that works fine until Linux has the market share of Windows. The advantage Linux currently has is security through obscurity.
Took a while, but finally someone brought that up - Security through obscurity is the computer world's version of trickle down economics.
From your information, I can state with great assurance that with the recent botnets of Internet of things devices, that there are more of those devices than machines running Windows. Otherwise, they would be quite secure.
I clicked on some white space below the story, as I was working in another program on my other screen.
It took me to the "Have I been Pwned?" site
NONONONONONONONONONONONONO!!!!! Do not fucking do this Slashdot! This is not funny! This is not appropriate. You want to take me to another website after clicking on white space? What the sleazy clickbit malware satan in hell are you doing?P
NO! Bad Slashdot! Evil Slashdot. Stop it. This will not do. We are not amused.
Other than that, I have no strong feelings on the,matter
Defender still appears to really just be an easy copout workaround for Microsoft, rather than them addressing the actual problem which is the fundamentally weak architecture of Windows itself.
I can't wait for the braindead, unwashed masses to actually have a few braincells capable of independent thought. Since these same idiots believe everything they read on the internet (primarily Facebook), changes like this may actually help.
Intelligence is not required for reproduction. In fact, the stupid people are winning.
Some people think that the movie Idiocracy is predictive of the future. I think Mike Judge was on the right path, but he's way too optimistic.
I can point out similar instances with the other sources. I'm not totally against using these sources but I want a balance from the other sources on the other side of the political aisle.
Here's the interesting thing AFAIAC. People want, people want.
Don't want - do!
If you want conservative fact checking and conservative media and conservative teachers in schools - become one. Have so many conservative fact checkers that the liberal ones are just reduced to the noise background, so that their lies are laughable among the truth that the conservatives hand out.
Because if we allow liberals to run these things, we'll just turn out more liberals that listen to more liberal lies.
Isn't the real problem that people consider anything that matches their confirmation bias to be genuine?
This AC needs to be at +5 insightful. In the short time I've been on Facebook, what has happened is the feed has adjusted itself to my friends, relatives and those people who I originally got on Facebook for in some groups that I run.
So I get both liberal claptrap and conservative bullshit. Especially because I regularly talk to and interact with both sides.
Now, if a person gets a lot of liberal info that they don't like, they might be associating with people who's political views they aren't in line with.
And it's not like a person can't block anyone they need to not see.
Its a good thing the GamerGate perps didn't publicly fantasize about blowing up the White House. If they had, they'd be in real trouble. The left-wing news media would have been so outraged and offended that they would have dug up Claude Rains to tell us how shocked -- shocked he was.
Threatening anyone with death is a crime, and if it is an elected official it is taken very seriously as in you are gonna get a visit from your local friendly FBI agent or the Secret Service.
Funny - I thought even "right wingers" thought that it was a crime. Or have we gone beyond law now?
None of the above. It's an attempt to close off private work and coerce the use of pro or union labor. And one cannot assume the pro did it correctly so there's no more danger than with final inspection on a professional installation. If it passes it's right.
I have to laugh at thi sidea that the pro is opening themselves to liability. When I have done electrical work on my place, I have to shake my head at the slipshod work that was done by the "professionals" Nicked wires, excessive insulation removal, badly routed wires. My own work looks more like the server cabinet porn we see on Imgur every so often. I run through conduit whenever possible - though not so easy in a 60 year old house.
Now this isn't to say that everyone should do this, and there is a lot more involved than someone in this thread noted about learning the skills needed in a day, but being careful, and some study of basic electrical concepts is a good way to get you started.
I dont know how it works elsewhere but here in Australia there are a number of jobs (electrical work, plumbing, telecom work and others) that you can't legally do unless you have the right license.
At least in my neck of the woods in the Northeast US, you can do the job yourself, but you have to have it inspected. I do my own electrical work, and the difference is obvious who did what to the inspector. Probably most people should leave that to the pros, but just because the pro is licensed doesn't mean you'll get pretty work.
