At least they have an ad on, unlike chrome which just takes shit away with no options to restore period. That said, chrome is definitely more enterprise friendly. You can use GPO's to manage the entire browser. Firefox? on 1000 machines? I would kill myself. How you would enforce anything without some third party tool I would be interested to know. Last time I looked, there were no gpos and no centralized management of firefox administration. Perhaps they finally added active directory management to it, but I doubt it. It was never a priority.
If you are interested, a few months ago the new yorker had a great article detailing exactly what happened here with first hand interviews with most of the players. You can then make your own decisions.
What I got out of the article was 1) He was not trying to "make a statement" with his "hacking" action, but that was how the government portraited it. 2) He was very ecentric, and primarily seems to have killed himself because of what the legal action would have done to his future career. He had aspirations of running a foundation or becoming active in politics, and he felt that having a criminal record crippled his future. 3) One of the tipping points was having many of his personal correspondences subpenaed, as he was a very private person, which the government did solely to embarrass him, by making him and his girlfriends correspondences over the years, public.
In the end though, I think he just over reacted. His suicide was his doing and no one elses. Sometimes life will try and break you down and if you give up, then you die. I think if he had more robust coping strategies he could have seen that this was just a speed bump on the road of life and not over reacted by killing himself. The "crimes" he committed were not really that bad, and prosecutors are going to be mean and aggressive - that is their job. However of course, I was not in his shoes, so who am i to judge.
As I have said before on this topic, Nuclear technology may be one of the safest power generators IN THEORY, however our (as humans) implementation and management of nuclear power has been flawed in many cases. Running reactors over operating lifetimes, building them on the edge of the sea in an earthquake zone, etc.. Solar, hydro, wind, tidal, are all safer than nuclear power. Including any flawed implementation of those systems. A breached hydro electric dam does not contaminate the land for 100 000 years.
So when you go to www.microsoft.com (which I am sure you made your homepage and check every day by the sounds of your tone), a news item or popup alerts you that a service pack is available?
Oh wait, that doesn't happen because m$.com is a marketing site not a tech news site. I for one was informed by these sorts of posts as one cannot possibly keep up with every vendor one has to maintain. Unless one is doing no real work and sits around reading vendor web pages all day.
came here to say this as well. He just said that they would keep it pure when asked exactly this question! Hopefully colbert calls him out next week, or today.
The TNG episode where suddenly everyone is jacked into a google glass like "game", and wesley crusher and i believe ashley judd are the only ones immune. Only instead of a game, it is now a smart phone, and I am wesley crusher without a smart phone or ashley judd.
That's what I am thinking reading all these comments. Seriously, does everyone have a always on internet connected smartphone these days??
You have internet at work, internet at home. Do you really need it while you are traveling from work to home as well? Do you really need internet access when you are out supposedly spending time outside, away from the internet? or is that not an acceptable thing anymore. Smart phones drive me crazy, but everyone seems to have them!!
Some float, some sink. 10000 are lost during normal shipping every year. The ones that float tend to float a few feet under the top of the ocean. Making them extremely hazardous for other marine traffic.
For years they have been trying to get all shipping and container companies to equip the containers with a kind of water permeable valve, but I think last time i read about it there was some resistance. Can't find any good articles about it though. Comes up every few years.
I don't think I would consider "safe" any industry where an accident or malpractice could result in a place being uninhabitable for 10,000 - 100,000 years. It is immoral to saddle future generations with this burden, however slight you perceive the risk to be.
Nuclear apologists need to wake up. Human error is always going to be a problem. Untill the world gets its act together and starts deploying more CANDU type reactors which by design cannot meltdown, I for one will still fight against nuclear power.
You have an industry that deploys proven flawed designs from 40-60 years ago, and then runs the plants way longer than recommended lifetimes. The way the world currently does nuclear power, more accidents are inevitable.
