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If you understand it this way, then why wouldn't my original example be sufficient? The incentive structure might be really bad, but once you start starving you should certainly consider working again. Actually it seems almost everything would be workable in this way. Unless you structure a system in a way that it is simply unable to produce the required goods and services or makes access to them impossible for at least some, then at some ultimate point life threatening forces will set the incentives.

In reality, I guess, people would just overthrow your shitty system or circumvent it with black markets. So after thinking a bit longer about this, the requirements given in the initial comment seem not to be as straight forward as they may appear at first. What does sustainable mean? Is it sustainable if we make use of hunger to convince people to work? Is it implementable at the current population level if it entails something that the current population would never accept, say for ideological or religious reasons?
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Who haggles for anything besides cars in the us? Publish pricing and give estimates, shop around.
Huh? The pumping is automated, all you need to do is place the nooze and push a button? It seems crazy (like 5-star hotel level of service crazy) to have people in full time employment to do just that.
In the center yes, but as soon as you get to even Zone 3 you can easily find areas with 15-20+ min of walk to a tube station.
Designing expensive vertical market hardware that connects to the Internet around an embedded copy of Windows that never, ever gets updates is obviously insane, and yet that's the world we live in. It's well outside hospitals, etc - this is a world in which the SCADA worm was even possible.

More specifically on the NHS, it appears there was a decision in 2015 not to update some OSes because of Conservative budget cuts. I'm trying to track down details.
This isn't true in a medical environment - the devices have value "in the room" whether its device control, test results interpretation or organisation of staff, procedures or patients, you can't just lose every computing device during DDOS and switch to paper.

edit: regarding the "same building latency" do we want every hospital, clinic and doctor's office running its own local datacentre? That will come with its own availability horror stories. For something like the NHS a multi-region centralised AWS style datacentre makes sense.
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Am I wrong to say that app sandboxing would fix this kind of issues and a lot more(i.e. keyloggers) ?
"- Need space for a level floor, conduits/tunnel infrastructure and evacuation walkways"

Seems like you missed this part.
Microsoft, training the next generation of operations teams to use staging environments.
The EFF have set up a timelocked page[0] that holds your comments until after the "Sunshine Period" has ended and automatically posts them for you.

[0] https://dearfcc.org/
"If someone paid you money to kick a dog, you'd feel a strong urge to do something else."

Truth.
That info is old. They rewtote it. Look at GitHub, not quora.
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That's news to me. The free upgrade period is over[1].

The only free Windows 10 upgrade is the one for users of assistive technologies[2]. Of course, you can just pretend to be a user of assistive technologies, but I'm uncertain about the legal ramifications of doing so, regardless of whether or not you'll be caught.

Additionally, Windows 10 silently accepts Windows 7 and 8 product keys[3], but the legal situation is equally nebulous in the face of [1].

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12435/windows-10-up... "Is the Windows 10 free upgrade offer still available?" => "The Windows 10 free upgrade through the Get Windows 10 (GWX) app ended on July 29, 2016."

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows10upgra...

[3] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/you-can-acti...
In a medical environment there are two kind of devices:

- Critical devices (that in most cases don't even run Windows): already safe, because using higher security standards.

- Administration devices (patient reports, etc.): don't have local database. And if you don't have connection, your computer is useless. That's the reason of "computers are not working" on hospitals when network is down. So a network failure would be a denial of service both when running local applications accessing a remote database, and for the case of pure remote applications. With the difference that with pure remote applications the attack surface would be near-zero at client side.
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26 May 2015 "Thousands of computers still running Windows XP at risk after Government Digital Service opted not to renew support in April"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/26/uk-govern...
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> Try copying some Linux binaries between a few distros, a few release years apart and tell me again about stability.

The issue is the dynamic libraries (which are handled by distributions in different ways). Try statically compiling a binary like that and you'll find that it will work between distributions and kernel versions.

> Try the same with some Windows apps and compare and contrast.

Because they include their dynamic libraries with their programs, which has its own tradeoffs (updating security issues in shared libraries is much harder, even if you had a package manager on windows -- which you don't).

> It's all the auxiliary libraries, much larger surface area.

