A millions years from now, the first new sentient evolutionary forms that discover the fallen towers of we the ancient gods will proudly hold these precious disks up to the light. Holograms dense with data will dance within the crystalline structures before their eyes. In their grasp will be the records of our progress -- all our science and forewarnings of its power, high definition videos of escapades among the stars, and the description of a state machine to decode it. They will have in their possession an invaluable source for goodness guiding a maddening leap from their understanding to ours that they may forge a society greater still than our own...
And they'll make down right amazing discoveries day after day in necklace design from each and every one.
now if we can just get a judge to rule the fundamental concept of an "e-book" is bullshit and nothing more than an encumbered text document designed to peddle locked down e-garbage hardware and fleece the ignorant.
I asked the same thing sitting on Santa's lap last Christmas. He told me he was an "atheist" and he would be pressing charges for the things my ass said to his lap.
when gang members are identified, eliminate them. Simple and fully effective. let their worthless parents cry about how they were turning their life around blah blah blah.
I don't think you fully understand the problems of gangs. In some neighborhoods, young kids almost have to join a gang in order not to become a victim. It is a matter of becoming a predator vs prey, and those youngsters don't always have the world view that adults have to distinguish right from wrong in that situation, and the potential impact on their future.
Equally effective and simple would be to isolate these folks by taking them out of that situation. Move them to some flyover state in the middle of nowhere, where they can be drilled in a youth detention center. Not as a punishment, but as a form of education.
While it would be unfair towards the parents who were unable to raise their kids, I'm sure they would prefer to have the state take care of them, rather than execute them. Not to mention the cost of the death penalty, or difficulties in proving gang affiliation.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE YOU THINKING?!
You mother fucking McCarthyist. Gods damn. Do I have to spell this shit out for you?!
Are you now, or have you ever been affiliated with a gang?
Son of a fucking bitch. You dumb fools are advocating a secret police style intelligence network be used to arrest anyone for being an ASSOCIATE of someone that NO ONE ADMITS TO KNOWING. That's EVEN FUCKING WORSE. You trust the fucking police?! SERIOUSLY? Those same corrupt assholes who I have on video towing my car while not improperly parked, fucking up, dropping it on its side, totaling it then lying in court saying it was side swiped when they got there, and the judge disallowing the surveillance video? The same governments that goes after whistle blowers with the full force of their armed forces, even destroying relations with other countries for ONE MAN.
YOU FOOLS are ACTUALLY saying that we should let these power hungry elitist mother fuckers create a HUGE internment camp?!?!
Proof once again, that low UIDs don't mean shit. Hurry up and die, you're SERIOUSLY hindering the herd!
I understand the software writers don't want to marginalize themselves in case servers adopt UEFI. However, there are zero security benefits of UEFI, versus booting part of your OS right from the BIOS/Firmware. It's up to the OS's bootloader to kick of an encryption chain after UEFI loads. So, put the damn bootloader in the firmware with Coreboot.
The way my setup works is that Coreboot has a bootstrap loader for my OS in firmware. The BIOS requrires a password to access it, and enable the flashing of firmware. Type password, "Enable Firmware Flash On Next Boot" option. No screwy hex code you're bound to mess up several times. My boot protocol uses public key crptography so that the custom multi-boot loader can handle any number of OS updates. The 2nd stage OS loader changes, it can include the signature of via key that's paired with the OS's 1st stage firmware boot loader. DONE. All we need is a standardized way for BIOS to flash a small part of the OS loader at OS install, and then any OS can be just as secure as secure boot, without ANY hierarchy of control -- The OS devs can own all the keys they use to secure and load their own OS. It's not like the chips don't have the memory now -- Shit, on new desktop systems the firmware has gaudy graphics, animations, and sounds -- The damn motherboard runs a stipped down Linux or BSD to prestent you the BIOS config options!
So, think about this. Coreboot + Key/Signing you already have to have in the OS loader is just as secure as UEFI, except there's no grand central Microsoft authority who says what OS can and can not install on the hardware, or to pressure hardware makers into bowing to the demands of the Windows requirements. If there is a bug in the BIOS or hardware that lets it rewrite firmware from software without permission, then it exploits UEFI or Coreboot equally -- How do you think UEFI is implemented -- IN FIRMWARE? Hell, I have the option with Coreboot to use UEFI boot if I want. However, I can also remove that shite, or even have the firmware setup legacy BIOS interrupt tables for booting old OS's like MSDOS, DR DOS, etc. Currently, I have my system config in my Coreboot, so it doesn't search for shit, just loads my OS and runs instantly at power up.
Coreboot w/ OS + SSD = Milliseconds to boot; Beat that, Security Theater Boot.
They should rename that shite, Microsoft Controlled Boot, because it is, for all intents and purposes. Stop and think. How can a sysop like me figure out a more flexible system that's just as secure as SecureBoot, more easy to use and maintain, and even adds security to tons of legacy x86 hardware -- Yet all those well paid folks who's only job was to engineer a secure boot standard "UEFI", came up with some restrictive shit that in effect gives Microsoft more control of the hardware and software arena? NO. ACTUALLY THINK. SEE?
but how many of us consider the potential for bugs in ordinary software to adversely affect those that use it?"