"Now yes this software is easy to bypass in XP. I've heard it's not too difficult in Vista, but is no longer described as "easy" for Win 7. I suspect it will continue to get harder with each release"
bzzzt, you may think that, but then you would be wrong.
Win7 is BY FAR the most easy OS since windows 2000 to crack. You search for the DAZ crack, one click run reboot and done. Or you can modify your bios with the SLIC table and never have to worry about activating ever again.
WinXP by contrast was horrible. They frequently blacklisted keys, which would make a fully cracked copy revert to "windows isnt genuine". This also happened to legit machines which required you to call microsoft for a non permanent fix. If anything, the new way windows does licensing is far far easier to crack. I have not tried to crack windows 8 (because no one uses it so I haven't had to), but I would be surprised if it got harder as they are probably still using the same imaging system and authentication to install the OS.
In the enterprise, you just have a key server which handles it all with very little effort besides initial configuration.
"And since Mint is supposedly now the most popular Linux distro, they should be getting that advice from most people they ask."
Perhaps I am strange in that I only use linux on servers, but I thought ubuntu was the defacto standard. Before that in the 90s, it was redhat. I have never even heard of mint till your post, period. And I read a lot of slashdot.
" It's very unlikely that one 22 year old contractor would have access to every secret inside the NSA"
As a sysadmin, do you have access to every secret your company or organization has? No. Do you have access to some of them? YES.
He doesn't need to have access to every secret at the NSA. Anyone who works for even a few years in an administrative capacity at any organization has probably absorbed enough dirt to at least embarrass them slightly. Which is all he has done really.
"There's nothing wrong with a simple "Good Guy vs Bad Guy" presentation"
Well you can't say that there is _nothing_ wrong with it. It re-enforces a simplistic zoroastrianistic worldview that there is such a thing as "good" and "evil". This is arguably detrimental to the species and society in general.
Most superheroes are just a stand in for religious supernatural figures, and I am sure plenty of people can take issue with aspects of that.
If the price to pay for security is selling my privacy, then I say security be damned!
Of course it would be USEFUL to have all citizens monitored. Whats even more useful would be having cameras in peoples homes, recording everything they said and did. How terribly useful that would be!
Obama is as bad as they come. He has had lots of chances now to make up for bush era fuckups. There are no more excuses for his behaviour that I will take.
"if you're a heavy start-menu user for some reason,"
Yes, for some crazy reason. Because it has been the way to run applications for 18 years.
" I find it incredible that self-confessed geeks have such an issue with this very small speed-bump"
Oh for the luxury of having only myself to worry about and support! Not the hundreds of people I currently have to consider at work, friends, family, etc who have all been doing something a certain way and for NO GOOD REASON, microsoft has decided to change. Fuck design. Buy a mac if you want some design driven window manager. Most people use computers to get shit done, not dick around with new user interface experiments solely designed to sell more phones for microsoft.
I havent tried it as I dont have gmail, but I assume 1) IMAP connect with thunderbird or outlook or whatever 2) download mail to local machine 3) export to PST file or use a program like IMAPsize to back them up ( http://www.broobles.com/imapsize/index.php ) 4) restore to new imap provider.
Id rather someone accessed their personal email, then went around installing their own software. Firefox and i believe chrome, can be made to run without an install to the system, so in theory, limited users could run it. However this may violate the acceptable use policy. Most employers let you check your personal email in my experience. The two issues are quite different and it is likely that he is in a place that 1) does not permit any software installs and 2) allows you to check your own private email.
otherwise gmail would be blocked at the firewall and it wouldn't be an issue. However you can also configure outlook to imap gmail mail, so theres another work around, again, as long as its not blocked at the firewall.
As an aside, chrome with IE tab works fine in my environment and everyone has adapted to it. I hate chrome personally and prefer firefox, but the GPOs for chrome are just as extensive as those for IE which makes management a breeze. So it should be no problem for most companies to roll out chrome with IE tab for legacy apps.
