Comment Fashion accessory (Score 4, Insightful) 85
Once notebook computers became a fashion accessory that happens to compute, this result was inevitable.
That's because you shared your password
Password is shared with no one. It is just me watching.
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The Netflix recommendations I'm watched were out of my range of likes and/or taste.
So, based upon my experience with the Netflix recommendation algorithm, I'd be wary of this new application.
... Just last month we learned that NTP...
NTP.org is its own problem. Even when there was more than a single person maintaining it, the development looked less than favorably upon code improvement suggestions from the community.
... I do believe that there is a tendency associated with [open source] to take certain things for granted....
You've hit on the main problem. It is not open source, per se, as you imply in your message. It is community involvement.
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Where you have a community that is involved and stays involved, bugs are shallow. When you have a community, such as NTP.org, where suggestions are pushed away, bugs become very deep.
...Most of the shit we all use, trust and take for granted was coded in someone's basement over the weekend a long time ago.
... and the code written in nice air-conditioned offices in Redmond, Washington has shown itself to be so much more secure over the years
...So let's everyone ask ourselves this question: how many times do we personally browse open source code...
"Everyone" does not need to do it. You've set up a premise that fails on face value.
... He notes how the Heartbleed bug serves as a counter example to "Linus's Law" that "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."...
I think the big issue with the Heartbleed bug was that the OpenSSL code base was so egregiously poorly written and maintained that eyeballs started bleeding whenever they looked at it. imo, the OpenSSL code base never had enough eyeballs looking at it to make its bugs shallow. It was painful to look at, so eyeballs avoided looking at it.
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I still think that Linus' Law hold true, or at least is a very good guideline. I think exceptions like the OpenSSL code base are needed to hone the point that Linus' Law makes.
I also take issue with the headline, as I do not think there is any one right solution for improving security. The improvement of security is a multi-faceted endeavour and an ongoing process.
...we're seeing the beginning of a change in how untrained people can monitor their own health....
So untrained people are now monitoring their health using uncalibrated devices in uncontrolled circumstances.
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Yup, that sounds like a recipe for success to me.
Surprisingly, though, those very same untrained people will be saying how wonderful it all is. If for no other reason than to try to justify the fashion accessory on their wrist.
The concept of making money by selling an operating system is a 1990's idea. It made Microsoft a lot of money at one time...
The question in my mind is whether there is enough money in the "other services" to support the huge, bloated corporation we know as Microsoft?
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If I were a Microsoft employee, I'd begin looking to restart my career somewhere else.....
All that will happen is
If that is what happens, then other measures would need to be taken to assure new CA's are trustworthy.
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If the same problem continues to recur and nothing is done to prevent it, then the whole web of trust will fail.
To do nothing is to be nothing.