Right, but GP's point was that Linux doesn't have userland-to-kernel stability and I was saying that's simply not true. It's true that there is no stable upstream driver API but there are also solutions to that problem as well.
Even so, it still contains lots of helpful explanations and starting points for those who haven't learned to eat assembly for breakfast yet. Current OCaml docs and own exploration should do the rest.
It depends on your driver. I got conned in Athens too - the driver had a little button beside his gear stick that would add 1 Euro everytime he hit it. He pressed that button a lot, and the fare was around 40 Euros. I have him a 50, and he did a trick with his hand to produce a 5 Euro note that he said I have him, trying to get yet more money out of me.

Honestly, as a tourist I absolutely fucking hate taking taxis :-/
license is not an issue. I think I get it through msdna aswell as bizspark. But there were some incompatibiltiy issues, read my reply below.
The person in the booth is literally employed by the movie theater
There's also Drawbridge...
Can you cite any examples or describe the mechanism it would do that?
It's impressive that they had the patches, but chose to put the security of their customers on a lower level than making more money by forcing said customers to upgrade.
Not everyone wants to update to Windows 10. Windows 8.1 will receive extended support (e.g. security updates) until January 10, 2023.
Windows 7 and 8.1 product keys are still accepted and will continue to be.
Only GWX updates via WU were removed.
Not if you have cascaded data structures, have some kind of destructor like operations to call, synchronize threads, or if the memory allocator does a call into the OS to release the memory back to the OS.
If you buy stocks, you could argue that this money is not doing anything (except maybe the person who sold you the stock now has cash and is presumably doing something with it).
A) most arent uneducated nor lazy

B) them would never compete with those that were on an "educated" job at an earlier age and can bring years experience to a company

C) will drive fields to regulation and red taping because noone likes a massive influx of lower waged competition
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This has almost nothing to do with proprietary vs. open source. A patch for the vulnerability exploited here had been available for months.

The real problem is that organisations had devices sufficiently connected to be vulnerable that had not the patch applied. That leads to questions about software update policies within those organisations, and that in turn leads to some quite difficult questions about regulated medical devices and how they are supplied and maintained.
> We don't need a bill of rights. I have never had anyone give me a convincing argument on why a bill of rights is needed.

We don't have any legal (let alone constitutional) right to freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and a few other freedoms that are present in the US bill of rights. There are some laws that provide protections for certain kinds of political speech, but those are incredibly narrow compared to the First Amendment in the US. In fact the only people in Australia who have freedom of speech (even surpassing the US because libel laws don't apply to them) is politicians in the House of Reps and Senate -- ordinary citizens don't have those freedoms.

> I really wish they would teach better civics in schools.

To be frank we have more serious issues in our school system.
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I'll be interning in SF and study on the East Coast as well.

Shoot me an email!

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> We have much bigger problems than transportation of tourists, shoppers, and whoever is going to spend money at some trendy restaurant.

If the trendy restaurant people hop on first people from all walks of life will want to follow. But if you start with the needy that will stay your brand forever. Most bus systems are locked in that trap.
Please remove "?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral" from the URL.
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8.1 still gets updates until 2023. They only mean 8.0 with those packages. :)
They should add a clearer error message when trying to install an 8.0 package though.
> Blockstack solves the bootstrapping of trust problem by leveraging the most secure public blockchain.

i.e., Bitcoin, which is not named at any point. This seems odd.
You can unplug the ethernet cable, however. Or at least firewall it.
They'd be no incentive to upgrade otherwise.

XP is 16 years old! Microsoft is in a tough spot, this was a worldwide problem so they had no choice.

They should make the support contracts for old version quadruple in price for every year and offer incentives to upgrades. Better for them, more revenue and less bad press for MSFT.
Bitcoin shares the same limitations in scalability as all other blockchain-based crypto-currencies. The only difference is that Bitcoin is so popular that its limitations, scalability-wise, are becoming obvious.

There is no easy fix to adopt, so nothing has happened. Raising the block size isn't a fix, it just pushes the decentralization/throughput-equilibrium further towards "throughput" and further away from "decentralization".
They probably aren't gonna buy Ryzens.

IIRC Ryzen and Kaby Lake were both announced with "only Windows 10 is going to be officially supported"…
If you did the normal monthly patches for your 8.1, you should be safe, no need to download the ones for 8.0.
Now that's a PR problem.
Then it turns out parent is the ransomware vendor and the linked file turns out to contain the ransomware, with a few letters in the URL substituted for Unicode lookalikes so it appears to be a legitimate Windows update.