This woman has a great future ahead of her if she learned and executed all the skills necessary to build a house from scratch.
I've called around to all the local lumber yards, and no one has scratch, so I guess I'm dead in the water for my home building project. I'll check at the grocery store too, since I understand you can make pies from scratch as well.
But to the point of the article, one of the most useful things on Youtube is those instructional tutorials. I use them all the time to eliminate a lot of guesswork and unneeded disassembly when working on my cars or motorcycle, or various work around the house or in radio. I have a few tutorials I made myself about Software Defined Radio.
Some of the tutorials we find aren't that professional, or the person isn't all that great at communicating, or is long winded. But they all get an A for the intentions of being helpful to others.
Sure peripheral vision may not allow you to tell a bird from a bat, but...
Experienced, competent drivers rely on peripheral vision to accurately (within about 5km/h) gauge their speed, avoiding the need to look at the speedometer.
Remove peripheral vision and you can expect a lot of speeding tickets.
Which got me to thinking - what if these things could manage to sharpen up peripheral vision as well? The light is coming in at a very shallow angle to the eye's lens, but imagine the effect if you could have overall vision sharpness?
Things about living in the future - this is the one technology I has been waiting for years, for before I need reading glasses! Now please go and take that to market! And if you want to include some mosquito-killer-lasers in the process I would not mind.
Oh boy, if you haven't been hit by presbyopia yet, you aren't going to like that experience all. Lineless graded bifocals help a lot, mine are good for things like using the computer keyboard, close vision, the screen, middle vision, and things like the instrument cluster in the car are in just the right place, and with them - under normal circumstances- is about perfect. But you have to get used to holding your head very low or else your feet are a blur - not so good for going down stairs. And laying on the couch trying to watch TV doesn't work so well.
I'll pay just about whatever they demand for these lenses.
You realise that even if this needs a manual setting of a control on the glass itself, it will still be one order of magnitude better than swapping glasses?
And, it is not like the "conventional" tech we have today, used in smartphones and other gadgets, cannot look at the eye.
Can you imagine the use? I work with a lot of small parts, and if these lenses can give me a high diopter as well as my regular prescription, I'd be in heaven. Right now, it's a matter of endless swapping. I'll bet I waste a half hour a day swapping out glasses. I have the graded bifocals, which are really good for most things, but not for working with really small parts.
Agreed, even if it is a manual switch, it would be worth it.
Side question - are you and Pope Ratzo going to have an apocalyptic battle to end all battles?
how about everything after you invented the phrase "Crypto Conservative"
I mean there are degrees of wrong and then there are degrees of wrong. Characterizing the vote against Hillary as support for Trump is beyond mindblowing.
Okay, so let's say I am completely wrong. Do you have anything to offer for your argument beyond that your mind is "blown".
Do you understand what "crypto"-something means?
You've managed to just tell me I was wrong because I was wrong. If that's all you have to offer, don't bother to reply, unless you are one of those who feels a deep need to have the last word.
Oddly that's not what I see. What I see are liberals who are getting angrier every day. You seem to be projecting.
A lot of people are not happy about the election. But then losers often do become angry. That's part of losing. Winners are not supposed to be angry.
As for myself, well, I don't think this is going to end well at all, but I'm at an age where I don't care a whole lot what happens to me, and if this is what America wants, well - they voted for it.
But angry? No. I guess I would describe my thoughts as kind of gallows humor, and part of that I feel a llittle guilty about, because a lot of people might be losing their lives soon, as I think there is a better than 50 percent chance that we might have another civil war. But killing each other is a core competency of humans, it's in our genetics, so not much we can do about it.
Ah, starting out by taking the high road, eh? Well played citizen!
I merely state that the winners have not been cheering. They've been just as anry as before. But since you cannot have a discussion without an insult, That's about all I have to say to you. Peaceout.
