current encryption (256-1024 bit) with a good key is projected to be good enough for at least several hundred years even if we get to quantum computing between now and then. By then, it will be similar to reverse engineering the Enigma.
I don't even know how they could arrest the guy. He had done nothing at that point, he had made no plans to do anything, no tools, according to his ex who installed spyware on his computer, he was supposedly writing on anonymous fetish sites.
And they were able to hold him for several months on this and he needed a psychiatrist to clear him? Ridiculous.
I would hope that my ISP's alerts me to legal action. If you have ISP's just complying with every legal request as some already do with DMCA, you can forget about ever getting to anything.
But that's what I mean. However, C++ is slower than C, C is simpler to implement and virtually any platform has a C compiler but it doesn't do a lot of things out of the box. You choose the tool you need and best suited for the job. I can't program a PIC in JavaScript, but I can do a website.
Not exactly. Dish does the same that Aereo did - they allow customers to access their own DVR where they recorded information using their own antennae over the Internet. Aereo allowed customers to access their own DVR where they recorded information using their own antennae over the Internet.
Aereo rents out the antenna Dish rents out the satellite dish Aereo rents out the DVR Dish rents out the DVR Aereo allows access over the Internet Dish allows access over the Internet
Dish pays broadcast rights to send things over their satellites to customers' antennae Local TV stations pay broadcast rights to send things to customers' antennae
If you believe in 'white male privilege' spend a day at family court - you'll quickly forget that notion. Heck, spend a day in any court of law and you'll see the difference between the preferential treatments females and so-called minorities get over the typical 'white male'.
Once you start checking bounds and counting references and making strings safe and cleaning memory and garbage collection you're in the realm of ObjC, Java and other higher languages. They exist, they are available and can be used to implement any algorithm imaginable. Yet programmers still use C, Assembler and even PROM...
The funny thing is, MBA's even early models are still worth a pretty dime second hand (usually 50-80% of purchase price based on condition and age), Surface Pro's won't fetch more than 1/3 of their purchase price.
Net Neutrality is about preventing the providers from fiddling with your bandwidth simply because they want to extort money.
QoS was never part of Net Neutrality. If a Google or an Amazon wants to pay 1Mbps for a line directly to my house, that is FINE with me. They pay for the QoS and peering agreements at that point. However that does not mean the provider can now give me 9Mbps instead of 10Mbps because the Googles of this world paid for 1Mbps direct lines. And that is what this is all about. Comcast/TWC wants to sell my 10Mbps that I have over and over again to the highest bidders so I have 1Mbps to the Google, 1Mbps to the Netflix, 1Mbps to the Amazon and 7Mbps for the rest of the world. I want my 10Mbps and decide who I want to get services from.
I paid Comcast/TWC for the 10Mbps, I could reasonably assume that they give me 10Mbps to the "Internet". They pay for peering at an Internet Exchange. Google pays for peering at an IX, Netflix pays for peering at an IX. The IX makes sure that there is plenty of bandwidth at the IX to have the 10Mbps from Google to go to Netflix and TWC. The problem is now TWC wants to squeeze the Netflixes and the Googles simply because they are a large portion of the traffic they've been seeing and thus they're an easy target. TWC has been oversubscribed 1000:1 and even though data requirements have increased 10-fold, I am still at the same speed that I had 10-15 years ago. So now they need to actually get along with the rest of the world and they don't want to, they'd rather someone else pay for it (over and over again).
In a free market, I would go to whoever gave me the fastest connection to the Netflix. However in the US at least there is no choice so I am at the mercy of my provider. And even though they are a monopoly, they also don't want to be classified as a utility since then they could be regulated and forced to play fair like my other utilities.
So best case scenario is that you lobby away PAC money in the next election cycle. Once you have reached your goal, what do you think is going to prevent lawmakers from finding other loopholes in the laws to do something similar-but-not-equal the cycle after that? As we've seen with FISA/DMCA/... - if they can't do it this year, they'll try and try again until they can get their ways.
In other words, do you think getting rid of PAC's is going to solve anything about corporate money flowing into government. And once you have outlawed the only avenue currently available (a PAC that is run by the people) that can somewhat level the playing field for citizens, what other avenues will there be to fight this corruption?
Among other things, administrative overhead. There is a huge issue with leadership at all educational institutions. They have been protected from the failing economy by raising tuition and a de-facto monopoly as well as government funding. On the other hand, they are often at the low end offering of wages in the geographical area. This results in the most inept administrators continuing to take the lead, no accountability for failed project expenditures and the best talent in their pool being poached by the industry. Look at the average University student-to-employee ratio, you often find 50% more employees than students where students are often educated 100-250 at a time.
So where do you find that affordable electric car? There is currently no affordable alternative to gas. And even if today every car manufacturer released a viable alternative it will be at least a decade before a usable second-hand market comes about.
