Take care of your own house first before you complain about the actions of your neighbors.
Why does each task need to be executed sequentially rather than concurrently? Is there a hidden dependency forbidding concurrent execution?
The USA has plenty to feel guilty about. Stories like this tend to emphasize injustices elsewhere in the world, and IGNORE that these same injustices may be happening at home, but are under-reported.
Dubai's reaction generated more bad press for themselves and significantly enhanced viewership of a YouTube video nobody should waste their time watching...
People are so paranoia about glasses with a camera.
However, if i walk out my street, i already passed a 15+ camera's, since each building block has 3 camera's around the entrance (not counting the camera in the elevator).
If i continue walking trough the shopping center, i'm observed by a few dozen more 'security' camera's.
Almost any phone has a camera, and i can't tell if it's on or off.
So in a 1-hour walk, i'm likely to get recorded on a 100 or more camera's. And that's only a very small city i live in!
Conclusion: camera's are everywhere already. People afraid of Google's glass are barking against the wrong tree. Where were they 10-15 years ago when everyone was installing those camera's?
You have missed the point entirely. Being noticed in public is not the same as being stalked by the all seeing Eye of Sauron. (e.g. G00g1e, Faceb00c)
Years ago there would have been nothing but comments full of ideas for amazing things you accomplish using a device like this.
Doubt it.
Now it seems like the site is populated almost entirely by pubescent teenagers acting macho and boasting how they'd beat someone up and break their glasses.
I think most people are just stating the obvious. One need only look to the rise of cell phone theft in the US. Unlike cell phones Google glass is something you wear, immediately visible and screams "I have money". The cameras in your face position can be an offensive invasion of ones right not to be stalked and catalogued wherever they go.. saying "you will get beat up" is not the same as "I will beat you up"... there are just things one does not do in public if they want to minimize their chance of being victim of a crime.
I would not want anyone to get hurt for wearing Google glass but its such a fucking stupid thing to do.
Secondly I am disgusted by the continued misappropriation of technology for purposes other than providing value to the user. This disgust far outweighs any conceivable incremental benefit of google glass.
"I don't have to listen to your phone calls to know what your doing."
"If I know every single phone call you made I am able to determine every single person you talked to I can get a pattern about your life that is very very intrusive"
the reason Microsoft will never opensource XP is that the kernel code contains trade secrets. What those trade secrets are exactly, we'll never know - because they're secret. On top of which, because the platform is used by the DoD in live fire environments, custom code tied into the kernel is doubly protected as a National Security matter, which rolls back into the kernel itself.
Lots of countries contractually have access to Windows source code. It has also been leaked on a number of occasions throughout the years. Assume anyone who wants it has it because this is much closer to the truth.
You just proved my point. Most people won't want to set up a "non-bridged LAN between VMs" (then try to get that bridged LAN talking to their real LAN), they want their VM to connect to their actual LAN. If I'm a small office running an old-school Workgroup, a HomeGroup,
I'm still trying to process the part where the clueless dentist office runs virtual machines as SOP. Is that actually happening?
All this talk about bridging and default network settings for virtual machines seems like the joke to me. You go on about how simple network options are so hard to change by default while totally oblivious to the complexity of the clueless running systems within systems.
"A couple of days ago I tried to install Linux on a 7 year old office machine which runs office apps just perfectly under XP, and my first experience on reboot was a login screen where you had to wait about half a second for each character to appear. Not good." Note that the install program was Linux and it worked just fine - you installed the thing didn't you? So your problem is likely that you installed a desktop system that requires a modern graphical card. If you would choose LXDE or XFCE then it will be OK.
This is a perfect snapshot of a longstanding problem with disconnect between coders/advocates and users. It simply does not matter how well reasoned your response was it might as well have been written in Klingon.
No more support. XP needs to die and everyone needs to get over XP. People replace everything else so much faster that they are willing to change from XP to ANYTHING else.12 or 13 years for the O/S is far too long.
