The thing you need to realize is aritcles like this are talking about SPECIFIC ENCLAVES in the world - namely the Seattle area, the Bay area, the Austin area, and a few others... areas with huge concentrations of high tech companies. This huge concentration of companies combined with a huge concentration of very intelligent labour, results in a very competitive labour market. People in these markets routinely will work for 3 different companies in a 5 year timespan... they have no loyalty, they go where the money and/or opportunities are. As a result salaries are high and benefits are good. When you are competing against Google, Facebook, Twitter, Salesforce, and Uber for employees, you have to pay well.
The thing that people who live in these areas DO NOT realize is that this is a UNIQUE situation to these enclaves, and does not translate to other places in the United States, let alone the world. People who work on the east coast or midwest do not have anywhere near the hypermobility of those on the west coast because the labour pool competition is not there.
The base message - if all you care about is a job and IT and money, move to the bay area. I can basically guarentee you you will find tons of well-paid work. Will you be able to afford to live there though? That is a different problem.
Fable went to shit when they made the decision to tie it to Kinect. If there is any genre that should not need a Kinect bolt on, it is theasy RPG style that Fable falls into.
I was actually come sidelong buying a XBONE just because of the Fable series, until I found out they were bolting Kinect onto this thing.
RIght, I know about this option. But since you likely do not want to use VPN when not on unencrypted wifi - because it eats CPU for breakfast - this is still not the answer.
You know, I see constantly people advising that you use a VPN when connecting with pubic wifi, without anyone ever acknowledging the difficulty of this problem.
You see, between when I click "Connect" on the public wifi click-through, and when I have time to connect my VPN client, probably 50 different applications on either my laptop or my mobile phone HAVE ALREADY likely detected a positive connection and reached out to the internet. Any or all of these connections could already be compromised, BEFORE I can even get my VPN connected.
Until OS vendors like Microsoft, Apple, and Google recognize this problem and allow you to create a rule like "Never connect to non-local addresses over a route that traverses unencrypted wifi", this will continue to be a problem. I wish more people were discussing it, because I see no solution in sight. The closest thing to a solution is with Android you can use Tasker to automate connecting your VPN as soon as it can see the VPN server, but even at this point, at best it's a race against all the other processes on your phone firing up as well.
I am not even sure why this is a discussion. There are so many reasons why VNC is actually a *superior* way to run graphical software remotely that it isnt even worth discussing.
I seriously doubt that network transparency is at the top of anyones mind. It is 2016. If you want headless remote desktop availability you have a plethora of cross-platform options at your fingertips.
It's a right to own a gun, not to be a gun dealer. There is also no constitutional right that buying a gun has to be easy. Subtle but important difference.
- Two Factor Authentication built into each and every service by default. Meanwhile you can't even enable two-factor for your AWS account, let alone your Amazon buyer account.
- No "online chat" customer service. Google has a very simple customer service model - you either fill out a form and start an email case, or you enter a callback number and they phone you, or the service has no customer service whatsoever. I know of no Google service that has an online chat.
I think you are making leaps here for several reasons
- As of 5.0, All android devices have full disk encryption as an option that is just a checkbox away. If you check that box, Google can't unlock your phone any more than Apple can
- The metadata Google uses for delivering advertising is mostly anonymous. The few parts that are not anonymous are the types of things the police would know about you anyway, things like your gender, race, and interests.
- The live metadata Google uses for delivering advertising (like page history) is mostly not stored. I know this because it would serve them no benefit to do so - they don't need to actually store your browser history to build a user profile - so the laws of economics and business say they would not be storing it. Companies wont spend enormous amounts of money to store stuff that they don't need to.
The FAA regulates what happens in the air but at some point drones need to land to do their job. Also, they need to be procured in the first place. States do have ways of enforcing this.
If Amazon and Dominos and whoever else are going to be peppering the sky's of metro areas with autonomous delivery drones, I don't think it is unreasonable for those companies to be required to have some type of insurance policy to cover the inevitable but unexpected accidents, things caused by birds or weather or malfunction or LiON battery fires or who knows what else. I sure do not think my home insurance should take a hit because a bird flew into an Amazon drone over my house and it crashed through my skylight.
I also don't think it is unreasonable to require an identification mechanism for an autonomous drone. If you are going to make the insurance claim process work, you need to be able to trace a drone to its owner.
