As an IT'er, i've always followed that encryption etc... is good and shouldn't be made easier to break for the government... That it's an all or nothing story etc...
But i like to make parallels to other things. And i'm now wondering... how is this any different than gun control? I'm from europe, decent gun control is something i take for granted. And the arguments i hear about no backdoors for encryption remind me soooo much of all the american NRA nutters about their needs to carry weapons. Is it really necessary to have every normal mobile phone properly encrypted so law enforcement can't even access it if there is useful data on it? There are ofcourse people who care more about encryption, and they'll make sure their devices are better encrypted. And seriously, who the hell is gonna hack your mobile phone? If it's about the principle, then you better also start carrying a weapon, because getting shot at or someone hacking your phone probably happen equally often.
Do we really need this hard stance towards encryption from the IT community? If you look at other fields where we aren't so invested ourselves, wouldn't we oppose such a strong opinion?
And even without the schedules, the sellers will tell you when they arrive. I wanted one, so i kept an eye on pihut, and they announced on their twitter when they'd have new stock, so i made sure i was ready to buy one then, and got one of the second batch they sold. And i'm by no means someone who uses twitter (literally the first time i've ever had use for it, found the post by googling). But if you really want one, how hard is it really to just keep up to date a bit with the shop you know sells it... they know it's important for their customers, so they'll warn them via the channels they have of when they will be available:).
If you don't have one right now, you just don't want it that hard, if you would have, you'd have taken the bit of time it takes to be up to date with when new batches arrive, and order one when it became available.
I read his post, and i don't see how it's overly harsh... if i went to some hyped up introduction of a new car, and it starts nearly 2 hours late, and i'm number 1300+ in line for mere 5 cars to have a "testdrive" in it... that's ridiculous >_.
Why disable it?? My ISP router is like that, and if you enable the public hotspot on yours, you can use those of others too (which i find incredibly useful:) ). And for security: all that router is allowed to do is have my decent router in its DMZ, and from there on i form my own network where i know exactly what devices i'm using:).
[2] No life means no downtrodden people to exploit.
Doesn't that just mean we have to put those people there? which is a great reason for returning there:). Just put them there, they can't get back without your help, and they need you for lots of vital things to stay alive. It's perfect!
I was thinking: sounds like a fair law, if then the state/police is fully responsible if their backdoor becomes public, and can be abused by others:). But then i think they'd not risk it, because they know the won't be able to keep their backdoor secret, and don't want to face the consequences:).
As someone who never got the point of drinking alcohol, i just love seeing all the addicts of this harddrug (come on, lets be honest:p) defend their habits XD.
As someone whose father basically drank himself to death, I hope you die in a fire. Then we can both get high on inappropriate schadenfreude.
Hmm, i did probably worded that a bit too harsh. Sorry for that. I meant all the people who come here complaining about how ridiculous the recommendation in the article is to rationalize their alcohol intake (and they would't usually be seen as addicts, although some probably are on a lesser scale). All them "social drinkers" who (as someone already reacted to my comment) are making sure to convince the entire world that you can't live without having drank (enough) alcohol:).
I don't have any schadenfreude with the real addicts (i just find it so terrible that our society trivializes alcohol so much that it's so easy to fall in that trap....). So i'm sorry if it came across like that, wasn't meant like that (and ofcourse also sorry for your loss).
"As someone who never got the point of drinking alcohol, i just love seeing all the addicts of this harddrug (come on, lets be honest:p) defend their habits XD"
You've really never lived have you. All you've done is watch a lot of propaganda, been afraid of the world and died slowly. Kinda sad.
Ah, here we have our first "you haven't lived if you haven't drank copious amounts of alcohol" guys XD. Well i have a very active & social life full of fun stuff to do and nice achievements XD. I feel like i'm living life to the fullest, but if you can't without alcohol, well i can:).
As someone who never got the point of drinking alcohol, i just love seeing all the addicts of this harddrug (come on, lets be honest:p) defend their habits XD. And yes, if you feel better by drinking alcohol, go for it, but don't start bitching when society points out it's not the healthiest habit (and can be quite addictive too).
More in general, i love seeing the eternal conflict of how we try to make alcohol appear innocent ^^. it's normal social thing to do, and it's normal to do dumb stuff when drunk, until you cross some extemely vague border and suddenly you're someone with a problem and an addiction and should get help XD. and doing dumb stuff is all awesome and great stories, until someone gets hurt or it gets sexual, and then it's all your fault XD (not society for saying that losing control by getting drunk is perfectly awesome XD).
