The concern is the same concern that says "Never run a web browser with admin privileges". Doing a particular task with root privileges is fine; doing everything by default with root is just asking for a nasty accident or exploit.
So what you're basically saying is that by default, there is no root account to log into directly? Thanks for spending your (surely very valuable) time verifying this trivial aspect of that post, even though it was irrelevant to the poster's overall point.
No, thats not what hes saying. "sudo passwd -u root" requests elevated rights to reset the password for the root account, which is by default completely random. The account does already exist, as it cant not exist on a linux box (afaik).
Ubuntu is just designed to prevent you from using it, as sudo and gksudo are the preferred methods of gaining root privileges.
I dont think you really have any idea in how the MSS is different than the NSA.
Lets start with the fact that the MSS gives no craps, they straight up block sites like Google who dont play the censorship game, and they inject malicious javascript into millions of citizens sessions to enact a government-run DDOS of foreign sites.
The things the NSA does that are violations of our principles are extra-ordinary. The things that the MSS does on that scale are ordinary, expected, and well documented.
How about the fact that if you think the NSA does some crazy malware stuff with Flame and Stuxnet, at least they tend to confine it to foreign political targets. China has probably the largest censorship and MITM infrastructure in the world, and actively uses it to pull average citizens into a government run botnet to DDOS western sites.
Not to mention that any sufficiently large business needs to have the explicit blessing of the powers that be in China.
All of that combined means you would have to be crazy to trust Qihoo; the FSB-affiliated Kaspersky is more trustworthy. Installing Qihoo gives one of the most technically competent, politically repressive organizations in the world root access to your computer. That more than anything is sufficient reason to not use them.
Call me when Symantec has close ties to a government that denies the Tianenmen Square massacre and actively represses search results on it.
Not sure if you've been watching the news, but China has been using Baidu effectively as a botnet because they are able to intercept and modify javascript sent via HTTP.
Stops a lot of threats, even if you're just a hobbyist; it ensures that an attacker cant just intercept your hobby page and drop a bunch of exploit kits on it.
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pre-embryos are some neoconservative evangelical dry-hump term used to justify strange ballot measures
Because as we know, the New Yorker is a hotbed of neoconservative evangelical activity.
If you're worried about the bigger principle and the slippery slope, censorship is a far bigger worry than folks not telling the difference between an ad and a search.
Obviously its such fantasies as "Armenian Genocide" and "Tianenmen Square", duh. I have it on good authority from the countries involved, they would know.
But if theyre the ones making the packages, they sort of have the say in how those packages are built. That is to say, if you dont like it, build your own packages. It seems perfectly legitimate to me for a software developer to make choices that may have tradeoffs in order to reduce the complexity of the development; this is a pretty common thing in fact.
And if it turns out that the things RedHat is designing their software to do dont meet your needs, I would wonder why you would use Red Hat.
Apple is a good UI company, and theyre quite good at taking existing technologies and making them more attractive to general consumers. But language like "frontier" implies that Apple blazes new paths. The problem is that if you were to consider the last few years, theres very little apple has innovated.
Apple pay? Preceeded by some 2 years by Google Wallet. Apple watch? Preceeded by a year by Google wear. Their entire iPhone 6 unveil consisted of demoing ideas that had been in wide usage for a year or more by other vendors.
I can understand the excitement, in the same way that BMW or Lexus enthusiasts might get excited over a new model-- but to then act like Lexus is leading the way in automotive engineering would be ridiculous.
not the choices of linux users or the linux ecosystem.
Great news, you can pick your ball up and go home to roll your own distro. You dont have to care what RedHat does.
Obviously if package makers start targetting SystemD, that will affect you, but then again you can also make your own packages if you dont like their decision.
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Many of those not liking systemd are in the higher competence class and/or run things like Debian on servers
Except for, you know, the RedHat and Debian developers who included systemd?
Theres an old saying, which Im going to modify for my own purposes.
Those who can, make distros. Those who cant, whine endlessly about what the distros are doing.
The concern is the same concern that says "Never run a web browser with admin privileges". Doing a particular task with root privileges is fine; doing everything by default with root is just asking for a nasty accident or exploit.
So what you're basically saying is that by default, there is no root account to log into directly? Thanks for spending your (surely very valuable) time verifying this trivial aspect of that post, even though it was irrelevant to the poster's overall point.
