Alexander Stannigel — erstaunt.Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2018
#50
Bei uns geht's langsam erst richtig los und auf der anderen Seite des Großen Teiches bauen sie das aufgrund steigender «Verluste» schon wieder ab.
«Jeder, der mehr als die Hälfte seiner Waren beim Self-Checkout bezahlt, ist ein Vollidiot. Es gibt keine moralischen Einwände in einer Filiale zu stehlen, die dich zu Nutzung von Self-Checkouts zwingt. Sie stellen dir in Rechnung, dass du in ihrer Filiale arbeitest.»
«Beneath the bland veneer of supermarket automation lurks an ugly truth: There’s a lot of shoplifting going on in the self-scanning checkout lane. But don’t call it shoplifting. The guys in loss prevention prefer ‹external shrinkage.› […] Whether out of social responsibility or frustration with shrinkage, some retailers, including Albertsons, Big Y Supermarket, Pavilions, and Vons, have scaled back or eliminated self-scanning, at least in some stores. But others continue to add it.»
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«‹Anyone who pays for more than half of their stuff in self checkout is a total moron. […] There is NO MORAL ISSUE with stealing from a store that forces you to use self checkout, period. THEY ARE CHARGING YOU TO WORK AT THEIR STORE.›»
Alexander Stannigel — neugierig.Sonnabend, 20. Januar 2018
#49
Eigentlich 'ne witzige Idee: Martin Schulz stellt sich als Kanzler einer SPD-geführten Minderheitsregierung zur Wahl und dann gucken wir mal was passiert…
«[Die] SPD kann entweder Angela Merkel zwingen, eine Minderheitsregierung zu führen – oder sie kann selbst eine Minderheitsregierung anführen. […] Denn er hat zwar keine absolute Mehrheit der Stimmen im Bundestag hinter sich, weil es eben keine Koalition gibt, schon gar nicht unter Führung der SPD. Aber Martin Schulz braucht auch keine absolute Mehrheit: Nach Art. 63 des Grundgesetzes reicht es, im dritten Wahlgang die meisten Stimmen zu bekommen. Mit anderen Worten: Die SPD-Fraktion kann ihn ganz allein zum Kanzler wählen – sofern niemand von der Union antritt.»
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«Schließlich wäre eine Minderheitsregierung, egal mit wem als Kanzler(in), eine Sternstunde des Bundestages. Denn der Bundestag – immerhin die Vertretung des Volkes – würde wieder zu einem Raum der Debatten und zum eigentlichen Machtzentrum.»
Alexander Stannigel — hat einen Artikel geteilt:Sonntag, 14. Januar 2018
#48
Ist das jetzt beruhigend oder beängstigend, dass man überall die gleichen Probleme bei IT-Großprojekten hat? Ob selbstfahrende Autos auch so entwickelt werden?
Mal abgesehen von der Geschichte, dass die Antivirus-Hersteller Microsoft verklagt haben, als die ein paar alte, völlig unsichere API's zumachen wollten, womit die AV-Produkte hätten überarbeitet werden müssen, wozu die allerdings keine Lust hatten und damit riesige architektonische Sicherheitslücken offen bleiben mussten...
«In many cases, these security changes meant deep architectural changes were required to third party solutions. And most ecosystem vendors were not incented to invest heavily in their legacy apps. Some of these solutions took the unorthodox approach of modifying data structures and even instructions in the kernel in order to implement their functionality, bypassing APIs and multiprocessor locks that often caused havoc. At one point, something like 70% of all Windows ‹blue screens› were caused by these third party drivers and their unwillingness to use supported APIs to implement their functionality. Antivirus vendors were notorious for using this approach.»
«In my role as the head of Microsoft security, I personally spent several years explaining to antivirus vendors why we would no longer allow them to ‹patch› kernel instructions and data structures in memory, why this was a security risk, and why they needed to use approved APIs going forward, that we would no longer support their legacy apps with deep hooks in the Windows kernel – the same approach that hackers were using to attack consumer systems. Our ‹friends›, the antivirus vendors, turned around and sued us, claiming we were blocking their livelihood and abusing our monopoly power! With friends like that, who needs enemies? They just wanted their old solutions to keep working even if that meant reducing the security of our mutual customers – the very thing they were supposed to be improving.»
«the leitmotif for Trump about his own campaign was how crappy it was […] When Mercer and his daughter Rebekah presented their plan to take over the campaign and install their lieutenants, Steve Bannon and Conway, Trump didn't resist. He only expressed vast incomprehension about why anyone would want to do that. ‹This thing,› he told the Mercers, ‹is so fucked up.› […] — In the end, the best Trump would do is to loan the campaign $10 million, provided he got it back as soon as they could raise other money. Steve Mnuchin, the campaign’s finance chairman, came to collect the loan with the wire instructions ready to go so Trump couldn’t conveniently forget to send the money.»
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«Once he lost, Trump would be both insanely famous and a martyr to Crooked Hillary. His daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared would be international celebrities. Steve Bannon would become the de facto head of the tea-party movement. Kellyanne Conway would be a cable-news star. Melania Trump, who had been assured by her husband that he wouldn’t become president, could return to inconspicuously lunching. Losing would work out for everybody. Losing was winning.»