What the hell man, have you ever installed or released software? What kind of literally retarded question is this?
MIT License
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.
BSD
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
GPL
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
No, really. Are you an idiot, or do you just play one on the Internet? For fuck's sake man, there are even disclaimers that state the software can't be used in nuclear power facilities. Living under the rock wasn't good enough for you, so you made some glasses out of stone and entered the real world?! Are you Kidding Me? Even JOKE licenses have indemnity clauses. The truth of the matter is this: Writing perfect software is possible, I have created perfect driver software in assembly that handled EVERY possible input EXACTLY as they should -- computers have finite state, so it's very doable. However, that shit is expensive as hell. Furthermore, even when I knew my software was PERFECT I still used an indemnity clause. Why? Because unless you're willing to guarantee me that the RAM and CPU and all other Hardware that my software touches is operating PERFECTLY at all times, physically audited by ME or my agents whenever I want to, perhaps even tearing a machine apart down to the microchip level, and peeling away the silicone level by level to ensure your circuits are NOT haywire and ensure you're not lying, then I can't EVER be absolutely sure what "my software" will do.
If you can't assume the responsibility for the operation of the machines and systems YOU are responsible for operating, including the testing and verification of the software in and beyond the hardware's operating environment, then YOU DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO USE MY SOFTWARE.
He manipulated URLs to access areas that were not publicly visible. The information that he gleaned by manipulating these URLs was information that any reasonable person would deduce as information AT&T did not intent to make public.
So, you would rather live in a world where if you see a huge hole in the side of your bank's vault, leading out into an alley, you'll be thrown in jail if you tell a sole about it? Tell me, did your education include children's books such as The Emperor's New Clothes, or are you a complete fucking moron? I'd much rather be told I'm naked and have no security, and force the fuckers to fix the issue, than to wait till I'm actually exploited to find out.
Were I him, I wouldn't want sympathy from fools like you. Go back to your privatized yet tax funded statist security theater regime and watch your reality TV and eat your fried food, so you can be better farmed by your corporate overloads, even as your health fails from a rotten mind and body.
As far as I'm concerned, anyone calling their group Goatse Security needs to be punished anyway. I'm not interested in trying to explain to my 6yo what the fuck that means.
Disgusting. And you have no fucking problem with explaining why the &T in AT&T exists?
Fascist scum such as you are the ones who should be punished. Give your kid up for adoption before you destroy them with retarding ideas such as "censorship of nature isn't evil." The children of the average uneducated natives world wide stand more of a chance at surviving to adulthood with their brains in tact, and they see "violence", "nudity" and even "intestines" just from living day to day and cooking food -- A skill you probably can't handle, or if so, still can't perform unless your meat's been butchered and packaged.
Does your six year old know what a penis and vagina are, and are for? The six year olds in fucking 3rd world countries do, you monster.
And in the wormhole lived a groundhog. And if it was cloudy when he emerged...
Then the largest atom smashing experiment in the world will be used to bring about a dystopian future by using a global spy network to discover the phone activated microwave invented by Rintaro Okabe, causing his poor childhood friend to die over and over thousands of times before the self proclaimed Mad Scientist meets the real John Titor and re-un-gets an old 80's PC and almost correctly sets his Nixie-tube clock using the instructional belly-button logic from TimeCube.com... Thank the gods, the frakkin' site exists! Whew.
If not for that wonderful worm-filled groundhog -- A basement dweller would have ventured from lair weeks earlier and become a depraved scriptwriter causing that damn disastrous 80's PC to star as an extra in a Weirdly Scientific show instead of it being safely destroyed. Thankfully it won't wind up summoning Sentient Space Ducks, battling Bonsai Buckaroos, and eventually resulting in a so-called Doctor helping crash a sock-hop reachable only from 1985 at 88 mph using 1.21 Jiggawats -- I mean really, "Jiggawats"? Is that a racial slur metric?! I wouldn't want to live in such a world.
Wait, unless some pessimistic news anchor went all sappy, so all that hell has happened... then God is now loose as a particle among us, while the NSA builds the spy network anyway, and the shock doctrine dystopia will be here with or without the miniature Kerr black holes. In which case, the Dalek will be here shortly to retrieve their long lost PC from its display and destroy this planet just for grins... So our only hope then would be for one of the ACTUAL Doctors to step out of a blue police box -- Preferably before faux Klingons arrive and scare everyone but the insatiable sushi-loving Japanese into ending whaling.... That doesn't turn out well for anyone except the dolphins.
