As long as the contents can be linked back to the individual, it just takes NFC communicators next to places where people put their hands to track the individual's actions. The short range gives you a bit more information than just tracing their smartphone -- e.g. if you have an NFC collector tacked to the bottom of a public keypad, you can be pretty sure that person was using that keypad, as opposed to just standing around in the region. Granted given most places can also be covered with a camera and nobody will complain, there are other ways to obtain such information, but this way can be fully automated.
its only an installation/configuration issue to solve, the code/scripts are already in place
No, there will always be issues where the problem lies within the code of the init system.
Traditonal Init scripts are mostly in bourne shell syntax due to inertia. Shell is a horrible, awful language. Yet people put up with that and there's a reason why they have done so: the flexibility it offered over declarative-style config files was a strong enough advantage to keep traditional init systems in play. It is an exercise in arrogance to pretend you can map current and future needs over to a set of fixed cookie-cutter behaviors. There will always be a need to modify systemd internals to compensate for this broken model.
On the bright side it has enough intertia and is enough of a break from tradition that it will shake things up, and they did need to be shaken up. There will be wrappers around systemd, suites to manage systemd without touching any systemd config files, and eventually out of that chaos something better will emerge, where we go back to basics but without the cruft we once had.
And there's the regular problem of delays in shutdown due to "a stop job is running".
Yeah, and then someone thought it would be a good idea to tack "Unattended Updates" onto that feature. I think they thought that would get the casual users to update critical packages. But casual users never reboot, they hibernate, so....
Is changing settings like that going to be a constand uphill battle against the distro maintainers?
No that part won't likely be a problem -- it's easy to override (or even cancel) distro scripts as long as the distro does a good job of keeping the/etc/systemd directory mostly empty and puts the "stock" scripts elsewhere.
How does systemd remind you of windows? Have you actually *used* either in a system administration capacity?
The decision to cram the configs into an INI-like format which ends up causing a proliferation of ReallyPoorlyChosenDirectiveNames to work around the cases where an INI file format cannot express heirarchy for one, and the fickle mincing of declarative and procedural contexts where somehow the order of fields with the same name matters, but you can't carry state between them without a third agency and thus variable expansions cannot work where you need them to.
The pollution of logs with gobs of output that is of very little practical use is another thing that chafes me.
Not that there is not plenty of upside to systemd, mind you.
Don't remember passwords: keep them on a physically secure device protected by ONE password you remember.
Ok, so we give a password manager device to all the users that cannot be trusted to create strong passwords, or if given a long password will write it down, probably on a sticker attached to said device. Then, they take 4 times as long to log into things since they constantly have to unlock their password manager, and each time they do so open a window to keylogging or sideband attacks on the same password. And they leave their passwords hanging around in cut and paste buffers. Finally they lose their "physically secure device" in a public location and expose it to an offline attack, and possibly also lose their written-down copy of the master password.
When you send things down a wire, everything is "something you know".
Kinda one of the points of smartcards is that you don't know the key inside of them. Thus your access can be revoked physically by depriving you of the card, should it become necessary.
And no, MITM attacks don't affect properly implemented smartcard or even password authentication, as preshared material and/or mutually trusted authorities counteract that.
With regards to TFA, here's an example of how PubkeyAuthentication has some drawbacks and is not a hands-down superior method for authentication over passwords. Letting users leave those lying around wherever they please means the weak passwords they chose on those keys are more likely to be guessed in an offline attack than is a password in an online attack against a rate-limited authenticator.
...opening back doors to my system is kind of the functionality I would expect from installing a package named "owncloud." At least now I know it exists so if I see it in the wild I'll know it's not an *intentional* rootkit.
It's not all there is to it, though. I applied that fix manually and pulseaudio still screws with the subchannels when it starts. It doesn't just set the master, it maxes the speaker channel and mutes the woofer. Pretty annoying. Why can't all the sound utilities just get along?
Games on Linux will have to provide a better experience than on Windows before anything dramatic happens
Not quite necessary. Games on SteamOS providing a better experience than games on PS4 or XBOX1 is all that's needed.
Anyway my PS3 YLODd, which means even if I fix it it's on its last leg, and I have no interest in the PS4, and I actually DO hate on Microsoft, so It'll suck to have to buy the presequel twice but I'm jumping on, personally.