No, thats not what hes saying. "sudo passwd -u root" requests elevated rights to reset the password for the root account, which is by default completely random. The account does already exist, as it cant not exist on a linux box (afaik).
Ubuntu is just designed to prevent you from using it, as sudo and gksudo are the preferred methods of gaining root privileges.
But why?
Im pretty sure that ubuntu uses dash, not bash.
You can use bash, but things may behave abnormally.
I suppose you're not familiar with the genesis of the phrase "illegal flower ceremony" or the history of internet censorship in China.
I dont think you really have any idea in how the MSS is different than the NSA.
Lets start with the fact that the MSS gives no craps, they straight up block sites like Google who dont play the censorship game, and they inject malicious javascript into millions of citizens sessions to enact a government-run DDOS of foreign sites.
The things the NSA does that are violations of our principles are extra-ordinary. The things that the MSS does on that scale are ordinary, expected, and well documented.
How about the fact that if you think the NSA does some crazy malware stuff with Flame and Stuxnet, at least they tend to confine it to foreign political targets. China has probably the largest censorship and MITM infrastructure in the world, and actively uses it to pull average citizens into a government run botnet to DDOS western sites.
Not to mention that any sufficiently large business needs to have the explicit blessing of the powers that be in China.
All of that combined means you would have to be crazy to trust Qihoo; the FSB-affiliated Kaspersky is more trustworthy. Installing Qihoo gives one of the most technically competent, politically repressive organizations in the world root access to your computer. That more than anything is sufficient reason to not use them.
Call me when Symantec has close ties to a government that denies the Tianenmen Square massacre and actively represses search results on it.
not that a corrupted elite gamed the system in their favour
My understanding is that essentially no one pays taxes in Greece-- not because they arent owed, but because no one wants to.
Its not just the elite who are the problem, as fun as it is to try to make them universal scapegoats.
The anger-generated-per-word ratio in this post is off the charts; well done.
Im not sure you understand how printer drivers work. They arent all loaded simultaneously on every windows PC.
Not sure if you've been watching the news, but China has been using Baidu effectively as a botnet because they are able to intercept and modify javascript sent via HTTP.
Stops a lot of threats, even if you're just a hobbyist; it ensures that an attacker cant just intercept your hobby page and drop a bunch of exploit kits on it.
pre-embryos are some neoconservative evangelical dry-hump term used to justify strange ballot measures
Because as we know, the New Yorker is a hotbed of neoconservative evangelical activity.
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Why are you limiting it to just 3 people? It seems like a contrived problem.
If you're worried about the bigger principle and the slippery slope, censorship is a far bigger worry than folks not telling the difference between an ad and a search.
Obviously its such fantasies as "Armenian Genocide" and "Tianenmen Square", duh. I have it on good authority from the countries involved, they would know.
I think a great deal of the folks on slashdot could actually benefit from a class on that, is someone willing to do a seminar?
I swear, the number of times we see censoring (but only of the actually bad stuff!) being advocated here...
but maybe we don't skewer them for [exercise of free speech]
Good call.
But if theyre the ones making the packages, they sort of have the say in how those packages are built. That is to say, if you dont like it, build your own packages. It seems perfectly legitimate to me for a software developer to make choices that may have tradeoffs in order to reduce the complexity of the development; this is a pretty common thing in fact.
And if it turns out that the things RedHat is designing their software to do dont meet your needs, I would wonder why you would use Red Hat.
Apple is a good UI company, and theyre quite good at taking existing technologies and making them more attractive to general consumers. But language like "frontier" implies that Apple blazes new paths. The problem is that if you were to consider the last few years, theres very little apple has innovated.
Apple pay? Preceeded by some 2 years by Google Wallet. Apple watch? Preceeded by a year by Google wear. Their entire iPhone 6 unveil consisted of demoing ideas that had been in wide usage for a year or more by other vendors.
I can understand the excitement, in the same way that BMW or Lexus enthusiasts might get excited over a new model-- but to then act like Lexus is leading the way in automotive engineering would be ridiculous.
not the choices of linux users or the linux ecosystem.
Great news, you can pick your ball up and go home to roll your own distro. You dont have to care what RedHat does.
Obviously if package makers start targetting SystemD, that will affect you, but then again you can also make your own packages if you dont like their decision.
Because comparing an end-user facing daemon to a core system dependency is a little nuts. One will be tested to a much higher level than the other.
And the RedHat decision was motivated by...?