I still use optical media to ensure clean install of various OS, because unlike USB, it is much harder to sneak one past checksum when you burn install DVD directly from ISO.
Centralized systems will always be ripe for abuse, it isn't question of IF, but WHEN your data will be harvested and profiled.
The only feasible solution to combat this is distributed peer to peer implementations. Maybe good people at TOR project could take a short break from trying to save the world and build a privacy-conscious chat app for the masses?
I think it will well past that point, as they must have tortured techies until some weak-spirited individual broke down and agreed to integrate pocket and such. Considering how bad Mozilla got, at the very least they waterboarded, sleep deprived, and used electric shock on developers. I don't think anyone else would have agreed to it otherwise.
I wholeheartedly disagree with the above. While I don't utilize, for example, what I learned about thermodynamics, I do frequently utilize my ability to quickly comprehend and summarize obscure concepts. Substantial part of my job is to translate thermodynamics-like concepts into task lists that could be understood and executed by coders.
I can only see what you wrote, if your mastery of written language and logic prevents you from effectively communicating your ideas, perhaps you should work on improving it?
The recruiters are rewarded for finding minority candidates, but they only feed them to hiring managers.
Already walking back your comments? Even if I disregard your long history of degenerate tendencies, there is no mistake that unstated premise of your statment is that more should be done than finding minority candidates and forwarding them to hiring managers.
The hiring managers have no incentive to do anything other than pick the candidate they think is best.
Why shouldn't they hire the best candidate? Do you think they should be forced/incentivized to hire sub-optimal candidates to fill the diversity quotas? If yes, who is going to pay for resulting loss of productivity?
I never stated this this system is anything but shit. We created imaginary entities that are designed to enable psychopathic behavior by groups of people. Kind of like piracy on the high seas, minus the risk of getting hanged.
But it is how system works. Money is the only metric, by design, and if you offer them enough money they will dress like rabbits.
They view every interaction as a way to milk out profit in the short term, regardless of how much of the burden and dissatisfaction it shifts onto the consumer.
This is their fiduciary duty to shareholders. This is how corporate capitalism works, by design.
And yes, of law enforcement is sufficiently determined and they can probably track down most people who engage in a persistent pattern of threats.
Law enforcement is yet to address much more serious and directly related to them problem of swatting, why do you think they could make any difference here?
What is more likely is they are looking for another tool to legally repress dissenters and non-conformists.
>>>A staggering 94% of Republicans, 92% of Democrats, and 85% of independents on Facebook say they have never been swayed by a political post
I think it is appropriate to state that majority of people are never swayed by an argument coming from out-group. That is, trying to reason with people that made up their mind is highly ineffective in all circumstances.
Living in proverbial woods won't work, the solution must be technological or legislative. Technological in form of encryption and p2p adoption so there aren't high-value, high-impact targets to breach. Legislative in form of making 'just because' data collection and breaching illegal, so it won't be blatantly used in the open.
For Facebook, the client is in the hands of the enemy so there is absolutely nothing they could do to enforce specific outcome, in this case displaying ads. All they could do is thrash, gnash their teeth, and ramp-up their server-side computation while degrading performance.
Where have you guys been living? Outsourcing has been going on for decades. Yet the world keeps turning and things are pretty good in the US compared to the fucking Phillipines.
I think you are living an isolated life, because since at least mid 80s inflation-adjusted wages have been stagnant and job participation rates have been declining. This means that fewer people in US have jobs, and ones that do are being paid less (because of how inflation is calculated, having a smartphone over landline is somehow considered a wealth gain, despite it being progress-adjusted the same thing).
I am not even talking here about how millennials getting screwed with student loans and so on. Just US economy on the whole.
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Hopefully you are not using a USB drive you found in a parking lot or was given away at a conference.
I still use optical media to ensure clean install of various OS, because unlike USB, it is much harder to sneak one past checksum when you burn install DVD directly from ISO.
+1 Mod this up please.
Centralized systems will always be ripe for abuse, it isn't question of IF, but WHEN your data will be harvested and profiled.
The only feasible solution to combat this is distributed peer to peer implementations. Maybe good people at TOR project could take a short break from trying to save the world and build a privacy-conscious chat app for the masses?
