I get so sick of these 90s era C++ programmers and their BS about VB6. Look guys, programming is about money or masturbation. Not everyone aspires to a clear, comprehensive, abstract understanding of the world of software development where we can admire our perfectly formed programs in a clean platonic space.
Most of us are or weren't academics at all. We were grunts who have to get shit done. We weren't architects. We were bricklayers and carpenters. For us, VB6 fit the bill. It was scaffolding for databases and anything else you needed that was quick and dirty. When you needed something better, you moved to C, C++ and later, Python.
I'm sure some dimwitted, newly minted MBA decided to save a few bucks by nixing the engineers recommendation to put mirrored mylar over the external wiring. Probably saved a few thousand dollars, got his bonus and his dick sucked by some VP who will never be held responsible. Thanks, American corporate culture!
Every forum or google search I've done on anything controversial in the last few years is rather obviously populated by people trying to bias opinions or spread obviously false (but oh, so *happy-talk*) information.
Mentally, you filter it out. Many folks don't, I'm sure.
And it's not a secret. Linux isn't spyware. And it's free. As a home user who didn't absolutely need a Windows only application, why would I bother with this thing whose "telemetry" is constantly watching me. Why don't I just install a camera hooked directly to Microsoft in my bedroom.
with enough money left over for troubleshooting and design improvements sufficient to improve their economy, be left with a much safer power system and have enough fuel for the next thousand years or so until fusion becomes something other than a boondoggle.
But thorium plants just don't make nuclear weapons grade material. They just solve the energy problem. So, clearly, this won't happen.
Oh no! I'm quaking in my boots. I might have to use another browser, or start another VM on another service, or on a local Linux VM before I copy the file to dropbox. Oh, the humanity...
Interesting assumption. We don't have an alternate history for comparison. Regardless, even if this is true, it doesn't really change the facts for the USA. The permanent war economy, taking 19 percent of the federal budget each year, is the third largest entitlement program in the USA, and the largest military budget in the world. Remove a third of that money and we still spend more than twice as much as China. Personally, I'd like to have the same kind of social programs that Europe can afford because the existence of NATO means they don't have to pour money into their military sectors.
We're at war with the low profit margins of defense companies. Eternal war and being the world's policeman benefits nobody else but the makers of military equipment and providers of military services.
Or did you think the F-35 was actually supposed to work one day?
This is the first step to making all economic transactions digital and trackable. Instead of money, you have a card, or a phone. Better hope you don't piss off some bureaucrat who can literally have your money turned off.
This isn't about anything but control. No better way of quelling a rebellion than controlling or canceling money. People with independent funds can be so.... uppity. So... rebellious against their betters.
Mr. Sanders is nothing. A mouthpiece. A tool and a fool. But he signals the intentions of the government.
There Is No Such Thing as Magic. If there is a known backdoor, it will be found and exploited. This can't be prevented, and honestly (Take not, politicians)...
That means that the content on anyone's phone can be stolen. Not just anyone's phone, but the phone of every politician in the world.
If they didn't interrupt, block my view, stop my train of thought, jump my page up and down and around..., give me viruses, eat up precious bytes that *I* must pay for with their video and audio...
If they did what they do in newspapers. Stay in little, quiet, static sized blocks, doing nothing but waiting for me to click if I'm interested, there would be no adblockers, nor need for any.
The online advertising industry has brought this on themselves. They have nobody but themselves to blame.
Certainly, the Chines would never embed known vulnerabilities that could be remotely activated in components that they know will be used for American weapons.
This is a consideration for students and other people involved in learning a new language or skill set. In that case, yes, it makes sense to make the student work somewhat harder (within reason) to figure it out
On the other hand, in a business context, you're not trying to develop understanding; you're trying to accomplish a specific task as quickly, easily and cheaply as possible. In that case, intuitive presentation of the problem is desirable and fostering development of deep understanding may be neither necessary nor cost effective.
will make any such strategy useless in short order. Source code translators and syntax standardization tools might be another approach.
