It's a bit like saying that buildings that only have steps and no wheelchair ramps or lifts must remove the steps. Even if they're an historical building.
But, how could the historical building architects have foreseen the future requirement to provide wheelchair ramps or lifts? Maybe there just isn't enough space in the building. Nobody would propose to tear down historical buildings, just because they can't be made wheelchair accessible.
A truly free and open-source software laptop... which allows a FOSS BIOS or UEFI replacement, FOSS drivers. No Blobs, or Intel ME.
Journalists, activists, and anyone who must have a secure, trusted computing device, need a modern alternative that be purchased off-the-shelf and supports Tails.
USA Airport Immigration has recently started putting programming questions to travellers who claim to be software engineers. In one case they asked the traveller
Python questions.
In the UK we're not too worried about the FBI and CIA, but the recent Investigatory Powers Bill does mean all our communications are under surveillance by GCHQ and the Police.
But if they're also censoring search results, well that's just jangles. We'll switch our VPNs to search google from a different country.
That is absolutely correct, and there was a very good article in The Economist relating to the removal of $55 million from 'The Dao' which made the same legal argument that exploiting poor programming in a Smart Contract was not theft but simply following the rules of a system, even if those rules did not do what the creators intended.
In addition The Economist argued that that whereas the heist was not a crime, altering digital ledgers to retrieve the lost ether was affront to the whole project.
it's entirely possible to say that one country is "freer" than another.
For example, the United states has 693 people incarcerated per 10,000 (2nd highest in the world), whereas the Seychelles has a whopping 799 (highest in the world).
Therefore it's reasonable to say that the United States is 1.06% more free than the Seychelles. Although admittedly by this metric the United States is less free than the rest of the entire world.
This is why the hapless Windows-using would-be criminal should be using something more idiot-resistant, not Windows and the Tor browser. Like Tails for example. That way the hapless offender's DRM-infested movie files, PDFs etc can be forced to phone-home through the Tor network. If the criminal is too hapless to evade law-enforcement, it's caveat emptor.
Isn't that the PRISIM defence? Collect all the data, everywhere, all the time but don't actually look at it. Then get a warrant for just the bits you need. So you can claim the collection is 'a circumscribed, narrow system'?
But, in three years, when 1 BTC = $4,444, you might also be really kicking yourself for not speculating another $10k into BTC when it was down around $1,000.
Unfortunately, firefox pulled support for older but still reletively recent and secure osx systems, for example Mountain Lion (10.8). So why the continued support for disasters like XP?
Which reminds me of the '10 year predictions' section of O'Reilly's 'Lean UX':
I once spoke to a company who had commissioned... an extrapolation of what the next 10 years would look like in their industry... You can guess what happened over the succeeding 10 years: absolutely nothing... And in fact, 10 years later, the room no longer looks futuristic. Against all odds, its forecasts turned out to be largely accurate. And yet, the company had failed to commercialize even one of the recommendations in the attendant specification document. So I asked the company what they planned to do next; they told me they were going back to the original designers and asking them to forecast the next 10 years! The company blamed their engineers and managers for their failure to commercialize, not the designers.
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Plus they'll scramble them at dusk rather than dawn, for extra foolish deception.
It's a bit like saying that buildings that only have steps and no wheelchair ramps or lifts must remove the steps. Even if they're an historical building.
But, how could the historical building architects have foreseen the future requirement to provide wheelchair ramps or lifts? Maybe there just isn't enough space in the building. Nobody would propose to tear down historical buildings, just because they can't be made wheelchair accessible.
Therefore am surprised no one mentioned the Tor browser. It has excellent security performance.
A truly free and open-source software laptop... which allows a FOSS BIOS or UEFI replacement, FOSS drivers. No Blobs, or Intel ME.
Journalists, activists, and anyone who must have a secure, trusted computing device, need a modern alternative that be purchased off-the-shelf and supports Tails.
