If you guys build something with hardware similar to a Droid 4 (but GSM of course) that runs Maemo/MeeGo I'll be first in line to preorder. This N900's gonna need upgrading in a couple of years.
I knew one really smart homeless guy. He found Jesus, tried to clean his life up...I guess the Jesus thing didn't work out though because he threw himself off a bridge:-(
What's wrong with that (apart from the standard PITA factor of on-screen keyboards that most people seem to accept)? They'd have to randomize the keypad layout though to prevent password recovery via fingerprint-lifting.
There is something to that for many. If you're rich enough, it doesn't matter how badly you fail, you'll be propped up and given every opportunity to fix things.
See: Donald Trump. If he was a middle class guy and lost similar amounts of money (proportionate to his middle-class income), he'd be lucky if the repo men left the clothes on his back.
It's easy to verify that after the fact though. Without some recording of the windshield activity it would be very difficult or impossible to prove that the windshield didn't go black for a second.
Yeah at runlevel 5 you just have the login manager and maybe a few GUI-related services running on top of everything else. Dropping to runlevel 3 would save some RAM but little to no processing power.
Server apps shouldn't require GUIs. On Linux you can run a server with no GUI no problem, because it's a well-understood convention in the Linux world that server apps should never require GUIs.
Although having a GUI can make administration more convenient, much more handy to have something like Scite open with a bunch of config files in different tabs than to be switching vi instances back and forth in the CLI to do the same thing.
No, passwords (or passphrases, just a long password really) will always be there because information that is only stored in your memory is the most secure.
Biometrics are quite easy to force out of you, when the reader is even secure (see face & iris scanners being fooled by pics, fingerprint scanners being fooled by scanned or molded fingerprints). No such thing as a duress password with biometrics.
Keyfobs can enhance the security of a password, but by itself is *less* secure than a password, because they can be physically stolen. Same reason you should use passphrases on your SSH keyfiles.
And everything else is variations on the same theme, biometrics or stealable tokens of authenticity, that all suffer the same flaws. They can enhance the security of passwords, but by themselves are inferior.
Government fixing prices (including price of labor) only creates classes of people who never work again, because they don't have the opportunity to enter the labor force because they are unqualified to be paid the minimum wage and they are not producing revenue for the company that would justify hiring them at the minimum wage.
This confuses me. Say Mr. Burgerflipper makes $7/hour or whatever it is right now, and the minimum wage gets moved up to, say, $14 per hour. You're saying the fast food joints will lay them off and hire...nobody? There's a massive wage gap before robots would become the cheaper option. Are you saying that the industries that rely on cheap labor will just shut down?
Fucking hell, you shouldn't have caved. If those guys can't let you go to your own wedding you informed them of 90 days in advance, they're monumental assholes, even by today's business standards.
France was high on my list of potential nice places to live, even with their bloody difficult language, before they started with the 3-strikes Internet disconnection crap.
THIS. If I won the lottery (not that I play, because that's throwing money away) I would sure as hell quit my current job and would never consider doing anything similar. I would only get a job if it was something I actually enjoyed, and such positions are extremely rare in IT/CompSci fields unfortunately. All those cool things you tinker with at home have no application in business, it's just boring CRUDware and frantic high-speed grinding to complete someone's last-minute project while you watch all your friends who partied hard in high school and skipped a 4-year degree for 2 years of trade school make more money than you and continue to party and get laid while you're out cold at home, barely getting enough sleep to hit the ground running the next day after your boss warns you that you're on thin ice for showing up late, never mind all the extra unpaid late hours you put in. Take some vacation days and you're just squeezing more work into the days before and after, it's not time off work, just work deferral.
No I don't do this shit for my health (which is quite poor from all this. Had a friend who was stuck in a similar rut suddenly fall dead due to heart problems not long after his 30th birthday last year).
That said I work with nice people and I would feel really sorry for them and whoever replaces me. One side of me wants to help them and the other side would enjoy the schadenfreude.
The only anti-theft system I'd consider putting on a car is a DIY lojack. Basically like a smartphone you can reverse-SSH into and get the GPS coordinates from, and provide a web interface for law enforcement if the car is stolen. The only downside is that your full travel history could be pulled up by the telco...I can't think of a simple way to detect if the car is started by hot-wiring. But any car I own will be either not worth stealing or too strange and complex to steal.
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Or perhaps, "No, I don't FEEL your pain!"
Mitt Romney says income inequality is just envy and that he enjoys firing people, so maybe you should vote for him.
If you guys build something with hardware similar to a Droid 4 (but GSM of course) that runs Maemo/MeeGo I'll be first in line to preorder. This N900's gonna need upgrading in a couple of years.
In Dead Space 2 the Unitologists would do various physical and psychological tests on prospective members to weed out the skeptics.