Why? Looking back lack of meaningful progress over these 12 or 13 years has been shamefully depressing. Why should anyone care about your declarations? What is the value prop to the average user in upgrading? Security? ha ha h h a h aha
You wanna take a swipe at Microsoft for useless change? Go ahead and bash them for forcing Metro onto the desktop. Or, choose any of a number of other utterly pointless and detrimental changes that they have made over the versions.
Well now that you mention it they even managed to fuck up calculator. The "programmer" mode (formerly "scientific") is what I always used as occasionally have to convert hex. Now in Windows 7 when I divide 3/4 in programmer mode the answer is 0. No decimals.. perfect storm really screwed me up first time I used new version was looking for factors to check layout alignment and had no clue until days later answers I was getting out of it were "horseshit".
Microsoft isn't putting customers at risk by not patching what will then be a 13-year old operating system.
Countless millions of customers will be put at risk. Pretending otherwise with word games or philosophical theories have no effect on reality of what will actually occur.
They had a full life cycle plan in place and customers have had many years advance notice to plan their transition.
Oh really? What was the announced plan for XP *prior* to release of XP?
Here is the deal as I see it yes I'm worried all of this money will erode the point of cynaogenmod (e.g. selling-out) yet when you look at it most of the value of cyanogen is bottled up in their amazing build platform which is open source and actively used by other competing mods. If cyanogen gets too far off the rails or is perceived as such it will be forked and that will be that.
This isn't about DNA or road safety it is a test to see how much shit people will take from their government and what additional compliance can be purchased with money.
Recently had to install a new thermostat to run additional gizmos.
Checked around in local stores and online. Rejected Nest out of hand and anything else with a full color display and or wireless radios and settled on a Honeywell model with equivalent feature functionality.
Years ago I realized I am not a gadget whore.. I simply don't give a shit about technology unless it helps me in some tangible way to get something done.
Full color displays, Internet connections wireless radios don't help me they work against me. Additional complexity that can malfunction, break, get hacked or spy on me. Why in the hell would I want that? Because its "new" and looks "cool'? I know how much energy my crappy old furnace uses and I know exactly when it is "on".. it is impossible to miss.
If I want to save energy I'll freeze or invest in a furnace/heat pump. All I need is the ability to set an away schedule.
Of course they won't just accept a Bluetooth or local browser interface they all want to call home and have you register the damn things with a mothership.. after all of the epic security failures over the last few years effecting millions per failure this is exactly the kind of thing I want to do.
Finally I want a thermostat that works.. Nest is a great example of what happens when the primary goal of a device is "looking cool" while miserably failing to reliably perform its primary duty.
I can just imagine the military "Fuck the perimeter, if the enemy gets inside the base it's going to be all knives and hand to hand combat anyway. Sell the guns boys, we're all getting HUGE KNIVES!"
RL military analogies often map poorly to network security space yet it rarely prevents people from making them anyway.
In addition, the cost of protecting and cleaning up Windows computers is non-trivial and the cost of a data breach can be enormous.
Currently the most effective and most used method of attack is social engineering. How are MACs less vulnerable and cheaper to fix? Please be specific.
This is not just a VPN, it is a VPN from a known, verified secure computer.
I've seen this technology before by various names yet the core principal by which it operates is fundamentally insane. Where the rubber meets the road you are essentially asking a potential liar if they are being truthful and acting on their response alone... "what a joke" indeed.
The objective function is value. If your solution adds enough value even disruptive change can be tolerated and accepted.
What is unacceptable is what almost always happens... a creative solution which while technically better than an existing solution in some aspect is in some way unmanageable, unprofitable or simply not worth anyone's trouble to change given the bigger picture.
I see this kind of thing all the time with people inventing things they think is all great to them but everyone else sees as impractical. Or fools whispering their brilliant ideas to you so others don't hear and steal it from them which while "creative" are half-baked reflecting their ignorance of technology and or that which is necessary to be successful.