The depth of field has been a problem with the game since release. Things popping in and out, blurry distances. Check out TB's original review of the game; the game is simply bad (it's Ubisoft after all), there are no other quality differences between these higher settings and the original settings
The billing information is most likely right there in the control panel in order to make your cloud payments. It was stupid of them to not anticipate this attack but a lot of companies are vulnerable to this. - Imagine this happens with an Amazon/Microsoft/Google... admin account; they could blow away entire data centers - Imagine this happens to someone's Office365 hybrid account - now they not only have access to your Cloud products but also your linked local Exchange servers
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Why bash Apple or big banks? Whatever these companies are doing is within a legal framework. If you don't like it change the legal framework. Every brand will attempt to protect their product lines and profits and will do whatever they can to do so.
Yeah, you know Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon also has Irish offices just to ship out it's US profits as to side-step US taxes and frustrate lawmakers. Big companies are always going to look for the cheapest ways to maximize profits and they'll have an army of lawyers and accountants making sure that whatever they do is entirely legal.
According to the article he didn't even die (yet) while in the Tesla. He was resuscitated and died of his injuries later.
If this smart watch can give me alerts, is waterproof to 10m and is more than just an expensive remote for my phone.
BT won't cut it, I want wifi at least so my phone can act as a base station and I can be hundreds of feet away.
It should also last more than a few hours. 5 days or so should be the minimum.
I've worked for a company that made the machines that makes the burgers for McD. The reason burger flipping is so 'easy' (even though it still requires training to do it consistently and correct) is because some really smart engineers made it possible for them to do so.
The same is true with programming. It's really easy for a burger flipper to make a website (go to a hosting company and select the "Wordpress" option, 5 clicks and $15/mo later you have a really nice looking website). If you want to make adjustments to the size of the burger, you're back to the engineer.
How about instead of giving you a hammer, I give you a toolbox. That's what all of these 'tools' are, they're toolboxes. And unless you got training in the specific tools to use, you will probably and eventually get the job done... poorly. A craftsman will know which tools to use and when to use them.
There is no difference in programming. Everyone can program these days. There are plenty of languages that are easily understood. However when you can buy a toolbox at Home Depot for $300, everyone becomes a craftsman in their own mind.
I wonder if the writer has ever seen the monstrosities programmed in BASIC/VB, COBOL or HyperCard by the resident business manager. People in general have no clue about programming or mathematics. People in general, don't go for higher education. People in general have an IQ of about 100. People in general can't work with a computer when the outline of things changes or the buttons move around. And you want those people to program a math equation that requires 2 years of college math... and they need to place the buttons themselves?
Hell, take things "programmed" in Excel for that matter. I've seen people use 3 columns to do things which could've been written in 1 operation especially when it comes to adding percentages to a value (they'll calculate 4%, then add it's outcome to the source value to get a +4% and then hide the other 2 columns instead of just doing 104%). That will take them 2 hours to complete.
The Web is fine. Plenty of people understand HTML, even without much education. People UNDERSTAND that things within a document need to be described at some point. Plenty of people can even understand basic JavaScript, even without much education.
The reason the web and most of programming in general is so kludgy and broken in many places is because we've let those people that understand HTML and basic JavaScript make websites and entire applications. We have told business managers that they can describe their business in a common and easily understood language and the business manager did describe their business but then they've gotten in way over their head where they themselves can't even understand what they've done. And then those business managers moved on and started claiming they had programming experience and then they went to another company to make ever bigger monstrosities. And REAL programmers get a bad name because programming these days is so easy, anyone can do it.
Why wouldn't you be allowed to sell sequences of numbers you have received in the mail?
So what's your solution chief.
OTP encryption can't be broken. There are still encrypted WWII messages that aren't broken. The question is, how long will your sensitive information be sensitive. It is physically impossible for something to be perpetually valued (unlike what Disney wants you to believe, if Steamboat Willy loses it's copyright it is not going to break the box office, it is just a historical curiosity).
Within 100 years, Goldman Sachs probably won't be around anymore and all their clients will have died. What numbers are in that account today will be a historical curiosity, even if it were damning the entire company today, when it's broken they'll just put in a formal apology for crimes past. Even so, if it was created today, what bits do you think will be left over within 100 years?
Current encryption (256-1024 bit) with a good key is projected to be good enough for at least several hundred years even if we get to quantum computing between now and then. By then, it will be similar to reverse engineering the Enigma.
I don't even know how they could arrest the guy. He had done nothing at that point, he had made no plans to do anything, no tools, according to his ex who installed spyware on his computer, he was supposedly writing on anonymous fetish sites.
And they were able to hold him for several months on this and he needed a psychiatrist to clear him? Ridiculous.
I would hope that my ISP's alerts me to legal action. If you have ISP's just complying with every legal request as some already do with DMCA, you can forget about ever getting to anything.
But that's what I mean. However, C++ is slower than C, C is simpler to implement and virtually any platform has a C compiler but it doesn't do a lot of things out of the box. You choose the tool you need and best suited for the job. I can't program a PIC in JavaScript, but I can do a website.