Anyway, it's a big yawn, however, some enterprising con artists will sell this to clueless government bureaucrats for big bucks. Bureaucrat will get his bonus. Con artist company will get their money. Win, win. It won't work, of course, but when has that ever mattered in the government world?
Legislation like this puts us on the road to dictatorship. Perhaps Ms. Feinstein should join up with Mr. Trump.
Aside from this, it's just not possible. A few agreed upon phrases in plain text (e.g. "The chocolates are ready to be opened on the plane) and no encryption is necessary at all.
Blaming encryption is just more flailing about by willfully ignorant political hacks who are unwilling or unable to actually think through a real world problem.
The result of this strategy, of course, is a small population of ever more skilled people who can hide illegal activities via encryption, message splitting, or other methods, while making the noise (i.e. banal, legal activity) more voluminous, easy to get, expensive to process, and meaningless.
Instead, of course, we're giving welfare to fusion research, which is going nowhere instead of funding and developing a proven technology we had working in the 60s.
Is it a perfect solution? No. It's just simpler, cheaper, safer and more sustainable than any other power engineering solution out there if your goal is to continue to run a global industrial society at its current scale.
There are a lot of talented programmers out there using TOR who just might not appreciate a disruption in business by a bunch of religious nuts. Anonymous has already voiced their disapproval.
I foresee highly amusing consequences of ISIS attempts to make use of "darknet" resources. They may find that all of their orders for rations have been modified to include bacon and all of their ammunition is rerouted to Sweden.
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I get so sick of these 90s era C++ programmers and their BS about VB6. Look guys, programming is about money or masturbation. Not everyone aspires to a clear, comprehensive, abstract understanding of the world of software development where we can admire our perfectly formed programs in a clean platonic space.
Most of us are or weren't academics at all. We were grunts who have to get shit done. We weren't architects. We were bricklayers and carpenters. For us, VB6 fit the bill. It was scaffolding for databases and anything else you needed that was quick and dirty. When you needed something better, you moved to C, C++ and later, Python.
So, a freelance, work-at-home job then. Or maybe it's just *that* dream again. Possibly both?
I'm sure some dimwitted, newly minted MBA decided to save a few bucks by nixing the engineers recommendation to put mirrored mylar over the external wiring. Probably saved a few thousand dollars, got his bonus and his dick sucked by some VP who will never be held responsible. Thanks, American corporate culture!
Every forum or google search I've done on anything controversial in the last few years is rather obviously populated by people trying to bias opinions or spread obviously false (but oh, so *happy-talk*) information.
Mentally, you filter it out. Many folks don't, I'm sure.
And it's not a secret. Linux isn't spyware. And it's free. As a home user who didn't absolutely need a Windows only application, why would I bother with this thing whose "telemetry" is constantly watching me. Why don't I just install a camera hooked directly to Microsoft in my bedroom.
Oh, wait, there's a camera on my laptop...
with enough money left over for troubleshooting and design improvements sufficient to improve their economy, be left with a much safer power system and have enough fuel for the next thousand years or so until fusion becomes something other than a boondoggle.
But thorium plants just don't make nuclear weapons grade material. They just solve the energy problem. So, clearly, this won't happen.
Oh no! I'm quaking in my boots. I might have to use another browser, or start another VM on another service, or on a local Linux VM before I copy the file to dropbox. Oh, the humanity...
Interesting assumption. We don't have an alternate history for comparison. Regardless, even if this is true, it doesn't really change the facts for the USA. The permanent war economy, taking 19 percent of the federal budget each year, is the third largest entitlement program in the USA, and the largest military budget in the world. Remove a third of that money and we still spend more than twice as much as China. Personally, I'd like to have the same kind of social programs that Europe can afford because the existence of NATO means they don't have to pour money into their military sectors.