Wow, you left-wingers trot out a new nasty name every week. Tolerance, at its best.
Not a liberal, unless you consider Barry Goldwater a liberal. IOW, I like fiscal responsibility, and allowing people freedom. Crypto-conservatives give lip service to conservative principles, but don't follow them.
You cannot call yourselves fiscal conservatives when you do a perfect spend spend spend plan, and the leader of the Republican party, the man who represents your principles and goals, is planning on adding a Tax so that American citizens can pay for building the Maginot line two.
In other words, the people who call themselves conservatives that days, are just like those whom they castigate. IOW, Crypto conservatives = Liberals when it comes to spending my Tax dollars.
Or if you want to eliminate all the nice words, Modern conservatives are fucking lowlife hypocrites, and quite liberal in their spending and quite invasive of personal freedoms - exactly what you might accuse liberals of doing.
Me: I'm going to get the lawn chair out, some popcorn, some tequila shots, and watch events unfold. My comments are not anything other than noting that the winners are at least as angry as they were before the election, and winning has not diminshed their anger one little bit. That does not often end well.
While I have my own political thoughts, they aren't in play here - this is just an observation.
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that works fine until Linux has the market share of Windows. The advantage Linux currently has is security through obscurity.
Took a while, but finally someone brought that up - Security through obscurity is the computer world's version of trickle down economics.
From your information, I can state with great assurance that with the recent botnets of Internet of things devices, that there are more of those devices than machines running Windows. Otherwise, they would be quite secure.
What malware authors love most about Linux is your attitude. It prevents you from really looking at your machine.
You managed to devine a lot of what my attitude is from a really short post. You must be psychic.
All Operating Systems have some vulnerabilities. As it turns out Windows has the Lion's share of them.
It took me to the "Have I been Pwned?" site
NONONONONONONONONONONONONO!!!!! Do not fucking do this Slashdot! This is not funny! This is not appropriate. You want to take me to another website after clicking on white space? What the sleazy clickbit malware satan in hell are you doing?P NO! Bad Slashdot! Evil Slashdot. Stop it. This will not do. We are not amused.
Other than that, I have no strong feelings on the ,matter
Defender still appears to really just be an easy copout workaround for Microsoft, rather than them addressing the actual problem which is the fundamentally weak architecture of Windows itself.
The best antivirus software for Windows is Linux.
I can't wait for the braindead, unwashed masses to actually have a few braincells capable of independent thought. Since these same idiots believe everything they read on the internet (primarily Facebook), changes like this may actually help.
Intelligence is not required for reproduction. In fact, the stupid people are winning.
Some people think that the movie Idiocracy is predictive of the future. I think Mike Judge was on the right path, but he's way too optimistic.
I can point out similar instances with the other sources. I'm not totally against using these sources but I want a balance from the other sources on the other side of the political aisle.
Here's the interesting thing AFAIAC. People want, people want.
Don't want - do!
If you want conservative fact checking and conservative media and conservative teachers in schools - become one. Have so many conservative fact checkers that the liberal ones are just reduced to the noise background, so that their lies are laughable among the truth that the conservatives hand out.
Because if we allow liberals to run these things, we'll just turn out more liberals that listen to more liberal lies.
So it
promotes content "that people consider genuine
Isn't the real problem that people consider anything that matches their confirmation bias to be genuine?
This AC needs to be at +5 insightful. In the short time I've been on Facebook, what has happened is the feed has adjusted itself to my friends, relatives and those people who I originally got on Facebook for in some groups that I run.
So I get both liberal claptrap and conservative bullshit. Especially because I regularly talk to and interact with both sides.
Now, if a person gets a lot of liberal info that they don't like, they might be associating with people who's political views they aren't in line with.
And it's not like a person can't block anyone they need to not see.
Not to mention safety. I'd hate to be the nearest Fire Department to that place...
