If Linux had 90% of the desktop marketshare I guarantee you'd see these exact same exploits. Look how long Heartbleed was around before anyone noticed it.
Har! My operating system is best because it has the most exploits! Buy Windows - hackers can't be wrong!
I have always felt Linux people have that same false sense of security that Apple Mac users have always had. Nothing can touch them because of some lame reason.
I have always known that some people generalize the shit out of things.
No OS is completely immune while on teh intertoobz. But it doesn't take too much research to find out which major OS is the least secure. It ain't Linux, and it aint MacOS.
So I'm not sure whether or not the neocons expected their invasion of Iraq to result in the destruction of a major US metropolitan area like Manhattan. Maybe they did - and were just incredibly callous/reckless. But somehow I like to believe that deep down the neocons didn't think that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction either.
Whether Iraq had them or not was almost certainly not important to the neocons. What was important was the casis belli - the excuse to go to war. A casis belli is sometimes obvious, like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, sometimes apparently false, like the Gulf of Tonkin incident, or extremely marginally plausible, like the WMD claims for Iraq.
Powell has form. He was also responsible for the initial whitewashing of My Lai.
I've never understood the American media and public swallowing his whole 'man-of-integrity' shtick.
I'll never understand how so many people generalize. All of the media and all of the American Public do not believe he is a man of integrity. He called off a run for presidency because his fellow Republicans said they would spill the beans on him if he did.
This is all pretty simple for NASA to simulate except for the gravity. So I expect if they can get one flying here, it will do okay on Mars.
Taking the matter in a different direction, this should be a tremendous enhancement to a rover. An eye in the sky to scan for interesting things to examine, elimination of some of the guesswork involved in moving the rover around. Then a return to the rover to sip some of that nice electricity for dinner, then ready for the next day's adventure.
Holding personal information about someone, then not being a registered data handler, denying the subject access to information about themselves, denying it exists or refusing to delete if there is no good legal reason to hold it can be a criminal matter under EU law.
Can you explain the statutes and punishments for blocking any and all EU internet users? This processs of not allowing them access to my website would appear to satisfy the EU's privacy laws perfectly. No data whatsoever will be there to violate your law.
I too take their privcy policy seriously, and if someone tries to work their way around my blockage, I will report them to whoever I need to report them to. I have zero intention of violating EU privacy, and refusing entrance seems like the safest way to obey your rule.
Do you not approve of the blocking of users in order to protect theiur privacy?
You want to leave Stallman's humorous line in? Fine. It's a historical footnote for OSS. But let's not open the floodgates for every budding programmer with a funny bone to insert their brand of humor into each man page or programmer's manual.
We need to stomp out humor in every aspect of life, you insensitive clod. Humor does not fit the polarized ideologies that are demanding ascendency.
Abort. Yes we must eliminate this from the lexicon. This is a fine opportunity for far left and far right to combine their offendeism, and eliminate this horrible word.
The far right, because abortion is an affront to god, and all aspects of it must be eliminated.
The far left, because abort is another of the patriarchy's stomping on the rights of women, comparing the termination of a process with the right of a woman to have total control over her own body. No wonder we can't gert women in STEM!
Have they considered just lowering the damn price?
Many status symbols are Veblen Goods. A lower price would make it more affordable, lower the status boost for owners, and may depress sales.
Apple employs many marketing professionals, and is the most profitable corporation in the history of the world. I doubt if you are smarter than they are.
As well, amortize that price difference over the life of the phone.
I really wonder what percentage of Apple users get them because of "status". at least to this Apple user, I like the phone because it integrates with my Macs which I like because I like Unix. I had the Unix MacOS first, so the iPhone followed.
Probably not.
A lot of these statements will contradict themselves. Because people will contradict themselves and the issues are far more complex then a Slashdot post can explain.
Your post is on point. And its a pity too. Android phones are perfectly good devices as long as you watch out for the stuff on the cheap end. But the phones in direct competition with Apple are fine machines.
They are also pricy as well. My son paid more for his samsung phone than I paid for my iPhone. But that's beside the point other than debunking the age old canard of taking the cheapest competition and comparing it to the Apple product.
