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Comment Re:re (Score 1) 73

just another example of the "bleep'ed ed bleep" that passes for a good idea

it REALLY is time for a X30+ solar flare to kill the electricity for 10 years

then MAYBE we will have had time to well THINK FIRST!!!
and change the priories from
new and "Bleeped up"
to stable and SECURE

If you're interested in stable and secure, you're already not using Docker, so problem solved.

The problem with insisting that everything has to be well thought out and planned first is that gets in the way of innovation, and things slow way down while you do your planning. But while you're spending a couple years trying to plan out the project and account for every use case and vulnerability, by the time you've written the code, it's already out of date and not useful, so the planning has to start over again.

If you want to apply NASA level of planning and diligence where a software project can take years (or even decades), you should feel free to use only tried-and-true solutions. Maybe an IBM mainframe will give you what you're looking for. But don't insist that the entire world needs to stop to meet your needs for stability and security.

Comment Re:In other news... (Score 4, Interesting) 163

While this is true, the attacker does not need physical access for this. All they need is access to an innocent user who can be convinced to plug something in.

The FBI and secret service demonstrated this type of attack back in the early 2000s. They dropped usb drives near banks night drop boxes and front doors that pinged a server with the local ip and machine name and wrote a file locally when plugged in with the autorun on. Something like 70% or so pinged. People where plugging them in to try to figure out who's they were to return them.

Its pretty easy to convince someone to plug something in.

Comment Re:Supply / Demand curve (Score 1) 190

First of all baker can absolutely change prices at any moment in time. If currency fluctuates during the day, if any kind of an unusual event happens that lowers supply or hikes demand any store will change prices quickly. As a matter of fact I build and sell software and services for retail, shipping, handling, logistics that lets chain operators change prices on groups of products, on individual products, on all products by a fixed amount or by percentages and the centralized control allows immediate change across the entire chain to take effect in 15 minutes, which is used all the time. I didn't sell to a bakery yet, but it is the same idea. Not only an individual baker but a chain can implement price changes during the day any number of times they want.

When currency fluctuates, for example, it presents a real opportunity for arbitrage and can kill profitability of a store or a chain in a blink of an eye. Currency fluctuation corresponds to demand very easily. Case in point: Russia last week.

Stores were changing prices many times in one day. 10 and even more times a day in some cases! And what happened to those who were not paying attention? They paid with their wallets. Falling currency created huge extra demand, people were spending all of their money, buying anything they could get their hands on before currency fell further in price.

So you have 0 understanding not only of theory but actually of the reality that happens even as we speak.

Comment Re:Hyperbole (Score 1) 237

IIRC, answering machines have been around since the 1980s, where one would have to set a mode between record, then flip a dial to play... with a machine that had two tapes, one a special outgoing message tape configured in an endless loop with a metal foil piece joining the ends. Then the next generation of machines came around using micro cassettes and storing the outgoing message at the beginning of the tape. Then in the early to mid 1990s, flash based messages with multiple voice mail boxes so everyone in the family got their own blinking light. After a while, people just started using the VM product offered by the telco because it was less hassle than having a dedicated answering machine.

All and all, voice mail isn't going anywhere. If it is a way for a company to leave their ads, there is no way that will be stopped in today's economy.

I never understood why people used the telco voice mail since that removed one of the most valuable features of a home answering machine -- the ability to screen calls by listening to the message live. I couldn't afford to pay the $9.99/month and buy a $99 caller id display in those days.

Google Voice lets you do that, you can choose to screen calls and listen to message the caller is leaving in real time and pick up if you want to. But now if I decide not to answer up the phone, I just wait for the transcript to come in to see if I want to return the call.
 

Comment Spoofing (Score 3, Interesting) 293

Great, so now if I want to run a personal hotspot in my hotel room, I have to spoof both the SSID *and* the MAC Address of the Hotel's AP so their security software doesn't realize that it's not theirs, and run it at a high enough power level to drown out the "real" hotel AP so I can connect to it.

Is that really better for security?

Comment Re: More job loss (Score 1) 250

Modern "labor saving" inventions do no such things. They eliminate jobs and replace them with nothing.

- precisely.

Labour saving means exactly that: eliminate as much work as possible, that's why it's called 'labour saving' and not 'labour creating'.

That was my point and you are not even aware that you are making my point while you are making it, are you? Labour saving device means labour reducing device.

As an employer, if I can buy/build a machine that will reduce necessity for a job or fully eliminate a job I just acquired/built a machine that does what I am talking about: saving labour.

Saving labour is exactly what our civilisation does, the very first thing we did (fire, wheel, spear...) was already labour saving and everything we do today (computers, robots, cars, planes, tall buildings, factories, food processing...) it's all also labour saving.

It all saves labour, as in it reduces the labour needed or even eliminates labour altogether and it is all a good thing, that's what we want and need, otherwise we wouldn't be able to make more money by doing it, we would be making less money by doing it if it wasn't what we wanted and needed.

Comment Re:Banking IT (Score 2) 71

The public trusts the banks to the extent government backstops the banks. The FDIC insurance will cover up to $200K if the bank goes bye-bye. And even if the public didn't trust the banks, they surely wouldn't trust Ma and Pa Kettle's Valu Metal Ingots with the genuine look of real gold.

Comment Re:That is the way it should be. (Score 1) 139

I think your conclusion is essentially correct. The problem is that spotting good science in realtime is hard work. The scientists reviewing the paper can only put it in the perspective of their experience. If it too far outside and they are too far inside, then the paper gets rejected. It frequently requires a fair amount of time to pass before the results of a paper can be properly analyzed, and that's if the paper hasn't been so buried that no one recalls it ever being written.

To make matters worse, there are a fair number of whack jobs out there who act as though they were serious scientists when they are not, or are regurgitating something that may not even be their work and of which they have a dim understanding. And then there are charlatans who think science is some sort of dodge (e.g., those indulging their fantasies in scientific creationism).

Another complication is that interdisciplinary science gets rejected by the disciplines it spans because the reviewers inhabit a single discipline and see the interdisciplinary work as some other discipline infringing on their Universal Right to define their discipline.

Comment Re:Stone Age diet ? he wants to live all 20 years? (Score 1) 441

Don't be fooled by the cartoonish, strong worded presentation -- this is 100% true. I went through it myself and the way to solve it is exactly that diet plus probiotics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [BTW, one I am Bulgarian and very well know the difference between yogurt in the supermarket and the real deal and two, I live in Amsterdam whose mayor said refined sugar is a class A drug in his opinion]

also this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Just to mention that in my case I was advised to go to the diet by "real doctor" [not a "loony"] after being diagnosed with systemic stomach candidosis. Just one of the side-effects is that I got the physique I had when I was 17....and they say obesity is an issue number 1, well there is your solution...

Comment Re:Who will get (Score 2) 360

... Dragnet from 1968 or 1969 showing the situation after the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. ... You take the afros and 60s cars out of that episode and it could have been made yesterday.

Except Michael Brown was no Martin Luther King. King would have been appalled by the circumstances into which Brown's family launched him through neglect of his character. King would have been disgusted by Brown, who spend the morning smoking dope, robbing a convenience store to get more supplies, and then assaulting a cop. King would likewise have been disgusted by people chanting in the streets about things that didn't happen, outraged by their willingness to destroy people's property and burn down their neighborhood businesses, or shout in large organized groups about wanting to see dead cops NOW!

No, things are very different now than they were even 20 years ago. Worse, when it comes to that sort of thing.

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