An electrical car is a death trap, and a bank of 20 Li-Po batteries is about one Hiroshima scale explosion.
Here is some video of what happens when just a Tesla catches on fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Its a good thing the GamerGate perps didn't publicly fantasize about blowing up the White House. If they had, they'd be in real trouble. The left-wing news media would have been so outraged and offended that they would have dug up Claude Rains to tell us how shocked -- shocked he was.
Threatening anyone with death is a crime, and if it is an elected official it is taken very seriously as in you are gonna get a visit from your local friendly FBI agent or the Secret Service.
Funny - I thought even "right wingers" thought that it was a crime. Or have we gone beyond law now?
Don't forget "looking at your phone", either -- it's another major real-world use case... ;-)
And how! A lot of young people are going to be unpleasantly surprised im a few years. I know I was pissed when presbyopia reared it's ugly head.
None of the above. It's an attempt to close off private work and coerce the use of pro or union labor. And one cannot assume the pro did it correctly so there's no more danger than with final inspection on a professional installation. If it passes it's right.
I have to laugh at thi sidea that the pro is opening themselves to liability. When I have done electrical work on my place, I have to shake my head at the slipshod work that was done by the "professionals" Nicked wires, excessive insulation removal, badly routed wires. My own work looks more like the server cabinet porn we see on Imgur every so often. I run through conduit whenever possible - though not so easy in a 60 year old house.
Now this isn't to say that everyone should do this, and there is a lot more involved than someone in this thread noted about learning the skills needed in a day, but being careful, and some study of basic electrical concepts is a good way to get you started.
I dont know how it works elsewhere but here in Australia there are a number of jobs (electrical work, plumbing, telecom work and others) that you can't legally do unless you have the right license.
At least in my neck of the woods in the Northeast US, you can do the job yourself, but you have to have it inspected. I do my own electrical work, and the difference is obvious who did what to the inspector. Probably most people should leave that to the pros, but just because the pro is licensed doesn't mean you'll get pretty work.
This woman has a great future ahead of her if she learned and executed all the skills necessary to build a house from scratch.
I've called around to all the local lumber yards, and no one has scratch, so I guess I'm dead in the water for my home building project. I'll check at the grocery store too, since I understand you can make pies from scratch as well.
But to the point of the article, one of the most useful things on Youtube is those instructional tutorials. I use them all the time to eliminate a lot of guesswork and unneeded disassembly when working on my cars or motorcycle, or various work around the house or in radio. I have a few tutorials I made myself about Software Defined Radio.
Some of the tutorials we find aren't that professional, or the person isn't all that great at communicating, or is long winded. But they all get an A for the intentions of being helpful to others.
You don't need autofocusing glasses for driving anyway, because everything you see on the road is optically 'in the distance'.
Don't forget the instrument cluster. Need to see that was one of the first things to drive me into bifocals.
Someone will correct me if I'm wrong,
This is Slashdot, Animojo - someone will always correct you even if you aren't wrong! ;^)
Sure peripheral vision may not allow you to tell a bird from a bat, but ...
Experienced, competent drivers rely on peripheral vision to accurately (within about 5km/h) gauge their speed, avoiding the need to look at the speedometer.
Remove peripheral vision and you can expect a lot of speeding tickets.
Which got me to thinking - what if these things could manage to sharpen up peripheral vision as well? The light is coming in at a very shallow angle to the eye's lens, but imagine the effect if you could have overall vision sharpness?
Things about living in the future - this is the one technology I has been waiting for years, for before I need reading glasses! Now please go and take that to market! And if you want to include some mosquito-killer-lasers in the process I would not mind.
Oh boy, if you haven't been hit by presbyopia yet, you aren't going to like that experience all. Lineless graded bifocals help a lot, mine are good for things like using the computer keyboard, close vision, the screen, middle vision, and things like the instrument cluster in the car are in just the right place, and with them - under normal circumstances- is about perfect. But you have to get used to holding your head very low or else your feet are a blur - not so good for going down stairs. And laying on the couch trying to watch TV doesn't work so well.
