CEOs aren't really overpaid. The amount they get paid seems large compared to normal employees, but it still pales in comparison to the money the actual owners make on it. I mean the CEO is a hired manager to be a replacement for the leadership of the owner(s) (for convenience reasons and because possibly the ownership is shared between multiple parties, some of whom may not possess the skills to lead the company). As such, the CEO needs many of the skills the founders possessed, and therefore its justified to set the salary closer to that amount. Especially, one has always to consider what happens if the CEO instead of leading the company starts their own. So unless you dislike the very foundations of how capitalism works, which I hope you do not, CEOs are paid fairly.

From google's reply:

Then it continues that some earlier patent "Narin" already had such a concept, and apparently the patent got issued anyway because it was limited to "web browser process" and not "browsing program", as that earlier patent.

Whether to abolish software patents or not (I think they should), this is clearly an abuse of the system.

Its also shocking that simple obvious ideas like the concept to confine processes into a sandbox for security purposes can be patented when you just make your claims to a specific enough subset.

Yeah, its a gigantic social problem coming ahead. Capitalism has let the human greed work for it, but if humans don't have to work, only the dividing parts of greed will remain.

Even further, it will be interesting whether and how the new capabilities given by AI will help the enemies of free democratic systems.

I don't think humans as such will become irrelevant. Unless some human programs an AI to defy the orders of humans there won't be any "takeover by AI" I think, so there will be always humans at the top. The question is about the remaining 99.99% of humanity.

We really need to figure out how such a society could look like and we need to figure it out fast, because technology doesn't wait.

Even more, we all carry phones with us that track our every move. But people don't seem to care about that. Of course, you can say you just don't carry a phone with you, but if every one else on the picture has a phone and you don't then you can be tracked quite easily.

I rather live in a world where there are maybe 2-5 billion people and everyone can live a great life than in one where there are 100 billion and everyone lives in poverty, everyone must be a vegetarian, and resources like places to live or pieces of untouched nature are rare.

With 10 billion people we will have a hard time to stop climate change or resource exploiting, especially if we want to treat most of them like humans and give them the opportunity to live a decent life.

Just tell me how many people in the electoral college they represent, and I predict, the coal workers have more.

If you allow every function to be an "operator", the solution is pretty trivial, as to construct any number p you could just simply take the constant function with 4 input parameters that has value p. If you allow only a finite set of "operators" you won't be able to construct any real from it with only finitely many applications of your operators, as there are unaccountable many reals.

If you restrict yourself to rationals you can get everywhere by just writing / somewhere between the four's and applying increment/decrement on both sides often enough.

I think its better to have population decline than population increase, as indefinite increase is not possible. You need to stop at some point.

I think the reason for why they've picked flash to survive is that its by far the most popular plugin both in install base and in use in websites.

https://w3techs.com/technologi...

Flash is said to have 7.2% of use, while Java has less than 0.1%.

Of course, it can be different for the sets of websites you visit.

Flash install base is about 76%: https://metrics.mozilla.com/fi...

Then whitelist the IPs of the devices you maintain. Just make sure you don't use the older browser version as your main browser.

Well the switch manufacturers. Obviously, if your switch is already an older model and the manufacturer made js available only in the new iterations of it, then its excusable, but then you still are required to use older software. I mean, some software only runs on Windows XP, right? So you still continue to use Windows XP to operate that software. Same here. Plugins are an outdated concept and insecure, you shouldn't expect to be able to run them on the newest browser versions.

You don't even need a vm, just download firefox somewhere, set up some little wrapper that starts it with a custom profile, and disable auto updates in that profile.

I said discovered and fixed, not existing. I didn't dispute that Silverlight had less security vulnerabilities discovered and fixed.

The plugins were totally unsecurable already. Just use that browser for accessing those devices only, without internet access.

And they should have moved to javascript a long time ago, requiring people to install modern browsers instead of continuing to use internet explorer 6 and microsoft XP without any service packs.

Still, you can just back up Firefox 51 and put it to a live linux cd of some sort, then making it access the hardware you need via a VM.

That is in fact their plan. First remove all NPAPI plugins except flash, then move flash over to use PPAPI, then remove NPAPI support entirely.