Yes, there are vulnerabilities, but that's a dangerous thing for anyone trying to decrypt information to rely on, since all it takes is for someone to repair the offending code or produce a better algorithm and then publish it in some way, and you're "window" is now closed again.
You're still left with the fact that there are encryption algorithms out there that, if properly implemented, are effectively unbreakable before the heat death of the Universe, and no mere law is going to change that fact.
And how precisely will the US government force backdoors on open source or even private software? If I go out and make my own VPN software, then how will a mere law be able to "pierce" it?
Perhaps the good Senator should reflect upon what King Canute actually intended to say when he made his demonstration about his inability to stop the tide.
Mathematical algorithms, like so many parts of our physical universe, don't give a flying fuck about Congress. It's like trying to pass legislation to make Pi equal to 3.
What exactly would another CEO have done differently? Attacking Mayer doesn't really deal with the fact that Yahoo has been in decline for a decade, and what she inherited was a listing ship with no obvious solution. Everything that is wrong with Yahoo is Jerry Chang's fault, including the stunningly stupid move of not just selling the whole fucking thing to Microsoft.
Yup. This report is simply cherry picking one particular and declaring Microsoft the winner. Mind you, Apple does the same thing with its overpriced "boutique" smart devices.
But if Android compatibility isn't done well, then Microsoft could actually hurt what share they do have. Blackberry's Android support was just good enough to be bad, and BB's Android-compatible devices just gained a reputation for shitty native app support and limited Android app support.
I think Microsoft is in the same position Blackberry was three years ago, beginning to realize that it's native apps just aren't large enough in number to make the platform desirable to a wide customer base, but still dithering about whether to commit the resources necessary to make it work. BB was far too late, and frankly I think their Android phone will sink like all their recent hardware. Microsoft certainly has the resources to pull a kind of Android Wine, but I still think they want the primary goal to be Windows, with Android as some sort of teaser. That didn't work for BB.
Courts have the means to deal with repeat offenders. A small fine is usually enough for most people to go "I won't do that again". But if you are serial violater of HOV rules, then a judge is going to start nailing you harder and harder.
So you're using the absence of evidence as evidence of absence.
I'd be curious as t how many mass shootings have ever actually been met with resistance by armed citizens (not police or other armed security types). I got this list from the Washington Post, which the writer intentionally excluded off duty police our soldiers from (I'm not sure if that's fair or not):
I think having armed citizens might prevent some, but probably not all mass shootings. I think this idea that just blindly adding more guns into the mix is just going to make things safer seems a leap without a good deal of evidence behind that.
Also consider that, no matter how distressing mass shootings are (which, I suppose, is the point why these people do them), they make up only a tiny percentage of gun crimes in America.
It depends on the people, I would think. Lone nuts with a grudge are probably so delusional it won't stop them. Organised terrorist groups might be deterred, but then again, the guys in France didn't seem too worried about the inevitable shoot out, and came prepared with suicide vests. Alternatively, they could just change tactics and go for bombs like the Boston Marathon bombers did. Not much good being armed will be when a nail bomb blows up ten feet away from you.
I guess it could minimize fatalities, but I'm thinking of a bunch of armed people firing at each other in a relative small place and wondering if as many people would end up struck by "friendly" bullets as by the mass shooters.
The reality is that we can't prevent all mass killings. Even countries like China and Iran, with incredibly restrictive gun laws, still suffer terrorist attacks.
Pretty much my story as well. I shifted around between Webcrawler, Altavista, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, but when I got turned on to Google, I was permanently moved over to it in less than a day. I keep my Yahoo account alive for a few things, but if it dies, I'm not going to lose any sleep.
I'm trying to sort out Mayer could have done differently? She took over a company in long term terminal decline. If I were her, and I were offered the job, I'd want a big ass salary too, because I'd be blamed for all the mistakes the predecessor made. And remember that predecessor was Jerry Yang, who could have sold Yahoo off to Microsoft, but didn't, and ushered in this current decline.
To my mind, this is nothing more than the kneejerk response of one of the remaining bastions of maledom reacting to the horrible threat of someone with a vagina having the sheer audacity to work in their special little boys club.
Jesus Christ. The paranoia in this place is astonishing. If it isn't rabid bands of women out to emasculate mail developers, it's evil bands of ACA bureaucrats trying to steal precious bodily fluids or evil climatologists trying to steal everyone's cars.
For fuck's sake, I've worked around women, in offices that were predominantly women, under women managers and now have a female business partner, and I have never once had an issue. I have behaved myself, they have behaved themselves, and we all just get along. i go to conferences with plenty of women and have no more trouble conversing with them than with men. It may be anecdotal, but I'm in mid-40s now and have been doing trade fairs and conferences now for half of my life, and I've never been accused of anything more than shitty handwriting.
How nice, someone found the rarest of rare, a software developer with a Y chromosome, and now there are no problems. It's like racism magically disappeared the minute the minute the first ex-slave bought a patch of land.
A lot of people say, "What's that?" It's Pat! A lot of people ask, "Who's he? Or she?" A ma'am or a sir, accept him or her or whatever it might be. It's time for androgyny. Here comes Pat!
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What the fuck does it matter if cook a nice pork roast in my oven at 160F?
Better pigs than Crab People.
http://vignette2.wikia.nocooki...
Before they go down that road, they should ask the Confederacy how well secession turned out.
The book was shut on states having the right to secede 150 years ago. They can't. Period.
So now we're going to make mathematics illegal?