Unless the dolphins aren't on speaking terms with men, which means they aren't real dolphins and they've tasked the pan-dimensional mice to create a gigantic quantum computer where this has all happened before, and our reality exists in a simulated multiversity where everything is an endless super position of itself unless you look at it closely (to save CPU), and Schroedinger's Cats rule the world via traffic jamming cute subliminal messages down every information superhighway. Hmm, well if thatwere the case, then screw it all, because being a human copper-top battery watching all that strife as TV re-runs sure as hell beats gruel, and tribal techno dance parties.
I seem to remember there being a simple test for this sort of thing involving a simple self referential quantum entangled ironic pairing... If I could just remember how it goes. Has something to do with recursive Unix directory structures, I believe. Just wait, it'll come to me... Ah yes.
...!
CRAP! I'm on the wrong side of the irony, again. You wouldn't happen to know of any descriptions of ring or disk shaped worlds about? If not, it might not be to late to try again.
Which is precisely why the government officials that are required to swear into the office are required to uphold and protect the CONSTITUTION.
NOT THE PEOPLE.
Not the government, not the white house, not the justice system but the LAW. The US Founders knew that relying on people making right choices is a terrible idea, democracy doesn't work at all, it quickly dissents into authoritarian nightmare.
Yeah, pretty much agree with this part, I mean, they wrote books on this very subject. Hell, they even wrote about the tyranny of a two party system. Kind of hard not to agree, IMO.
However, you lost me at the next part, when you started employing leaps of unfounded nonsensical logic.
[...] democracy doesn't work at all, it quickly dissents into authoritarian nightmare. because it promises too everything to everybody for nothing (actually it promises to subsidize the unproductive majority by stealing from the productive minority). Eventually you destroy what you tax and this includes all types of taxes.
So, you're saying that the MAJORITY is unproductive, and they're STEALING from the PRODUCTIVE MINORITY? What the fuck are you talking about fool? Tell me, how are those "minority" so fucking productive? Signing the articles of incorporation and moving 1's and 0's between two points isn't fucking productive you moron. Who is being productive here are the workers that allow the business to make money. Nowhere is this more evident than in small businesses. I know, I've owned small businesses, starting with next to ZERO dollars, doing all the work myself.
When I was the Majority of my labor, I was most productive. When I hired on some help, I managed contracts and filed taxes, did office work for half the time. I relied on my laborers to do the productive work. That desk work is necessary red-tape, but it's far from fucking productive. Wheeling and dealing clients to get more jobs is necessary, but you're a fucking idiot if you think it's more productive that the people doing the labor to fill those contracts.
From just the tax rates on income and property, to various rules, laws and regulations that government imposes upon business to buy votes (be it minimum wage, various laws that give employees special powers to sue employers for any perceived 'wrongdoing', any kind of entitlement to the employers and customers that end up being obligations upon the employers and producers).
Government handouts aren't the fucking problem. They're a small slice of the fuck-up pie. What about the trillions of dollars in war spending? What about the government sanctioned monopolies in telecom sectors? What about the rich businesses getting away with a "Double Irish" -- A legal form of tax evasion? What about paying high ranking members of companies in stock options to avoid taxes? That's all legal, but it's plain an simple bullshit, and shouldn't be legal by any rational stretch of the word.
At the end of the day the rich minority are to blame for the majority of the problems, not the gheto hoochie slummers. I've lived in a ghetto. This opinion piece you linked to is more sensationalist Kool-Aid made to appease the rich minority into thinking their continued exploitation of the majority is warranted. The majority of folks in the dregs of society are just trying to make ends meat. My next door neighbor operated a fork-lift in a 110 degree warehouse 10 hours a day, and could only afford the same shitty housing project apartment that such welfare mommas do. His fiancé's wall-mart job payed shit, they purposefully cut hours to c
Basically, AGPL is only useful for a very, very narrow range of software designed specifically for use in "software-as-a-service" situations, and even then, it is only acceptable if you don't need to tie it into existing infrastructure. In short, it is basically never acceptable, and its only sensible use is for businesses to be able to say, "Hey, look, we've open sourced our stack," while simultaneously ensuring that no legitimate business would ever even contemplate replicating that stack and competing with them.
I'll give an example of a use of AGPL. I develop game software with a handful of other devs. I'm the only coder. Prior to game release I license all my contributions under the AGPL so that if I quit, I can take my code with me. However, if they want to sell my code as closed source, they'll need to make it to completion and have me dual license under BSD. At that point we can sell a closed source version of the game software. At any time after sales begin, any member of the dev team can then release the source code as AGPL or BSD. So, there's no "we can't release source without rights holder permissions". We worked that out ahead of time.
In this way I don't have to trust anyone and they don't have to trust me. We do trust each other, but the system is future proof against falling outs (which is frequent in the indie game dev community). No one can just take their ball and go home -- Were I to leave the project I could still use the engine on other projects, and they could still make a game, and get another coder, but the end result would have to be open source. Compliance with AGPL is actually built into the game engine. In addition to containing an archive of the source as an asset during builds, any scripts or mods are necessarily transferred from the server to the client at run-time so that the game can function. A BSD licensed version can simply transfer pre-compiled bytecode instead of textual scripts, and remove the compressed source code from the asset library.
