The idea that we can create a universal language that everybody will understand by abandoning language and simply making a recognizable symbol for every single concept that anybody might ever want to communicate is stupid.
I saw a documentary where that worked quite well. Oh wait.. that was "Idiocracy".
This happens when business models without steady revenue streams aren't good enough. You somehow have to increase the frequency how often people are forced to buy updates.
If a Scotsman commits rape in France, he may be tried in England.
That's probably because the Scots are still under English occupation.
If a Scotsman commits rape in France, he MAY NOT be tried in Turkey. See?
Every country wants their laws to apply to everyone else, but doesn't think of the consequences then of having to apply everyone else's laws to themselves.
It's easy to avoid such consequences with a large enough military budget. Or why else would Google filter European search results referring to the DMCA?
Anonymous proof of age online is one of the features of the newfangled electronic ID cards in Germany. But as expected, there isn't much you can do with it besides checking your speeding tickets. Even services that would not require to trust the government that anonymous indeed means anonymous don't use it.
And porn has the ultimate "Long Tail".
Who else. Literally.
Still haven't read the actual TFA, but from the summary I understood that most of the hack was gaining access to the OS UI by forcing the OS out of the kiosk mode.
I may be wrong, but I'm still in line with the summary.
Point taken. But to my defense, this assumption is firmly grounded in the summary speaking of a Windows XP based device and not an XP embedded based device.
I still doubt if Windows based OS was a good design descision, but if all you have is a bunch of windows developers, you tend to solve every problem with a hammer.
Thanks for the update. From the summary I was expecting some kind of new "lifestyle" safe, like the new entertainment systems they just have to slap into every car no also being a thing on safes.
As I'm earning my living with software development I'm quite aware that there is no bug free software (beyond "hello world"). But I'm also aware that the number of bugs correlates with the software's size and complexity.
That's why you don't use a more complex OS then required. That you mention XP embedded is making it much better, but the summary mentioned a plain XP only.
Why does a safe need an operating system?
And then why for heavens sake has it to be a desktop operating system? Does it need to run MS Office or what was the design idea here? It's not like there are especially hardened OSses out there for embedded devices. (Not to mention that this means we have a safe that's running on a x86 architecture)
And after having such a terrible design idea, why have it implemented by a moron using an out of date, unsupported, and buggy OS?
Fooor sure! Any woman who doesn't look good in a dress and expect a slap on the ass once in a while is trouble! Maybe if she'd put on some makeup and hike those little tits up a bit she'd get hired, amirite?
Having nothing to do with ass-slapping or makeup: "Dress for the job you want" is relevant to men, too.
Who cares that she was educated at Cornell and Harvard and is a crazy entrepreneur? If she doesn't learn to stop being so uppity and stop trying to outshine men she'll never make it and really, has only herself to blame!
Well, they either cared enough to interview her despite that picture or (more likely) she had a different profile picture two years ago (or whenever those other 3 times were when she was recruited)
how secure could that actually be as an access control?
I mean, the access control isn't checking your DNA. It is checking if you have access to a genetic profile of someone with matching criteria. Or, as a completly different attack vector: access to body fluids of someone matching the allowed filters. ("whitelisting" gets a whole new meaning here....)
Maybe different recruiters going through the same data base? (linkedin or such)
This is like asking if maybe telepathy would work better on Uranus.
Keep your dirty mental fingers out of my...!!!
oh.. wait..
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky
