when the US and the rest of the world loses collective interest in the middle east?
It's not just the middle east but they are going to be the ones hit the hardest. The answer is that there will be a shift in power and it will ultimately have a positive and stabilizing effect. However, the resettlement of power can sometimes turn very ugly with events like civil wars and genocides. The faster the world abandon's their oil supply, the shorter and more tumultuous the transition period will be. Their economies are going to stagnate if they haven't invested in an educated populous.
TL;DR: a lot of people are probably going to die but the region will end up being more like Europe.
That's because the criminal system only seeks to separate the criminal from the rest of society.
Even crimes are classified differently based on the amount of money taken. IANAL but as far as I know, everything over $10K is viewed as the same level of crime. I find that to be an oddity. Wouldn't it make more sense to view the severity of the crime as being proportional to the amount of money taken?
Just because someone is going to make some shitty systems that might as well be bombs doesn't mean we should start investing tens of billions into creating the smartest most lethal autonomous system because we think we can control it. The Chinese government already compromised and stole everything they need to build their own F35s, do you really want to tempt them with a killing machine with unwavering loyalty and a complete absence of conscious? We already know how they roll, they will sell weapons to anyone that will pay. Do you really want to add automated killing machines to that list?
What I find so very interesting is that the judicial system doesn't seem to equate the overall amount of economic damage as being the same as if done to a single individual. Basically, you give everyone on the planet a paper cut and get a slap on the wrist but if you give one person 7 million paper cuts then it's somehow worse despite being far less damaging by three orders of magnitude.
Come on, Flits is on the case. Despite not having opposable thumbs, I've heard he's an excellent typist and fantastic sysadmin. Let's all just hope his human slave feeds him on time and his litter box well tended.;)
I won't just stand here and proclaim that javascript is the largest collective waste of human effort in history since it's gone from novelty to serious security threat, I use a chair like a normal person. Anyway, javascript was neat but now it's a threat and it needs to be stopped. The good news is that CSS3 is very advanced and with a few tweaks to HTML we could provide all the modern functionality for webpages without a single script tag. It's too bad it won't happen because large companies have a vested interest in being able to track you endlessly.
You would balk if you saw how many of the "top companies in America" don't give 2 shits about security, outside of whatever the latest CNN scare story is. I personally find it amazing how some of these corporations will spend tens of thousands of dollars on fancy security equipment.... that they never bother to actually configure.
You can show your C-levels the lock and hand them the key, but you can't make them set the latch.
Absolutely! Except there is going to come a point in time where a concerted effort by a small nation-state sponsored groups will be able to completely destroy corporate giants overnight. When they see empires around them begin to fall they will either start caring or become a casualty of cyberwarfare.
With the exception of a handful of cars driving about, this is an unproven technology. So when one here about Telsa "autopilot" plowing into the side of a truck without even slowing down, it gives one pause. I agree that they aren't the same technology but this isn't about tech savvy people. Consumer technology has become "fuck the customers, they're our beta testers" so more than a few people are concerned about the possibility of cars suddenly veering and shoving them off the road or driving off a bridge.
Apple Maps is a good example of to minor errors causing major malfunctions.
Use AMD chips because they actually are immune to Meltdown and have already mitigated Spectre at the Microcode and OS level with a negligible impact on performance. Intel has yet to get their shit together and it's performance impact is growing with every new patch.
This is an update to microcode which fundamentally modifies the behavior of the instructions within a processor. You could argue that it's just a specific type of firmware but if that's the case then call it by title it's been given! It's not like this is a website for non-technical people.
The only way we are going to see any change in the industry is if it starts costing them money because simply continually cleaning up the messes of careless companies isn't going to change their attitude toward security. The reality is that you are actually enabling them to continue on with their poor security practices.
Like most open applications, Libre Office was ported to Windows. Whatsapp is closed and owned by Facebook.
Oh, so avoiding corporations that constantly disrespect you is "snowflakeism"? Wow, that's deeply cynical. Humanity can do better and already has done better and it's not Windows 10.
If you've stuck with Windows despite all the horrible shit that Microsoft has been doing to you, you've earned this. Seriously, you have put in a concerted effort bear all the spying, absurd UI changes and just all around malicious behavior, so this is your reward.
We go out of our way to invent the most powerful technologies and what happens in return? Some subhuman rejects abuse it in some of the worst ways. This is why humanity can't have nice things.
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when the US and the rest of the world loses collective interest in the middle east?
It's not just the middle east but they are going to be the ones hit the hardest. The answer is that there will be a shift in power and it will ultimately have a positive and stabilizing effect. However, the resettlement of power can sometimes turn very ugly with events like civil wars and genocides. The faster the world abandon's their oil supply, the shorter and more tumultuous the transition period will be. Their economies are going to stagnate if they haven't invested in an educated populous.
TL;DR: a lot of people are probably going to die but the region will end up being more like Europe.
That's because the criminal system only seeks to separate the criminal from the rest of society.
Even crimes are classified differently based on the amount of money taken. IANAL but as far as I know, everything over $10K is viewed as the same level of crime. I find that to be an oddity. Wouldn't it make more sense to view the severity of the crime as being proportional to the amount of money taken?