We also heard that unexpected reboots are disruptive
My head literally reels with the notion that they need to hear unexpected reboots are disruptive to know they're disruptive!!!! What??!!
USA Airport Immigration has recently started putting programming questions to travellers who claim to be software engineers. In one case they asked the traveller Python questions.
(Not to be confused with the Monty Python questions the UK immigration authorities ask.)
The WordPress Codex tells coders how to sanitize user input, but the NextGEN coders seemed to forget the parameterized URL is user input.
In the UK we're not too worried about the FBI and CIA, but the recent Investigatory Powers Bill does mean all our communications are under surveillance by GCHQ and the Police.
But if they're also censoring search results, well that's just jangles. We'll switch our VPNs to search google from a different country.
In the meantime Dotcom vs Trump should be an entertaining media battle of egos.
Is the 'Golden Rule' a Donald Trump quote?
That is absolutely correct, and there was a very good article in The Economist relating to the removal of $55 million from 'The Dao' which made the same legal argument that exploiting poor programming in a Smart Contract was not theft but simply following the rules of a system, even if those rules did not do what the creators intended.
In addition The Economist argued that that whereas the heist was not a crime, altering digital ledgers to retrieve the lost ether was affront to the whole project.
it's entirely possible to say that one country is "freer" than another.
For example, the United states has 693 people incarcerated per 10,000 (2nd highest in the world), whereas the Seychelles has a whopping 799 (highest in the world).
Therefore it's reasonable to say that the United States is 1.06% more free than the Seychelles. Although admittedly by this metric the United States is less free than the rest of the entire world.
Sure, but I have no idea what my slashdot password is.
Firefox > Preferences > Security > Saved Logins
This is why the hapless Windows-using would-be criminal should be using something more idiot-resistant, not Windows and the Tor browser. Like Tails for example. That way the hapless offender's DRM-infested movie files, PDFs etc can be forced to phone-home through the Tor network. If the criminal is too hapless to evade law-enforcement, it's caveat emptor.
Yeah, but in 2049 the wrist-worn iQuantum (TM) will only have one button, and no headphone jack.
Don't tell the customer anything until the dust settles! Geez... What's with these amateurs?
Don't tell the customer anything!! Geez... What's with these semi-pros?
I guess it's outside the 'top seven', but the simplest, lowest-level, error-free code is the unsung hero to me.
For example, the AGC Apollo Guidance Computer springs to mind as a world-changing piece of code.
(Link is to the original Apollo 11 guidance computer (AGC) source code for Command Module (Comanche055) and Lunar Module (Luminary099).)
Isn't that the PRISIM defence? Collect all the data, everywhere, all the time but don't actually look at it. Then get a warrant for just the bits you need. So you can claim the collection is 'a circumscribed, narrow system'?
On Slashdot Googolplexian*2:Googolplexian sounds more sophisticated.
But, in three years, when 1 BTC = $4,444, you might also be really kicking yourself for not speculating another $10k into BTC when it was down around $1,000.
'2020' hindsight etc.
Unfortunately, firefox pulled support for older but still reletively recent and secure osx systems, for example Mountain Lion (10.8). So why the continued support for disasters like XP?
Thank you, RIAA, for reducing this year's sanitation budget. And Enya really sucks.
There is no comparable cashless payment platform that leaves no audit trail. Sorry.
Monero is an example of one.
Unlike Bitcoin, a Monero output transaction is crypographically unrelated to its input transaction.
I wanna hire these guys. They sound really smart.
I once spoke to a company who had commissioned... an extrapolation of what the next 10 years would look like in their industry... You can guess what happened over the succeeding 10 years: absolutely nothing... And in fact, 10 years later, the room no longer looks futuristic. Against all odds, its forecasts turned out to be largely accurate. And yet, the company had failed to commercialize even one of the recommendations in the attendant specification document. So I asked the company what they planned to do next; they told me they were going back to the original designers and asking them to forecast the next 10 years! The company blamed their engineers and managers for their failure to commercialize, not the designers.