Posts by Smeagolberg 105 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Feb 2022
"It looks like Apple spent too much time in China and got poisoned."
That makes it sound like accidental exposure during a holiday trip.
Apple consciously chose China because the 'poison' is cheap and profitable. It's hardly surprising that they have a similar approach in the US of keeping employees as cheap and profitable as possible. How else would Cook and top cronies fund their holidays so economically?
True, and "widely used" and "popular" are not the same as best.
Paul Graham's essay about the choice of Lisp by a start-up is interesting reading, particularly that knowing that most of their competitors were using C or C++ increased their confidence in their choice of Lisp.
http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
"That sounds very much like the market approach and real world approach we all use day to day."
What is this "real world approach" of which you speak? The "market approach" seems less and need connected to what many might consider to be the real world.
"I just wonder if the EU is going to be cutting itself off as it has a lot more to lose."
From outside the borders of the land of the "free" one might observe the US cutting itself not so much "off" as "up".
Increasingly damaging fighting between political factions... gun laws that protect the rights for USians to easily be able to kill other USians... the best politicians that money can buy... the Industrial Military Complex...
Some of these characteristics might be exactly the sort that other countries might wish to cut themselves off from.
"Using the data to personalise a service (e.g. adverts) sounds reasonable. An attempt to show more of what you are interested in."
About as reasonable as it would be for me to cover your house with posters that "show more of what you are interested in".
"I might offer a service but you dont need to take the service I offer, and often there are alternatives available."
Plastering posters on someone's house might not be considered to be a "service" by them, but an uninvited and unwanted intrusion. Claiming to offer "a service" is hollow and delusional if (1) it is not wanted by the person you claim is being served and (2) is imposed, rather than offered.
"Hoping they can make an equivalent successful business to rival the US businesses. Personally I think it foolish as continuing to copy US successes when people should be left to find future success."
There are many ways to define success... art, literature, science, happiness, stability, etc. Many of the values espoused by US businesses are not universally viewed as epitomising success. Indeed, by some measures they could be considered the antithesis of success.
"Impregnating a female who has had a lapse of reason is basically rape."
"Is"?
So that's your definition of rape?
No force?
No coercion?
No deception?
Etc.
Just dependent on the victim being a "female who has had a lapse of reason?
Interesting definition, and one which many might take exception to.
"I REALLY don't know what's causing it, but surely it's worth looking into? (unless you don't want to know the answer)."
A good line of reasoning. Let me try it...
I REALLY don't know what's causing the green slime monster that everyone but you can see eating your brain and rendering any potential but unrealised critical faculties into a decomposing sludge, but surely it's worth looking into? (Unless you don't want to know the answer).
"MORE discourse is the answer"
Nice idea, but social media is probably not a place characterised by intelligent discourse as much as by 'influencers' and people with many followers, that their egos don't recognise are mostly following for the entertainment value of watching motorway pile-ups / train wrecks.
E.g. Florida Orange Man had many such followers, but exhibited little in the way of intelligent discourse.
I always smile when someone spurts that phrase as justification for the latest sound-bite announcement. So persuasive sounding.
Never a mention that the energy will actually be sold to the global market for maximum profit and the local market can just f*** right off (as BlowJo told business it should).
"The United Kingdom received €7 billion ($7.2 billion)"
Is proper money no longer relevant on this once-UK news site?
It's been struggling to retain relevance as a news site for a while now. I've almost given up coming here for up-to-the-minute technology news. Few stories now appear before US waking hours and increasingly many fail to materialise at all. Several times recently the BBC site has had technology stories that weren't to be found here (a couple of significant Twitter-related items were conspicuous by their absence).
"Nothing wrong with investing in metaverse, it could've been a huge tech if the pandemic extended 2 more years."
Yep. All those people trying to do serious work from home needed nothing more than a face-cage to help them pretend they're hanging out with a cartoon version of Z-berg. It's the future!
>I'll go all-in on behaviours. Momentarily.
The best one I heard of this was on a US to Heathrow flight on which the captain announced, "We will be landing momentarily".
This icing on the cake was largely US passengers bursting into applause as though landing at all was a novelty.
With you on some points, but...
"I think we have a fundamental natural, human right, to be able to receive any information we want to, period."
Would that view hold if receiving certain information was dependent on actual harm to someone else?
E.g. (thought experiment...) What if you wanted to receive video information showing someone's response as they were being tortured? Should you have a "fundamental natural, human right to receive it|"?
3 out of 4.
Quite good, but try extending your reading around actual science and, perhaps, reduce time spent on social media science-substitutes.
Alternatively, stick with the social media and you could become an 'influencer'.
I look forward to seeing even better results or a change of direction next term.
Upvoted, but this
>company laptop... laptop doesn't automatically use end-to-end VPN etc. suggest the IT department needs talking to
is significant and good practice can not be assumed
Neither can it be assumed that all access to corporate systems is via company laptops, or even laptops. Much isn't.
One large building might make for a more focused target, but it's not obvious that many scattered targets, with a larger attack surface, a wide range of access devices in use, many personal and not under meaningful central control, and with varying local arrangements for digital and physical access, would be either more secure, or as easy to secure.
I wonder how many people work in the local Starbucks, etc., without a thought of Wi-Fi security / snooping / infiltration / etc.
Not that remote working doesn't have many advantages, but it also has weaknesses and security might be one of them.
>You can hate crypto currency all you want, but it does solve this problem rather well.
I think it's transfer of 0s and 1s over the wires that solves(*) the problem. Cryptocurrency is merely one example of such use, and a latecomer at that.
(*) Cryptocurrency also takes fraud and loss into the 21st Century at 'light speed', as they say. You have been following the cryptocurrency news in recent years, haven't you? You know, it's a bit like banks' use of digital transfers, but unregulated and with no recourse when fraudsters do their thing...
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