I appear to be an outlier though - if taking the vitriol I'lll likely get for posting the above heresy.
My choice to go with an iPhone was simple. 1. Quality, check. 2. Price comparison with similar competition? Similar, sometimes a little less, sometimes a little more. 3. Interface seamlessly with my Macs? Check.
Except for number 3, I'd be happy with either iPhone or Android.
Apple has been dying and getting bad omens forever.
As smartphones have become ubiquitous, the crazy numbers of new adopters simply have to slow down. We went through something similar with feature phones a few years back. I know only a couple people who have those dinosaurs now.
Regardless, the technology has matured rapidly, and now most sales will be replacement, some children, and a small group of elderly. people.
I'd wager that Apple has had this plan in the works for years.
In trying to think of the killer new smartphone that will have everyone dumping what they have now, I'm not coming up with much. Cutaneous dock implant, then direct visual and tactile implant the whole phone?
So until those dream devices come along, Apple management simply had to know the market would saturate, and planned on this years ago.
"Those of us working on Internet security and privacy have literally spent many years attempting to train users to"
So... tell me your success stories.
You have to admit, this is a hellava awesome attack vector. Just spoof a gmail confidential email - what ever could go wrong? Ima grab me some popcorn!
What's funny about "Christians" who believe this is - the rapture really isn't talked about in the same detail in the Bible as films like Left Behind (and many others) portray.
It's the worst kind of swindle from evangelicals - where they are simply making up theology as they go.
That is very true. The Rapture is only inferred from their book by some real tap-dancing. The concept originated with Cotton Mather, and only became a "truth from gawd in teh 20th century with evangelicals. Just a fable on top of a fable. Kinda like the Catholic concept of Purgatory or limbo, which was made up to address unbaptized infants and innocents from being cast into hell and tortured forever by the kind and loving gawd they worshipped. Didn't get baptized? Kewl - the kind and loving god doesn't want any part of your heathen ass, but rulez is rules, and since that bitch Eve ate that damn apple, gawd's gotta do something. You'll just be in a state of nowhere.
In the lead up to the Iraq war, our intelligence services were convinced that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Cool story Bro. The people who were convinced were the Neocons running the country at that time. ]
If you define a weapon of mass destruction to be a weapon capable of causing mass destruction, that is, if Saddam having weapons of mass destruction meant that he had to the ability to, say, destroy Manhattan, then I'm not sure whether or not the neocons believed Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
Neocons didn't care if he had WMD's or not. They wanted a war in the middle east, and Saddam's Iraq was a great target. They did what they felt they needed to do to advange their agenda and narrative.
Even if you did, that doesn't mean they're hoping for it as a result of a nuke war as the AC lied about.
The exact mechanism is not terribly relevant. While there are almost as many endtime narratives as there are angry desert gawd worshippers, I was raised with the concept that the righteous would be raptured - transported directly to heaven without the issues of earthly death, and those not so lucky would be subject to a millenium of tribulation.
When I was a teenager, the birth of the state of Isreal was widely considered as the blossoming of the fig tree that would mark the last generation. to wit:
- Matthew 24:32-34 From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates. Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. https://www.unsealed.org/2017/...
Well - we didn't pass away after one generation from 1948. Fear not though, for now we ar etold that the Isreali year was 360 days, and that their "generation" was 70, or maybe 80 years.
aaaaannnnnnnnnd lookie there! 2018, and e have another end of the world prediction.
But the neat thing about the whole mess is there is a whole lot of flexibility, so you can make up whatever you like as the only truth. Considering the acid-trip like writings of the last book of the angry desert gawd (personally, sounds more like datura poisoning to me) everyone can have their own personal interpretation.
This. It's the same among more conservative Jewish communities: many believe that Messiah will not appear until the Temple of Solomon is reconstructed. That would require blowing up one of the holiest Muslim mosques to get the location right, so long-term peace with the Muslims is pretty much not an alternative.
These things remind me exactly why I left religion. That the angry desert god would demand such an earthly thing as a specific temple, or change his story around and have the last book of the New Testament appear to be a case or ergotism, or possibly the effects of consuming datura.