Have you considered the possibility that racism, bigotry, and sexism are not really "dissent"?
Humanity is absolutely lousy at knowing the difference, often intentionally. If you start censoring one, you will end up censoring the other.
I think it will well past that point, as they must have tortured techies until some weak-spirited individual broke down and agreed to integrate pocket and such. Considering how bad Mozilla got, at the very least they waterboarded, sleep deprived, and used electric shock on developers. I don't think anyone else would have agreed to it otherwise.
I miss 3.6 and Mozilla that wasn't overrun with this crap.
I wholeheartedly disagree with the above. While I don't utilize, for example, what I learned about thermodynamics, I do frequently utilize my ability to quickly comprehend and summarize obscure concepts. Substantial part of my job is to translate thermodynamics-like concepts into task lists that could be understood and executed by coders.
You need a higher than average IQ to make it in tech.
At least for some definition of 'make it'. There are plenty of Wallys out there.
I can only see what you wrote, if your mastery of written language and logic prevents you from effectively communicating your ideas, perhaps you should work on improving it?
The same here. While Origin was annoying, having to start BF from browser is what did it for me. What the bleeping bleep in the bleeps? Why?
The recruiters are rewarded for finding minority candidates, but they only feed them to hiring managers.
Already walking back your comments? Even if I disregard your long history of degenerate tendencies, there is no mistake that unstated premise of your statment is that more should be done than finding minority candidates and forwarding them to hiring managers.
The hiring managers have no incentive to do anything other than pick the candidate they think is best.
Why shouldn't they hire the best candidate? Do you think they should be forced/incentivized to hire sub-optimal candidates to fill the diversity quotas? If yes, who is going to pay for resulting loss of productivity?
I never stated this this system is anything but shit. We created imaginary entities that are designed to enable psychopathic behavior by groups of people. Kind of like piracy on the high seas, minus the risk of getting hanged.
But it is how system works. Money is the only metric, by design, and if you offer them enough money they will dress like rabbits.
They view every interaction as a way to milk out profit in the short term, regardless of how much of the burden and dissatisfaction it shifts onto the consumer.
This is their fiduciary duty to shareholders. This is how corporate capitalism works, by design.
Oblig: http://xkcd.com/1717/
Then where is the appropriate forum?
I empirical evidence suggest that it is on /. as AC replies to random unrelated topics.
.. has proven pretty conclusively that nothing anyone says has ever changed anyone's mind about anything ever.
I was going to reply to your post with a detailed rebuttal, but you changed my mind.
And yes, of law enforcement is sufficiently determined and they can probably track down most people who engage in a persistent pattern of threats.
Law enforcement is yet to address much more serious and directly related to them problem of swatting, why do you think they could make any difference here?
What is more likely is they are looking for another tool to legally repress dissenters and non-conformists.
>>>A staggering 94% of Republicans, 92% of Democrats, and 85% of independents on Facebook say they have never been swayed by a political post
I think it is appropriate to state that majority of people are never swayed by an argument coming from out-group. That is, trying to reason with people that made up their mind is highly ineffective in all circumstances.
Free speech is NOT a problem, and your right to not get offended is imaginary.
Living in proverbial woods won't work, the solution must be technological or legislative. Technological in form of encryption and p2p adoption so there aren't high-value, high-impact targets to breach. Legislative in form of making 'just because' data collection and breaching illegal, so it won't be blatantly used in the open.
True AI emerging from spam filters vs. spam bots war is a well-known SF trope.
For Facebook, the client is in the hands of the enemy so there is absolutely nothing they could do to enforce specific outcome, in this case displaying ads. All they could do is thrash, gnash their teeth, and ramp-up their server-side computation while degrading performance.
Where have you guys been living? Outsourcing has been going on for decades. Yet the world keeps turning and things are pretty good in the US compared to the fucking Phillipines.
I think you are living an isolated life, because since at least mid 80s inflation-adjusted wages have been stagnant and job participation rates have been declining. This means that fewer people in US have jobs, and ones that do are being paid less (because of how inflation is calculated, having a smartphone over landline is somehow considered a wealth gain, despite it being progress-adjusted the same thing).
I am not even talking here about how millennials getting screwed with student loans and so on. Just US economy on the whole.