You know I really don't get this. Most people have smartphones (i do not) that do all sorts of monitoring already. The only difference here is that with smartphones, all the monitoring is directed at you, the owner of the smartphone. With google glass, it turns it all around. Now the rest of the world is monitored for my benefit using my choice of augmentations.
I view a smartphone, and phones in general, as a distraction of little substance, a tiny window into another world, like squinting down a long laneway, trying to make out some life at the other end. Whereas google glass I imagine it as enhancing what is going on around me. I wouldn't be lost like a zombie playing a game or checking my status update in virtual reality, I would be looking ahead, identifying flowers on a walk in the park, monitoring my bio rhythms or using infrared to see clearly in the dark.
In my mind, I see google glass as looking forward, while smart phones are looking downward. That is why I would jump at the chance for google glass or a bionic eye, but would not touch a smart phone with a ten foot poll. I am no fan of google as a company either, but I will just get a cheap deal extreme knock off when the technology matures.
Most americans thought the american economy was doing great before 2008 as well. Low interest rates and profit from home sales and construction cannot continue indefinitely. Its also hard for me to trust any numbers the government puts out, as they may be padded for use abroad and attracting investors. Economics is more about perception than anything. I just do not trust them.
Wait till homeowners start bailing in the major markets and CMHC (read tax payers) cant cover the loans. I refuse to believe that what they are doing is anything but masking and covering the problem. I guess we will have to let history be the judge of it, but I do agree it feels nice at the top as long as you don't look too hard at whats holding you up there.
" It will be another two years before Canadians have the chance to go to the polls, but how much more damage will be done in the meantime?"
This statement assumes that canadians will not re elect the conservatives again. Unfortunately, most of my fellow countrymen only care about one thing - the economy. Witness the recent election in BC where the BCliberals (really conservatives, just liberal by name) were super corrupt (head of party resigned in shame) and most people agree are doing a bad job, were re-elected. Why? They ran on the platform of creating more industry jobs, ignoring the effects of climate change, and selling off resources to china which they say will make us and our children rich.
Unless the housing market collapses, and takes the broader economy with it, before the next election, the conservatives will most likely win again. There are many theories as to why this is, but the fact is people have been led to believe that the government having closer ties to business equals a better economy. Thanks in no small part to the shit ton of propaganda (economic action plan = propping up construction sector) that reinforces this belief and glosses over reality. Science is facts, and the conservatives hate fact based policy. They base policy on ideology and authoritarianism. Its stupid and backwards, but thats been the state of canada since 2006.
Pff no way. Matt smith is far better and far quirkier. Tennant had a preachy, soppy, holier than thou attitude that got annoying after a while. Matt smith is all about the fun, whereas tennant was brooding, alternating with bouts of psychotic anger that I dont think ever really felt natural with his face and acting. Not what I want in a doctor. He was always dwelling on his "dark past" and all that.
With matt smith it feels as if he is just taking a whirl around the universe on a lark, and he always solves problems without preaching. If he gets upset its generally reflecting inward to some degree, not making a big deal about it and always keeping it light.
"and [scientists] certainly have no right to dictate to the rest of us how we make tradeoffs between current and future consumption."
Yes, far easier for you in your comfy life to dictate the lives of your grand children and future generations. Because hey, they aren't here to fight back yet! amirite?
Anyone who believes the human race is not capable of wiping out everything on the planet did not live through the cold war.
Its far too easy for a climate induced global nuclear war to occur, and I would not put it past us in the slightest. The root cause could still be environmental collapse, which would be exasperated by radiation obviously. To a point where nothing survives? it is possible. Doomsday scenarios are alarmingly plausible in these sorts of contexts and with humans the way they are.
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At least they have an ad on, unlike chrome which just takes shit away with no options to restore period. That said, chrome is definitely more enterprise friendly. You can use GPO's to manage the entire browser. Firefox? on 1000 machines? I would kill myself. How you would enforce anything without some third party tool I would be interested to know. Last time I looked, there were no gpos and no centralized management of firefox administration. Perhaps they finally added active directory management to it, but I doubt it. It was never a priority.
