My submission to dear leader
Dear leader
Please read and digest the following, as my final word on the matter:
https://killtheworld.co.za/china.
Regards
Brian Jonnes
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Dear leader
Please read and digest the following, as my final word on the matter:
https://killtheworld.co.za/china.
Regards
Brian Jonnes
You could apply logic as well. For instance, assume:
a) a good economy is attractive,
b) a good economy results from policy decisions,
c) a country is the sum of its people, and
d) each citizen carries a (varying) fractional part of their native country's policy/history (the converse of c).
We can conclude that to maintain your good economy, you need to prevent countries merging with yours; i.e. you need to a good ingress filter.
IMO in its true meaning 'hypocrisy' cannot be applied to businesses involving more than one. It is the job of the marketing department to say whatever is within the law to attract customers. From there down, it all depends on the feedback loops, whether the business follows through. And if the marketing campaign used vague terms, you can almost guarantee there's no business sense to follow through.
The greatest demonstration of patriotism at work is the assumption on a site, read the world round, that anyone would care what is happening in your country... and take sides.
The curious thing is that the good Netizens of the world actually do. And make US or UK politics out to be more important than corruption like in good old RSA.
Back when MS hadn't jumped onto the class library naming shenanigans and had a simple interface to COM, instead of a roundabout one (aka .NET) and made no apologies for it not being CORBA...well I lost my hate for VB some time after they ditched it.
And boy did they ditch it.
It was never acceptable to use Access. Otoh, in its time it provided a relational view of your database which was pretty rare. And the OLE2 format allowing for the bundling of multiple streams--making a copy of your database became CTRL+C & CTRL+V (obviously with NT mandatory locking). If they only had a 'show tables' command I'd probably seldom need anything else (as I mentioned above).
"And how", as they say in the classics. I seem to remember msdhcp using some kind of jet database.
Back to the point though, quite a few db's are small enough where dbase is sufficient. I hear MS ODBC does a pretty good job with dbase files too. And the advantage over MSAccess (97) databases is that you can actually list your tables!
That's what they tell me anyway.
As long as you go into this with your eyes focused on that clear downside, wherein the recipients of the funding need to steel themselves against the temptation to simply produce the results that will be rewarded by more funding--as I say, if we are agreed that that needs to be in the spotlight, then accelerate them li'l fundamentals to your heart's content (with a reasonable amount of my tax money).
To people who are invested heavily in the stock market, that value is precisely quantifiable*. That's why we have government grants. It encourages poor (and ignorant) people with the idea they can get paid to do what their instincts are yelling at them is a Good Thing. They get into debt, and prop up those first mentioned.
Simple enough?
*I have a day job.
My point is being missed. So far in this forum, "fundamental research" equates to research with "no clear payoff". I'm just wondering aloud when and why it was decided that this 'no payoff' thing needed to be redressed.
As I mentioned, don't approach this from a 'today is better' POV. Maybe it is; maybe without the crown supporting the improvement in timepieces and steam engines, we wouldn't be sharing these ideas now, because we'd only be dreaming about the possibility of telegraphs. But if necessity is the mother of invention, perhaps the funding could be dialed way back without humanity suffering a jot.
In the interests of not giving a dog a bad name unnecessarily, I note that where the article talks 'sexual harassment' and 'discrimination', you are talking about sex crimes?
Let me rephrase, give a dog a bad name, or call him Satan--are these equivalent?
Well.... sure, this has been around for 34 years according to the article. I agree the white-hat age is upon us, which involves the exposition of some less likely flaws which some might argue are not all news-worthy. But personally I'd err on the side of disclosure and publication, and less on reminding everyone that we don't need to panic.
I gather it is easier than thinking just to jump on a bandwagon--which involves repeating one proper noun along with a string of negative adjectives. At least there are one or two level headed "right wing nut jobs" (as I suppose anyone who doesn't fall into stitches of laughter at their brilliant ripostes will be labelled) around here.
What you might be missing is the comparison to Tesla and Edison. Popular culture has it that USA invented computers, just like Edison invented 'electricity'.
In other words, marketing, lobbying and brashness are the pillar of US 'ingenuity'.
BTW I'm not a Brit.
"According to FREEEDOM ..."
I'd paraphrase as 'according to CAPITTALISSM'. In fact a sliding scale on tax does suggest that too much money is a thing. Only, that sliding scale stops somewhere above two or three orders of magnitude what I earn...
Reasons for this? Lobby capital maybe?
"Security and privacy are different things"
Quite right; but ignorance is bliss, and the experience must be blissful. As a previous poster indicated, they don't understand trusted roots and signing. Of course not--that's all in the cloud, isn't it? [1]
As Microsoft (and other USAian tech companies) _introduced_ viruses I don't see why they should be allowed to state that things like 'safescreen' are for our benefit. They only exist because of shit decisions in the first place.
Can I think of something better? Sure, but it ain't gonna be eye-candy. And that's why I won't compete.
[1] Surely a 'safe' browser should inform you every time the list of roots changes?
Well that just took the fun out of the whole thing. Thanks.
I was coming here to express my thanks for the Linux comment, as I have always had the feeling that until I could compile all the binaries I had not completed The Linux Challenge (hats off to the founders of all distributions).