I knew one really smart homeless guy. He found Jesus, tried to clean his life up...I guess the Jesus thing didn't work out though because he threw himself off a bridge :-(
After consultation with industry groups across the country
Industry groups. People are still practically powerless. Lucky that the tech megacorp's interests align with the common man's on this.
What's wrong with that (apart from the standard PITA factor of on-screen keyboards that most people seem to accept)? They'd have to randomize the keypad layout though to prevent password recovery via fingerprint-lifting.
CSI has lots of product placement advertising for MS products. I'd really like to believe it was a hidden joke for techies, but... :-(
If this app has its own RNG algorithm in it I'd say that's a pretty big red flag already.
Agreed. An inspiring story but it can cause people to pick up all kinds of bad messages.
There is something to that for many. If you're rich enough, it doesn't matter how badly you fail, you'll be propped up and given every opportunity to fix things.
See: Donald Trump. If he was a middle class guy and lost similar amounts of money (proportionate to his middle-class income), he'd be lucky if the repo men left the clothes on his back.
The modern version of that old Looney Tunes "cars of tomorrow" short.
"This car has a glass floor so that if you run someone over, you can see if he was a friend of yours!"
It's easy to verify that after the fact though. Without some recording of the windshield activity it would be very difficult or impossible to prove that the windshield didn't go black for a second.
Must be a big demand for granny camgirls...
Yeah at runlevel 5 you just have the login manager and maybe a few GUI-related services running on top of everything else. Dropping to runlevel 3 would save some RAM but little to no processing power.
'sup SharkLaser.
Maybe they'll rename the CLI version to Line Interface Navigated User eXperience...
Server apps shouldn't require GUIs. On Linux you can run a server with no GUI no problem, because it's a well-understood convention in the Linux world that server apps should never require GUIs.
Although having a GUI can make administration more convenient, much more handy to have something like Scite open with a bunch of config files in different tabs than to be switching vi instances back and forth in the CLI to do the same thing.
No, passwords (or passphrases, just a long password really) will always be there because information that is only stored in your memory is the most secure.
Biometrics are quite easy to force out of you, when the reader is even secure (see face & iris scanners being fooled by pics, fingerprint scanners being fooled by scanned or molded fingerprints). No such thing as a duress password with biometrics.
Keyfobs can enhance the security of a password, but by itself is *less* secure than a password, because they can be physically stolen. Same reason you should use passphrases on your SSH keyfiles.
And everything else is variations on the same theme, biometrics or stealable tokens of authenticity, that all suffer the same flaws. They can enhance the security of passwords, but by themselves are inferior.
nothing stopping you from starting your own company with your own policies.
Except maybe a lack of spare cash lying around...
Government fixing prices (including price of labor) only creates classes of people who never work again, because they don't have the opportunity to enter the labor force because they are unqualified to be paid the minimum wage and they are not producing revenue for the company that would justify hiring them at the minimum wage.
This confuses me. Say Mr. Burgerflipper makes $7/hour or whatever it is right now, and the minimum wage gets moved up to, say, $14 per hour. You're saying the fast food joints will lay them off and hire...nobody? There's a massive wage gap before robots would become the cheaper option. Are you saying that the industries that rely on cheap labor will just shut down?
Fucking hell, you shouldn't have caved. If those guys can't let you go to your own wedding you informed them of 90 days in advance, they're monumental assholes, even by today's business standards.
France was high on my list of potential nice places to live, even with their bloody difficult language, before they started with the 3-strikes Internet disconnection crap.
THIS. If I won the lottery (not that I play, because that's throwing money away) I would sure as hell quit my current job and would never consider doing anything similar. I would only get a job if it was something I actually enjoyed, and such positions are extremely rare in IT/CompSci fields unfortunately. All those cool things you tinker with at home have no application in business, it's just boring CRUDware and frantic high-speed grinding to complete someone's last-minute project while you watch all your friends who partied hard in high school and skipped a 4-year degree for 2 years of trade school make more money than you and continue to party and get laid while you're out cold at home, barely getting enough sleep to hit the ground running the next day after your boss warns you that you're on thin ice for showing up late, never mind all the extra unpaid late hours you put in. Take some vacation days and you're just squeezing more work into the days before and after, it's not time off work, just work deferral.
No I don't do this shit for my health (which is quite poor from all this. Had a friend who was stuck in a similar rut suddenly fall dead due to heart problems not long after his 30th birthday last year).
That said I work with nice people and I would feel really sorry for them and whoever replaces me. One side of me wants to help them and the other side would enjoy the schadenfreude.
The only anti-theft system I'd consider putting on a car is a DIY lojack. Basically like a smartphone you can reverse-SSH into and get the GPS coordinates from, and provide a web interface for law enforcement if the car is stolen. The only downside is that your full travel history could be pulled up by the telco...I can't think of a simple way to detect if the car is started by hot-wiring. But any car I own will be either not worth stealing or too strange and complex to steal.
Wrong, most EFI cars can be started the same way, there's nothing about EFI itself that makes it different.