Sales I don't mind. Sometimes you have to move old inventory. But coupons are just a PITA that only exist to give housewives/househusbands something to do with their time. So online shopping with all its contortions and the web20-ification of advertising just drives me completely up the damn wall. The minute I open a browser to buy something I can feel my stress levels rising and if I'm lucky I'll finish buying it before all the cussing and ranting force me to close the tab before I damage my PC.
In most cases, to require you to log in so that the accuracy of advertisement targeting on your personage can be maintained; that is their purpose, f-droid excepted.
But I'm pretty sure a 10+ year old computer hardware would choke on the latest version of most modern Linux distros too.
The big problem there is graphics drivers for old cards, for which the vendors have discontinued their binary blobs and the opensource drivers never had good thermals and bus timing configurations for lack of documentation. In general, though, old machines can carry most of the newest distros while breaking a moderate sweat.
Maybe slashdot posters are all the prejudiced stereotypes you have in your mind, or maybe they just are frustrated with constantly reading about studies being invalidated by other later studies, with further salt rubbed in the wounds by pooor science journalism on top of that (like headlining an article about sugared soda as if it applied to all soda when diet soda accounts for over 25% of soda sales.) and perhaps they remember this article avocating larger sample sizes and more sound statitsical treatment in such studies.
authorities on developmental and coding methodologies are a dime a dozen
I thought people who sat around opining about the code they expect other people to actually write were somehow paradoxically payed much better than that.
Because gen mobile needs to be able to type it on their crummy laggy error-prone on-screen touch keypads, preferably without ever shifting keypad state.
Similar experience. There were updates for my SmartTV but only for bullsit. Similar to how Sony only ever updates to PS Store and never fixes anything important that is broken.
you know that the central process of most power generation involves "just creating heat", right?
Actually it isn't "just creating heat" it's creating a temperature gradient suitable for efficient conversion of heat flux to work, since the efficiency of that conversion is limited by the second law of thermodynamics.
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As long as the contents can be linked back to the individual, it just takes NFC communicators next to places where people put their hands to track the individual's actions. The short range gives you a bit more information than just tracing their smartphone -- e.g. if you have an NFC collector tacked to the bottom of a public keypad, you can be pretty sure that person was using that keypad, as opposed to just standing around in the region. Granted given most places can also be covered with a camera and nobody will complain, there are other ways to obtain such information, but this way can be fully automated.
He is completely confident that his underconfidence is a clear indicator that he knows what he's talking about, obviously.
its only an installation/configuration issue to solve, the code/scripts are already in place
No, there will always be issues where the problem lies within the code of the init system.
Traditonal Init scripts are mostly in bourne shell syntax due to inertia. Shell is a horrible, awful language. Yet people put up with that and there's a reason why they have done so: the flexibility it offered over declarative-style config files was a strong enough advantage to keep traditional init systems in play. It is an exercise in arrogance to pretend you can map current and future needs over to a set of fixed cookie-cutter behaviors. There will always be a need to modify systemd internals to compensate for this broken model.
On the bright side it has enough intertia and is enough of a break from tradition that it will shake things up, and they did need to be shaken up. There will be wrappers around systemd, suites to manage systemd without touching any systemd config files, and eventually out of that chaos something better will emerge,
where we go back to basics but without the cruft we once had.
And there's the regular problem of delays in shutdown due to "a stop job is running".
Yeah, and then someone thought it would be a good idea to tack "Unattended Updates" onto that feature. I think they thought that would get the casual users to update critical packages. But casual users never reboot, they hibernate, so....
Is changing settings like that going to be a constand uphill battle against the distro maintainers?
No that part won't likely be a problem -- it's easy to override (or even cancel) distro scripts as long as the distro does a good job of keeping the /etc/systemd directory mostly empty and puts the "stock" scripts elsewhere.
How does systemd remind you of windows? Have you actually *used* either in a system administration capacity?
The decision to cram the configs into an INI-like format which ends up causing a proliferation of ReallyPoorlyChosenDirectiveNames to work around the cases where an INI file format cannot express heirarchy for one, and the fickle mincing of declarative and procedural contexts where somehow the order of fields with the same name matters, but you can't carry state between them without a third agency and thus variable expansions cannot work where you need them to.
The pollution of logs with gobs of output that is of very little practical use is another thing that chafes me.
Not that there is not plenty of upside to systemd, mind you.
Don't remember passwords: keep them on a physically secure device protected by ONE password you remember.
