No, its "cat/dev/video0 | tee tivo-sucks.mpg | mplayer/dev/stdin &" (if you have enough RAM this should be faster; I'm assuming you still want to keep the video itself since that is the whole point of a PVR/DVR/whatever they're called now)
Maybe because Flash, as a plugin, will always require extra time to load itself? Have we learned nothing from the Java applet lesson?
Re Java: Funny, Sun went to the trouble of competently implementing cross-platform support, unlike Adobe... (and don't tell me that it's not Sun anymore: Oracle didn't invent Java, they bought/are buying it)
If the product stagnates and dies it means no one cares about it enough to put in the effort it takes to fork and actively lead a FOSS project. Personally, I think that's a good thing because it means most FOSS is either well supported by some sort of community or else it is too marginal to bother with. It means the community serves as a litmus test for quality. If there are three active developers then maybe it won't be as good as if there are 300. Also, bear in mind that FOSS is a volunteer effort. The only reason FOSS exists is because someone went to the trouble of writing it. If it is stagnating or nonexistent and you want it, write it yourself! If you don't care enough to do so, don't whine about how no one else is either.
Ubuntu provides an apparmor template for firefox but you need to tweak it in order to actually make it secure (otherwise it doesn't really do enough for security - can read and write from/to too many locations! Yes making it secure would restrict you to saving/open files from just a few places, but why bother having an insecure security template when you are already turning it off by default?). Firefox even makes it hard for you to run it as a separate user process.
I didn't tweak it myself, but when I looked at it, I found that it had somehow tweaked itself:
# for maximum plugin/helper compatibility
#/usr/bin/* Uxr,
#/usr/lib/*/** ixr,
#
# For stricter access, comment out the 'maximum plugin/helper compatibility'
# lines above and uncomment these
#
[several uncommented lines relating to plugins]
As for being tethered to iTunes, you can run an iPad completely without using iTunes, including buying apps, syncing contacts and bookmarks, buying music, TV Shows, movies, renting movies, the works.
Really? When did this happen? (hint: a link would be nice)
sudo -i useradd -G admin foouser [assuming group admin is a/the group mentioned in/etc/sudoers] exit
Now they can log in as foouser without telling you about it, esp. if you later revoke their access or something. If you give someone the ability to become root they can do whatever they want, in principle. If you don't want them to do these things, the simplest way to do that is to not give them root/sudo at all.
Also, since when is it good security policy to "have the same root password on dozens of machines"?
There's actually a sound economic basis for rising medical costs: 1) As time goes on, most industries tend to improve in efficiency. One result of this is increasing wages, measured in terms of purchasing power (i.e. real wages rather than nominal wages) 2) Some industries don't improve in efficiency as rapidly or at all. For instance, a checkup nowadays isn't much faster or cheaper than 50 years ago. 3) If real wages in one industry increase and real wages in another industry fail to increase, college students/graduates and anyone else who can choose which field to specialize in will gravitate towards the better paying field and away from the worse paying field. As a result, the worse paying field suffers from scarcity of workers and is forced to raise its real wages too, in order to attract more workers. In short, wages tend to rise and fall together due to the laws of supply and demand applied to the factor market. 4) This money has to come from somewhere, and ultimately most of the cost is passed along to the consumer, since the field is no more efficient than it used to be but wages are higher (in other fields the increasing wages are accommodated by the increasing efficiency). Individuals may choose to work for less than average wages (e.g. your doctor), but the overall economic trend is to rising medical costs. The most obvious way to subvert this is to dramatically improve the efficiency of medical care and to ensure that efficiency continues to improve over time. Since most medical research is not geared towards efficiency, we can expect to be stuck in this rut for a long time. Of course, this doesn't just apply to health care. Colleges are similarly slow to improve in the efficiency department, and that's why college is getting more and more expensive. I didn't just make this up, by the way. This reasoning is basically the same as something I read in a first year economics textbook.