If you can use your creative energies to create a battery with 10x density, 10x safety, 10x charge rate, 10x reliability at 10x lower cost of production vs current state of the art you are likely be taken seriously yet if you repeat the same with 40x cost of production your much more likely to be ignored regardless of how great and transformative your ideas are.
Sure there are barriers to showing of value to the excessively cautious or irrationally change adverse yet these are temporary conditions bypassed with creative diplomacy and ultimately market pressure over time.
More often than not I tend to get creeped out when companies become so big they start to see value in tweaking the rest of the world to give themselves advantage on anything from lobbying/regulatory capture, having their way with standards organizations and invading or buying out entire verticals just to control and or add barriers to meaningful competition.
In the case of Amazon I would much prefer to see the FEDEXs of the world working on flying robots and self driving delivery vehicles. If there is a need for that by all means use your weight to communicate your needs or collaborate with your vendors.
Look what happened after Ebay bought out PayPal for another example of what happens when you get too big.
As for Ebay and delivery why would they care? Does ebay even have a single warehouse delivering anything to anyone? As far as I know it is the ebay users and their resellers that manage all of this. All ebay needs to do is add a few ultra fast shipping speed categories to their backend systems. They don't need to actually implement them.
Knowingly trying to bring down web sites is a crime.
How many web sites have been slashdotted?
Most of the time it is not hard to guess that outcome in advance based on trivial knowledge of where site is hosted, web stack and content on site but TFAs are posted anyway and mostly predictable and obvious happens. How many times have you glanced at TFA and thought to yourself oh dear that site is screwed? Even after articles are tagged slashdotted they have never been removed and continue to remain up while site remains down. How much more knowingly is required before your condition is met and a crime committed?
Should we also not arrest people if they only throw one brick through a store window but do not take anything? Should we also not arrest people who kick someone only once when lying on the ground?
DDOS attacks are about as lame as anyone using LOIC. I don't think many would argue conducting an intentional denial of service attack to be lawful means of protest. Having said that to pretend sucker punching someone should yield the same liability as putting them in ICU or traveling at 10 over posted speed limit is the same as traveling 100 over. It is disingenuous to ignore the specifics as irrelevant. I don't understand why you would not expect to incur additional charges by walking by a strip mall and throwing a brick into each building vs. only one building. This makes no sense. There has to be some meaningful proportionality.
Also, consider the fact that the minute is only the point they could prove what he did, if he was willing to aid in DDOS attacks who knows how many other people he helped attack in the past?
Or maybe he ran LOIC out of curiosity and stopped after becoming fully cognizant of what it was doing? We are all entitled to our assumptions.
I'm the first to admit that anything quantum blows a wormhole through my head. I struggle to find anything that will allow me to grasp it. I'm a programmer, dammit.
Perhaps a close mental computer analogue is the transaction.
s/entanglement/transaction/ s/collapse/commit/
Software is not allowed to peer into a transaction and act on details while open or consistency could not be guaranteed. Only outcomes are exposed to the system when transaction is committed. Various interactions force existing transactions to commit and resulting outcome to be known.
So. When you observe the particle its window comes to the top
In scalable systems "reading" or "observing" is often a liability to be carefully minimized. Anything read out stands a good chance of becoming stale and outdated the second it leaves the computer. In the real world "observing" is almost certainly an illusion.
What we see as "read" operations are emergent properties of layers of interaction. Our eyes only see by absorbing photons and similar disruptive explanations likely exist for all methods of "observation".
Chimps are chimps not people. To declare otherwise is to declare 2 lights + 2 lights = 5 lights.
Besides abusing legal system to get your way short-circuiting normal legislative/consensus building paths to get the change you seek is poisonous to the democratic process. It does not matter what the issue is or how you feel about it.
Slashdot Mirror
Take care of your own house first before you complain about the actions of your neighbors.
Why does each task need to be executed sequentially rather than concurrently? Is there a hidden dependency forbidding concurrent execution?