But it appears a big part of society prefers it like that:). I choose not to drink (and can't say i feel like i'm missing out in any way ^^), but if other people feel better that way:). I guess it's not much different to weed becoming more accepted, some people just like mind altering substances:).
I bought a Synology NAS. I've got full control of my data, and sharing it in every possible way is extremely easy. They've got a ton of good packages you can use it with, so it's just installing the NAS, configuring your router, choosing which packages you want (ranging from just file browser in your browser, to a mediaplayer in your browser, to cloud like syncs, to every possible server you can imagine (vpn, web, svn, database, email,....)) and all fully under your control:). It may not be open source, but it does run linux:). so even if they don't give a package, you can get it on there yourself:). I'm very happy i made the decision to buy it, they're not that cheap, but they work very well:). I was also considering rolling my own, but it's just not worth it imo.
Sounds like as many users that can afford to sue should do that individually, and i wonder if it wouldn't cause problems for the judges/justice system to have tons of individual case where one big case would have sufficed. If they worked together they may even be able to bring the price down a bit on individual cases as there is a lot of work in common for all the cases. would love to see a real life "ddos" XD
I'm also wondering if there are solar systems (or whatever the proper name is) that aren't rare. Is there some standard kind of solar system that is very common?
lol XD are you serious XD
And the £ is exactly what i think, as i said, 5$ plus saletax would where i live mean pretty much exactly 6$, which is exactly 4£, so the price is correct:).
And that the supply is atm limited doesn't mean it's not a true 5$ computer... And i'm not some kind of hipster millenial XD (i'm a bit too old for that). But i'm very enthousiastic to lay my hands on these new devices (and also think it sucks i can't yet:p, missed the first batch). But that doesn't mean i go around complaining the price is wrong etc...
There are some awesome things happening now in this class of devices, and i'm greatly looking forward to it, but what i see most is just people complaining about how they're missing which should naturally be on the board, and that the price is a lie... and i'm getting fed up with both stupid complaints -_-. It's a minimal board, get over it, and it only just launched, naturally there are supply (and thus often also price) issues, have some patience -_-
Where does this bullshit keep coming from? Yes, some of the dealers started out only offering it as a bundle (with some extra cables etc...) at ofcourse an increased price. But for example pihut immediately sold it at 4£ which basically is the 5$ plus sales tax. So just wait for more to be produced, and you'll definitely be able to get it at the advertised price -_-.
well, i have to correct myself, they were 3$, and had thousands of happy comments from buyers saying they work perfectly and are plug & play on rpi:)so i'm not all that worried. and for my first application i hope them to achieve a range of a few meters without anything in between:p
yes it was, at least at pihut you could opt for not going with the package, and just get the pi zero for the stated price. and they probably had a few thousand pieces available, with only 1 per customer allowed, so i don't know what you call a handful of people...
i'm also can't believe the comments when i saw this i ordered some dirt cheap usb wifi adapters from china (that are raspberry compatible) 2$ a piece or so, i'll order some raspbery pi zero's asap (and chip too once the become available), and i've got some fun projects in mind where the ram & processing power of the arduino likes isn't enough, and wifi connectivity would be nice:). i've basically been counting down until i could lay my hands on micro pc's like this to do some fun embedded projects around the house:).
I'm wondering how feasible it is to have separate devices handle the security. It should be more feasible than having every device be secure? any programmer from any supplier in the entire hospital can now break the security, and everything is down the drain... seeing how cheap small computers are now, how hard would it be to put a small secure module before each machine securing everything? I think that would be a far more feasible approach in getting a hospital secure!
Are you serious? How on earth can environmentalism occur naturally if just raping the earth is economically advantageous rather than doing things a bit more sanely? How will doing the environmental thing ever be better if we don't impose such regulations, restrictions, laws,...? How will properly handling your waste ever be more economical than just dumping it somewhere and not care about it anymore? How will having your cars be economical ever be better than just making wasteful car that is far less complex?
I do agree that not every environmental attempt that is made is the biggest success, and that there often is too much wishful thinking, but waiting until it occurs naturally doesn't seem the way to go either...
You do have one point i guess, killing elephants for their tusks will occur naturally once there aren't any left... as will air polution once it's so terribly polluted that it becomes such a big health risk that noone can ignore it. But i do prefer people trying to stop things before that point, by trying to manipulate the economics of such acts via laws, regulations,...
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As an IT'er, i've always followed that encryption etc... is good and shouldn't be made easier to break for the government... That it's an all or nothing story etc...