I am a dev, and for a long time was a hiring manager. The idea that grilling, testing, or creating "challenging" interview questions for candidates, and thinking that it will give you ANY introspective on how they will perform on the job, is complete and total poppycock.
Honestly, I feel kind of bad for silicon valley companies that have gotten this strange idea that if you hire a whole bunch of "smart" developers who can answer a bunch of esoteric interview questions, and/or complete silly coding assignments in under an hour, that it will somehow magically enable those developers to coalesce as a team, work hard, solve difficult problems together, and release a viable product.
Raw intelligence is not everything. In fact, it is not even in the most important facet when hiring a software developer. Much more important are experience problem-solving and collaborate in a team environment. I have zero interest in the zen guru who sits at his desk all day churning out algorithms without involving his other team members in what he is doing - because other people need to understand what he is doing and contribute to it as well, if you want to create a successful organization (which will result in a successful product)
ES6 Javascript engines are actually superior to Python in many ways.
The Python scripting engine is actually quite poor. It doesn't even have true multithreading (there is a global lock on all Python threads. V8 and Chakra have no global locks).
You are thinking far too small. Why would you park a car you don't own in your garage or change it's oil?
Autonomous cars won't be owned by individuals. They will owned by Uber and Lyft and other such companies.
Why would anyone go through the expense and hassle of owning their own car when I can use Uber to summon an autonomous car from it's fleet of thousands to arrive to pick me up in under a minute, and take me where I want. On-demand transport will be orders of magnitude cheaper than owning a vehicle because there isn't the cost of a driver to pay anymore, so the cost of booking a ride will be substantially less.
This is the real paradigm shift of autonomous cars.
And in that case, you would simply use the bolt cutters on the door shackle the lock is attached to, which are likely very thin steel. Or you simply use your $10 crow bar to rip the door right off the door jamb.
Anyone who thinks padlocks protect anything have rocks in their head.
Oh yes, because someone who has no thefts planned will just be casually strolling down the street at 2 AM and see the master lock on your toolshed and decide "you know what? I have had enough of the straight and narrow, time to steal some hedge trimmers".
Yes, because that is how most thefts happen. They never happen with someone canvassing a neighbourhood and taking as many quick-win items as possible.
Why would anyone goof around trying to find a rock to break open your cheap $10 padlock to get at your worn out hedge trimmers when your neighbor likely has hundreds of dollars of stuff sitting out in the yard unsecured?
Home security is all about making your house MARGINALLY more difficult to steal from than the guy beside you - nothing more, and nothing less.
Any padlock no matter how well engineered is simply a deterrent that can be foiled by a $20 pair of bolt cutters. No one is going to be screwing around with brass hammers or lockpicks to get into your stupid tool shed. If they want what you have locked up, they would simply use bolt cutters and be in and out in seconds. The idea that anyone is going to screw around scoping out Masterlock locks so they can tap them with brass hammers is ridiculous.
Padlocks, much like the fancy-pants locks on your house, are not going to keep anyone who REALLY WANTS IN out.
The whole point of locks is a DETERRENT, they are not pure security. They will keep out casual thieves, who will go onto the next house that has no locks at all.
I love how so many people posting here are so cynical.
Personally I don't see why his motivations are hard to believe at all as they would be pretty much the same if I was in his shoes. No one on this planet needs to own more than a few million dollars, forget about billions.
There is not a different download or code base for Vista vs Windows 7, so I am not sure I understand what Google means by this announcement. The odds that the chrome.exe will magically stop working on Windows Vista before the end of 2016 seems unlikely to me.
Your comment makes it sound like you think that the iPad Pro has less "spyware" than Windows 10. Good luck with that.
If you want no spyware, but a decent piece of hardware, neither Apple nor Microsoft are viable options. Buy the Surface Pro or Macbook Pro, and put Linux on it.
For one the back of a phone is ALSO wiped clean every time you put it in your pocket.
For two unless you hold your phone very strangely, you won't have thumb prints anywhere but the keyboard and home buttons.
Finally even if you did, good luck getting a clean grab and it HAOPENING to be the right print. Oh and did wrong mention yet that after 5 failed attempts the device locks.
You can do this with any rooted android device and tasker.
And the first thing anyone who cares about security does with an Android device is root it and install their own ROM that is free of carrier encumberances and spyware.
