Vernor Vinge
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| Author | Content |
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| ColonelPanik Dec 21, 2008 2:19 PM EST |
Read this one! Thats an order! NOW. This is my # ONE top of the list of most important of anything that happened in 2008. |
| Sander_Marechal Dec 21, 2008 7:23 PM EST |
I did. And then I clicked the Singularity link in the article and lost myself on Wikipedia. Interesting stuff! |
| tuxchick Dec 21, 2008 7:29 PM EST |
Vernor Vinge said:Quoting: One thing the last ten years have proved is that we seem to be very bad at thinking how stuff can be abused This is on Slashdot today: Quoting: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/21/1751210 |
| ColonelPanik Dec 21, 2008 9:36 PM EST |
TC: Those kids are going to be Linux Geeks. Great hack. |
| jezuch Dec 22, 2008 2:11 AM EST |
Quoting:One thing the last ten years have proved is that we seem to be very bad at thinking how stuff can be abused That's the most important observation in that interview. As also Bruce Schneier points out, too few people have what he calls "security mindset": http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_m... I, as a programmer, think about failure modes of my code *all the time*. I say it's the only way. |
| Bob_Robertson Dec 22, 2008 10:51 AM EST |
I note that both speed cameras and license plates are government programs. Woops, there I go again, identifying the actual source of the problem and thereby going off topic. |
| azerthoth Dec 22, 2008 11:23 AM EST |
+1 for Bob, good catch ... on all 3 counts. |
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