My take is more that the problem is people not understanding the permission system. Used right, it works pretty well. The whole container-thing comes from people not understanding how to isolate things using the classical UNIX model (and software distributed as binary, of course). Incidentally, containers make you _less_ secure against a competent attacker as they add additional ways to compromise the system and disregard KISS, while pretending otherwise.
It has. In particular, it does not help at all here. Because it is, you know, an electro-static bag. That does not do anything for RF, which is electro-magnetic and not static at all. And recording voice does not even need an RF connection. I give you a "TRIPLE-FAIL!" and award you one virtual Popsicle. (The 3rd fail is that you apparently did not even try this. My phone is so unimpressed that it does not even drop a reception-bar.)
The only reliable way to do this (besides carrying a tin can or the like as actually working RF shielding and some additional heavy soundproofing) is to remove the phone's battery.
And as a result, they catch 5000 "perverts", but not a single person that raped a child to make this stuff. (And do not forget that comic images also count, and that can only be called a though-crime.) And they rescue not a single child. They also do absolutely nothing about people raping children and not documenting it.
I think it is pretty obvious where they fail fundamental ethics here, but I admit that getting 5000 convictions instead of one is a lot more attractive to people that do not understand what "to serve and protect" means and that only want to increase their power. Comparing the whole thing to what fundamentalist religions do is pretty accurate. So yes, witch-hunt 2.0 with the added benefit of not having to show any evidence to the public. Which could otherwise notice that (according to a police-officer that gave a talk here) most/all of this material is very very old and there is no increase in the problem. That could make the witch-hunt a bit less effective, so they try very hard to avoid that.
With this change, the German conservatives are finally dragged kicking and screaming from the dark-ages of basically no public WiFi. These morons considered it far more important to "protect" copyright holders than having a decent public WiFi infrastructure, and that while claiming that high-tech will make Germany great again (yes, same style as somebody else we all know). The only reasonable explanation for that behavior is stupidity and/or bribery. Fortunately, it is over now after countries like Romania have been found to have far better WiFI infrastructure and it was very likely that Germany would lose a relevant court case in front of the top EU court.
Not so! First, you make this type of data "evidence" by law. Just use enough terrorists and child molesters, and that should be a breeze. And next, you just start making up evidence completely, thereby saving a ton of money and being able to put a lot more people in prison!
Already being worked on. You think your phone is locked or off? Bad news, it can still listen to you and encoding and storing audio-data does not take a lot of power. Of course, at some point, anybody without a mobile phone or carrying one that cannot do this, will automatically be regarded as a terrorist.
I fully agree. Or children that do not have the father everybody thinks they have (apparently less than 1%, despite reports to the contrary). Of course, with a deviation this small (below 0.5%), you need that large sample to get any kind of dependable result. And yes, you point out one possible strong flaw in this study: It is possible that these genetic traits make the parents better parents and that this causes the better educational success, not any actual increase in learning skill.
Gives you hard numbers that are not very meaningful. Objective metric are pretty worthless if they do not measure something of high significance. Incidentally, the IQ is by its very definition an objective metric. It just suffers from the same problem, namely that it does not measure quite the right thing.
Depends on the type of academic. A good STEM graduate needs to work at not earning a decent living. Of course, quite a few are not good because they use university as a means to delay their entry into the workforce. A bad STEM graduate or other academic is indeed much less worth in the job market than a good tradesperson. Of course, there are bad ones of those too. In the end, it boils down to leaning something you are good at.
My reading also. And it is about "schooling" anyways, not about intelligence. That strikes me more as skill in memorization and tolerating stupid teachers.
They say it correlates to more "schooling". That is not intelligence. And it is less then 0.5 percent, so if anything, it proves the opposite of what you say. I would insult your heritage, but according to this research your stupidity seems to be almost all your own, maybe except that 0.5%.
And one day a troll will admit to being clueless about the actual technical details of the matter at hand.
Incidentally, most FOSS software sucks, just as most commercial software does. LibreOffice is just not one of those. Still there? Then I must not be an "OSS zealot".
For really self-driving (i.e. not just driver-assist, but in principle driver-less) to be on the market in 5 years, it would need to be ready and solved today. It is not.
From what a friend that worked in customer support told me, customers being too stupid (and unaware of it) or directly lying is a rather frequent event.
I would expect that is what they looked at when telling him what he did. It is extremely unlikely to have a false recording of such a complex input action, far more unlikely than user error. Of course, Tesla could be lying, but the risk for them would be a high likelihood extremely bad press, so I doubt very much that is what they did. And if this was an error on their side, they would have just been very generous and helpful and the problem would never have gone to the press.
If it is not an issue to you, why would you conclude it is not an issue to me? Maybe I am just able to keep more of a page in focus at a time than you?
Very much so. It may even become a critical component that your IT department does not know about, has no documents on, has no fall-backs and emergency procedures for and that creates security problems. Automatizing things with Excel may be fast initially, but it is _not_ smart.
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Which nicely illustrates my point: You do not understand what a permission system is for, as that is not its task.
My take is more that the problem is people not understanding the permission system. Used right, it works pretty well. The whole container-thing comes from people not understanding how to isolate things using the classical UNIX model (and software distributed as binary, of course). Incidentally, containers make you _less_ secure against a competent attacker as they add additional ways to compromise the system and disregard KISS, while pretending otherwise.