So, here we have a use case that's not exactly aligned with the intended goal of AGPL, unless a goal is to prevent anyone from benefiting from your code without you also benefiting from the additions too. It's actually directly opposite to your claim that I wish to prevent competition, I actually want to ensure competition can exist and ensure no complete loss of effort is possible. Sure, I run the risk of a team member bolting and releasing code under AGPL, but that doesn't prevent us from re-licensing as BSD down the road.
I'd love to release everything open source all the time (and do this for all software that's not game related) but it exponentially increases the number of cheaters in online games (don't give a damn about offline cheats). I've experienced this several times in online game communities, in both directions, closed to open, and open to closed. Until more effective community management systems are in place, games remain unique pieces of software where it's OK to not give users every tool they need to cock-up the game for everyone else (so long as the game respects the end-user, i.e., doesn't have non-features like DRM / spyware). One bad apple spoils the bunch, so griefers affect far more people than themselves. I agree that AGPL isn't the right choice for all projects, but to say it's never applicable except in some narrowly defined scope is just silly; I'm not arrogant enough to make such claims, I'm sure other use cases exist.
P.S. The saying "Security through Obscurity is No Security at all" is utterly false. All security is security through obscurity, and every bit of obscurity counts. 512 bits is 1/2 as secure as 513 bits of obscurity -- Obscurity increases security exponentially, DERP! If the obscurity was no hindrance then "open source" wouldn't even need to exist, eh? It's true that where there's a will, there's a way, so why not require sterner wills to brave harmful ways?
Well, look at all the stereotypes of gamers, especially of MMOs. It is really quite easy to unfairly disparage these people, and those are pure works of fiction.
At a minimum (whatever you believe) religion represents the collective moral knowledge of society (golden rule, work ethics, family structures known to function, etc) learned over the course of millenniums. Without it, it becomes difficult to avoid becoming an amoral society. Philosophy and psychology (and other social sciences) are not (yet) capable of filling the void (despite their numerous claims to the contrary).
The Pirahãs, he said, “believed that the world was as it had always been, and that there was no supreme deity”. Furthermore they had no creation myths in their culture. In short, here was a people who were more than happy to live their lives “without God, religion or any political authority”.
No surveillance state to help the rich stay rich required either.
I don't know about anyone else, but compared to actual war, I find cyberwar to be about as terrifying as getting up in the night to go to the toilet.
To me it's as scary as getting up in the middle of the night to shuffle a server in and out of service. The NSA has all the data, they could make mad bank notifying folks of malware / hacker traffic BEFORE they put on pajamas...
I'm right with you on the context menu. However, I do disable the context menu on some of my page, but only for my browser games so that I can use that button for game input. FYI: You can force the context menu to be available in FF's settings. You can also pull up the firebug toolbar via menu, then use the inspect element that way (that's how I debug some game stuff without re-enabling context menus).
the device appears to be operating as a quantum processor
Maybe it both is and isn't, until you have a look at it.
Or, we exist in the universe where appears to be operating as a quantum processor, and in another universe right next door it's not and instead you're making this joke about Sigurdur Thordarson existing as a superposition of both a WikiLeak's employee and FBI informant.
Bit rot is also a big problem with data. So, the data has to be reduplicated to keep entropy from destroying it, which means a self corrective meta data must be used. If only there were a highly compact self correcting self replicating data storage system with 1's and 0's the size of small molecules...
My greatest fear is that when we meet the aliens, they'll laugh, stick us in a holographic projector, and gather around to watch the vintage porn encoded in our DNA.
It has nothing to do with "equal protection". Unless a white male can use "equal protection" to strike down affirmative action laws.
Consider that the affirmative action laws are only serving to provide "equal protection" so long as minorities remain minorities. In a climate where the majority has become the minority, affirmative action laws should be struck down by white males. Realize the truth: Truly Equal Opportunity will yield Proportional Representation -- Same percent taking the opportunity at the bottom = Same percent represented at the top. Demanding equal representation without equal participation is oppressive, and laws that support such are unnecessary and oppressive.
TL;DR: Once the oppression is removed, Affirmative Action becomes oppressive.
"We live in a world increasingly dominated by science. "
That's like saying "We live in a world increasingly dominated by reality".
That's like saying, "We don't live in a world increasingly dominated by unreality." -- An increase of those graduating with degrees in the humanities vs sciences would tend to prove this statement false.
What he is saying is that patent protection can boost innovation
Pure, Unadulterated Opinion, borderline outright disproved by the VAST innovation in design in both the Fashion and Automotive industries, which are allowed neither design patents nor copyrights.
Protip: You want to make a comparison? You need something to compare it against. Abolish patents. We have ZERO evidence patents are beneficial, only assumptions that they are good. It's utterly asinine for any scientist to agree we should run the world's technological economy based on completely unfounded assumptions which are most likely wrong, given that what little evidence we do have points to patents being an unnecessary tax on innovation.