I'll pay just about whatever they demand for these lenses.
You realise that even if this needs a manual setting of a control on the glass itself, it will still be one order of magnitude better than swapping glasses? And, it is not like the "conventional" tech we have today, used in smartphones and other gadgets, cannot look at the eye.
Can you imagine the use? I work with a lot of small parts, and if these lenses can give me a high diopter as well as my regular prescription, I'd be in heaven. Right now, it's a matter of endless swapping. I'll bet I waste a half hour a day swapping out glasses. I have the graded bifocals, which are really good for most things, but not for working with really small parts.
Agreed, even if it is a manual switch, it would be worth it.
Side question - are you and Pope Ratzo going to have an apocalyptic battle to end all battles?
how about everything after you invented the phrase "Crypto Conservative"
I mean there are degrees of wrong and then there are degrees of wrong. Characterizing the vote against Hillary as support for Trump is beyond mindblowing.
Okay, so let's say I am completely wrong. Do you have anything to offer for your argument beyond that your mind is "blown".
Do you understand what "crypto"-something means?
You've managed to just tell me I was wrong because I was wrong. If that's all you have to offer, don't bother to reply, unless you are one of those who feels a deep need to have the last word.
Your newer comment: "I merely state that the winners have not been cheering. They've been just as anry [sic] as before."
I will take that about-face as a retraction of your earlier claim that Trump's supporters are angrier now than before the election
Umm, no. Twas no about face. Come back when you can follow the conversation.
Oddly that's not what I see. What I see are liberals who are getting angrier every day. You seem to be projecting.
A lot of people are not happy about the election. But then losers often do become angry. That's part of losing. Winners are not supposed to be angry.
As for myself, well, I don't think this is going to end well at all, but I'm at an age where I don't care a whole lot what happens to me, and if this is what America wants, well - they voted for it.
But angry? No. I guess I would describe my thoughts as kind of gallows humor, and part of that I feel a llittle guilty about, because a lot of people might be losing their lives soon, as I think there is a better than 50 percent chance that we might have another civil war. But killing each other is a core competency of humans, it's in our genetics, so not much we can do about it.
So that is the essence of my thoughts.
Are you pre-teen, or are you senile?
Ah, starting out by taking the high road, eh? Well played citizen!
I merely state that the winners have not been cheering. They've been just as anry as before. But since you cannot have a discussion without an insult, That's about all I have to say to you. Peaceout.
Wow, you left-wingers trot out a new nasty name every week. Tolerance, at its best.
Not a liberal, unless you consider Barry Goldwater a liberal. IOW, I like fiscal responsibility, and allowing people freedom. Crypto-conservatives give lip service to conservative principles, but don't follow them.
You cannot call yourselves fiscal conservatives when you do a perfect spend spend spend plan, and the leader of the Republican party, the man who represents your principles and goals, is planning on adding a Tax so that American citizens can pay for building the Maginot line two.
In other words, the people who call themselves conservatives that days, are just like those whom they castigate. IOW, Crypto conservatives = Liberals when it comes to spending my Tax dollars.
Or if you want to eliminate all the nice words, Modern conservatives are fucking lowlife hypocrites, and quite liberal in their spending and quite invasive of personal freedoms - exactly what you might accuse liberals of doing.
Tell me what you're going to do now.
Me: I'm going to get the lawn chair out, some popcorn, some tequila shots, and watch events unfold. My comments are not anything other than noting that the winners are at least as angry as they were before the election, and winning has not diminshed their anger one little bit. That does not often end well.
While I have my own political thoughts, they aren't in play here - this is just an observation.
You're welcome to the party.
I don't want to get in a tit-for -tat battle
Really that's why you decided to fisk my statement and take an arrogant tone ?
You can always tell me what part I am wrong on.