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S Douglas wrote: I thought they completely gave up on creating a phone?
I know. Microsoft has been lazy and slow about doing phone technology.
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Dreamers, nothing but a dreamer. Then you put your head in your hands oh no!
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Microsoft will probably get there (phone) one day or another. They're too big to fail. 
Plus, there is a general phone-malaise right now so maybe MS could release the NEXT AMAZING THING.
The journalists would pounce on it because they are so bored right now.
Hey, maybe I'll create a phone based on a RPi Zero.  It's bound to blast off right now.
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Microsoft today announced that the free Windows 10 April 2018 Update (previously rumored to be called the Windows 10 Spring Creators Update) will begin rolling out on April 30, 2018. Just in case you're wondering why your machine is acting up
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So the 10 April update is coming on 30 April? 
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Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future. Its failure to achieve adoption to date is because systems built on trust, norms, and institutions inherently function better than the type of no-need-for-trusted-parties systems blockchain envisions. That’s permanent: no matter how much blockchain improves it is still headed in the wrong direction.
That whole trust thing is so overrated.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Medium nonsense: Its failure to achieve adoption to date is because systems built on trust, norms, and institutions inherently function better than the type of no-need-for-trusted-parties systems blockchain envisions.
BC doesn't require or rely on "trust". That is not a bad thing, it is one of the advantages.
The "failure to achieve adoption" is more nonsens. It is in use, but you don't have to expect any country to start using it instead of their own currency that they can control. That's another advantage btw.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Maybe read the article rather than just the quote before you comment
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You assume too much.
The part on trust is hilarious; Mediocre wrote: Blockchain systems do not magically make the data in them accurate or the people entering the data trustworthy, they merely enable you to audit whether it has been tampered with.
That "merely" isn't, and is a whole lot more than the capabilities of a normal bankaccount.
wrote: almost certainly artificially propped up by fake transactions involving billions of literally imaginary dollars.
Similar to how imaginary and non-existent gold is traded daily?
Rewriting history even: Eight hundred years ago in Europe — with weak governments unable to enforce laws and trusted counterparties few, fragile and far between — theft was rampant, safe banking was a fantasy,
Read up on the Medici-family.
Mistaken wrote: A decentralized, tamper-proof repository sounds like a great way to audit where your mango comes from, how fresh it is, and whether it has been sprayed with pesticides or not. But actually, laws on food labeling, nonprofit or government inspectors, an independent, trusted free press, empowered workers who trust whistleblower protections, credible grocery stores, your local nonprofit farmer’s market, and so on, do a way better job.
No, they don't; that's why today's headline here is that beef-meat from the supermarket should be returned for a refund. Its independence is theoretically only, proven by the large lobby.
Trust is in short supply. Get used to it 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: You assume too much.
It's just that you talk about bitcoin when the article was about blockchain, and the points you made were covered in the article.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: It's just that you talk about bitcoin when the article was about blockchain
That's what most people will associate it with.
F-ES Sitecore wrote: and the points you made were covered in the article.
Yes, albeit with a different conclusion - would be nice to show one or two examples of that, instead of quoting each sentence in a post here and list arguments for each.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The blog post makes some good points but is slightly hyperbolic to my mind.
The debate at the bottom of the page is one of the most interesting that I've seen on the bottom half of the internet for a long time.
Well worth a read.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Google co-founder says the company is giving ‘serious thought’ to problems like job destruction Except their AIs, of course
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US-based researchers have successfully kept alive the brain cells of decapitated pigs for 36 hours, sparking concerns over the ethics involved in such frontline research. That's longer than I can keep my brain alive
Assuming it is, I haven't heard from it in a while.
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The main thing notice and consent does is subtly communicate to users the idea that their privacy is a commodity that they trade for services. It certainly does not protect their privacy. It also hurts innocent people. You've gotta tell them! Corporations are people! We've gotta stop them somehow!
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Researchers in OSU's College of Science have developed an inorganic compound that adopts a crystal structure capable of sustaining a new state of matter known as quantum spin liquid, an important advance toward quantum computing. "Quantum spin liquid"? "Frustrated magnets"? Now they're just throwing words together.
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Being a little nervous from time to time gets a bad rap. "Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup."
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The European Union’s antitrust chief is weighing whether internet services are “essential” to modern life in the same way as electricity grids and telecommunications suppliers. "All I need is the air that I breathe"
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If you don’t have good connectivity to your data wherever it may reside, then it’s hard to do applications like artificial intelligence (AI) or analytics. They are very data dependent technologies. Mind your goesintas and goesoutas
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The PIN would be encrypted with a public key which can only be decrypted by the manufacturer's private key with a warrant "Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy."
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That was a really informative article and I have a few ideas on some of these problems.
As much as I don't like it...
On key to rule them all.
Form a company that is funded by the industry to generate and store one single private key. This key should be stored on a custom ROM stick and is only accessible by a custom built OS; both being on on-of-a-kind hardware. Both the ROM and the computer needed to read it should be stored behind heavy physical security such as in Fort Knox or at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Both items need separate layers of security such as ensuring that no one person can access both. Each participating company could get their own private key ROM for vanity purposes.
Now, since there might be dozens if not hundreds of decryption requests daily, there needs to be a convenient way to get this decryption. I think that we should go really old-school with this by using punch cards to physically carry the encrypted data to the vault where the custom computer reads the card, decrypts it, destroys the card, and prints out the decrypted passcode all in one step. And that's the crux of it.
While I can't offer any ideas to a security chip in the phone I can say that not all problems in the digital world have solutions that are exclusive to the digital world.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
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Foothill wrote: stored behind heavy physical security such as in Fort Knox or at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Good luck getting every country in the world to agree where the master decryption key should be stored.
And while you're at it: good luck convincing every single terrorist, paedophile, and other bad guy to switch from the current unbreakable encryption to your back-doored encryption.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Good luck getting every country in the world to agree where the master decryption key should be stored.
Possibly not a factor as U.S. law enforcement has no jurisdiction outside of U.S. borders, therefore only phones sold in the U.S. would be in-scope and have the option or requirement to be tethered to this encryption scheme. If other countries wanted to be part of the system, I would suggest some ultra-secure bank in Switzerland, Antarctica, or possibly the moon.
Richard Deeming wrote: And while you're at it: good luck convincing every single terrorist, paedophile, and other bad guy to switch from the current unbreakable encryption to your back-doored encryption.
Very true. It would have to be required on all phones by law in order to work. Here-in lies the problem because nobody wants "big brother" to be anywhere close to their encryption.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
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Foothill wrote: It would have to be required on all phones by law in order to work.
Because criminals are well know for obeying laws, right? 
Even if there was a way to get every country / state to agree, and to update every network to reject phones that didn't comply, how long would it take an organised crime syndicate to set up their own network?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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