What's utterly mind numbingly moronic is that the Scientific Method is good enough to create patentable subject matter, but No One Dares apply such rationality to the patent system itself.
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A millions years from now, the first new sentient evolutionary forms that discover the fallen towers of we the ancient gods will proudly hold these precious disks up to the light. Holograms dense with data will dance within the crystalline structures before their eyes. In their grasp will be the records of our progress -- all our science and forewarnings of its power, high definition videos of escapades among the stars, and the description of a state machine to decode it. They will have in their possession an invaluable source for goodness guiding a maddening leap from their understanding to ours that they may forge a society greater still than our own...
And they'll make down right amazing discoveries day after day in necklace design from each and every one.
Gorbachev?
Quick! Before it's too late! Somebody call the Australian Space Agency!
Tell them to look for any boxes not marked: \/ Fragile: Then End Down \/
now if we can just get a judge to rule the fundamental concept of an "e-book" is bullshit and nothing more than an encumbered text document designed to peddle locked down e-garbage hardware and fleece the ignorant.
I asked the same thing sitting on Santa's lap last Christmas. He told me he was an "atheist" and he would be pressing charges for the things my ass said to his lap.
And when the machines take over, this video will ensure the bugs avenge us.
when gang members are identified, eliminate them. Simple and fully effective. let their worthless parents cry about how they were turning their life around blah blah blah.
I don't think you fully understand the problems of gangs. In some neighborhoods, young kids almost have to join a gang in order not to become a victim. It is a matter of becoming a predator vs prey, and those youngsters don't always have the world view that adults have to distinguish right from wrong in that situation, and the potential impact on their future. Equally effective and simple would be to isolate these folks by taking them out of that situation. Move them to some flyover state in the middle of nowhere, where they can be drilled in a youth detention center. Not as a punishment, but as a form of education. While it would be unfair towards the parents who were unable to raise their kids, I'm sure they would prefer to have the state take care of them, rather than execute them. Not to mention the cost of the death penalty, or difficulties in proving gang affiliation.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE YOU THINKING?!
You mother fucking McCarthyist. Gods damn. Do I have to spell this shit out for you?!
Are you now, or have you ever been affiliated with a gang?
Son of a fucking bitch. You dumb fools are advocating a secret police style intelligence network be used to arrest anyone for being an ASSOCIATE of someone that NO ONE ADMITS TO KNOWING. That's EVEN FUCKING WORSE. You trust the fucking police?! SERIOUSLY? Those same corrupt assholes who I have on video towing my car while not improperly parked, fucking up, dropping it on its side, totaling it then lying in court saying it was side swiped when they got there, and the judge disallowing the surveillance video? The same governments that goes after whistle blowers with the full force of their armed forces, even destroying relations with other countries for ONE MAN.
YOU FOOLS are ACTUALLY saying that we should let these power hungry elitist mother fuckers create a HUGE internment camp?!?!
Proof once again, that low UIDs don't mean shit. Hurry up and die, you're SERIOUSLY hindering the herd!
I understand the software writers don't want to marginalize themselves in case servers adopt UEFI. However, there are zero security benefits of UEFI, versus booting part of your OS right from the BIOS/Firmware. It's up to the OS's bootloader to kick of an encryption chain after UEFI loads. So, put the damn bootloader in the firmware with Coreboot.
The way my setup works is that Coreboot has a bootstrap loader for my OS in firmware. The BIOS requrires a password to access it, and enable the flashing of firmware. Type password, "Enable Firmware Flash On Next Boot" option. No screwy hex code you're bound to mess up several times. My boot protocol uses public key crptography so that the custom multi-boot loader can handle any number of OS updates. The 2nd stage OS loader changes, it can include the signature of via key that's paired with the OS's 1st stage firmware boot loader. DONE. All we need is a standardized way for BIOS to flash a small part of the OS loader at OS install, and then any OS can be just as secure as secure boot, without ANY hierarchy of control -- The OS devs can own all the keys they use to secure and load their own OS. It's not like the chips don't have the memory now -- Shit, on new desktop systems the firmware has gaudy graphics, animations, and sounds -- The damn motherboard runs a stipped down Linux or BSD to prestent you the BIOS config options!
So, think about this. Coreboot + Key/Signing you already have to have in the OS loader is just as secure as UEFI, except there's no grand central Microsoft authority who says what OS can and can not install on the hardware, or to pressure hardware makers into bowing to the demands of the Windows requirements. If there is a bug in the BIOS or hardware that lets it rewrite firmware from software without permission, then it exploits UEFI or Coreboot equally -- How do you think UEFI is implemented -- IN FIRMWARE? Hell, I have the option with Coreboot to use UEFI boot if I want. However, I can also remove that shite, or even have the firmware setup legacy BIOS interrupt tables for booting old OS's like MSDOS, DR DOS, etc. Currently, I have my system config in my Coreboot, so it doesn't search for shit, just loads my OS and runs instantly at power up.