I'm not saying that's truly what's happening, but it's easy to imagine. I'd verify I'm connecting to the right domain and double-check with e.g. VirusTotal if I were you.
https://twitter.com/0xSpamTech/status/863224147576594432

Believe what you want of it of course.
That is an oversimplification and the precise point of our disagreement. I don't believe "administrative" devices are non-critical to providing care. The last time I saw an NHS doctor examine an xray - it was an XP box. Is organising ER triage non-critical too?

Distribution, redundancy and routing around faults should be our vision for these systems and IMHO edge devices get closer to that. There are many ways a hospital can still shunt data around and use it locally in an emergency without giving up due to failure of remote systems.
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You don't have the Google drive app installed anywhere?

If you do, this setup doesn't help recovery after a cryptolocker​. The encrypted backup would also be unusable.
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> But assuming that number of "jobs" for humans will decrease to zero is a big stretch.

It seems to me the amount of available work is steadily decreasing right now. Perhaps not towards zero, but we don't have to lose that much to need substantial reform. Once you reach over 30% unemployment, you have a big problem already.

There's an easy way to increase the number of jobs though: share the existing ones by reducing the work-week. We could start by shaving off a few hours, perhaps as much as a full day (for a 4 day work-week). Then decrease it further to match progress in automation. Of course, we should keep the salaries at the same levels, lest machine owners will just get a bigger and bigger share of the pie, just because they had starting capital the other workers didn't.
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The belief in chi/qi power is deeply rooted in Chinese martial arts. Something that has no scientific basis.

The point here is not which fighting style is better, but that the tai chi master does not have any mystical or superhuman chi power he can draw upon to defeat his opponent. This is "the fraud" Xu Xiaodong wished to expose.
One thing that's particularly absurd about this line: the headway (average time between trains) is 20 minutes, and they don't even publish the schedule! Meanwhile, the existing bus service along the same road will continue to operate at 6-8 minute intervals...
Do we even know medical devices were affected, the reporting has been so shallow I'm not sure whether they have or it was just administration.
Wait - a critical security update distributed via plain HTTP instead of HTTPS...? I checked all the links provided for my computers, too - they're all http://
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paywalled article.

As if the CFA weren't challenging enough of an examination without the AI, big data, and "robo-advice"?
Just one example why it's actually more than a "fudge factor": When you have an alternative hypothesis (like, "it's not really the energy") it's not that you just have to say so, you have to model your assumption with the formulas, the formulas then can be calculated and compared with the measurements, just like the calculations of the hypothesis "it's a real energy" can. The result is that the formulas that are described to those who just want the description as "it's a real energy" match the best with the measurements:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/04/11/no-d...

See the "Ned Wright, based on the latest data from Betoule et al." illustration in the text.

It's significantly more than "I say, he says."
Yup. Redirected me to the footer, then scrolling was a pain. Abandoned after reading the first few paragraphs.

Chrome on a Windows 10. The laptop is new and fast, so it's not a hardware issue.
I hope the NSA can be hold accountable for this and we can finally all agree that a government holding on to 0-days and asking for loophole encryption always bites back to the very people they claim to protect.
They can if they want to. It's called WSUS - Windows Server Update Services. But all it amounts to is a glorified local mirror and central point for pushing updates. You still don't know what individual updates do, still can't cherrypick individual fixes out of monthly rollups, still can't install some update without installing they prerequisite updates. And, like you pointed out, you can't fully trust the WSUS software, which also talks to Microsoft to update itself.

WSUS might delay or stop an attacker who takes over the MS distribution channel from publishing an update telling all target computers to shut themselves down right now. But a smarter attacker will distribute a time bomb as part of a legitimate update, that people will install for legitimate reasons, and that will be triggered after enough computers have installed it. The trigger may not even come via the Windows Update channel.

And to quote, "there's another theory that states that this has already happened."
You can't support everything forever, even with the kind of resources Microsoft has available. At some point you've got to tell people to upgrade off the old shit, we're not supporting it anymore (unless you pay us exorbitantly to do so...)
It doesn't wash away. They use some expensive paint for the purpose. It takes a while to dry.

And it's not defacing anything that could be defaced, it's mostly steel that hundreds of people step on every day.
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USB sticks that can use firmware-level filesystem tables and/or multiple host-visible partitions, pretend to be a hub that is hosting multiple devices (HID mouse+keyboard, etc) in addition to an autorun, etc.