The USA has plenty to feel guilty about. Stories like this tend to emphasize injustices elsewhere in the world, and IGNORE that these same injustices may be happening at home, but are under-reported.
Smells like "Buuut Mommmmy ... Jonny did it toooo"
Dubai's reaction generated more bad press for themselves and significantly enhanced viewership of a YouTube video nobody should waste their time watching...
Keep up the good work Dubai.
People are so paranoia about glasses with a camera.
However, if i walk out my street, i already passed a 15+ camera's, since each building block has 3 camera's around the entrance (not counting the camera in the elevator).
If i continue walking trough the shopping center, i'm observed by a few dozen more 'security' camera's.
Almost any phone has a camera, and i can't tell if it's on or off.
So in a 1-hour walk, i'm likely to get recorded on a 100 or more camera's. And that's only a very small city i live in!
Conclusion: camera's are everywhere already. People afraid of Google's glass are barking against the wrong tree. Where were they 10-15 years ago when everyone was installing those camera's?
You have missed the point entirely. Being noticed in public is not the same as being stalked by the all seeing Eye of Sauron. (e.g. G00g1e, Faceb00c)
Years ago there would have been nothing but comments full of ideas for amazing things you accomplish using a device like this.
Doubt it.
Now it seems like the site is populated almost entirely by pubescent teenagers acting macho and boasting how they'd beat someone up and break their glasses.
I think most people are just stating the obvious. One need only look to the rise of cell phone theft in the US. Unlike cell phones Google glass is something you wear, immediately visible and screams "I have money". The cameras in your face position can be an offensive invasion of ones right not to be stalked and catalogued wherever they go.. saying "you will get beat up" is not the same as "I will beat you up" ... there are just things one does not do in public if they want to minimize their chance of being victim of a crime.
I would not want anyone to get hurt for wearing Google glass but its such a fucking stupid thing to do.
Secondly I am disgusted by the continued misappropriation of technology for purposes other than providing value to the user. This disgust far outweighs any conceivable incremental benefit of google glass.
Google glass wearers are going to need make-up to cover up that black eye and bloody nose.
I am dropping RSA as my SSO secuity system and prepping for another now.
I would have hoped ya'll would have got that hint in 2011 after a breach at RSA compromised their customers FOBs... better late than never.
"I don't have to listen to your phone calls to know what your doing."
"If I know every single phone call you made I am able to determine every single person you talked to I can get a pattern about your life that is very very intrusive"
the reason Microsoft will never opensource XP is that the kernel code contains trade secrets. What those trade secrets are exactly, we'll never know - because they're secret. On top of which, because the platform is used by the DoD in live fire environments, custom code tied into the kernel is doubly protected as a National Security matter, which rolls back into the kernel itself.
Lots of countries contractually have access to Windows source code. It has also been leaked on a number of occasions throughout the years. Assume anyone who wants it has it because this is much closer to the truth.
You just proved my point. Most people won't want to set up a "non-bridged LAN between VMs" (then try to get that bridged LAN talking to their real LAN), they want their VM to connect to their actual LAN. If I'm a small office running an old-school Workgroup, a HomeGroup,
I'm still trying to process the part where the clueless dentist office runs virtual machines as SOP. Is that actually happening?
All this talk about bridging and default network settings for virtual machines seems like the joke to me. You go on about how simple network options are so hard to change by default while totally oblivious to the complexity of the clueless running systems within systems.
"A couple of days ago I tried to install Linux on a 7 year old office machine which runs office apps just perfectly under XP, and my first experience on reboot was a login screen where you had to wait about half a second for each character to appear. Not good."
Note that the install program was Linux and it worked just fine - you installed the thing didn't you? So your problem is likely that you installed a desktop system that requires a modern graphical card. If you would choose LXDE or XFCE then it will be OK.
This is a perfect snapshot of a longstanding problem with disconnect between coders/advocates and users. It simply does not matter how well reasoned your response was it might as well have been written in Klingon.
