Posts by Charles 9

Re: If I got this correctly

And if they're prod-proof...and over your head?

Re: Tautological tautology

Most VPNs I know use outside-the-browser clients like the OpenVPN client if not the OS's internal L2TP protocol. This along with HTTPS will make the VPN client blind to the browser.

Re: No spilling needed

Guess you never had to deal with stenography from a court reporter.

Re: Contrary to popular belief, the customer is not always right.

"If a third party can fuck up enough business relationships to close down a company, that company is doing something fundamentally wrong."

Or the customers are fundamentally wrong, and if you lack a choice in the matter, you take what you're given, only they were more interested in leeching. Trust me, it's like trying to stay afloat in a Section 8 neighborhood.

Re: Contrary to popular belief, the customer is not always right.

Trouble is, I've seen the exact opposite. The customers honestly thought they could do no wrong, so when one got sleighted, everyone left and the business shut down.

Re: Contrary to popular belief, the customer is not always right.

So what happens when a vengeful customer uses network effects to cost you more customer. THAT'S the reason for the policy: happy customers stay quiet, unhappy ones squeal, and people listen to squeals.

Re: Is this satire?

No, I'LL believe it when one of these AVs can be thrown into the heart of a crowded Asian city like Manila and can get itself around in spite of the crush of rule-breaking cars, bikes, and pedestrians. Trust me, I speak from experience.

Re: Deep Learning is the problem

"or you just program them to avoid all objects in the road that are bipedal."

So people in wheelchairs (nonpedal) or using canes (tripedal) are fair game?

Re: Deep Learning is the problem

I believe you mean intuition or SUBconscious learning, something that is inherently impossible to teach to anyone or anything since it can only come from experience; we don't even know how intuition works yet.

Re: Finally somebody said the truth

Let's see them work their around Metro Manila during afternoon rush. Put it this way, it's SO crowded that most roads become parking lots, SO unruly that it's considered necessary to ghost drive to get anywhere, and SO overpopulated that not even the commuter rail way provides enough relief (stations routinely have lines going all the way back to the street).

Re: Too expensive for Amazon

Data plan is a sunk cost because it was obtained for other reasons (say it's a listed business expense). And more plans have no data caps in order to keep customers. Sunk costs and no data caps takes out the two chief concerns. A "no need to listen again" takes out the main reason for downloading.

You may be able to see them by eye, but if you lose the ability to make a proper lens, that's as bad as losing the specification to the JPEG file format. At least specifications can be printed and methods copied if necessary to reconstruct readers and so on.

Such a company would probably also make world headlines for developing a money tree as well.

Re: If you put it in your mouth...

What about one's own foot?

Re: Dilbert's "Magic Happens Here"

IOW the Underpants Gnomes way to make money.

Re: Actually, it seems they ARE onto something...

There is a way. Just demonstrate (say by contradiction) that any non-divine method to something results in a paradox.

Re: Actually, it seems they ARE onto something...

Oh? Believing in nothing, or denying a belief (put another way, believing a negative) is still a belief.

Re: You'd expect a FOSS browser to be on the forefront of this

But the standard's a moving target. Even Telnet and FTP have been deprecated. Who gets paid to keep up with the work through the years?

Re: Only an idiot gives their details to FB

And if EVERYONE was that short-sighted and ignorant?

Re: "Imagine, if you will, a new Android phone....location data..."

Oh? What if the chair has wheels and it's rolling without your knowledge because, you know, you're basically BLIND?

Re: Imagine?

How about that you still need to root your phone (which breaks warranty and various programs, among other things) to use it most effectively?

Re: Intel has serious product issues

Where in the processor given how little internal storage it has and how big those tables can be? I made such a proposal myself in the form of faster context switching but was basically told the same thing: not enough room.

Re: Good luck with that

Thing is, a place like Newark, New Jersey may be a better place to resettle than elsewhere in New York State (and it's still easy to go back to New York if necessary). Furthermore, threatening to move out of the state would deprive the state of lucrative corporate taxes, meaning Albany can get involved to rein in the Big Apple.

Re: The hardware underneath

I frankly don't see how that problem can be solved. It's like the First Contact problem (Alice and Bob trying to prove themselves to each other without anything, even a Trent, in common between them). Basically, if you can't trust your environment, you can't trust your work in it, period. Meaning all the bad guys need to win is to install a perpetual paranoia.

Re: FB own their customers

That'll never happen, as you'll basically make doing business illegal (you MUST trade information to do business, and what if that goes through a facilitator). What about governments?

Re: standards exist from ITU, GSM and IETF

What would've kept those countries from jumping ship to friendlier countries and, if laws get implemented, waiting for users to complain to their governments about Big Brother ambitions?

Re: Non-stalking OpenID

You would, but would anyone else? Without critical mass, the service wouldn't last long.

Re: Why IMAP and not XNMP?

What eBay and Amazon provide cannot be decentralized. They succeed BY being middlemen: a moderator/facilitator in this case. They reduce the "caveat emptor" risks. Plus Amazon is itself a retailer: no middlemen in those cases.