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The thing you need to realize is aritcles like this are talking about SPECIFIC ENCLAVES in the world - namely the Seattle area, the Bay area, the Austin area, and a few others... areas with huge concentrations of high tech companies. This huge concentration of companies combined with a huge concentration of very intelligent labour, results in a very competitive labour market. People in these markets routinely will work for 3 different companies in a 5 year timespan... they have no loyalty, they go where the money and/or opportunities are. As a result salaries are high and benefits are good. When you are competing against Google, Facebook, Twitter, Salesforce, and Uber for employees, you have to pay well.
The thing that people who live in these areas DO NOT realize is that this is a UNIQUE situation to these enclaves, and does not translate to other places in the United States, let alone the world. People who work on the east coast or midwest do not have anywhere near the hypermobility of those on the west coast because the labour pool competition is not there.
The base message - if all you care about is a job and IT and money, move to the bay area. I can basically guarentee you you will find tons of well-paid work. Will you be able to afford to live there though? That is a different problem.
Fable went to shit when they made the decision to tie it to Kinect. If there is any genre that should not need a Kinect bolt on, it is theasy RPG style that Fable falls into.
I was actually come sidelong buying a XBONE just because of the Fable series, until I found out they were bolting Kinect onto this thing.
RIght, I know about this option. But since you likely do not want to use VPN when not on unencrypted wifi - because it eats CPU for breakfast - this is still not the answer.
You know, I see constantly people advising that you use a VPN when connecting with pubic wifi, without anyone ever acknowledging the difficulty of this problem.
You see, between when I click "Connect" on the public wifi click-through, and when I have time to connect my VPN client, probably 50 different applications on either my laptop or my mobile phone HAVE ALREADY likely detected a positive connection and reached out to the internet. Any or all of these connections could already be compromised, BEFORE I can even get my VPN connected.
Until OS vendors like Microsoft, Apple, and Google recognize this problem and allow you to create a rule like "Never connect to non-local addresses over a route that traverses unencrypted wifi", this will continue to be a problem. I wish more people were discussing it, because I see no solution in sight. The closest thing to a solution is with Android you can use Tasker to automate connecting your VPN as soon as it can see the VPN server, but even at this point, at best it's a race against all the other processes on your phone firing up as well.
VNC over SSH perhaps?
I am not even sure why this is a discussion. There are so many reasons why VNC is actually a *superior* way to run graphical software remotely that it isnt even worth discussing.
I seriously doubt that network transparency is at the top of anyones mind. It is 2016. If you want headless remote desktop availability you have a plethora of cross-platform options at your fingertips.
The right to bear arms shall not be infringed.
The right to purchase arms shall not be infringed.
Spot the difference?
It's a right to own a gun, not to be a gun dealer. There is also no constitutional right that buying a gun has to be easy. Subtle but important difference.
Reasons Google is more secure:
- Two Factor Authentication built into each and every service by default. Meanwhile you can't even enable two-factor for your AWS account, let alone your Amazon buyer account.
- No "online chat" customer service. Google has a very simple customer service model - you either fill out a form and start an email case, or you enter a callback number and they phone you, or the service has no customer service whatsoever. I know of no Google service that has an online chat.
I think you are making leaps here for several reasons
- As of 5.0, All android devices have full disk encryption as an option that is just a checkbox away. If you check that box, Google can't unlock your phone any more than Apple can
- The metadata Google uses for delivering advertising is mostly anonymous. The few parts that are not anonymous are the types of things the police would know about you anyway, things like your gender, race, and interests.
- The live metadata Google uses for delivering advertising (like page history) is mostly not stored. I know this because it would serve them no benefit to do so - they don't need to actually store your browser history to build a user profile - so the laws of economics and business say they would not be storing it. Companies wont spend enormous amounts of money to store stuff that they don't need to.
The FAA regulates what happens in the air but at some point drones need to land to do their job. Also, they need to be procured in the first place. States do have ways of enforcing this.
If Amazon and Dominos and whoever else are going to be peppering the sky's of metro areas with autonomous delivery drones, I don't think it is unreasonable for those companies to be required to have some type of insurance policy to cover the inevitable but unexpected accidents, things caused by birds or weather or malfunction or LiON battery fires or who knows what else. I sure do not think my home insurance should take a hit because a bird flew into an Amazon drone over my house and it crashed through my skylight.
I also don't think it is unreasonable to require an identification mechanism for an autonomous drone. If you are going to make the insurance claim process work, you need to be able to trace a drone to its owner.
