They added something to it: Cortana the slut now sends all your search-queries to Bing and you have to do some registry hacks to turn that off. Methinks they are hard at work to extend the spying...
Naaa, In a police-state you always prosecute people to the maximum possible, no matter how stupid and unjust. After all, you have to send a message to the population who the masters are! Were would we be if the serfs could just break the law and get away with anything below a life-sentence for it.
On a completely unrelated thought, that this even needs a court decision shows how very badly out of control the US "legal" system is these days.
In fact rich people have a longer lifespan. However, in the end they die. There is no exception and science will not help them. Not in the next 100 years anyway.
If that is enough time. This is not like putting a new battery into an aging device. We still discover lots and lots of things about biology, medicine and there are vast unknown areas.
That is bullshit. Cellphones back then were only for technical users, i.e. people that needed it to do their work. Sure, some rich people could get them too, but that was never what drove the development.
People getting obsessed with solving a problem is what drives science and technology forward.
Can work to some level for the people that actually work on a problem, but even there obsession usually does more damage than it helps. Not a factor when you look to people that have nothing to contribute besides money, as they usually just end up financing con-men.
Science is not done by people with money and real scientists are not primarily motivated by money.
Aaand fail. Nobody that knows what they are doing will ever host a web-application on Windows (and hence will not use any C#). Also, anybody that knows what they are doing will write as little as possible active client-side content.
Thanks for the info, that is what I would expect. So what is the problem here? People that do not read or do not understand their credit card statement?
That is untrue. Hardware verification most certainly deals with the risks you describe. Otherwise modern chips would not work.
As to the laws of physics, you certainly can claim that fundamentally we do not understand anything (and it would even be true), but it is a worthless observation as it does not regard the context the original statement is in. You cannot go down the "nothing is certain" road and still do meaningful engineering. You can run in endless circles going that way though.
Well, this is a judgment call. I personally find metrics that may give people a false sense of security a very bad thing. The thing here is that this is a decidedly "experts-only" metric because most people cannot interpret it. Metrics are however routinely used by non-experts (a.k.a. "managers") and that makes any kind of expert-only metric dangerous.
I do not think the circumstances are odd. Unless you consider it odd that capitalism favors the least competent (and hence cheapest) group of developers for most work. As soon as we have liability for code that is not up to professional standards, things are going to change. Of course, we will need to have a number of larger catastrophes to get there first. (As for FOSS: That one is simple: Open and free the source or be liable for anything bad it does....)
For the semi-competent, you have Java. For those that do not manage that level, you have JavaScript. For those that actually understand what they are doing, you have a large faction that prefers C and the rest is all over the place.
Just remember that we have far too many "developers" and most of them are bad at it. This thing is a Pyramid with the largest and least competent group being at the bottom with JavaScript.
Serious question from an European viewpoint: If I have bookings on my statement that I do not recognize, I request the original receipt. If that does not show up, my card is not billed. If it does show up bit does not have a signature or a fake one, my card is not billed unless the merchant can actually prove it was me making the purchase. In case of fraud, he obviously cannot. As long as I do not cancel bookings fraudulently, my card or credit-rating is not in any danger. I did have my card replaced a few times free of charge though, because of some fraud patterns. I never had my card not working.
From what I read here, things are different in the US. This is pretty surprising as credit cards are an American invention (AFAIK) and hence I would expect them to work well in the US. Seems they work a lot better in Europe.
Crime does generally not pay well, and the same is true for computer-crime. As Cisco wants to display the problem as being as serious as possible (to scare people into buying their stuff), the number give is likely already significantly too high.
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They added something to it: Cortana the slut now sends all your search-queries to Bing and you have to do some registry hacks to turn that off. Methinks they are hard at work to extend the spying...
Ah, damn. Just spent my last mod point somewhere else. So here is a symbolic "+1 Insightful _and_ funny".
Naaa, In a police-state you always prosecute people to the maximum possible, no matter how stupid and unjust. After all, you have to send a message to the population who the masters are! Were would we be if the serfs could just break the law and get away with anything below a life-sentence for it.