Coreboot w/ OS + SSD = Milliseconds to boot; Beat that, Security Theater Boot.
They should rename that shite, Microsoft Controlled Boot, because it is, for all intents and purposes. Stop and think. How can a sysop like me figure out a more flexible system that's just as secure as SecureBoot, more easy to use and maintain, and even adds security to tons of legacy x86 hardware -- Yet all those well paid folks who's only job was to engineer a secure boot standard "UEFI", came up with some restrictive shit that in effect gives Microsoft more control of the hardware and software arena? NO. ACTUALLY THINK. SEE?
but how many of us consider the potential for bugs in ordinary software to adversely affect those that use it?"
What the hell man, have you ever installed or released software? What kind of literally retarded question is this?
MIT License
BSD
GPL
No, really. Are you an idiot, or do you just play one on the Internet? For fuck's sake man, there are even disclaimers that state the software can't be used in nuclear power facilities. Living under the rock wasn't good enough for you, so you made some glasses out of stone and entered the real world?! Are you Kidding Me? Even JOKE licenses have indemnity clauses. The truth of the matter is this: Writing perfect software is possible, I have created perfect driver software in assembly that handled EVERY possible input EXACTLY as they should -- computers have finite state, so it's very doable. However, that shit is expensive as hell. Furthermore, even when I knew my software was PERFECT I still used an indemnity clause. Why? Because unless you're willing to guarantee me that the RAM and CPU and all other Hardware that my software touches is operating PERFECTLY at all times, physically audited by ME or my agents whenever I want to, perhaps even tearing a machine apart down to the microchip level, and peeling away the silicone level by level to ensure your circuits are NOT haywire and ensure you're not lying, then I can't EVER be absolutely sure what "my software" will do.
If you can't assume the responsibility for the operation of the machines and systems YOU are responsible for operating, including the testing and verification of the software in and beyond the hardware's operating environment, then YOU DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO USE MY SOFTWARE.
If you're using PHP and you've got something against Perl, you're a fucking idiot.
I'm finding trouble having sympathy for this guy.
He manipulated URLs to access areas that were not publicly visible. The information that he gleaned by manipulating these URLs was information that any reasonable person would deduce as information AT&T did not intent to make public.
So, you would rather live in a world where if you see a huge hole in the side of your bank's vault, leading out into an alley, you'll be thrown in jail if you tell a sole about it? Tell me, did your education include children's books such as The Emperor's New Clothes, or are you a complete fucking moron? I'd much rather be told I'm naked and have no security, and force the fuckers to fix the issue, than to wait till I'm actually exploited to find out.
Were I him, I wouldn't want sympathy from fools like you. Go back to your privatized yet tax funded statist security theater regime and watch your reality TV and eat your fried food, so you can be better farmed by your corporate overloads, even as your health fails from a rotten mind and body.
TL;DR: Fuck you.
As far as I'm concerned, anyone calling their group Goatse Security needs to be punished anyway. I'm not interested in trying to explain to my 6yo what the fuck that means.
Disgusting. And you have no fucking problem with explaining why the &T in AT&T exists?
Fascist scum such as you are the ones who should be punished. Give your kid up for adoption before you destroy them with retarding ideas such as "censorship of nature isn't evil."
The children of the average uneducated natives world wide stand more of a chance at surviving to adulthood with their brains in tact, and they see "violence", "nudity" and even "intestines" just from living day to day and cooking food -- A skill you probably can't handle, or if so, still can't perform unless your meat's been butchered and packaged.
Does your six year old know what a penis and vagina are, and are for? The six year olds in fucking 3rd world countries do, you monster.
I've seen that movie. It was really a wormhole!
And in the wormhole lived a groundhog. And if it was cloudy when he emerged...
Then the largest atom smashing experiment in the world will be used to bring about a dystopian future by using a global spy network to discover the phone activated microwave invented by Rintaro Okabe, causing his poor childhood friend to die over and over thousands of times before the self proclaimed Mad Scientist meets the real John Titor and re-un-gets an old 80's PC and almost correctly sets his Nixie-tube clock using the instructional belly-button logic from TimeCube.com... Thank the gods, the frakkin' site exists! Whew.
If not for that wonderful worm-filled groundhog -- A basement dweller would have ventured from lair weeks earlier and become a depraved scriptwriter causing that damn disastrous 80's PC to star as an extra in a Weirdly Scientific show instead of it being safely destroyed. Thankfully it won't wind up summoning Sentient Space Ducks, battling Bonsai Buckaroos, and eventually resulting in a so-called Doctor helping crash a sock-hop reachable only from 1985 at 88 mph using 1.21 Jiggawats -- I mean really, "Jiggawats"? Is that a racial slur metric?! I wouldn't want to live in such a world.