There are definitely disparities in the law.
Just because someone is going to make some shitty systems that might as well be bombs doesn't mean we should start investing tens of billions into creating the smartest most lethal autonomous system because we think we can control it. The Chinese government already compromised and stole everything they need to build their own F35s, do you really want to tempt them with a killing machine with unwavering loyalty and a complete absence of conscious? We already know how they roll, they will sell weapons to anyone that will pay. Do you really want to add automated killing machines to that list?
I'm pretty sure I was hearing the term in the late 1980's...
They specifically mention "it's been almost 20 years since the launch of the Open Source Initiative". If you didn't know...
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting open-source software. -- wikipedia
But we have this tendency to spread that cost over everyone ... and we sweep it under the rug.
That is the part that is so interesting.
Then it's time to upgrade to AMD.
What?
Is this for real?
I'm still not entirely convinced that Japan is real. ;)
What I find so very interesting is that the judicial system doesn't seem to equate the overall amount of economic damage as being the same as if done to a single individual. Basically, you give everyone on the planet a paper cut and get a slap on the wrist but if you give one person 7 million paper cuts then it's somehow worse despite being far less damaging by three orders of magnitude.
"Build quality terrible! Would not bomb again!" ;)
Come on, Flits is on the case. Despite not having opposable thumbs, I've heard he's an excellent typist and fantastic sysadmin. Let's all just hope his human slave feeds him on time and his litter box well tended. ;)
and yet you shitpost from CNN,
which part of "An anonymous reader quotes the Washington Post:" makes you think this is from CNN? was it the "(washingtonpost.com)" link?
why is this news for nerds?
i feel like you have discounted the slogan: "Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters"
People file to run for public office all the time.
People that have been charged with literal treason for doing what they felt was right. This is a high profile individual.
Fuck you Chinese Slashdot
Fuck you, Slashdot doesn't even have basic UTF8 support much less any support of any Chinese character sets!
I won't just stand here and proclaim that javascript is the largest collective waste of human effort in history since it's gone from novelty to serious security threat, I use a chair like a normal person. Anyway, javascript was neat but now it's a threat and it needs to be stopped. The good news is that CSS3 is very advanced and with a few tweaks to HTML we could provide all the modern functionality for webpages without a single script tag. It's too bad it won't happen because large companies have a vested interest in being able to track you endlessly.
You would balk if you saw how many of the "top companies in America" don't give 2 shits about security, outside of whatever the latest CNN scare story is. I personally find it amazing how some of these corporations will spend tens of thousands of dollars on fancy security equipment.... that they never bother to actually configure.
You can show your C-levels the lock and hand them the key, but you can't make them set the latch.
Absolutely! Except there is going to come a point in time where a concerted effort by a small nation-state sponsored groups will be able to completely destroy corporate giants overnight. When they see empires around them begin to fall they will either start caring or become a casualty of cyberwarfare.
With the exception of a handful of cars driving about, this is an unproven technology. So when one here about Telsa "autopilot" plowing into the side of a truck without even slowing down, it gives one pause. I agree that they aren't the same technology but this isn't about tech savvy people. Consumer technology has become "fuck the customers, they're our beta testers" so more than a few people are concerned about the possibility of cars suddenly veering and shoving them off the road or driving off a bridge.
Apple Maps is a good example of to minor errors causing major malfunctions.
Stupid questions get "stupid" answers.
If this were about money then you wouldn't have bought Intel shit to start with. -_-
This is obviously about superior performance.
Define "better".
A superior outcome.
If microcode is not "firmware" what is it?
microcode.
Use AMD chips because they actually are immune to Meltdown and have already mitigated Spectre at the Microcode and OS level with a negligible impact on performance. Intel has yet to get their shit together and it's performance impact is growing with every new patch.
I just got this update and this cool browser extension that makes fart sounds when you click on links stopped working with the message:
TotallyNotAMeltdownExploit() has failed. Consider rebooting.
They really gotta test this stuff before the push it out. ;)
This is an update to microcode which fundamentally modifies the behavior of the instructions within a processor. You could argue that it's just a specific type of firmware but if that's the case then call it by title it's been given! It's not like this is a website for non-technical people.
The only way we are going to see any change in the industry is if it starts costing them money because simply continually cleaning up the messes of careless companies isn't going to change their attitude toward security. The reality is that you are actually enabling them to continue on with their poor security practices.
Like most open applications, Libre Office was ported to Windows. Whatsapp is closed and owned by Facebook.
Oh, so avoiding corporations that constantly disrespect you is "snowflakeism"? Wow, that's deeply cynical. Humanity can do better and already has done better and it's not Windows 10.
If you've stuck with Windows despite all the horrible shit that Microsoft has been doing to you, you've earned this. Seriously, you have put in a concerted effort bear all the spying, absurd UI changes and just all around malicious behavior, so this is your reward.
We go out of our way to invent the most powerful technologies and what happens in return? Some subhuman rejects abuse it in some of the worst ways. This is why humanity can't have nice things.