But there is no doubt the angry desert god enjoys himself some death.
Tenet most likely believed what he said. What often happens is that as intel moves up the chain, each level gives it a slight tweak to please the people one level above. When it finally reaches the top, the facts are badly twisted. This clearly happened with the Tonkin Gulf incident, and also with Iraq's WMD.
So when Colin Powell went in front of the UN and said that we had proof Iraq was trying to buy yellowcake from Niger, he had every reason to believe that was true. But there were people in the US government that knew that evidence had been discredited, and that Powell's claims were false.
Powell wasn't lying, because he wasn't being intentionally deceptive. But it was an intelligence failure, because the facts collected by people on the ground failed to bubble up through the bureaucracy to the people making decisions.
What you have described is a political failure. Intelligence is the gathering of information of various levels of credibility through various channels and coming to a conclusion of more or less confidence. Your choosing to call it an intel failure means peoiple can simply make shit up to tell others what they want to hear - and it is somehow intelligence.
Not sure how we can get past that definition of yours.
Several. Yeah. You know very few, and very little.
I was raised by them - so I know a lot more than you know about them, my friend.
But I certainly will provide some evidence not of my upbringing. Let us start with the little list of the apocalypse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Howard Camping, who's Family Radio group publicized his prediction that the World would end on May 21, 2011 was enraptured with the Rapture. They even made happy songs about it. They are mentioned in this article about the hopeful. https://www.theguardian.com/wo....
Michelle Bachmann, one of the Republican Presidential candidates called specifically by gawd to run - had this to say:
[the U.S.'s funding of al Qaeda in Syria] happened and as of today the United States is willingly, knowingly, intentionally sending arms to terrorists, now what this says to me, I’m a believer in Jesus Christ, as I look at the End Times scripture, this says to me that the leaf is on the fig tree and we are to understand the signs of the times, which is your ministry, we are to understand where we are in God’s end times history. Rather than seeing this as a negative, we need to rejoice, Maranatha Come Lord Jesus, His day is at hand. (emphasis mine) When we see up is down and right is called wrong, when this is happening, we were told this; these days would be as the days of Noah.”
One can conclude only that either your ignorance is wilful in nature, or that you just don't read.
I've never been quite able to pierce the veil of the deeply religious after breaking free of it's toxic grips. So many people who are so certain of their fate and their deity, and so many diametrically opposed. Yet all of them the only true belief. And so many willing to kill those who do not share that one true belief.
Rapture lust and the celebration of the Post Tribulation suffering of the unsaved id a core competency of the group.
The people who were convinced were the Neocons running the country at that time. Turns out that was not an intel failure, but a lie.
The DCI during the run up to the war was George Tenet, a Clinton appointee. He told GWB that it was a "slam dunk" to prove that Iraq had WMDs, and GWB had no reason to doubt him. That was an intel failure.
It was a manipulative lie. I've never heard of the slam dunk level of intel. That Tenet was apppointed by Clinton therefore is no neocon is as irrelevant as claiming that since O'Blama appointed Pai as one of the commissioners, O'Blama was in favor ot ending net neutrality.
Tenet and the neocons were very likely in cahoots, and there is no doubt that he gave them the answer they very much wanted in order to have a Casus belli for the invasion of Iraq. The most they found were parts of the infamous Project Babylon "space gun" that Gerald Bull was trying to build for them.
Despite some folks insistence, intel is not and has never been an exact science. Almost certainly never will be. Slam dunks as in 100 percent surety simply do not exist, and anyone telling you that is lying.
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If Linux had 90% of the desktop marketshare I guarantee you'd see these exact same exploits. Look how long Heartbleed was around before anyone noticed it.
Har! My operating system is best because it has the most exploits! Buy Windows - hackers can't be wrong!
I have always felt Linux people have that same false sense of security that Apple Mac users have always had. Nothing can touch them because of some lame reason.
I have always known that some people generalize the shit out of things.
No OS is completely immune while on teh intertoobz. But it doesn't take too much research to find out which major OS is the least secure. It ain't Linux, and it aint MacOS.
