This is a dangerous short term move. In the end it may create a division and popularize other social medias where this content and worse will still be available in an unmoderated space.
The problem with Facebook and Twitter is that everybody is on Facebook and Twitter. Some alternative comes up (let's call it Foo) that lets Trump speak freely. How many Facebook people are going to move to Foo to hear Trump? (Remember that the value of a social network is proportional to the square of the number of people there, and nobody's on Foo yet.) Sure, some will go, and Foo becomes a nest of die-hard Trump supporters. And over there, they get worse, more hardened in their position. They also don't get many new converts, because if you're not already a hard-core Trump supporter, why on earth would you go to Foo?
Is that better or worse than the current situation? I think it's better, because it shuts down the recruitment pipeline.
The popular vote for the presidential election was 51% to 47%. There are more than enough disaffected conservatives to allow Foo to not just survive but even become a roaring success, particularly if boosted with endorsements from leaders in that party. To believe that deplatforming people "shuts down the recruitment pipeline" for a political movement with such broad popularity is wishful thinking.
I had to update a Windows 7 laptop recently and the process was far from easy, the update process hang at 100% cpu for hours and I had to manually install the monthly update rollout, average people won't do that and just disable the updates.
That is what hasn't been mentioned in this thread. Around half of the Win7 systems I get asked to look at never actually pull updates because it's stuck checking forever. This is due to a WSUS client bug. Fix used to be to take the system offline and instal 3 hotfixes... not user friendly or obvious so it doesn't ever get done by end user.
Same... I have this old Windows 7 laptop I hadn't used in a couple of years... I had to wake it up again to do some testing of my new app on Windows, and the upgrade was just a total nightmare... I had to follow the old procedure on this [Microsoft forum](https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-...), which took me hours to do!
If it wasn't for the WannaCry problem, I wouldn't even have bothered!
Exactly. I've seen this problem on Windows 7 as far back as 2012. Any machine that is not constantly receiving updates will run into this issue sooner or later. On weaker machines, the update process will actually eat all the machine's memory and likely never finish. Also, the manual update which fixes this problem changes every few months. At this point I feel that Microsoft just wants to discourage people from using Windows 7.
Yeah, that dead horse called "New OS-Software every five years" still has some miles to go, before acceptance sets in- that buisness customers prefer stability over shiny any day and Infrastructure now sells as a service.
The technique is not about the initial validation of a self-signed certificate, its about a pinned self-sign certificate that you trust but want to be able to revoke in the future.
For web site with authentication (e.g. bank account), protocols like SRP (Secure Remote Password) would prevent the man-in-the-middle if he doesn't know your password. SRP is a mutual authentication protocol with zero knowledge and forward secrecy, it would be nice if major browsers supported it, it's not usable without browser support.
I think people don't realise how far we are from an autonomous form of artificial intelligence, even if we knew how to create a self-thinking machine, we don't have the hardware yet to make it work. While it's not impossible that we achieve it one day, its more plausible that we'll blow off the planet ourselves or that we get hit by an asteroid.
This AI debate is a hype right now, but I think it's missing the point. What we need to consider is how the realistic advance of AI will affect our lives. It's not about if machines will take over the planet, it's about if it's gonna make us lazy, stupid and unemployed.