Currently, health care is extremely expensive for small businesses compared to large businesses, going by price-per-head. Universal health care would be great if it were accompanied by a public option (If I understand you correctly, "universal health care" == "everyone is required to buy insurance" and "public option" == "you can buy insurance from the government and/or at subsidized rates". The trouble is the former is tyrannical without the latter, and the latter would create enormous deficit without the former since 20-somethings wouldn't buy insurance and thus the only people with insurance would be the sick, at which point insurance becomes merely a proxy for medical bills, and if you subsidize that, you lose money.).
Or who knows, maybe a Libertarian will run and get elected because everyone's so pissed that they don't want to vote for either of the two main parties. One can dream.
Did you mean Libertarian or libertarian? There's a difference.
As for Magic Jack, there is not enough for me to conclude that its executive team is "evil". In line with the principle of not ascribing to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence, it's quite possible that the team is young and having to learn as the company grows. Given "New Coke" and "Microsoft Bob", a blooper like this should be surprising to no one.
Sure, next time they'll sue someone who can't afford a lawyer/doesn't have a working relationship with the EFF et al.
The[y] just need to wait a little, and if the school or city officials are not charged with criminal offences, the sue the county/state to force criminal prosecution.
The FBI is already involved, no need to go after state/local levels.
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No, its "cat /dev/video0 | tee tivo-sucks.mpg | mplayer /dev/stdin &" (if you have enough RAM this should be faster; I'm assuming you still want to keep the video itself since that is the whole point of a PVR/DVR/whatever they're called now)
Think of the 1984 ad... a la role reversal (someone should do a parody replacing "big brother" with Jobs and the jogger with... Tux?)
...or maybe he's a fucking moron and/or paid off by the RIAA.
Ok, hand over your geek card.
Maybe because Flash, as a plugin, will always require extra time to load itself? Have we learned nothing from the Java applet lesson?
Re Java: Funny, Sun went to the trouble of competently implementing cross-platform support, unlike Adobe... (and don't tell me that it's not Sun anymore: Oracle didn't invent Java, they bought/are buying it)
Does this mean that clueful people with secure computers are going to be required to pay to help clueless people with insecure computers?
If the product stagnates and dies it means no one cares about it enough to put in the effort it takes to fork and actively lead a FOSS project. Personally, I think that's a good thing because it means most FOSS is either well supported by some sort of community or else it is too marginal to bother with. It means the community serves as a litmus test for quality. If there are three active developers then maybe it won't be as good as if there are 300. Also, bear in mind that FOSS is a volunteer effort. The only reason FOSS exists is because someone went to the trouble of writing it. If it is stagnating or nonexistent and you want it, write it yourself! If you don't care enough to do so, don't whine about how no one else is either.
Wesnoth isn't "shitty" nor "mediocre"
Ubuntu provides an apparmor template for firefox but you need to tweak it in order to actually make it secure (otherwise it doesn't really do enough for security - can read and write from/to too many locations! Yes making it secure would restrict you to saving/open files from just a few places, but why bother having an insecure security template when you are already turning it off by default?). Firefox even makes it hard for you to run it as a separate user process.
I didn't tweak it myself, but when I looked at it, I found that it had somehow tweaked itself:
# for maximum plugin/helper compatibility
#/usr/bin/* Uxr,
#/usr/lib/*/** ixr,
#
# For stricter access, comment out the 'maximum plugin/helper compatibility'
# lines above and uncomment these
#
[several uncommented lines relating to plugins]
There's a joke to be made here about how disabling windows does not "adversely affect" a computer... But somebody funnier than I am should make it.
Tuxissa does not "adversely affect" a computer.
Maybe he's talking about Google Chrome OS? Or maybe he's mistaken...
As for being tethered to iTunes, you can run an iPad completely without using iTunes, including buying apps, syncing contacts and bookmarks, buying music, TV Shows, movies, renting movies, the works.
