Spot-on. They even try to "fix" TCP, apparently completely unaware that lots of really smart people have failed to do so before them. Not good. They are a Dunning-Kruger company by now.
None of the still-accepted certificates are any better. The CA system is fundamentally broken and what Google does here is not doing anything for security. It does create a false sense of security though (making things actually worse) and it does inconvenience a lot of people.
This process by IBM sounds pretty expensive, hence it may be useful for special components (microwave transistors, e.g.), but that is it. I think we need to expect no real advancement beyond 7nm for the foreseeable future. Fine by me, maybe then software can start to catch up again instead of crappy coding just relying on more CPU speed.
You have no clue what "fraud" is. You are not buying a product on Kickstarter. You are buying the potential of a product. Apparently that simple thing is too difficult for you to understand. Makes you the "fucker" here.
Yes, so? He got in over his head, he tried his best to deliver, he failed. It happens. Everyone funding anything on Kickstarter was warned this can happen and anyone funding this particular game should have known it was a long shot. It would probably have been better for everybody if this campaign had failed to fund. Bit there most certainly were no criminal acts, and this guy apparently went far beyond what could be expected from him.
About half of all IT projects fail. This is a long-term observation. Making games is no exception and nobody guarantees any delivery with Kickstarter. So, no deception, no assurances, no fraud. Sure, if somebody just takes the money and runs, that may be actionable, bit if somebody (like this guy here) tries and fails, that is what Kickstarter is about: To try projects were conventional funding is not available or comes with unacceptable strings.
There is just too many people that are incapable to understand a simple explanation of this really not complicated business model. Idiots thinking it is fraud does not make it fraud at all.
Kickstarter is a 50:50 thing. As you also only pay something like 50% and as the games funded that way would never see the light of day otherwise, failed projects are not much of a problem, as long as about half succeed.
There is still a lot of people for whom this pretty simple math and economics is too complicated to understand and they will cry "fraud" and complain loudly, when nothing like that is the case.
As MS has now delegated almost all testing to the user, even catastrophic bugs like deleting user data come back. They are not getting better, they are getting worse. Typical effects of a near-monopoly.
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Indeed. A https-connection is very much _not_ a VPN tunnel, even if naive people may think so.
Spot-on. They even try to "fix" TCP, apparently completely unaware that lots of really smart people have failed to do so before them. Not good. They are a Dunning-Kruger company by now.
You think certificates prevent state-actor MITM in actual reality? They do not and have not for at least a decade.
The CA system was a somewhat reasonable idea with a horrible execution and utter naivety on side of its architects. It is broken and cannot be fixed.
I have put a free (and worthless) "let's encrypt" cert on my page to get around this problem.
Sounds so nice and friendly and helpful! What utter liar wrote this? Of course, a salmon will just be killed if sick and disposed off.
None of the still-accepted certificates are any better. The CA system is fundamentally broken and what Google does here is not doing anything for security. It does create a false sense of security though (making things actually worse) and it does inconvenience a lot of people.
This process by IBM sounds pretty expensive, hence it may be useful for special components (microwave transistors, e.g.), but that is it. I think we need to expect no real advancement beyond 7nm for the foreseeable future. Fine by me, maybe then software can start to catch up again instead of crappy coding just relying on more CPU speed.
Indeed.
One down, probably a few 1000 more that do this on some scale to go.
Misrepresenting his ability to deliver a game is fraud.
No. It is at worst a non-actionable lie. But the reality here is that nobody can assure success in any kind of non-trivial project, hence no fraud.
That's so old-school. And it is basically finished tech, so not room for great inventions that re-create things with technology....
Alive and going strong. I use it for most of my email, private and professional. Had to add HTML-rendering via Lynx, but that is the only real change.
Those do not suddenly get strange ideas. I use mutt.
No. It is not. Get the basics before you claim nonsense, will you?
You have no clue what "fraud" is. You are not buying a product on Kickstarter. You are buying the potential of a product. Apparently that simple thing is too difficult for you to understand. Makes you the "fucker" here.
More money does not make software creation faster. Has been known since around 1975.
Yes, so? He got in over his head, he tried his best to deliver, he failed. It happens. Everyone funding anything on Kickstarter was warned this can happen and anyone funding this particular game should have known it was a long shot. It would probably have been better for everybody if this campaign had failed to fund. Bit there most certainly were no criminal acts, and this guy apparently went far beyond what could be expected from him.
About half of all IT projects fail. This is a long-term observation. Making games is no exception and nobody guarantees any delivery with Kickstarter. So, no deception, no assurances, no fraud. Sure, if somebody just takes the money and runs, that may be actionable, bit if somebody (like this guy here) tries and fails, that is what Kickstarter is about: To try projects were conventional funding is not available or comes with unacceptable strings.
There is just too many people that are incapable to understand a simple explanation of this really not complicated business model. Idiots thinking it is fraud does not make it fraud at all.
You do not get it. Go to Kickstarter and read their explanation of what they offer and then come again. And no, it is not fraud in any way.
Just that this is not what happened here. At all.
Kickstarter is a 50:50 thing. As you also only pay something like 50% and as the games funded that way would never see the light of day otherwise, failed projects are not much of a problem, as long as about half succeed.
There is still a lot of people for whom this pretty simple math and economics is too complicated to understand and they will cry "fraud" and complain loudly, when nothing like that is the case.
So you predict we have the whole thing (if possible) in 400 years or so? Makes sense to me.
Capricious yes, specious not entirely. Art is about things like communicating ideas and finding new ways to express them.
More like giving the finger to people with too much money in ways they do not get....
So if he also had set the shredded paper on fire in addition, it would be worth, say, 5x now? The mind boggles.
As MS has now delegated almost all testing to the user, even catastrophic bugs like deleting user data come back. They are not getting better, they are getting worse. Typical effects of a near-monopoly.
Fusion power is different. They do have real advances and they have the issue that their machines take decades to build.