So I'm not sure whether or not the neocons expected their invasion of Iraq to result in the destruction of a major US metropolitan area like Manhattan. Maybe they did - and were just incredibly callous/reckless. But somehow I like to believe that deep down the neocons didn't think that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction either.
Whether Iraq had them or not was almost certainly not important to the neocons. What was important was the casis belli - the excuse to go to war. A casis belli is sometimes obvious, like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, sometimes apparently false, like the Gulf of Tonkin incident, or extremely marginally plausible, like the WMD claims for Iraq.
Powell has form. He was also responsible for the initial whitewashing of My Lai.
I've never understood the American media and public swallowing his whole 'man-of-integrity' shtick.
I'll never understand how so many people generalize. All of the media and all of the American Public do not believe he is a man of integrity. He called off a run for presidency because his fellow Republicans said they would spill the beans on him if he did.
And of course you are the Supreme Arbiter of Truth, who KNOWS all facts and couldn't possibly be wrong or misinformed too.
Dipshit.
I have cvalled you an asshole Anonymous Coward. If you wish to deny that and say I didn't, that would be a lie whether you believed it or not
Consider the development of fighter aircraft props from two blades, up to five in 1945, and counter rotating, for six, and paddle blades.
And then there was Thunderscreech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... F84H .
This is all pretty simple for NASA to simulate except for the gravity. So I expect if they can get one flying here, it will do okay on Mars.
Taking the matter in a different direction, this should be a tremendous enhancement to a rover. An eye in the sky to scan for interesting things to examine, elimination of some of the guesswork involved in moving the rover around. Then a return to the rover to sip some of that nice electricity for dinner, then ready for the next day's adventure.
Holding personal information about someone, then not being a registered data handler, denying the subject access to information about themselves, denying it exists or refusing to delete if there is no good legal reason to hold it can be a criminal matter under EU law.
Can you explain the statutes and punishments for blocking any and all EU internet users? This processs of not allowing them access to my website would appear to satisfy the EU's privacy laws perfectly. No data whatsoever will be there to violate your law.
I too take their privcy policy seriously, and if someone tries to work their way around my blockage, I will report them to whoever I need to report them to. I have zero intention of violating EU privacy, and refusing entrance seems like the safest way to obey your rule.
Do you not approve of the blocking of users in order to protect theiur privacy?
You want to leave Stallman's humorous line in? Fine. It's a historical footnote for OSS. But let's not open the floodgates for every budding programmer with a funny bone to insert their brand of humor into each man page or programmer's manual.
We need to stomp out humor in every aspect of life, you insensitive clod. Humor does not fit the polarized ideologies that are demanding ascendency.
The far right, because abortion is an affront to god, and all aspects of it must be eliminated.
The far left, because abort is another of the patriarchy's stomping on the rights of women, comparing the termination of a process with the right of a woman to have total control over her own body. No wonder we can't gert women in STEM!
Have I pissed everyone off?
Have they considered just lowering the damn price?
Many status symbols are Veblen Goods. A lower price would make it more affordable, lower the status boost for owners, and may depress sales.
Apple employs many marketing professionals, and is the most profitable corporation in the history of the world. I doubt if you are smarter than they are.
As well, amortize that price difference over the life of the phone.
I really wonder what percentage of Apple users get them because of "status". at least to this Apple user, I like the phone because it integrates with my Macs which I like because I like Unix. I had the Unix MacOS first, so the iPhone followed.
Probably not. A lot of these statements will contradict themselves. Because people will contradict themselves and the issues are far more complex then a Slashdot post can explain.
Your post is on point. And its a pity too. Android phones are perfectly good devices as long as you watch out for the stuff on the cheap end. But the phones in direct competition with Apple are fine machines.
They are also pricy as well. My son paid more for his samsung phone than I paid for my iPhone. But that's beside the point other than debunking the age old canard of taking the cheapest competition and comparing it to the Apple product.
I appear to be an outlier though - if taking the vitriol I'lll likely get for posting the above heresy.