Really? When did this happen? (hint: a link would be nice)
sudo -i /etc/sudoers]
useradd -G admin foouser
[assuming group admin is a/the group mentioned in
exit
Now they can log in as foouser without telling you about it, esp. if you later revoke their access or something.
If you give someone the ability to become root they can do whatever they want, in principle. If you don't want them to do these things, the simplest way to do that is to not give them root/sudo at all.
Also, since when is it good security policy to "have the same root password on dozens of machines"?
There's actually a sound economic basis for rising medical costs:
1) As time goes on, most industries tend to improve in efficiency. One result of this is increasing wages, measured in terms of purchasing power (i.e. real wages rather than nominal wages)
2) Some industries don't improve in efficiency as rapidly or at all. For instance, a checkup nowadays isn't much faster or cheaper than 50 years ago.
3) If real wages in one industry increase and real wages in another industry fail to increase, college students/graduates and anyone else who can choose which field to specialize in will gravitate towards the better paying field and away from the worse paying field. As a result, the worse paying field suffers from scarcity of workers and is forced to raise its real wages too, in order to attract more workers. In short, wages tend to rise and fall together due to the laws of supply and demand applied to the factor market.
4) This money has to come from somewhere, and ultimately most of the cost is passed along to the consumer, since the field is no more efficient than it used to be but wages are higher (in other fields the increasing wages are accommodated by the increasing efficiency).
Individuals may choose to work for less than average wages (e.g. your doctor), but the overall economic trend is to rising medical costs. The most obvious way to subvert this is to dramatically improve the efficiency of medical care and to ensure that efficiency continues to improve over time. Since most medical research is not geared towards efficiency, we can expect to be stuck in this rut for a long time. Of course, this doesn't just apply to health care. Colleges are similarly slow to improve in the efficiency department, and that's why college is getting more and more expensive. I didn't just make this up, by the way. This reasoning is basically the same as something I read in a first year economics textbook.
Currently, health care is extremely expensive for small businesses compared to large businesses, going by price-per-head. Universal health care would be great if it were accompanied by a public option (If I understand you correctly, "universal health care" == "everyone is required to buy insurance" and "public option" == "you can buy insurance from the government and/or at subsidized rates". The trouble is the former is tyrannical without the latter, and the latter would create enormous deficit without the former since 20-somethings wouldn't buy insurance and thus the only people with insurance would be the sick, at which point insurance becomes merely a proxy for medical bills, and if you subsidize that, you lose money.).
Or who knows, maybe a Libertarian will run and get elected because everyone's so pissed that they don't want to vote for either of the two main parties. One can dream.
Did you mean Libertarian or libertarian? There's a difference.
Perhaps you forgot "fanatical devotion to the pope"?
As for Magic Jack, there is not enough for me to conclude that its executive team is "evil". In line with the principle of not ascribing to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence, it's quite possible that the team is young and having to learn as the company grows. Given "New Coke" and "Microsoft Bob", a blooper like this should be surprising to no one.
Sure, next time they'll sue someone who can't afford a lawyer/doesn't have a working relationship with the EFF et al.
I was actually considering memorizing that one.... I was particularly impressed that both Republican and Democrat made it into the rant.
Two arms of one party: the lobbying party.
They can't take his domain, regardless of the TOS, if I understand his post correctly. IANAL and IANFamiliarWithICANN'sRulesOrTheTOS.
If they have root or sudo then they can change your password behind your back... unless you have a restrictive /etc/sudoers file.
Why not just create an alternate account with sudo for them? Why give them root?
Give them sudo and they can grab root whenever they want:
sudo -i
passwd
[input new password twice]
exit
The[y] just need to wait a little, and if the school or city officials are not charged with criminal offences, the sue the county/state to force criminal prosecution.
The FBI is already involved, no need to go after state/local levels.
The original suit was class-action.
It is. The FBI is already investigating (see wiki article).