You fail to recognize that these were methods of production and not actual innovations. How to make a violin is known, how to make Stadivarius is not. If you want a better musical instrument, you need patents. If you want a better violin, you don't. Hence my reference to 8086 chip.
West is still leading China in innovation. It is not given that Chinese could catch up to West on their own. China has more people, but they don't produce the same level of innovation on per capita, whatever the reasons are.
The way I see it, the only way China could compete with West on innovation if we give them all the tech and provide innovation roadmap.
You can't abolish patents, as that will stop a lot of innovation. That is, you will have competition on efficiencies, but no competition on features and technologies. In a world without patents our PCs would be running 8086 chips made on 4nm fabs sold at 1$ a dozen.
Look at this way, if Tech X takes 1Bil to develop and 0.5Bil to set up facilities to produce, Western firm has to recoup 1.5Bil and Chinese firm has to recoup 0.5Bil. Consequently, selling the same Tech X Chinese firms can undercut Western firms by a great deal. This is not because of cheaper labor, but because IP is essentially free to Chinese.
Nevertheless, in the long term (multigenerational term), it doesn't matter, they are going to figure it out for themselves one way or the other anyway.
This is nonsense. It does matter in the long term. In one scenario they are generations behind and keep paying West for innovation that is invented there, and in other scenario they stole all the tech and compete with West, only without having to pay amortization for the cost of innovation.
There is a historical precedence where wild west era was followed by consolidated power of robber barons. Comparable is happening in modern technological world - we have Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and so on filling all technological niches and monopolizing them. So until the next niche opens up, be it applied AI or something else, there is less to start up to.
As a consumer, I don't care for your "absolutely essential". I am not your beta tester. I am not your focus group.
When you install invasive tracker on my PC and your explanation is "trust me, we are not using all of its features"... fuck you, and fuck the horse you rode in on.
No-one should have have to support an OS that came out 17 years ago.
Yes, but no one should have a right to disable your working system because it is too old. They are not saying "we won't support your system with new features", they are saying "If you are gaming on an old system, we will make sure it doesn't work anymore".
Instead of thinking that patching every possible exploit is possible
This is silly. They don't need to patch every possible exploit, only ones that allow privilege escalation. Just like every OS out there is expected to do. How many privilege escalation and code execution flaws in, for example, current RHEL? I don't have to do CVE search to know that it is exactly zero, and if some are found they are fixed pronto.
More so, if a product, like GrayKey and Cellebrite is released, then it is imperative that Apple reverse-engineer it to fix bugs they exploit. Unless these are not bugs but entrenched bad design choices that cannot be fixed.
Problem is though, when you forget your password with this feature, there is no restore. Cool brick!
This is also silly design. It should be possible to wipe and reset it.
I admit, I don't know exactly how GrayKey and Cellebrite work. However, if viewed from proper access control and privileges point of view, it shouldn't be possible to siphon the kinds of data (e.g. contacts, calls) that it is reportedly capable of doing.
So, could someone explain to me why they went with a solution that still leaves 1 hour window of opportunity to compromise a phone instead of fixing, what I guess are overly permissive privileges within the file system?
I think technical term is poisoning the data. It is brutally effective, and not because it hides your own data, it also makes entire data set less valuable by contaminating it with fake data.
While I support spirit of your argument, I must point out one fatal flaw in it. People who buy new cars are not the same people who repair them out of warranty.
For example, BMW part prices started insane and went up from there over last decade or so. This had zero effect on new car sales. It does depress residual value at the end of the lease, but people don't seem to factor it into their purchasing decisions.
This is changing with soy now getting used in wiring harnesses. It is insulation with rodent food. It gets eaten anytime rodents get access to your sitting car.
I think all workers need better job protection. There is no reason to be ageist in your advocacy and pretend that letting go of a young person is any less disruptive to their life than old person.
SJW won in a sense that they set mainstream acceptance of gaming community back decades, and that they successfully smeared GG supporters and gaming in general as sexist, vile, violent and so on.
To general population, it is less shocking to find out that someone into BSM then into online gaming. The only reason you can even speak about gaming is because people think you play Candy Crush or Farmville, and that is gaming you are talking about.
More so, if he releases game and it is disaster, then further cash infusions will stop. It doesn't even have to be an outright disaster, just fail to live up to it hype. Anything short of a perfect game and he is unlikely to be trusted again to "work in this town". So it isn't only financial motivation to keep everything in limbo, there is also career considerations.
We will never agree on this, and I see no point rehashing arguments. Everything there is to say was said many times.
At this point it is clear that SJWs were less than zero effective with GG, not only did they not reach any of the stated goals, Sarkesian episode and GG trained gamers to widely distrust SJWs in any context. GG was Pyrrhic victory for SJW and likely marks beginning of the end. I am proud of my role in it, however small and insignificant it was.
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You fail to recognize that these were methods of production and not actual innovations. How to make a violin is known, how to make Stadivarius is not. If you want a better musical instrument, you need patents. If you want a better violin, you don't. Hence my reference to 8086 chip.
West is still leading China in innovation. It is not given that Chinese could catch up to West on their own. China has more people, but they don't produce the same level of innovation on per capita, whatever the reasons are.