If you are interested, a few months ago the new yorker had a great article detailing exactly what happened here with first hand interviews with most of the players. You can then make your own decisions.
Requiem for a dream: the tragedy of aaron swartz
What I got out of the article was 1) He was not trying to "make a statement" with his "hacking" action, but that was how the government portraited it. 2) He was very ecentric, and primarily seems to have killed himself because of what the legal action would have done to his future career. He had aspirations of running a foundation or becoming active in politics, and he felt that having a criminal record crippled his future. 3) One of the tipping points was having many of his personal correspondences subpenaed, as he was a very private person, which the government did solely to embarrass him, by making him and his girlfriends correspondences over the years, public.
In the end though, I think he just over reacted. His suicide was his doing and no one elses. Sometimes life will try and break you down and if you give up, then you die. I think if he had more robust coping strategies he could have seen that this was just a speed bump on the road of life and not over reacted by killing himself. The "crimes" he committed were not really that bad, and prosecutors are going to be mean and aggressive - that is their job. However of course, I was not in his shoes, so who am i to judge.
It is really just a tragedy.
Saying something isn't bad by comparing it to something worse is a logical fallacy - false dilemma.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_fallacy/False_dilemma
As I have said before on this topic, Nuclear technology may be one of the safest power generators IN THEORY, however our (as humans) implementation and management of nuclear power has been flawed in many cases. Running reactors over operating lifetimes, building them on the edge of the sea in an earthquake zone, etc.. Solar, hydro, wind, tidal, are all safer than nuclear power. Including any flawed implementation of those systems. A breached hydro electric dam does not contaminate the land for 100 000 years.
So when you go to www.microsoft.com (which I am sure you made your homepage and check every day by the sounds of your tone), a news item or popup alerts you that a service pack is available?
Oh wait, that doesn't happen because m$.com is a marketing site not a tech news site. I for one was informed by these sorts of posts as one cannot possibly keep up with every vendor one has to maintain. Unless one is doing no real work and sits around reading vendor web pages all day.
came here to say this as well. He just said that they would keep it pure when asked exactly this question! Hopefully colbert calls him out next week, or today.
The TNG episode where suddenly everyone is jacked into a google glass like "game", and wesley crusher and i believe ashley judd are the only ones immune. Only instead of a game, it is now a smart phone, and I am wesley crusher without a smart phone or ashley judd.
That's what I am thinking reading all these comments. Seriously, does everyone have a always on internet connected smartphone these days??
You have internet at work, internet at home. Do you really need it while you are traveling from work to home as well? Do you really need internet access when you are out supposedly spending time outside, away from the internet? or is that not an acceptable thing anymore. Smart phones drive me crazy, but everyone seems to have them!!
Some float, some sink. 10000 are lost during normal shipping every year. The ones that float tend to float a few feet under the top of the ocean. Making them extremely hazardous for other marine traffic.
For years they have been trying to get all shipping and container companies to equip the containers with a kind of water permeable valve, but I think last time i read about it there was some resistance. Can't find any good articles about it though. Comes up every few years.
http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2011/04/19/deep-cargo-an-ocean-of-lost-shipping-containers/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containerization#Loss_at_sea
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/04/06/0158207/10000-shipping-containers-lost-at-sea-each-year
I don't think I would consider "safe" any industry where an accident or malpractice could result in a place being uninhabitable for 10,000 - 100,000 years. It is immoral to saddle future generations with this burden, however slight you perceive the risk to be.
Nuclear apologists need to wake up. Human error is always going to be a problem. Untill the world gets its act together and starts deploying more CANDU type reactors which by design cannot meltdown, I for one will still fight against nuclear power.
You have an industry that deploys proven flawed designs from 40-60 years ago, and then runs the plants way longer than recommended lifetimes. The way the world currently does nuclear power, more accidents are inevitable.
bzzzt, you may think that, but then you would be wrong.