Wait, unless some pessimistic news anchor went all sappy, so all that hell has happened... then God is now loose as a particle among us, while the NSA builds the spy network anyway, and the shock doctrine dystopia will be here with or without the miniature Kerr black holes. In which case, the Dalek will be here shortly to retrieve their long lost PC from its display and destroy this planet just for grins... So our only hope then would be for one of the ACTUAL Doctors to step out of a blue police box -- Preferably before faux Klingons arrive and scare everyone but the insatiable sushi-loving Japanese into ending whaling.... That doesn't turn out well for anyone except the dolphins.
Unless the dolphins aren't on speaking terms with men, which means they aren't real dolphins and they've tasked the pan-dimensional mice to create a gigantic quantum computer where this has all happened before, and our reality exists in a simulated multiversity where everything is an endless super position of itself unless you look at it closely (to save CPU), and Schroedinger's Cats rule the world via traffic jamming cute subliminal messages down every information superhighway. Hmm, well if that were the case, then screw it all, because being a human copper-top battery watching all that strife as TV re-runs sure as hell beats gruel, and tribal techno dance parties.
I seem to remember there being a simple test for this sort of thing involving a simple self referential quantum entangled ironic pairing... If I could just remember how it goes. Has something to do with recursive Unix directory structures, I believe. Just wait, it'll come to me... Ah yes.
CRAP! I'm on the wrong side of the irony, again. You wouldn't happen to know of any descriptions of ring or disk shaped worlds about? If not, it might not be to late to try again.
Yeah, pretty much agree with this part, I mean, they wrote books on this very subject. Hell, they even wrote about the tyranny of a two party system. Kind of hard not to agree, IMO.
However, you lost me at the next part, when you started employing leaps of unfounded nonsensical logic.
So, you're saying that the MAJORITY is unproductive, and they're STEALING from the PRODUCTIVE MINORITY? What the fuck are you talking about fool? Tell me, how are those "minority" so fucking productive? Signing the articles of incorporation and moving 1's and 0's between two points isn't fucking productive you moron. Who is being productive here are the workers that allow the business to make money. Nowhere is this more evident than in small businesses. I know, I've owned small businesses, starting with next to ZERO dollars, doing all the work myself.
When I was the Majority of my labor, I was most productive. When I hired on some help, I managed contracts and filed taxes, did office work for half the time. I relied on my laborers to do the productive work. That desk work is necessary red-tape, but it's far from fucking productive. Wheeling and dealing clients to get more jobs is necessary, but you're a fucking idiot if you think it's more productive that the people doing the labor to fill those contracts.
Government handouts aren't the fucking problem. They're a small slice of the fuck-up pie. What about the trillions of dollars in war spending? What about the government sanctioned monopolies in telecom sectors? What about the rich businesses getting away with a "Double Irish" -- A legal form of tax evasion? What about paying high ranking members of companies in stock options to avoid taxes? That's all legal, but it's plain an simple bullshit, and shouldn't be legal by any rational stretch of the word.
At the end of the day the rich minority are to blame for the majority of the problems, not the gheto hoochie slummers. I've lived in a ghetto. This opinion piece you linked to is more sensationalist Kool-Aid made to appease the rich minority into thinking their continued exploitation of the majority is warranted. The majority of folks in the dregs of society are just trying to make ends meat. My next door neighbor operated a fork-lift in a 110 degree warehouse 10 hours a day, and could only afford the same shitty housing project apartment that such welfare mommas do. His fiancé's wall-mart job payed shit, they purposefully cut hours to c
Basically, AGPL is only useful for a very, very narrow range of software designed specifically for use in "software-as-a-service" situations, and even then, it is only acceptable if you don't need to tie it into existing infrastructure. In short, it is basically never acceptable, and its only sensible use is for businesses to be able to say, "Hey, look, we've open sourced our stack," while simultaneously ensuring that no legitimate business would ever even contemplate replicating that stack and competing with them.
I'll give an example of a use of AGPL. I develop game software with a handful of other devs. I'm the only coder. Prior to game release I license all my contributions under the AGPL so that if I quit, I can take my code with me. However, if they want to sell my code as closed source, they'll need to make it to completion and have me dual license under BSD. At that point we can sell a closed source version of the game software. At any time after sales begin, any member of the dev team can then release the source code as AGPL or BSD. So, there's no "we can't release source without rights holder permissions". We worked that out ahead of time.
In this way I don't have to trust anyone and they don't have to trust me. We do trust each other, but the system is future proof against falling outs (which is frequent in the indie game dev community). No one can just take their ball and go home -- Were I to leave the project I could still use the engine on other projects, and they could still make a game, and get another coder, but the end result would have to be open source. Compliance with AGPL is actually built into the game engine. In addition to containing an archive of the source as an asset during builds, any scripts or mods are necessarily transferred from the server to the client at run-time so that the game can function. A BSD licensed version can simply transfer pre-compiled bytecode instead of textual scripts, and remove the compressed source code from the asset library.
So, here we have a use case that's not exactly aligned with the intended goal of AGPL, unless a goal is to prevent anyone from benefiting from your code without you also benefiting from the additions too. It's actually directly opposite to your claim that I wish to prevent competition, I actually want to ensure competition can exist and ensure no complete loss of effort is possible. Sure, I run the risk of a team member bolting and releasing code under AGPL, but that doesn't prevent us from re-licensing as BSD down the road.
