This sort of thing rarely happens when people are coding for free. Check for security advisories in web frameworks like Drupal, WordPress or Joomla; they're usually about things breaking under comically unlikely circumstances. These companies have the money to pay people for testing and QA; shouldn't they reach at least the quality level of FOSS?
However, users who don't know how it works will often stuff all those files into a an archive before creating a torrent (usually something stupid like.rar), which firstly is useless as the files are already in compressed formats, and secondly removes any control over file selection.
If 1000000 per year is the loss taken by a company due to attacks, and 100000 is required to pay off one criminal group for an unspecified time (let's be generous and assume they'll be satisfied for a year), then the company can buy protection from ten such groups for the same cost as not buying any.
There are too many for that to work. Even if the protection racket included a deal where the paid-off crackers actively went after other crackers who targeted the company, it still wouldn't guarantee them anything. It's not as though anyone can be taken to court for breach of contract over this.
And that's not even taking into account that the prices will rise as long as people are willing to pay. It's not economical - going along with extortion never is.
Kurzweil never predicted crowdsourcing. This didn't make it to Slashdot yet, but apparently the creator of reCaptcha is launching a service of human-aided mass translation. It might just turn out that language problems are easier to solve by throwing social networks at them rather than hardware. Even if we eventually get hardware that would be able to do it, it would then be used for other problems that computers are already better at than humans.
That is the search bar. A dedicated text field you have to put your cursor in depending on whether you want to visit a URL or search for keywords is a waste of screen space and of user time.
It's as though tanking the economy, giving all the government's money to corporations and letting public education go to shit somehow causes less people to afford college, and acts as a disincentive to study anything but business for those who do. Who'd have thought it.
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In addition, any new name Google will pick is bound to be much more self-explanatory and descriptive, like Google+.
Screw cars, I want this on my frickin' shark.
This sort of thing rarely happens when people are coding for free. Check for security advisories in web frameworks like Drupal, WordPress or Joomla; they're usually about things breaking under comically unlikely circumstances. These companies have the money to pay people for testing and QA; shouldn't they reach at least the quality level of FOSS?
Slashdot broke AC commenting for a few days, though it now works again. That might contribute.
It's easier to list the things that could not possibly go wrong.
However, users who don't know how it works will often stuff all those files into a an archive before creating a torrent (usually something stupid like .rar), which firstly is useless as the files are already in compressed formats, and secondly removes any control over file selection.
*BZZZ*
"And the question is: What do you call leprechauns with leprosy?"
Except it is not a punishment in that sense. It's bail. You have to post that even without conviction. It's not like they'll keep it.
He who lives in a glass house shouldn't throw rocks - or live on a world whose lack of atmosphere means micrometeorites are both deadly and common.
That is a great idea; sharks are notoriously scarce in the desert.
More than making them take their underpants off and get felt up by strangers would?
Also http://xkcd.com/904/
The last time they promised that, Vista.
Did the parliament hold a tequila party that got out of hand?
If 1000000 per year is the loss taken by a company due to attacks, and 100000 is required to pay off one criminal group for an unspecified time (let's be generous and assume they'll be satisfied for a year), then the company can buy protection from ten such groups for the same cost as not buying any.
There are too many for that to work. Even if the protection racket included a deal where the paid-off crackers actively went after other crackers who targeted the company, it still wouldn't guarantee them anything. It's not as though anyone can be taken to court for breach of contract over this.
And that's not even taking into account that the prices will rise as long as people are willing to pay. It's not economical - going along with extortion never is.
Kurzweil never predicted crowdsourcing. This didn't make it to Slashdot yet, but apparently the creator of reCaptcha is launching a service of human-aided mass translation.
It might just turn out that language problems are easier to solve by throwing social networks at them rather than hardware. Even if we eventually get hardware that would be able to do it, it would then be used for other problems that computers are already better at than humans.
Like sharks? Yeah, that'd be pretty cool...
"Nice reputation you got there.
Be a shame if something were to happen to it..."
Subverting xkcd:
- "It's neat how you contain a little factory for making more of you.
- "And one day, it will be yours."
First you come out of it, then they put it into you, so someone else can come out of it.
So they're working on robot swarms that will totally not try to wipe out humanity?
Even as a pun, that's a Suspiciously Specific Denial.
Yeah, but they get a cut from the oil.
When robots pass a Turing test, they will get free speech. Not before.
That is the search bar. A dedicated text field you have to put your cursor in depending on whether you want to visit a URL or search for keywords is a waste of screen space and of user time.
It's as though tanking the economy, giving all the government's money to corporations and letting public education go to shit somehow causes less people to afford college, and acts as a disincentive to study anything but business for those who do. Who'd have thought it.