But i like to make parallels to other things. And i'm now wondering... how is this any different than gun control? I'm from europe, decent gun control is something i take for granted. And the arguments i hear about no backdoors for encryption remind me soooo much of all the american NRA nutters about their needs to carry weapons.
Is it really necessary to have every normal mobile phone properly encrypted so law enforcement can't even access it if there is useful data on it? There are ofcourse people who care more about encryption, and they'll make sure their devices are better encrypted. And seriously, who the hell is gonna hack your mobile phone? If it's about the principle, then you better also start carrying a weapon, because getting shot at or someone hacking your phone probably happen equally often.
Do we really need this hard stance towards encryption from the IT community? If you look at other fields where we aren't so invested ourselves, wouldn't we oppose such a strong opinion?
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And even without the schedules, the sellers will tell you when they arrive. :).
I wanted one, so i kept an eye on pihut, and they announced on their twitter when they'd have new stock, so i made sure i was ready to buy one then, and got one of the second batch they sold. And i'm by no means someone who uses twitter (literally the first time i've ever had use for it, found the post by googling). But if you really want one, how hard is it really to just keep up to date a bit with the shop you know sells it... they know it's important for their customers, so they'll warn them via the channels they have of when they will be available
If you don't have one right now, you just don't want it that hard, if you would have, you'd have taken the bit of time it takes to be up to date with when new batches arrive, and order one when it became available.
I read his post, and i don't see how it's overly harsh... if i went to some hyped up introduction of a new car, and it starts nearly 2 hours late, and i'm number 1300+ in line for mere 5 cars to have a "testdrive" in it... that's ridiculous >_.
Why disable it?? :) ). :).
My ISP router is like that, and if you enable the public hotspot on yours, you can use those of others too (which i find incredibly useful
And for security: all that router is allowed to do is have my decent router in its DMZ, and from there on i form my own network where i know exactly what devices i'm using
[2] No life means no downtrodden people to exploit.
Doesn't that just mean we have to put those people there? which is a great reason for returning there :).
Just put them there, they can't get back without your help, and they need you for lots of vital things to stay alive. It's perfect!
If you had read to the end of the summary, you would have noticed that it's a passive film that stops conducting if it gets too hot.
I was thinking: sounds like a fair law, if then the state/police is fully responsible if their backdoor becomes public, and can be abused by others :). But then i think they'd not risk it, because they know the won't be able to keep their backdoor secret, and don't want to face the consequences :).
As someone who never got the point of drinking alcohol, i just love seeing all the addicts of this harddrug (come on, lets be honest :p) defend their habits XD.
As someone whose father basically drank himself to death, I hope you die in a fire. Then we can both get high on inappropriate schadenfreude.
Hmm, i did probably worded that a bit too harsh. Sorry for that. I meant all the people who come here complaining about how ridiculous the recommendation in the article is to rationalize their alcohol intake (and they would't usually be seen as addicts, although some probably are on a lesser scale). All them "social drinkers" who (as someone already reacted to my comment) are making sure to convince the entire world that you can't live without having drank (enough) alcohol :).
I don't have any schadenfreude with the real addicts (i just find it so terrible that our society trivializes alcohol so much that it's so easy to fall in that trap....). So i'm sorry if it came across like that, wasn't meant like that (and ofcourse also sorry for your loss).
"As someone who never got the point of drinking alcohol, i just love seeing all the addicts of this harddrug (come on, lets be honest :p) defend their habits XD"
You've really never lived have you. All you've done is watch a lot of propaganda, been afraid of the world and died slowly. Kinda sad.
Ah, here we have our first "you haven't lived if you haven't drank copious amounts of alcohol" guys XD. :).
Well i have a very active & social life full of fun stuff to do and nice achievements XD. I feel like i'm living life to the fullest, but if you can't without alcohol, well i can
i thought that was already disproved (or at least disproved that the alcohol intake was the reason)
As someone who never got the point of drinking alcohol, i just love seeing all the addicts of this harddrug (come on, lets be honest :p) defend their habits XD.
And yes, if you feel better by drinking alcohol, go for it, but don't start bitching when society points out it's not the healthiest habit (and can be quite addictive too).
More in general, i love seeing the eternal conflict of how we try to make alcohol appear innocent ^^. it's normal social thing to do, and it's normal to do dumb stuff when drunk, until you cross some extemely vague border and suddenly you're someone with a problem and an addiction and should get help XD. and doing dumb stuff is all awesome and great stories, until someone gets hurt or it gets sexual, and then it's all your fault XD (not society for saying that losing control by getting drunk is perfectly awesome XD).