I'd love to release everything open source all the time (and do this for all software that's not game related) but it exponentially increases the number of cheaters in online games (don't give a damn about offline cheats). I've experienced this several times in online game communities, in both directions, closed to open, and open to closed. Until more effective community management systems are in place, games remain unique pieces of software where it's OK to not give users every tool they need to cock-up the game for everyone else (so long as the game respects the end-user, i.e., doesn't have non-features like DRM / spyware). One bad apple spoils the bunch, so griefers affect far more people than themselves. I agree that AGPL isn't the right choice for all projects, but to say it's never applicable except in some narrowly defined scope is just silly; I'm not arrogant enough to make such claims, I'm sure other use cases exist.
P.S. The saying "Security through Obscurity is No Security at all" is utterly false. All security is security through obscurity, and every bit of obscurity counts. 512 bits is 1/2 as secure as 513 bits of obscurity -- Obscurity increases security exponentially, DERP! If the obscurity was no hindrance then "open source" wouldn't even need to exist, eh? It's true that where there's a will, there's a way, so why not require sterner wills to brave harmful ways?
Well, look at all the stereotypes of gamers, especially of MMOs. It is really quite easy to unfairly disparage these people, and those are pure works of fiction.
At a minimum (whatever you believe) religion represents the collective moral knowledge of society (golden rule, work ethics, family structures known to function, etc) learned over the course of millenniums. Without it, it becomes difficult to avoid becoming an amoral society. Philosophy and psychology (and other social sciences) are not (yet) capable of filling the void (despite their numerous claims to the contrary).
You are so full of bullshit it's painful to think anyone believes what you wrote. I'm a scientist. Have you any data points to back your claims? I have several examples that disprove your claims, they're not hard to find.
No surveillance state to help the rich stay rich required either.
I don't know about anyone else, but compared to actual war, I find cyberwar to be about as terrifying as getting up in the night to go to the toilet.
To me it's as scary as getting up in the middle of the night to shuffle a server in and out of service. The NSA has all the data, they could make mad bank notifying folks of malware / hacker traffic BEFORE they put on pajamas...
I'm right with you on the context menu. However, I do disable the context menu on some of my page, but only for my browser games so that I can use that button for game input. FYI: You can force the context menu to be available in FF's settings. You can also pull up the firebug toolbar via menu, then use the inspect element that way (that's how I debug some game stuff without re-enabling context menus).
$5,000? Seems like quite a bit of work and risk for just $5,000.
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
the device appears to be operating as a quantum processor
Maybe it both is and isn't, until you have a look at it.
Or, we exist in the universe where appears to be operating as a quantum processor, and in another universe right next door it's not and instead you're making this joke about Sigurdur Thordarson existing as a superposition of both a WikiLeak's employee and FBI informant.
All that time wasted fighting wars against this kind of behavior. The soldiers died for nothing.
Bit rot is also a big problem with data. So, the data has to be reduplicated to keep entropy from destroying it, which means a self corrective meta data must be used. If only there were a highly compact self correcting self replicating data storage system with 1's and 0's the size of small molecules...
My greatest fear is that when we meet the aliens, they'll laugh, stick us in a holographic projector, and gather around to watch the vintage porn encoded in our DNA.
It has nothing to do with "equal protection". Unless a white male can use "equal protection" to strike down affirmative action laws.
Consider that the affirmative action laws are only serving to provide "equal protection" so long as minorities remain minorities. In a climate where the majority has become the minority, affirmative action laws should be struck down by white males. Realize the truth: Truly Equal Opportunity will yield Proportional Representation -- Same percent taking the opportunity at the bottom = Same percent represented at the top. Demanding equal representation without equal participation is oppressive, and laws that support such are unnecessary and oppressive.
TL;DR: Once the oppression is removed, Affirmative Action becomes oppressive.
The uncertainty principle applies to everything,
How uncertain are you that this is true?
"We live in a world increasingly dominated by science. "
That's like saying "We live in a world increasingly dominated by reality".
That's like saying, "We don't live in a world increasingly dominated by unreality." -- An increase of those graduating with degrees in the humanities vs sciences would tend to prove this statement false.
What he is saying is that patent protection can boost innovation
Pure, Unadulterated Opinion, borderline outright disproved by the VAST innovation in design in both the Fashion and Automotive industries, which are allowed neither design patents nor copyrights.
Protip: You want to make a comparison? You need something to compare it against. Abolish patents. We have ZERO evidence patents are beneficial, only assumptions that they are good. It's utterly asinine for any scientist to agree we should run the world's technological economy based on completely unfounded assumptions which are most likely wrong, given that what little evidence we do have points to patents being an unnecessary tax on innovation.
What's utterly mind numbingly moronic is that the Scientific Method is good enough to create patentable subject matter, but No One Dares apply such rationality to the patent system itself.