I am a dev, and for a long time was a hiring manager. The idea that grilling, testing, or creating "challenging" interview questions for candidates, and thinking that it will give you ANY introspective on how they will perform on the job, is complete and total poppycock.
Honestly, I feel kind of bad for silicon valley companies that have gotten this strange idea that if you hire a whole bunch of "smart" developers who can answer a bunch of esoteric interview questions, and/or complete silly coding assignments in under an hour, that it will somehow magically enable those developers to coalesce as a team, work hard, solve difficult problems together, and release a viable product.
Raw intelligence is not everything. In fact, it is not even in the most important facet when hiring a software developer. Much more important are experience problem-solving and collaborate in a team environment. I have zero interest in the zen guru who sits at his desk all day churning out algorithms without involving his other team members in what he is doing - because other people need to understand what he is doing and contribute to it as well, if you want to create a successful organization (which will result in a successful product)
ES6 Javascript engines are actually superior to Python in many ways.
The Python scripting engine is actually quite poor. It doesn't even have true multithreading (there is a global lock on all Python threads. V8 and Chakra have no global locks).
You are thinking far too small. Why would you park a car you don't own in your garage or change it's oil?
Autonomous cars won't be owned by individuals. They will owned by Uber and Lyft and other such companies.
Why would anyone go through the expense and hassle of owning their own car when I can use Uber to summon an autonomous car from it's fleet of thousands to arrive to pick me up in under a minute, and take me where I want. On-demand transport will be orders of magnitude cheaper than owning a vehicle because there isn't the cost of a driver to pay anymore, so the cost of booking a ride will be substantially less.
This is the real paradigm shift of autonomous cars.
And in that case, you would simply use the bolt cutters on the door shackle the lock is attached to, which are likely very thin steel. Or you simply use your $10 crow bar to rip the door right off the door jamb.
Anyone who thinks padlocks protect anything have rocks in their head.
Oh yes, because someone who has no thefts planned will just be casually strolling down the street at 2 AM and see the master lock on your toolshed and decide "you know what? I have had enough of the straight and narrow, time to steal some hedge trimmers".
Yes, because that is how most thefts happen. They never happen with someone canvassing a neighbourhood and taking as many quick-win items as possible.
Why would anyone goof around trying to find a rock to break open your cheap $10 padlock to get at your worn out hedge trimmers when your neighbor likely has hundreds of dollars of stuff sitting out in the yard unsecured?
Home security is all about making your house MARGINALLY more difficult to steal from than the guy beside you - nothing more, and nothing less.
I can get into any padlock on planet earth with a pair of $20 bolt cutters, so who cares?
These articles are so dumb.
Any padlock no matter how well engineered is simply a deterrent that can be foiled by a $20 pair of bolt cutters. No one is going to be screwing around with brass hammers or lockpicks to get into your stupid tool shed. If they want what you have locked up, they would simply use bolt cutters and be in and out in seconds. The idea that anyone is going to screw around scoping out Masterlock locks so they can tap them with brass hammers is ridiculous.
Padlocks, much like the fancy-pants locks on your house, are not going to keep anyone who REALLY WANTS IN out.
The whole point of locks is a DETERRENT, they are not pure security. They will keep out casual thieves, who will go onto the next house that has no locks at all.
I love how so many people posting here are so cynical.
Personally I don't see why his motivations are hard to believe at all as they would be pretty much the same if I was in his shoes. No one on this planet needs to own more than a few million dollars, forget about billions.
There is not a different download or code base for Vista vs Windows 7, so I am not sure I understand what Google means by this announcement. The odds that the chrome.exe will magically stop working on Windows Vista before the end of 2016 seems unlikely to me.
Your comment makes it sound like you think that the iPad Pro has less "spyware" than Windows 10. Good luck with that.
If you want no spyware, but a decent piece of hardware, neither Apple nor Microsoft are viable options. Buy the Surface Pro or Macbook Pro, and put Linux on it.
For one the back of a phone is ALSO wiped clean every time you put it in your pocket.
For two unless you hold your phone very strangely, you won't have thumb prints anywhere but the keyboard and home buttons.
Finally even if you did, good luck getting a clean grab and it HAOPENING to be the right print. Oh and did wrong mention yet that after 5 failed attempts the device locks.
You can do this with any rooted android device and tasker.
And the first thing anyone who cares about security does with an Android device is root it and install their own ROM that is free of carrier encumberances and spyware.
The idea that a human air traffic controller at any modern airport would do ANY better without video or radar is ridiculous.