But it appears a big part of society prefers it like that :). I choose not to drink (and can't say i feel like i'm missing out in any way ^^), but if other people feel better that way :). I guess it's not much different to weed becoming more accepted, some people just like mind altering substances :).
Same here, but it sure does sound like something that will send you to the emergency room
i meant not every app/package that comes along.
the kernel is open, but the rest is not
I bought a Synology NAS. I've got full control of my data, and sharing it in every possible way is extremely easy. They've got a ton of good packages you can use it with, so it's just installing the NAS, configuring your router, choosing which packages you want (ranging from just file browser in your browser, to a mediaplayer in your browser, to cloud like syncs, to every possible server you can imagine (vpn, web, svn, database, email, ....)) and all fully under your control :). :). so even if they don't give a package, you can get it on there yourself :). :). I was also considering rolling my own, but it's just not worth it imo.
It may not be open source, but it does run linux
I'm very happy i made the decision to buy it, they're not that cheap, but they work very well
Sounds like as many users that can afford to sue should do that individually, and i wonder if it wouldn't cause problems for the judges/justice system to have tons of individual case where one big case would have sufficed. If they worked together they may even be able to bring the price down a bit on individual cases as there is a lot of work in common for all the cases.
would love to see a real life "ddos" XD
I'm also wondering if there are solar systems (or whatever the proper name is) that aren't rare.
Is there some standard kind of solar system that is very common?
lol XD :).
are you serious XD
And the £ is exactly what i think, as i said, 5$ plus saletax would where i live mean pretty much exactly 6$, which is exactly 4£, so the price is correct
And that the supply is atm limited doesn't mean it's not a true 5$ computer... :p, missed the first batch). But that doesn't mean i go around complaining the price is wrong etc...
And i'm not some kind of hipster millenial XD (i'm a bit too old for that). But i'm very enthousiastic to lay my hands on these new devices (and also think it sucks i can't yet
There are some awesome things happening now in this class of devices, and i'm greatly looking forward to it, but what i see most is just people complaining about how they're missing which should naturally be on the board, and that the price is a lie... and i'm getting fed up with both stupid complaints -_-. It's a minimal board, get over it, and it only just launched, naturally there are supply (and thus often also price) issues, have some patience -_-
Where does this bullshit keep coming from?
Yes, some of the dealers started out only offering it as a bundle (with some extra cables etc...) at ofcourse an increased price. But for example pihut immediately sold it at 4£ which basically is the 5$ plus sales tax.
So just wait for more to be produced, and you'll definitely be able to get it at the advertised price -_-.
well, i have to correct myself, they were 3$, and had thousands of happy comments from buyers saying they work perfectly and are plug & play on rpi :)so i'm not all that worried. and for my first application i hope them to achieve a range of a few meters without anything in between :p
yes it was, at least at pihut you could opt for not going with the package, and just get the pi zero for the stated price.
and they probably had a few thousand pieces available, with only 1 per customer allowed, so i don't know what you call a handful of people...
it was immediately available, you just were too late (and so was this article :p)
i'm also can't believe the comments :). :).
when i saw this i ordered some dirt cheap usb wifi adapters from china (that are raspberry compatible) 2$ a piece or so, i'll order some raspbery pi zero's asap (and chip too once the become available), and i've got some fun projects in mind where the ram & processing power of the arduino likes isn't enough, and wifi connectivity would be nice
i've basically been counting down until i could lay my hands on micro pc's like this to do some fun embedded projects around the house
I'm wondering how feasible it is to have separate devices handle the security.
It should be more feasible than having every device be secure? any programmer from any supplier in the entire hospital can now break the security, and everything is down the drain...
seeing how cheap small computers are now, how hard would it be to put a small secure module before each machine securing everything? I think that would be a far more feasible approach in getting a hospital secure!
Are you serious? How on earth can environmentalism occur naturally if just raping the earth is economically advantageous rather than doing things a bit more sanely? ...?
How will doing the environmental thing ever be better if we don't impose such regulations, restrictions, laws,
How will properly handling your waste ever be more economical than just dumping it somewhere and not care about it anymore? How will having your cars be economical ever be better than just making wasteful car that is far less complex?
I do agree that not every environmental attempt that is made is the biggest success, and that there often is too much wishful thinking, but waiting until it occurs naturally doesn't seem the way to go either...
You do have one point i guess, killing elephants for their tusks will occur naturally once there aren't any left... as will air polution once it's so terribly polluted that it becomes such a big health risk that noone can ignore it. But i do prefer people trying to stop things before that point, by trying to manipulate the economics of such acts via laws, regulations, ...