No more support. XP needs to die and everyone needs to get over XP. People replace everything else so much faster that they are willing to change from XP to ANYTHING else.12 or 13 years for the O/S is far too long.
Why? Looking back lack of meaningful progress over these 12 or 13 years has been shamefully depressing. Why should anyone care about your declarations? What is the value prop to the average user in upgrading? Security? ha ha h h a h aha
You wanna take a swipe at Microsoft for useless change? Go ahead and bash them for forcing Metro onto the desktop. Or, choose any of a number of other utterly pointless and detrimental changes that they have made over the versions.
Well now that you mention it they even managed to fuck up calculator. The "programmer" mode (formerly "scientific") is what I always used as occasionally have to convert hex. Now in Windows 7 when I divide 3/4 in programmer mode the answer is 0. No decimals.. perfect storm really screwed me up first time I used new version was looking for factors to check layout alignment and had no clue until days later answers I was getting out of it were "horseshit".
Microsoft isn't putting customers at risk by not patching what will then be a 13-year old operating system.
Countless millions of customers will be put at risk. Pretending otherwise with word games or philosophical theories have no effect on reality of what will actually occur.
They had a full life cycle plan in place and customers have had many years advance notice to plan their transition.
Oh really? What was the announced plan for XP *prior* to release of XP?
Here is the deal as I see it yes I'm worried all of this money will erode the point of cynaogenmod (e.g. selling-out) yet when you look at it most of the value of cyanogen is bottled up in their amazing build platform which is open source and actively used by other competing mods. If cyanogen gets too far off the rails or is perceived as such it will be forked and that will be that.
This isn't about DNA or road safety it is a test to see how much shit people will take from their government and what additional compliance can be purchased with money.
Recently had to install a new thermostat to run additional gizmos.
Checked around in local stores and online. Rejected Nest out of hand and anything else with a full color display and or wireless radios and settled on a Honeywell model with equivalent feature functionality.
Years ago I realized I am not a gadget whore.. I simply don't give a shit about technology unless it helps me in some tangible way to get something done.
Full color displays, Internet connections wireless radios don't help me they work against me. Additional complexity that can malfunction, break, get hacked or spy on me. Why in the hell would I want that? .. it is impossible to miss.
Because its "new" and looks "cool'? I know how much energy my crappy old furnace uses and I know exactly when it is "on"
If I want to save energy I'll freeze or invest in a furnace/heat pump. All I need is the ability to set an away schedule.
Of course they won't just accept a Bluetooth or local browser interface they all want to call home and have you register the damn things with a mothership.. after all of the epic security failures over the last few years effecting millions per failure this is exactly the kind of thing I want to do.
Finally I want a thermostat that works.. Nest is a great example of what happens when the primary goal of a device is "looking cool" while miserably failing to reliably perform its primary duty.
"The North Koreans possess no such technology"
I can just imagine the military "Fuck the perimeter, if the enemy gets inside the base it's going to be all knives and hand to hand combat anyway. Sell the guns boys, we're all getting HUGE KNIVES!"
RL military analogies often map poorly to network security space yet it rarely prevents people from making them anyway.
Because Google is an engineering company.
Google is an advertising company.
In addition, the cost of protecting and cleaning up Windows computers is non-trivial and the cost of a data breach can be enormous.
Currently the most effective and most used method of attack is social engineering. How are MACs less vulnerable and cheaper to fix? Please be specific.
This is not just a VPN, it is a VPN from a known, verified secure computer.
I've seen this technology before by various names yet the core principal by which it operates is fundamentally insane. Where the rubber meets the road you are essentially asking a potential liar if they are being truthful and acting on their response alone... "what a joke" indeed.
The objective function is value. If your solution adds enough value even disruptive change can be tolerated and accepted.
What is unacceptable is what almost always happens... a creative solution which while technically better than an existing solution in some aspect is in some way unmanageable, unprofitable or simply not worth anyone's trouble to change given the bigger picture.