Yes, there are vulnerabilities, but that's a dangerous thing for anyone trying to decrypt information to rely on, since all it takes is for someone to repair the offending code or produce a better algorithm and then publish it in some way, and you're "window" is now closed again.
You're still left with the fact that there are encryption algorithms out there that, if properly implemented, are effectively unbreakable before the heat death of the Universe, and no mere law is going to change that fact.
And how precisely will the US government force backdoors on open source or even private software? If I go out and make my own VPN software, then how will a mere law be able to "pierce" it?
Perhaps the good Senator should reflect upon what King Canute actually intended to say when he made his demonstration about his inability to stop the tide.
Mathematical algorithms, like so many parts of our physical universe, don't give a flying fuck about Congress. It's like trying to pass legislation to make Pi equal to 3.
You know, you really are an ugly piece of shit.
What exactly would another CEO have done differently? Attacking Mayer doesn't really deal with the fact that Yahoo has been in decline for a decade, and what she inherited was a listing ship with no obvious solution. Everything that is wrong with Yahoo is Jerry Chang's fault, including the stunningly stupid move of not just selling the whole fucking thing to Microsoft.
Yup. This report is simply cherry picking one particular and declaring Microsoft the winner. Mind you, Apple does the same thing with its overpriced "boutique" smart devices.
Considering the level of spying going on in Windows 10, I don't think Redmond has that credibility.
But if Android compatibility isn't done well, then Microsoft could actually hurt what share they do have. Blackberry's Android support was just good enough to be bad, and BB's Android-compatible devices just gained a reputation for shitty native app support and limited Android app support.
I think Microsoft is in the same position Blackberry was three years ago, beginning to realize that it's native apps just aren't large enough in number to make the platform desirable to a wide customer base, but still dithering about whether to commit the resources necessary to make it work. BB was far too late, and frankly I think their Android phone will sink like all their recent hardware. Microsoft certainly has the resources to pull a kind of Android Wine, but I still think they want the primary goal to be Windows, with Android as some sort of teaser. That didn't work for BB.
Courts have the means to deal with repeat offenders. A small fine is usually enough for most people to go "I won't do that again". But if you are serial violater of HOV rules, then a judge is going to start nailing you harder and harder.
So you're using the absence of evidence as evidence of absence.
I'd be curious as t how many mass shootings have ever actually been met with resistance by armed citizens (not police or other armed security types). I got this list from the Washington Post, which the writer intentionally excluded off duty police our soldiers from (I'm not sure if that's fair or not):
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
I think having armed citizens might prevent some, but probably not all mass shootings. I think this idea that just blindly adding more guns into the mix is just going to make things safer seems a leap without a good deal of evidence behind that.
Also consider that, no matter how distressing mass shootings are (which, I suppose, is the point why these people do them), they make up only a tiny percentage of gun crimes in America.
It depends on the people, I would think. Lone nuts with a grudge are probably so delusional it won't stop them. Organised terrorist groups might be deterred, but then again, the guys in France didn't seem too worried about the inevitable shoot out, and came prepared with suicide vests. Alternatively, they could just change tactics and go for bombs like the Boston Marathon bombers did. Not much good being armed will be when a nail bomb blows up ten feet away from you.
I guess it could minimize fatalities, but I'm thinking of a bunch of armed people firing at each other in a relative small place and wondering if as many people would end up struck by "friendly" bullets as by the mass shooters.
The reality is that we can't prevent all mass killings. Even countries like China and Iran, with incredibly restrictive gun laws, still suffer terrorist attacks.
Pretty much my story as well. I shifted around between Webcrawler, Altavista, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, but when I got turned on to Google, I was permanently moved over to it in less than a day. I keep my Yahoo account alive for a few things, but if it dies, I'm not going to lose any sleep.
I'm trying to sort out Mayer could have done differently? She took over a company in long term terminal decline. If I were her, and I were offered the job, I'd want a big ass salary too, because I'd be blamed for all the mistakes the predecessor made. And remember that predecessor was Jerry Yang, who could have sold Yahoo off to Microsoft, but didn't, and ushered in this current decline.
To my mind, this is nothing more than the kneejerk response of one of the remaining bastions of maledom reacting to the horrible threat of someone with a vagina having the sheer audacity to work in their special little boys club.
Jesus Christ. The paranoia in this place is astonishing. If it isn't rabid bands of women out to emasculate mail developers, it's evil bands of ACA bureaucrats trying to steal precious bodily fluids or evil climatologists trying to steal everyone's cars.
For fuck's sake, I've worked around women, in offices that were predominantly women, under women managers and now have a female business partner, and I have never once had an issue. I have behaved myself, they have behaved themselves, and we all just get along. i go to conferences with plenty of women and have no more trouble conversing with them than with men. It may be anecdotal, but I'm in mid-40s now and have been doing trade fairs and conferences now for half of my life, and I've never been accused of anything more than shitty handwriting.
You got some numbers to back up the reasons for divorces over the last few decades?
How nice, someone found the rarest of rare, a software developer with a Y chromosome, and now there are no problems. It's like racism magically disappeared the minute the minute the first ex-slave bought a patch of land.
A Slashdotter with misogynist tendencies? Don't be absurd.
Now if we could only extend that to lawyers.
Then don't watch it, Mr. I'm So Fucking Important.
A lot of people say, "What's that?" It's Pat!
A lot of people ask, "Who's he? Or she?"
A ma'am or a sir, accept him or her
or whatever it might be.
It's time for androgyny.
Here comes Pat!