final | 11 years ago | on: “Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered
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final | 11 years ago | on: “Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered
Wow, so naive. The Third Reich was established in 1933, WW2 started in 1939. It didn't have time to invent much or to build industry anew. 90% of the technology came from US - directly from US government or through companies like Standard Oil and Ford. Thousands of factories got sold on the cheap in the US after the Great Recession started and all the equipment moved to Germany. A process quite similar to the outsourcing of the last 25 years or so.
final | 11 years ago | on: Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program
It will target as wide a group as possible. It`s just a small backdoor, that lets the agency that should not be named to install a full rootkit at will.
final | 11 years ago | on: Why Google Fiber will never come to Seattle (2014)
Imagine all the information they can collect about what Microsoft is doing/planning.
final | 11 years ago | on: Why Google Fiber will never come to Seattle (2014)
People's web usage data is a valuable asset. IMHO most ISPs are very likely selling it to Google and others.
final | 11 years ago | on: My Adventures with “4K” 2160p and Linux
You probably saw Dell's 28'' 4K monitor, that uses a TN matrix.
final | 11 years ago | on: Apple and IBM Deliver First Wave of IBM MobileFirst for iOS Apps
Only the devices sold in US.
final | 11 years ago | on: Apple and IBM Deliver First Wave of IBM MobileFirst for iOS Apps
Fuel costs are not increasing. Shipping across oceans is extremely cheap. Way more more manufacturing is moving US -> China, than the opposite.
final | 11 years ago | on: If 16-bit Windows had a single input queue, how did you debug applications?
Borland got rid of Anders, he was constantly criticizing the move away from dev tools to enterprise platforms.
final | 11 years ago | on: Leaving Gmail Behind (2013)
What are you trying to say? I should shut up, because nobody cares about my opinion or something else?
final | 11 years ago | on: Leaving Gmail Behind (2013)
That doesn't surprise me. Google and the hacker/startup community have vastly different and often opposing interests.
In the end Google is the biggest advertising agency in the world. Advertising makes money by pushing people to make irrational choices - buy products and services that they don't need; buy from the vendor with bigger marketing budget, rather than superior engineering; overspend on stuff they need - e.g. cars, etc.
final | 11 years ago | on: Leaving Gmail Behind (2013)
Hah, so now setting up your own email server is Google bashing, running Linux is Microsoft bashing and drinking water is Coca-Cola bashing ...
final | 11 years ago | on: Regin: Top-tier espionage tool enables stealthy surveillance
Well people are sending suspicious files to the AV vendors all the time, so Symantec may have found the backdoor a lot later and then found it existing in their DBs.
final | 11 years ago | on: Regin: Top-tier espionage tool enables stealthy surveillance
Haven't been able or were persuaded not to.
final | 11 years ago | on: Facebook, Microsoft, Apple Make Year-End Lobbying Push to Curb NSA Spying
Because the "support" is just a PR move.
final | 11 years ago | on: Doing Business in Japan
Interesting - what are the high barriers to starting a business in Europe?
AFAIK most countries in EU have higher unemployment benefits and other social protections than US (many ppl live on benefits while starting a business). People who say leave a mega corp to do a starup still have health insurance. Registering a company take a few hours. Most countries have all kinds of tax subsidies for the founders, investors and employees of new businesses.
final | 11 years ago | on: Why I wish C# never got async/await
Yield, foreach, LINQ all have many similar problems, compared to a for loop, but nonetheless greatly increase productivity. Given a little time, the devs will learn to use async properly.
final | 11 years ago | on: Why I wish C# never got async/await
C# await is a low level level construct that you can use to efficiently implement coroutines. The opposite is not true. Anders&Co designed a tool that has some rough edges (compared to say F# async computation expressions), but compiles to a small amount of low overhead Task operations.
final | 11 years ago | on: Mathematical “urban legends”
The non-funny thing is 99.99999999% of people won't understand the basics of calculus is such a time span.
final | 11 years ago | on: Countries where Americans can study at universities, in English, for free
Interesting. I studied low at Harvard for two years in the middle 80s. Around 75% of my colleagues were from "yacht club" families. Maybe the things have changed since.
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