My choice to go with an iPhone was simple. 1. Quality, check. 2. Price comparison with similar competition? Similar, sometimes a little less, sometimes a little more. 3. Interface seamlessly with my Macs? Check.
Except for number 3, I'd be happy with either iPhone or Android.
iPhone Manufacturers’ Slowing Sales Are a Bad Omen for Apple.
Apple has been dying and getting bad omens forever.
As smartphones have become ubiquitous, the crazy numbers of new adopters simply have to slow down. We went through something similar with feature phones a few years back. I know only a couple people who have those dinosaurs now.
Regardless, the technology has matured rapidly, and now most sales will be replacement, some children, and a small group of elderly. people.
I'd wager that Apple has had this plan in the works for years.
In trying to think of the killer new smartphone that will have everyone dumping what they have now, I'm not coming up with much. Cutaneous dock implant, then direct visual and tactile implant the whole phone?
So until those dream devices come along, Apple management simply had to know the market would saturate, and planned on this years ago.
I’m starting up a new blockchain selling Fuckerberg shekels.
Bless you, for you are doing God's work!
Good thing we have AI to protect us from running malicious programs. Surely AI is able to do that?
Only if we implement blockchain though!
"Those of us working on Internet security and privacy have literally spent many years attempting to train users to"
So... tell me your success stories.
You have to admit, this is a hellava awesome attack vector. Just spoof a gmail confidential email - what ever could go wrong? Ima grab me some popcorn!
What's funny about "Christians" who believe this is - the rapture really isn't talked about in the same detail in the Bible as films like Left Behind (and many others) portray.
It's the worst kind of swindle from evangelicals - where they are simply making up theology as they go.
That is very true. The Rapture is only inferred from their book by some real tap-dancing. The concept originated with Cotton Mather, and only became a "truth from gawd in teh 20th century with evangelicals. Just a fable on top of a fable. Kinda like the Catholic concept of Purgatory or limbo, which was made up to address unbaptized infants and innocents from being cast into hell and tortured forever by the kind and loving gawd they worshipped. Didn't get baptized? Kewl - the kind and loving god doesn't want any part of your heathen ass, but rulez is rules, and since that bitch Eve ate that damn apple, gawd's gotta do something. You'll just be in a state of nowhere.
In the lead up to the Iraq war, our intelligence services were convinced that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Cool story Bro. The people who were convinced were the Neocons running the country at that time. ]
If you define a weapon of mass destruction to be a weapon capable of causing mass destruction, that is, if Saddam having weapons of mass destruction meant that he had to the ability to, say, destroy Manhattan, then I'm not sure whether or not the neocons believed Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
Neocons didn't care if he had WMD's or not. They wanted a war in the middle east, and Saddam's Iraq was a great target. They did what they felt they needed to do to advange their agenda and narrative.
Boring
You are nearly the dumbest person posting on this story, and that is saying something.
I was the dumbest one until you posted.
Even if you did, that doesn't mean they're hoping for it as a result of a nuke war as the AC lied about.
The exact mechanism is not terribly relevant. While there are almost as many endtime narratives as there are angry desert gawd worshippers, I was raised with the concept that the righteous would be raptured - transported directly to heaven without the issues of earthly death, and those not so lucky would be subject to a millenium of tribulation.
When I was a teenager, the birth of the state of Isreal was widely considered as the blossoming of the fig tree that would mark the last generation. to wit:
- Matthew 24:32-34 From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates. Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. https://www.unsealed.org/2017/...
Well - we didn't pass away after one generation from 1948. Fear not though, for now we ar etold that the Isreali year was 360 days, and that their "generation" was 70, or maybe 80 years.
aaaaannnnnnnnnd lookie there! 2018, and e have another end of the world prediction.
But the neat thing about the whole mess is there is a whole lot of flexibility, so you can make up whatever you like as the only truth. Considering the acid-trip like writings of the last book of the angry desert gawd (personally, sounds more like datura poisoning to me) everyone can have their own personal interpretation.
This. It's the same among more conservative Jewish communities: many believe that Messiah will not appear until the Temple of Solomon is reconstructed. That would require blowing up one of the holiest Muslim mosques to get the location right, so long-term peace with the Muslims is pretty much not an alternative.