Ok, so we give a password manager device to all the users that cannot be trusted to create strong passwords, or if given a long password will write it down, probably on a sticker attached to said device. Then, they take 4 times as long to log into things since they constantly have to unlock their password manager, and each time they do so open a window to keylogging or sideband attacks on the same password. And they leave their passwords hanging around in cut and paste buffers. Finally they lose their "physically secure device" in a public location and expose it to an offline attack, and possibly also lose their written-down copy of the master password.
Not a fan of those systems.
Do you know the difference between STUPID and simply UNINFORMED? Also the difference between bold and SHOUTING?
When you send things down a wire, everything is "something you know".
Kinda one of the points of smartcards is that you don't know the key inside of them. Thus your access can be revoked physically by depriving you of the card, should it become necessary.
And no, MITM attacks don't affect properly implemented smartcard or even password authentication, as preshared material and/or mutually trusted authorities counteract that.
With regards to TFA, here's an example of how PubkeyAuthentication has some drawbacks and is not a hands-down superior method for authentication over passwords. Letting users leave those lying around wherever they please means the weak passwords they chose on those keys are more likely to be guessed in an offline attack than is a password in an online attack against a rate-limited authenticator.
That is pretty funny.
It's not all there is to it, though. I applied that fix manually and pulseaudio still screws with the subchannels when it starts. It doesn't just set the master, it maxes the speaker channel and mutes the woofer. Pretty annoying. Why can't all the sound utilities just get along?
Games on Linux will have to provide a better experience than on Windows before anything dramatic happens
Not quite necessary. Games on SteamOS providing a better experience than games on PS4 or XBOX1 is all that's needed.
Anyway my PS3 YLODd, which means even if I fix it it's on its last leg, and I have no interest in the PS4, and I actually DO hate on Microsoft, so It'll suck to have to buy the presequel twice but I'm jumping on, personally.
Sales I don't mind. Sometimes you have to move old inventory. But coupons are just a PITA that only exist to give housewives/househusbands something to do with their time. So online shopping with all its contortions and the web20-ification of advertising just drives me completely up the damn wall. The minute I open a browser to buy something I can feel my stress levels rising and if I'm lucky I'll finish buying it before all the cussing and ranting force me to close the tab before I damage my PC.
That's a plausible technical reason. The real reason, though is social. Users have been conditioned to equate content and apps.
In most cases, to require you to log in so that the accuracy of advertisement targeting on your personage can be maintained; that is their purpose, f-droid excepted.
One reason why Apple has such a sterling reputation for security...
WHAT? No seriously, where does this reputation exist? I've never heard of it.
Add:
- whether your stupid home button sticks out and turns on the screen in your pocket. Thanks for nothing Samsung.
This is not an option when you are talking about a 7 year old laptop. You cannot upgrade to either a modern cpu nor a modern graphics card.
But I'm pretty sure a 10+ year old computer hardware would choke on the latest version of most modern Linux distros too.
The big problem there is graphics drivers for old cards, for which the vendors have discontinued their binary blobs and the opensource drivers never had good thermals and bus timing configurations for lack of documentation. In general, though, old machines can carry most of the newest distros while breaking a moderate sweat.
Maybe slashdot posters are all the prejudiced stereotypes you have in your mind, or maybe they just are frustrated with constantly reading about studies being invalidated by other later studies, with further salt rubbed in the wounds by pooor science journalism on top of that (like headlining an article about sugared soda as if it applied to all soda when diet soda accounts for over 25% of soda sales.) and perhaps they remember this article avocating larger sample sizes and more sound statitsical treatment in such studies.
authorities on developmental and coding methodologies are a dime a dozen
I thought people who sat around opining about the code they expect other people to actually write were somehow paradoxically payed much better than that.
Because gen mobile needs to be able to type it on their crummy laggy error-prone on-screen touch keypads, preferably without ever shifting keypad state.
And when they do release an update, it will break something more important, and there will be no way to use the user interface to downgrade.
Similar experience. There were updates for my SmartTV but only for bullsit. Similar to how Sony only ever updates to PS Store and never fixes anything important that is broken.
you know that the central process of most power generation involves "just creating heat", right?
Actually it isn't "just creating heat" it's creating a temperature gradient suitable for efficient conversion of heat flux to work, since the efficiency of that conversion is limited by the second law of thermodynamics.