On a completely unrelated thought, that this even needs a court decision shows how very badly out of control the US "legal" system is these days.
Nobody stops you from believing bullshit. I will not either.
In fact rich people have a longer lifespan. However, in the end they die. There is no exception and science will not help them. Not in the next 100 years anyway.
If that is enough time. This is not like putting a new battery into an aging device. We still discover lots and lots of things about biology, medicine and there are vast unknown areas.
That is bullshit. Cellphones back then were only for technical users, i.e. people that needed it to do their work. Sure, some rich people could get them too, but that was never what drove the development.
People getting obsessed with solving a problem is what drives science and technology forward.
Can work to some level for the people that actually work on a problem, but even there obsession usually does more damage than it helps. Not a factor when you look to people that have nothing to contribute besides money, as they usually just end up financing con-men.
Science is not done by people with money and real scientists are not primarily motivated by money.
So you want to be conned by one set of people, but not by others?
They mistake the ability to make money for the ability to understand how things actually work. Pretty pathetic and sometimes deadly.
So if you pee your pants, then it is legal? Way to roll back civilized behavior!
The usual: They are half-assing it. What did you expect? This is Microsoft.
Aaand fail. Nobody that knows what they are doing will ever host a web-application on Windows (and hence will not use any C#). Also, anybody that knows what they are doing will write as little as possible active client-side content.
Hahahahahaha, funny! Obviously you have no experience programming anything real in C.
I see. That would be a real problem.
I doubt it. Those that use good programming practices use them because they realize their worth. The others are a lost cause IMO.
Nature is overrated.
Thanks for the info, that is what I would expect. So what is the problem here? People that do not read or do not understand their credit card statement?
Infinite, procedurally generated porn? Count me in!
It would last forever. As nobody is paying _me_ a large sum of money for doing so, I have zero interest in doing this though.
The argument you present is one of the more transparent fallacies used by the typical techno-skeptic moron.
That is untrue. Hardware verification most certainly deals with the risks you describe. Otherwise modern chips would not work.
As to the laws of physics, you certainly can claim that fundamentally we do not understand anything (and it would even be true), but it is a worthless observation as it does not regard the context the original statement is in. You cannot go down the "nothing is certain" road and still do meaningful engineering. You can run in endless circles going that way though.
Well, this is a judgment call. I personally find metrics that may give people a false sense of security a very bad thing. The thing here is that this is a decidedly "experts-only" metric because most people cannot interpret it. Metrics are however routinely used by non-experts (a.k.a. "managers") and that makes any kind of expert-only metric dangerous.
I do not think the circumstances are odd. Unless you consider it odd that capitalism favors the least competent (and hence cheapest) group of developers for most work. As soon as we have liability for code that is not up to professional standards, things are going to change. Of course, we will need to have a number of larger catastrophes to get there first. (As for FOSS: That one is simple: Open and free the source or be liable for anything bad it does....)
For the semi-competent, you have Java. For those that do not manage that level, you have JavaScript. For those that actually understand what they are doing, you have a large faction that prefers C and the rest is all over the place.
Just remember that we have far too many "developers" and most of them are bad at it. This thing is a Pyramid with the largest and least competent group being at the bottom with JavaScript.
Serious question from an European viewpoint: If I have bookings on my statement that I do not recognize, I request the original receipt. If that does not show up, my card is not billed. If it does show up bit does not have a signature or a fake one, my card is not billed unless the merchant can actually prove it was me making the purchase. In case of fraud, he obviously cannot. As long as I do not cancel bookings fraudulently, my card or credit-rating is not in any danger. I did have my card replaced a few times free of charge though, because of some fraud patterns. I never had my card not working.
From what I read here, things are different in the US. This is pretty surprising as credit cards are an American invention (AFAIK) and hence I would expect them to work well in the US. Seems they work a lot better in Europe.
Crime does generally not pay well, and the same is true for computer-crime. As Cisco wants to display the problem as being as serious as possible (to scare people into buying their stuff), the number give is likely already significantly too high.