We're at war with the low profit margins of defense companies. Eternal war and being the world's policeman benefits nobody else but the makers of military equipment and providers of military services.
Or did you think the F-35 was actually supposed to work one day?
This is the first step to making all economic transactions digital and trackable. Instead of money, you have a card, or a phone. Better hope you don't piss off some bureaucrat who can literally have your money turned off.
This isn't about anything but control. No better way of quelling a rebellion than controlling or canceling money. People with independent funds can be so.... uppity. So... rebellious against their betters.
Mr. Sanders is nothing. A mouthpiece. A tool and a fool. But he signals the intentions of the government.
There Is No Such Thing as Magic. If there is a known backdoor, it will be found and exploited. This can't be prevented, and honestly (Take not, politicians)...
That means that the content on anyone's phone can be stolen. Not just anyone's phone, but the phone of every politician in the world.
Be careful what you wish for.
It doesn't. But why make it easier for them? At the very least, I get to opt out of those targeted ads.
and under surveillance.
For whatever reasons, Microsoft is not going to give up on this. Windows will constantly report everything it can about you and your browsing habits.
Want privacy? Forget Windows. Any version.
If they didn't interrupt,
block my view,
stop my train of thought,
jump my page up and down and around...,
give me viruses,
eat up precious bytes that *I* must pay for with their video and audio...
If they did what they do in newspapers. Stay in little, quiet, static sized blocks, doing nothing but waiting for me to click if I'm interested, there would be no adblockers, nor need for any.
The online advertising industry has brought this on themselves. They have nobody but themselves to blame.
Certainly, the Chines would never embed known vulnerabilities that could be remotely activated in components that they know will be used for American weapons.
No. Certainly not.
This is a consideration for students and other people involved in learning a new language or skill set. In that case, yes, it makes sense to make the student work somewhat harder (within reason) to figure it out
On the other hand, in a business context, you're not trying to develop understanding; you're trying to accomplish a specific task as quickly, easily and cheaply as possible. In that case, intuitive presentation of the problem is desirable and fostering development of deep understanding may be neither necessary nor cost effective.
They're sounding suspiciously like a software company that distributes a desktop OS and starts with the letter "M."
will make any such strategy useless in short order. Source code translators and syntax standardization tools might be another approach.
Anyway, it's a big yawn, however, some enterprising con artists will sell this to clueless government bureaucrats for big bucks. Bureaucrat will get his bonus. Con artist company will get their money. Win, win. It won't work, of course, but when has that ever mattered in the government world?
Legislation like this puts us on the road to dictatorship. Perhaps Ms. Feinstein should join up with Mr. Trump.
Aside from this, it's just not possible. A few agreed upon phrases in plain text (e.g. "The chocolates are ready to be opened on the plane) and no encryption is necessary at all.
Blaming encryption is just more flailing about by willfully ignorant political hacks who are unwilling or unable to actually think through a real world problem.
The result of this strategy, of course, is a small population of ever more skilled people who can hide illegal activities via encryption, message splitting, or other methods, while making the noise (i.e. banal, legal activity) more voluminous, easy to get, expensive to process, and meaningless.
The corporate goal of overcoming that annoying ethics thing has been achieved!
And reverse the polarity on the [technobabble] to break it free of the big scary thing.
Color me skeptical. I'll believe it when I see it in commercial production for an affordable price.
Instead, of course, we're giving welfare to fusion research, which is going nowhere instead of funding and developing a proven technology we had working in the 60s.
Is it a perfect solution? No. It's just simpler, cheaper, safer and more sustainable than any other power engineering solution out there if your goal is to continue to run a global industrial society at its current scale.
There are a lot of talented programmers out there using TOR who just might not appreciate a disruption in business by a bunch of religious nuts. Anonymous has already voiced their disapproval.
I foresee highly amusing consequences of ISIS attempts to make use of "darknet" resources. They may find that all of their orders for rations have been modified to include bacon and all of their ammunition is rerouted to Sweden.