I see this kind of thing all the time with people inventing things they think is all great to them but everyone else sees as impractical. Or fools whispering their brilliant ideas to you so others don't hear and steal it from them which while "creative" are half-baked reflecting their ignorance of technology and or that which is necessary to be successful.
If you can use your creative energies to create a battery with 10x density, 10x safety, 10x charge rate, 10x reliability at 10x lower cost of production vs current state of the art you are likely be taken seriously yet if you repeat the same with 40x cost of production your much more likely to be ignored regardless of how great and transformative your ideas are.
Sure there are barriers to showing of value to the excessively cautious or irrationally change adverse yet these are temporary conditions bypassed with creative diplomacy and ultimately market pressure over time.
More often than not I tend to get creeped out when companies become so big they start to see value in tweaking the rest of the world to give themselves advantage on anything from lobbying/regulatory capture, having their way with standards organizations and invading or buying out entire verticals just to control and or add barriers to meaningful competition.
In the case of Amazon I would much prefer to see the FEDEXs of the world working on flying robots and self driving delivery vehicles. If there is a need for that by all means use your weight to communicate your needs or collaborate with your vendors.
Look what happened after Ebay bought out PayPal for another example of what happens when you get too big.
As for Ebay and delivery why would they care? Does ebay even have a single warehouse delivering anything to anyone? As far as I know it is the ebay users and their resellers that manage all of this. All ebay needs to do is add a few ultra fast shipping speed categories to their backend systems. They don't need to actually implement them.
Knowingly trying to bring down web sites is a crime.
How many web sites have been slashdotted?
Most of the time it is not hard to guess that outcome in advance based on trivial knowledge of where site is hosted, web stack and content on site but TFAs are posted anyway and mostly predictable and obvious happens. How many times have you glanced at TFA and thought to yourself oh dear that site is screwed? Even after articles are tagged slashdotted they have never been removed and continue to remain up while site remains down. How much more knowingly is required before your condition is met and a crime committed?
Should we also not arrest people if they only throw one brick through a store window but do not take anything? Should we also not arrest people who kick someone only once when lying on the ground?
DDOS attacks are about as lame as anyone using LOIC. I don't think many would argue conducting an intentional denial of service attack to be lawful means of protest. Having said that to pretend sucker punching someone should yield the same liability as putting them in ICU or traveling at 10 over posted speed limit is the same as traveling 100 over. It is disingenuous to ignore the specifics as irrelevant. I don't understand why you would not expect to incur additional charges by walking by a strip mall and throwing a brick into each building vs. only one building. This makes no sense. There has to be some meaningful proportionality.
Also, consider the fact that the minute is only the point they could prove what he did, if he was
willing to aid in DDOS attacks who knows how many other people he helped attack in the past?
Or maybe he ran LOIC out of curiosity and stopped after becoming fully cognizant of what it was doing? We are all entitled to our assumptions.
I'm the first to admit that anything quantum blows a wormhole through my head. I struggle to find anything that will allow me to grasp it. I'm a programmer, dammit.
Perhaps a close mental computer analogue is the transaction.
s/entanglement/transaction/
s/collapse/commit/
Software is not allowed to peer into a transaction and act on details while open or consistency could not be guaranteed. Only outcomes are exposed to the system when transaction is committed. Various interactions force existing transactions to commit and resulting outcome to be known.
So. When you observe the particle its window comes to the top
In scalable systems "reading" or "observing" is often a liability to be carefully minimized. Anything read out stands a good chance of becoming stale and outdated the second it leaves the computer. In the real world "observing" is almost certainly an illusion.
What we see as "read" operations are emergent properties of layers of interaction. Our eyes only see by absorbing photons and similar disruptive explanations likely exist for all methods of "observation".
Chimps are chimps not people. To declare otherwise is to declare 2 lights + 2 lights = 5 lights.
Besides abusing legal system to get your way short-circuiting normal legislative/consensus building paths to get the change you seek is poisonous to the democratic process. It does not matter what the issue is or how you feel about it.