Not only can you trivially make such a thing with an arduino but there are also some commercial USB sticks which have a persistent "background" filesystem that cannot be formatted away.

Anything that is run automatically in the background, like the thumbnail services.
It wasn't a good thing.
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Just Google "light rail vs bus" and you will get a variety of perspectives. It's a matter of some controversy.
Ryzen is amazing, I hope AMD fixes this via BIOS update for motherboards, so the updated microcode can be loaded before the OS boots.
Your comment is beyond silly. The whole point of numerical code is to perform predictably and within the performance constraints of the specific problem. Style purism is the worst kind of elitism - it's braggadocio for it's own sake without real world merit. Every solution to a problem should be evaluated in relation to the problem domain and constraints given. Sometimes the more understandable version is better. Sometimes the functional version is better. But there is no stencil based development methodology that would provide the best answer every time. And, yes, I like code too that does not have side-effects and reads more like math. That's not always the best code to solve a problem though (unlike in problem specification where striving for something like TLA+ like presentation usually has it's merits).
Are you serious? It's the very opposite.
Yes, I was referring to the "defer updates" feature. The Pro edition has a limited feature - you can defer updates a little while - if you're in a managed domain, you can defer for longer but not forever.

However, if you make a practice of not installing any security updates at all, you create a bunch of other not easily solved problems for yourself.
It's a 15 year old OS.
> Honestly, do we really like interacting with the people with minimum wage jobs? Not really.

It's sad how this socially destructive mindset has washed first over the US and then over the rest of the globe. The money religion has won.

I'm lucky to live in the French countryside, where solidarity is still a guiding principle for social interaction. The cinema in the closest town is run by a not-for-profit organisation, and the people who work there are volunteers (and tickets cost 3€ for adults). Likewise, our village feasts, meant to raise money for our small primary school, are organised by volunteers. Everyone contributes according to their abilities for the common good.

I'm not French and have only recently moved here, and I'm really impressed with the way people here take matters in their own hands and create social and economic value by volunteering.
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I spent a week in Berlin recently, and it shows how a comprehensive mass transit system ought to work. There are subways, trains, streetcars, and buses all linked together. It's a marvelous system. You can get anywhere in the metropolitan area quickly. There's no need to have a car at all.
The Hamburger Menu Icon is also shown on bigger viewports... something you might wanna fix ;)
I think ransomware is a very negative thing. It creates a mafia - protection money for continud functionality relationship - in the long run.
They can't force XP etc users to upgrade. Custom support accounts probably got the patches some time ago. This release is for all users of XP etc. I'm sure that most of them have no support contracts. And many are likely running pirated versions. Maybe this is PR-driven. But I can't imagine how it directly makes money for them.
Time and time again, Uber has shown that undercutting their competitors in pricing is not done through smart technology or better business models, but by avoiding regulations and getting away with inhumane wages.
Their (ex) customers placed their own security on a lower level themselves. WinXP is unsupported for quite some time and was given plenty of time to switch or upgrade.

What's impressive is how people manage to spin this into an anti MS rant even when Microsoft is doing the right thing (stopping support for paleolithic software).
This is what we did 10 years ago when I worked in a hospital.

We knew these devices were insecure by default. Some even shipped with a network enabled MS SQL Server with a blank sa-password. Quite literally a free root-kit.

Scientists and doctors working on these machines were forced to use portable storage (floppies, ZIP-drives or CD-RWs).

It was cumbersome, but no network was a strict policy, and it was there for a reason.
I completely disagree with your reasoning, and frankly find it downright infuriating. It feels straight up partisan and political.

Isn't it entirely plausible an attack of precisely this sort could occur in a world where Linux (or macOS, or templeOS, or whateverOS) is the go-to desktop OS? Isn't Windows the preferred target for attackers because of its ubiquity? How in the world would this be mitigated by "open source"?
Some companies have no choice but to run old systems.

For example in the labs I use there are plenty of equipment hooked up to PCs running Windows 95 and Windows 98. The equipment works fine. The proprietary software for the controller and the logging software is old and there is no version that works on newer systems. The only option is to buy a whole new kit which is a stupid waste of money. So we just use these stand alone Win 95/98 computers instead.
It is interesting that you compare ICO to the early days of the internet. Some people will definitely get very rich on this
Sounds like a raw deal for a bicycle, but, how about on a scooter?