The way I see it, the only way China could compete with West on innovation if we give them all the tech and provide innovation roadmap.
You can't abolish patents, as that will stop a lot of innovation. That is, you will have competition on efficiencies, but no competition on features and technologies. In a world without patents our PCs would be running 8086 chips made on 4nm fabs sold at 1$ a dozen.
Look at this way, if Tech X takes 1Bil to develop and 0.5Bil to set up facilities to produce, Western firm has to recoup 1.5Bil and Chinese firm has to recoup 0.5Bil. Consequently, selling the same Tech X Chinese firms can undercut Western firms by a great deal. This is not because of cheaper labor, but because IP is essentially free to Chinese.
Nevertheless, in the long term (multigenerational term), it doesn't matter, they are going to figure it out for themselves one way or the other anyway.
This is nonsense. It does matter in the long term. In one scenario they are generations behind and keep paying West for innovation that is invented there, and in other scenario they stole all the tech and compete with West, only without having to pay amortization for the cost of innovation.
There is a historical precedence where wild west era was followed by consolidated power of robber barons. Comparable is happening in modern technological world - we have Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and so on filling all technological niches and monopolizing them. So until the next niche opens up, be it applied AI or something else, there is less to start up to.
Look, Mick Jagger is fine, so are other eels.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Shots were fired between Intel and AMD, but as usual it is Security that got gunned down in the process.
When are we going to get robust and secure CPUs?
As a consumer, I don't care for your "absolutely essential". I am not your beta tester. I am not your focus group.
When you install invasive tracker on my PC and your explanation is "trust me, we are not using all of its features"... fuck you, and fuck the horse you rode in on.
No-one should have have to support an OS that came out 17 years ago.
Yes, but no one should have a right to disable your working system because it is too old. They are not saying "we won't support your system with new features", they are saying "If you are gaming on an old system, we will make sure it doesn't work anymore".
I hope it takes more than just some scuba gear to get physical access to this data center.
With apple cash horde, just buy them out. They have cash to spare.
Why is modifying bootloader doesn't require root access on iOS?
Instead of thinking that patching every possible exploit is possible
This is silly. They don't need to patch every possible exploit, only ones that allow privilege escalation. Just like every OS out there is expected to do. How many privilege escalation and code execution flaws in, for example, current RHEL? I don't have to do CVE search to know that it is exactly zero, and if some are found they are fixed pronto.
More so, if a product, like GrayKey and Cellebrite is released, then it is imperative that Apple reverse-engineer it to fix bugs they exploit. Unless these are not bugs but entrenched bad design choices that cannot be fixed.
Problem is though, when you forget your password with this feature, there is no restore. Cool brick!
This is also silly design. It should be possible to wipe and reset it.
I admit, I don't know exactly how GrayKey and Cellebrite work. However, if viewed from proper access control and privileges point of view, it shouldn't be possible to siphon the kinds of data (e.g. contacts, calls) that it is reportedly capable of doing.
So, could someone explain to me why they went with a solution that still leaves 1 hour window of opportunity to compromise a phone instead of fixing, what I guess are overly permissive privileges within the file system?
I think technical term is poisoning the data. It is brutally effective, and not because it hides your own data, it also makes entire data set less valuable by contaminating it with fake data.
While I support spirit of your argument, I must point out one fatal flaw in it. People who buy new cars are not the same people who repair them out of warranty.
For example, BMW part prices started insane and went up from there over last decade or so. This had zero effect on new car sales. It does depress residual value at the end of the lease, but people don't seem to factor it into their purchasing decisions.
This is changing with soy now getting used in wiring harnesses. It is insulation with rodent food. It gets eaten anytime rodents get access to your sitting car.
I think all workers need better job protection. There is no reason to be ageist in your advocacy and pretend that letting go of a young person is any less disruptive to their life than old person.
Life expectancy for sickle cell patients is something like 20 years. Most are lucky to make it to what we consider middle age.
See: https://patient.info/health/si...
SJW won in a sense that they set mainstream acceptance of gaming community back decades, and that they successfully smeared GG supporters and gaming in general as sexist, vile, violent and so on.
To general population, it is less shocking to find out that someone into BSM then into online gaming. The only reason you can even speak about gaming is because people think you play Candy Crush or Farmville, and that is gaming you are talking about.
More so, if he releases game and it is disaster, then further cash infusions will stop. It doesn't even have to be an outright disaster, just fail to live up to it hype. Anything short of a perfect game and he is unlikely to be trusted again to "work in this town". So it isn't only financial motivation to keep everything in limbo, there is also career considerations.
We will never agree on this, and I see no point rehashing arguments. Everything there is to say was said many times.
At this point it is clear that SJWs were less than zero effective with GG, not only did they not reach any of the stated goals, Sarkesian episode and GG trained gamers to widely distrust SJWs in any context. GG was Pyrrhic victory for SJW and likely marks beginning of the end. I am proud of my role in it, however small and insignificant it was.
For us, it was hours worked. We let nearly every dev go that was working less than 60 hours a week.
You are stealing from your employees.