The guy is probably just butthurt that Android made "desktop Linux" irrelevant. Canonical has spent more than a decade in the game and can't even scrape together 200 million users without inflating the count, yet Google passed that in just a couple of years with Android.
All of his claims are not right. The "users" of Ubuntu are the ones running the servers. I'm not an Ubuntu user simply because I make a web request to some headless Ubuntu server at some random location in the world. That's the silliest definition of "user" ever imagined up, but it's about all the people have who have been trying to claim "Year of the Linux desktop!!" since the 90s.
Next up, you're a Ford owner because the Uber car you got a ride in was made by Ford.
No, both are not right. You are not an Ubuntu user by watching a movie rendered on Ubuntu or because some headless Ubuntu server sends you a video stream. That's just bullshit trying to inflate user numbers.
Sure, if you're a criminal or a state agency, but not anyone else. Weak crypto means you can trick people into thinking their communications are secure while your snooping.
please think a little bit outside of the box of your own environment, and act responsibly.
And acting responsibly is to remove insecure crypto not to keep it around. Are you ignorant of all the crypto downgrade attacks that have been found just in the last year?
Keeping it around also makes everyone more vulnerable. Hope the people complaining about this enjoy the imminent downgrade attacks that will be used to MITM them.
Because if the history of Internet cryptography has shown us is that keeping around old ciphers and hashing algorithms is a wonderful idea. *rolls eyes*
Weak crypto is not better than nothing. Weak crypto can be decrypted and keeping it around means everyone is potentially vulnerable to downgrade attacks.
If killing people on the highway hacks out fixes, leading to quality AI for cars just a year or two sooner than a measured approach does, you will have net saved several million lives over a handful of people.
So you're going to make sure to offer up yourself and your family to be the first people to be killed, right?
Blitzer pointed out that major tech companies have resisted government requests to access encrypted communications. He asked candidate Carly Fiorina if the companies should be forced to cooperate with the FBI.
"They do not need to be forced. They need to be asked to bring the best and brightest, the most recent technology to the table. I was asked as a CEO [of HP]. I complied happily. And they will as well. But they have not been asked," Fiorina said.
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You didn't realize you were a Chevy owner simply by riding in one? How silly of you.
The guy is probably just butthurt that Android made "desktop Linux" irrelevant. Canonical has spent more than a decade in the game and can't even scrape together 200 million users without inflating the count, yet Google passed that in just a couple of years with Android.
Then this guy isn't shooting high enough. There's got to be at least 6 billion Ubuntu users in that crowd if you twist the facts hard enough.
All of his claims are not right. The "users" of Ubuntu are the ones running the servers. I'm not an Ubuntu user simply because I make a web request to some headless Ubuntu server at some random location in the world. That's the silliest definition of "user" ever imagined up, but it's about all the people have who have been trying to claim "Year of the Linux desktop!!" since the 90s.
Next up, you're a Ford owner because the Uber car you got a ride in was made by Ford.
No, he's trying to claim silly things like watching The Hobbit makes you an Ubuntu user:
Did you enjoy watching The Hobbit? Hunger Games? Avengers? Avatar? All rendered on Ubuntu at WETA Digital. Among many others.
No, both are not right. You are not an Ubuntu user by watching a movie rendered on Ubuntu or because some headless Ubuntu server sends you a video stream. That's just bullshit trying to inflate user numbers.
His claims get even more absurd than that:
Did you enjoy watching The Hobbit? Hunger Games? Avengers? Avatar? All rendered on Ubuntu at WETA Digital. Among many others.
You're an Ubuntu user from watching a movie? LOL this is prime trollbait.
Loss leaders to generate service revenue
So what? If they make and sell hardware they are in the hardware business.
You're wrong. Weak crypto is better than nothing.
Sure, if you're a criminal or a state agency, but not anyone else. Weak crypto means you can trick people into thinking their communications are secure while your snooping.
And why should the rest of us be vulnerable to protocol downgrade attacks because a group of people are too cheap to upgrade their shit?
please think a little bit outside of the box of your own environment, and act responsibly.
And acting responsibly is to remove insecure crypto not to keep it around. Are you ignorant of all the crypto downgrade attacks that have been found just in the last year?
And to add, I don't believe that this removal of SHA-1 is to force OS or hardware upgrades, but your claims were simply patently false.
Considering MS is not in the hardware business
So they make phones, tablets, consoles, their own laptop, fitness bands and keyboards and mice but they aren't in the hardware business?
Windows 10 was free,
For one year and only for consumers.
and MS is betting its future revenue on cloud services instead of Windows Server licenses.
And yet those licenses are still a big portion of their revenue and revenue from that grew 6% just their last quarter.
So you'd prefer more crypto downgrade attacks?
Keeping it around also makes everyone more vulnerable. Hope the people complaining about this enjoy the imminent downgrade attacks that will be used to MITM them.
Because if the history of Internet cryptography has shown us is that keeping around old ciphers and hashing algorithms is a wonderful idea. *rolls eyes*
Weak crypto is not better than nothing. Weak crypto can be decrypted and keeping it around means everyone is potentially vulnerable to downgrade attacks.
The post was this new thing called "sarcasm". It was just invented last week which is why you've probably not heard of it yet.
They won the day the Patriot Act was passed.
Members of the "home of the brave" are pissing themselves over "Duh Mooslims!!"
He's more than free to test his system on his own private roads and test tracks. If he wants to use public streets he's gonna be held liable.
Making progress doesn't mean you get to put other people's lives in jeopardy without their consent or being held liable for it.
If killing people on the highway hacks out fixes, leading to quality AI for cars just a year or two sooner than a measured approach does, you will have net saved several million lives over a handful of people.
So you're going to make sure to offer up yourself and your family to be the first people to be killed, right?
Except not:
Blitzer pointed out that major tech companies have resisted government requests to access encrypted communications. He asked candidate Carly Fiorina if the companies should be forced to cooperate with the FBI.
"They do not need to be forced. They need to be asked to bring the best and brightest, the most recent technology to the table. I was asked as a CEO [of HP]. I complied happily. And they will as well. But they have not been asked," Fiorina said.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
Banning municipal governments from providing broadband services that its citizens vote for is "small government"? In what alternate universe?
do you think 64-bit Flash will be less prone to exploits?)
Yes, for things like ASLR to actually be useful at exploit mitigation you need a 64-bit OS.