You may have a lot of access and control as user, but not "full control".
Al least in any sane system, and Windows has started, a few decades late, to use sound OS design practices. So no, not "full control".
It has. In particular, it does not help at all here. Because it is, you know, an electro-static bag. That does not do anything for RF, which is electro-magnetic and not static at all. And recording voice does not even need an RF connection. I give you a "TRIPLE-FAIL!" and award you one virtual Popsicle. (The 3rd fail is that you apparently did not even try this. My phone is so unimpressed that it does not even drop a reception-bar.)
The only reliable way to do this (besides carrying a tin can or the like as actually working RF shielding and some additional heavy soundproofing) is to remove the phone's battery.
Because banning addictive substances works 100% of the time with 0 adverse effects.*
* (Actual real-world observations may differ.)
Ban alcohol, non-marital sex and undesirable thoughts at the same time! That has the same excellent justification as your demand.
And as a result, they catch 5000 "perverts", but not a single person that raped a child to make this stuff. (And do not forget that comic images also count, and that can only be called a though-crime.) And they rescue not a single child. They also do absolutely nothing about people raping children and not documenting it.
I think it is pretty obvious where they fail fundamental ethics here, but I admit that getting 5000 convictions instead of one is a lot more attractive to people that do not understand what "to serve and protect" means and that only want to increase their power. Comparing the whole thing to what fundamentalist religions do is pretty accurate. So yes, witch-hunt 2.0 with the added benefit of not having to show any evidence to the public. Which could otherwise notice that (according to a police-officer that gave a talk here) most/all of this material is very very old and there is no increase in the problem. That could make the witch-hunt a bit less effective, so they try very hard to avoid that.
We do not. Politicians getting kickbacks do.
With this change, the German conservatives are finally dragged kicking and screaming from the dark-ages of basically no public WiFi. These morons considered it far more important to "protect" copyright holders than having a decent public WiFi infrastructure, and that while claiming that high-tech will make Germany great again (yes, same style as somebody else we all know). The only reasonable explanation for that behavior is stupidity and/or bribery. Fortunately, it is over now after countries like Romania have been found to have far better WiFI infrastructure and it was very likely that Germany would lose a relevant court case in front of the top EU court.
Not so! First, you make this type of data "evidence" by law. Just use enough terrorists and child molesters, and that should be a breeze. And next, you just start making up evidence completely, thereby saving a ton of money and being able to put a lot more people in prison!
Already being worked on. You think your phone is locked or off? Bad news, it can still listen to you and encoding and storing audio-data does not take a lot of power. Of course, at some point, anybody without a mobile phone or carrying one that cannot do this, will automatically be regarded as a terrorist.
I fully agree. Or children that do not have the father everybody thinks they have (apparently less than 1%, despite reports to the contrary). Of course, with a deviation this small (below 0.5%), you need that large sample to get any kind of dependable result. And yes, you point out one possible strong flaw in this study: It is possible that these genetic traits make the parents better parents and that this causes the better educational success, not any actual increase in learning skill.
Gives you hard numbers that are not very meaningful. Objective metric are pretty worthless if they do not measure something of high significance. Incidentally, the IQ is by its very definition an objective metric. It just suffers from the same problem, namely that it does not measure quite the right thing.
Depends on the type of academic. A good STEM graduate needs to work at not earning a decent living. Of course, quite a few are not good because they use university as a means to delay their entry into the workforce. A bad STEM graduate or other academic is indeed much less worth in the job market than a good tradesperson. Of course, there are bad ones of those too. In the end, it boils down to leaning something you are good at.
My reading also. And it is about "schooling" anyways, not about intelligence. That strikes me more as skill in memorization and tolerating stupid teachers.
They say it correlates to more "schooling". That is not intelligence. And it is less then 0.5 percent, so if anything, it proves the opposite of what you say. I would insult your heritage, but according to this research your stupidity seems to be almost all your own, maybe except that 0.5%.
Not everybodies view on things is as limited to their own person as yours obviously is.
And one day a troll will admit to being clueless about the actual technical details of the matter at hand.
Incidentally, most FOSS software sucks, just as most commercial software does. LibreOffice is just not one of those. Still there? Then I must not be an "OSS zealot".
For really self-driving (i.e. not just driver-assist, but in principle driver-less) to be on the market in 5 years, it would need to be ready and solved today. It is not.
From what a friend that worked in customer support told me, customers being too stupid (and unaware of it) or directly lying is a rather frequent event.
I would expect that is what they looked at when telling him what he did. It is extremely unlikely to have a false recording of such a complex input action, far more unlikely than user error. Of course, Tesla could be lying, but the risk for them would be a high likelihood extremely bad press, so I doubt very much that is what they did. And if this was an error on their side, they would have just been very generous and helpful and the problem would never have gone to the press.
If it is not an issue to you, why would you conclude it is not an issue to me? Maybe I am just able to keep more of a page in focus at a time than you?
More likely because MS started to bribe the right people, which they seem to have neglected recently.
Very much so. It may even become a critical component that your IT department does not know about, has no documents on, has no fall-backs and emergency procedures for and that creates security problems. Automatizing things with Excel may be fast initially, but it is _not_ smart.