Not exactly. Dish does the same that Aereo did - they allow customers to access their own DVR where they recorded information using their own antennae over the Internet. Aereo allowed customers to access their own DVR where they recorded information using their own antennae over the Internet.
Aereo rents out the antenna
Dish rents out the satellite dish
Aereo rents out the DVR
Dish rents out the DVR
Aereo allows access over the Internet
Dish allows access over the Internet
Dish pays broadcast rights to send things over their satellites to customers' antennae
Local TV stations pay broadcast rights to send things to customers' antennae
I don't see a difference.
If you believe in 'white male privilege' spend a day at family court - you'll quickly forget that notion. Heck, spend a day in any court of law and you'll see the difference between the preferential treatments females and so-called minorities get over the typical 'white male'.
Once you start checking bounds and counting references and making strings safe and cleaning memory and garbage collection you're in the realm of ObjC, Java and other higher languages. They exist, they are available and can be used to implement any algorithm imaginable. Yet programmers still use C, Assembler and even PROM...
There are safes out there that are virtually impossible to break into. And when you do attempt, they destroy the contents inside.
Yes you did. And if it weren't online, it was in front of the stadium at least as far back as Sinatra.
You'll need $200/y for just an Office (Office365) and simple photo/music management suite (Adobe CC), which is included in every purchase of a Mac.
The funny thing is, MBA's even early models are still worth a pretty dime second hand (usually 50-80% of purchase price based on condition and age), Surface Pro's won't fetch more than 1/3 of their purchase price.
Net Neutrality is about preventing the providers from fiddling with your bandwidth simply because they want to extort money.
QoS was never part of Net Neutrality. If a Google or an Amazon wants to pay 1Mbps for a line directly to my house, that is FINE with me. They pay for the QoS and peering agreements at that point. However that does not mean the provider can now give me 9Mbps instead of 10Mbps because the Googles of this world paid for 1Mbps direct lines. And that is what this is all about. Comcast/TWC wants to sell my 10Mbps that I have over and over again to the highest bidders so I have 1Mbps to the Google, 1Mbps to the Netflix, 1Mbps to the Amazon and 7Mbps for the rest of the world. I want my 10Mbps and decide who I want to get services from.
I paid Comcast/TWC for the 10Mbps, I could reasonably assume that they give me 10Mbps to the "Internet". They pay for peering at an Internet Exchange. Google pays for peering at an IX, Netflix pays for peering at an IX. The IX makes sure that there is plenty of bandwidth at the IX to have the 10Mbps from Google to go to Netflix and TWC. The problem is now TWC wants to squeeze the Netflixes and the Googles simply because they are a large portion of the traffic they've been seeing and thus they're an easy target. TWC has been oversubscribed 1000:1 and even though data requirements have increased 10-fold, I am still at the same speed that I had 10-15 years ago. So now they need to actually get along with the rest of the world and they don't want to, they'd rather someone else pay for it (over and over again).
In a free market, I would go to whoever gave me the fastest connection to the Netflix. However in the US at least there is no choice so I am at the mercy of my provider. And even though they are a monopoly, they also don't want to be classified as a utility since then they could be regulated and forced to play fair like my other utilities.
So best case scenario is that you lobby away PAC money in the next election cycle. Once you have reached your goal, what do you think is going to prevent lawmakers from finding other loopholes in the laws to do something similar-but-not-equal the cycle after that? As we've seen with FISA/DMCA/... - if they can't do it this year, they'll try and try again until they can get their ways.
In other words, do you think getting rid of PAC's is going to solve anything about corporate money flowing into government. And once you have outlawed the only avenue currently available (a PAC that is run by the people) that can somewhat level the playing field for citizens, what other avenues will there be to fight this corruption?
Among other things, administrative overhead. There is a huge issue with leadership at all educational institutions. They have been protected from the failing economy by raising tuition and a de-facto monopoly as well as government funding. On the other hand, they are often at the low end offering of wages in the geographical area. This results in the most inept administrators continuing to take the lead, no accountability for failed project expenditures and the best talent in their pool being poached by the industry. Look at the average University student-to-employee ratio, you often find 50% more employees than students where students are often educated 100-250 at a time.
So where do you find that affordable electric car? There is currently no affordable alternative to gas. And even if today every car manufacturer released a viable alternative it will be at least a decade before a usable second-hand market comes about.
The depth of field has been a problem with the game since release. Things popping in and out, blurry distances. Check out TB's original review of the game; the game is simply bad (it's Ubisoft after all), there are no other quality differences between these higher settings and the original settings
The billing information is most likely right there in the control panel in order to make your cloud payments. It was stupid of them to not anticipate this attack but a lot of companies are vulnerable to this.
- Imagine this happens with an Amazon/Microsoft/Google... admin account; they could blow away entire data centers
- Imagine this happens to someone's Office365 hybrid account - now they not only have access to your Cloud products but also your linked local Exchange servers