Well, good thing we had all those financial regulations repealed by Clinton.
It was amazing how Clinton was able to single handedly overcome all of the protestations of the Republican controlled House and Senate and just erase the laws of the land at his own whim. It's totally awesome how the Founding Fathers gave the Executive branch that authority.
It would cost very little to operate or use in the modern age of computers.
In other words, it costs too much.
Aren't you curious as to why?
Perhaps the field has changed in the past 25 years? It's possible that the skill set that is currently the successful still set has a certain group self selecting themselves out of the field?
Crap, we're not on the list. Somehow, even the biggest city in the US can't get a decent fiber roll-out. That's how you know the "population density" arguments are BS.
NYC has bureaucracy. Apparently sufficient bureaucracy to overcome the advantages of population density.
Considering UPnP is broken by design, that's not really an improvement. Replacing a security hole in the router by a hundred apps that want their own ports to expose their own security holes to the Internet doesn't help much.
I feel like I can be responsible for anything that runs on my machine, so I'm okay with that.
design goals that emphasize usability over security
I wonder why usability was able to sell more than security? Hmm. Let's think about that.
Meanwhile, a January 2013 study from Rapid7 found 40 million to 50 million network-enabled devices, including nearly all home routers, were vulnerable to exploits using UPnP.
Man, and I can't get my home router to do UPnP. It's bad that UPnP allows for the configuration of the router to come from a machine outside of the network, but that should get fixed and UPnP should be able to start behaving like it is designed to.
The more I see stories about various programs accessing all sorts of stuff they aren't supposed to, the more I wonder why we still allow this?
It's because we like it when programs work well together. As a result general purpose computers have the model that anything running as the user is the user. So preventing one application from interfacing with/messing with another program would be the same as blocking the user from doing the same. Any OS that tries to put up garden walls between programs is decried as an attack on computational liberty.
They should not go rummaging through my computer. Period.
Then prevent them. Use an OS that prevents on application from rummaging through your computer.
Sorry Gabe, you're not allowed to see my DNS history.
So what OS model can we use to isolate one program from another? Do we want that kind of model?
The latency is only about 150ms. This is simply unnoticable for email, so major US email providers aren't going to have servers in the EU for latency reasons.
That would probably be true for classic client server email, but consumers (and by consumers I mean people who don't read Slashdot) expect their email to be a web based client. And for all of the back and forth an interactive web client is going to have with the server, 150ms could be killer.
The premise of the original article, "One of Android's biggest draws is its roots in open source" just doesn't ring true for me. In fact, I doubt it's true for the vast majority of Android users.
That's true, but it kind of hurts the original Android fans. That's exactly the thing that got a lot of the early Android fans (especially the ones on Slashdot) to excited about Android. They went around telling everyone they could have a chance to talk to, to switch to Android. Their motivation was that Android was an Open Source device operating system, but knowing that no one cares, they just said 'It's better'. Now that Google has made a lot of the Android experience not fit the classic Open Source model, these early fans are feeling a bit betrayed.
If out natural comforts were magically provided for, my wife and I would be more likely to engage in activities that lead to having children. People having so much that sex is no longer interesting sounds pretty dystopian to me.
It's not that we wouldn't be having sex, it's that your wife's natural comforts would involve not dealing with the uncomfortable-ness of pregnancy. So plenty of sex, but only sex which wouldn't result in pregnancy.
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory keeps all its data in an old gray trunk.
