I assume you're taking a shot at Apple the company. Not sure what the basis for making the comparison to a cult is and having escaped from an actual cult myself I find the comparison disingenuous and insulting. Apple sells products many people are happy to pay for. Cults sell a lifestyle usually built on lies and manipulation, generally taking much more from their buyers than just the sticker price.
Different strokes, different folks. Personally, I like that people in my town know me. Gossip goes around, sure, people know more about me than I might be comfortable with but in general that establishes in the long run a familiarity that works for me. It feels like a very large family, and I like that.
Brooklyn is a big place, and the person you're replying to did just say his neighborhood… probably little data available on any scale let alone the scale of one's neighborhood, aside from anecdotal.
"Pronouncing it Jiff vs. GIF still remains unresolved." - Maybe for other people, but for me there was never a debate. (reading "Jiff vs. GIF" aloud just makes the whole thing seem even more ridiculous. If it is pronounced "jiff" then why does asking if it should be "jiff vs GIF" make any sense?)
That would be something like giving someone a large bucket of ice to protect oneself from their house burning down around them. (obviously not a perfect analogy, but a tank of CO2? Seriously? SMH)
I've used BB for years on multiple machines and have been more than satisfied, in fact I recommend it to everyone. I'm not affiliated with them at all, just a happy customer. Confused as to why someone would find their service disappointing but to each their own.
Just got mine yesterday :) excited to try it out… but so far my experience with the steam controller on windows 10 has produced too many blue screens of death for me to keep trying.
I don't think I would entirely agree with that. Surely it depends on the developer. I can build a traditional CLI program faster than I can arrange a GUI for an equivalent program in something like interface builder although I've met developers who are faster the other way around.
I just read the article you linked… in what way were they recommending using truecrypt? Pretty straightforward article as far as I could tell, I don't even recall a positive recommendation of anything other than bitlocker and time machine.
The key, as I understand it, is derived from a combination of the password and other deterministic elements, like the host URL. I suppose it's supposed to be ethereal, generated only for the session and the disposed after the user logs out. But for it to work, the user would have to be able to generate the exact same key on other machines using the same password. In which case, all an attacker needs to obtain the private key is the password and the vulnerability to phishing remains.
That's exactly the problem. The private key and the password are effectively 1-1. So if you can phish the password, you have the private key. This solves nothing.
Ok, but how would a native window prevent an undereducated user from naively entering their password into an attacker's spoofed login form? In my mind this strategy more or less kicks the ball down the field as opposed to revolutionizing security.
"If a user attempts to login to a malicious site accidentally or because they were tricked by a similar but different name, the malicious server will only gain knowledge of a derived public key. The attacker will not be able to impersonate the user at any other server, or even on the compromised server, because the attacker has not discovered either the user's private key for connecting to the compromised server, or the user's password that could be used to derive the private key on this or other servers."
Doesn't this assume a lot about the state of the internet? I mean a phishing attack could easily harvest the user's password, then the attacker effectively has their private key. Unless every user were trained well on how to determine whether the connection can be trusted, but that's still a problem today in 2015 even with https.
Well that's a more nuanced philosophical discussion for which murder is a poor example. A better one would be something like stealing a candy bar from a grocery store. A found body, or a reported missing person, would yield a response from local law enforcement if the perpetrator could be linked in any way. An example of a stolen candy bar the grocer never noticed missing more directly targets the question of 'if I don't get caught, does it matter'?
Anyway, the question here isn't whether you get caught. The question is whether it's actually illegal if there is no copyright holder that anyone knows of, and one doesn't come forward with a legitimate claim. Will law enforcement charge you with a crime?
I'm not a lawyer and have no experience with law, but I do love free (and legally so) movies, so I'm genuinely curious about this.
This seems pretty cool. I'm curious about the viability of such a product in the marketplace, it seems like even at full scale production it would be radically expensive for an average consumer.
Poor comparison. It's illegal to deprive a living person of their future by murder. Showing a copyrighted work of which nobody claims the rights only deprives the copyright owner of their rights, and (assuming they even still exist) if they have failed to recognize the existence of their rights to the property then in my opinion no wrong was done. A movie's rights are not a living, feeling and breathing being that can be murdered.
This part actually had me laughing out loud (I guess I don't understand other people's passions as well as my own): "Is my life worth living without red M&M's? This is the question I had often asked myself. For many years now, I have somehow managed to go on, thinking there was nothing I could do. One person against the world! But now I have a purpose, a meaning in my life. My life is meant to give re-life to the red M&M's."