These things remind me exactly why I left religion. That the angry desert god would demand such an earthly thing as a specific temple, or change his story around and have the last book of the New Testament appear to be a case or ergotism, or possibly the effects of consuming datura.
But there is no doubt the angry desert god enjoys himself some death.
It was a manipulative lie.
Tenet most likely believed what he said. What often happens is that as intel moves up the chain, each level gives it a slight tweak to please the people one level above. When it finally reaches the top, the facts are badly twisted. This clearly happened with the Tonkin Gulf incident, and also with Iraq's WMD.
So when Colin Powell went in front of the UN and said that we had proof Iraq was trying to buy yellowcake from Niger, he had every reason to believe that was true. But there were people in the US government that knew that evidence had been discredited, and that Powell's claims were false.
Powell wasn't lying, because he wasn't being intentionally deceptive. But it was an intelligence failure, because the facts collected by people on the ground failed to bubble up through the bureaucracy to the people making decisions.
What you have described is a political failure. Intelligence is the gathering of information of various levels of credibility through various channels and coming to a conclusion of more or less confidence. Your choosing to call it an intel failure means peoiple can simply make shit up to tell others what they want to hear - and it is somehow intelligence.
Not sure how we can get past that definition of yours.
Several. Yeah. You know very few, and very little.
I was raised by them - so I know a lot more than you know about them, my friend.
But I certainly will provide some evidence not of my upbringing. Let us start with the little list of the apocalypse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Howard Camping, who's Family Radio group publicized his prediction that the World would end on May 21, 2011 was enraptured with the Rapture. They even made happy songs about it. They are mentioned in this article about the hopeful. https://www.theguardian.com/wo....
Michelle Bachmann, one of the Republican Presidential candidates called specifically by gawd to run - had this to say:
[the U.S.'s funding of al Qaeda in Syria] happened and as of today the United States is willingly, knowingly, intentionally sending arms to terrorists, now what this says to me, I’m a believer in Jesus Christ, as I look at the End Times scripture, this says to me that the leaf is on the fig tree and we are to understand the signs of the times, which is your ministry, we are to understand where we are in God’s end times history. Rather than seeing this as a negative, we need to rejoice, Maranatha Come Lord Jesus, His day is at hand. (emphasis mine) When we see up is down and right is called wrong, when this is happening, we were told this; these days would be as the days of Noah.”
Praying for the Rapture: https://gracethrufaith.com/ask...
Not just pray for it - desire it! http://christinprophecy.org/ar...
Any questions? Like I said, I was raised by these folks, and I can find plenty more of them if need be.
One can conclude only that either your ignorance is wilful in nature, or that you just don't read.
I've never been quite able to pierce the veil of the deeply religious after breaking free of it's toxic grips. So many people who are so certain of their fate and their deity, and so many diametrically opposed. Yet all of them the only true belief. And so many willing to kill those who do not share that one true belief.
Rapture lust and the celebration of the Post Tribulation suffering of the unsaved id a core competency of the group.
The people who were convinced were the Neocons running the country at that time. Turns out that was not an intel failure, but a lie.
The DCI during the run up to the war was George Tenet, a Clinton appointee. He told GWB that it was a "slam dunk" to prove that Iraq had WMDs, and GWB had no reason to doubt him. That was an intel failure.
It was a manipulative lie. I've never heard of the slam dunk level of intel. That Tenet was apppointed by Clinton therefore is no neocon is as irrelevant as claiming that since O'Blama appointed Pai as one of the commissioners, O'Blama was in favor ot ending net neutrality.
Tenet and the neocons were very likely in cahoots, and there is no doubt that he gave them the answer they very much wanted in order to have a Casus belli for the invasion of Iraq. The most they found were parts of the infamous Project Babylon "space gun" that Gerald Bull was trying to build for them. Despite some folks insistence, intel is not and has never been an exact science. Almost certainly never will be. Slam dunks as in 100 percent surety simply do not exist, and anyone telling you that is lying.