Win7 is BY FAR the most easy OS since windows 2000 to crack. You search for the DAZ crack, one click run reboot and done. Or you can modify your bios with the SLIC table and never have to worry about activating ever again.
WinXP by contrast was horrible. They frequently blacklisted keys, which would make a fully cracked copy revert to "windows isnt genuine". This also happened to legit machines which required you to call microsoft for a non permanent fix.
If anything, the new way windows does licensing is far far easier to crack. I have not tried to crack windows 8 (because no one uses it so I haven't had to), but I would be surprised if it got harder as they are probably still using the same imaging system and authentication to install the OS.
In the enterprise, you just have a key server which handles it all with very little effort besides initial configuration.
Perhaps I am strange in that I only use linux on servers, but I thought ubuntu was the defacto standard. Before that in the 90s, it was redhat. I have never even heard of mint till your post, period. And I read a lot of slashdot.
I guess its just me, because from wikipedia its been out since 2006 and is on its 15th version. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mint
wow..I am the out of touch.
As a sysadmin, do you have access to every secret your company or organization has? No. Do you have access to some of them? YES.
He doesn't need to have access to every secret at the NSA. Anyone who works for even a few years in an administrative capacity at any organization has probably absorbed enough dirt to at least embarrass them slightly. Which is all he has done really.
Well of course not! The knowledge wouldn't be lost if you knew about it!
Interesting. I always assumed that it was because LED brake lights seem to always be so super bright. But maybe it is some sort of flicker issue.
Well you can't say that there is _nothing_ wrong with it. It re-enforces a simplistic zoroastrianistic worldview that there is such a thing as "good" and "evil". This is arguably detrimental to the species and society in general.
Most superheroes are just a stand in for religious supernatural figures, and I am sure plenty of people can take issue with aspects of that.
Really? You would write a comic book for me that I could then sell and keep all the profits from. And you would do this unpaid?
Thank you sir! you will put my kids through college! when can you start?
If the price to pay for security is selling my privacy, then I say security be damned!
Of course it would be USEFUL to have all citizens monitored. Whats even more useful would be having cameras in peoples homes, recording everything they said and did. How terribly useful that would be!
Obama is as bad as they come. He has had lots of chances now to make up for bush era fuckups. There are no more excuses for his behaviour that I will take.
Yes, for some crazy reason. Because it has been the way to run applications for 18 years.
Oh for the luxury of having only myself to worry about and support! Not the hundreds of people I currently have to consider at work, friends, family, etc who have all been doing something a certain way and for NO GOOD REASON, microsoft has decided to change. Fuck design. Buy a mac if you want some design driven window manager. Most people use computers to get shit done, not dick around with new user interface experiments solely designed to sell more phones for microsoft.
I havent tried it as I dont have gmail, but I assume 1) IMAP connect with thunderbird or outlook or whatever 2) download mail to local machine 3) export to PST file or use a program like IMAPsize to back them up ( http://www.broobles.com/imapsize/index.php ) 4) restore to new imap provider.
Id rather someone accessed their personal email, then went around installing their own software. Firefox and i believe chrome, can be made to run without an install to the system, so in theory, limited users could run it. However this may violate the acceptable use policy. Most employers let you check your personal email in my experience. The two issues are quite different and it is likely that he is in a place that 1) does not permit any software installs and 2) allows you to check your own private email.
otherwise gmail would be blocked at the firewall and it wouldn't be an issue. However you can also configure outlook to imap gmail mail, so theres another work around, again, as long as its not blocked at the firewall.
As an aside, chrome with IE tab works fine in my environment and everyone has adapted to it. I hate chrome personally and prefer firefox, but the GPOs for chrome are just as extensive as those for IE which makes management a breeze. So it should be no problem for most companies to roll out chrome with IE tab for legacy apps.
You know I really don't get this. Most people have smartphones (i do not) that do all sorts of monitoring already. The only difference here is that with smartphones, all the monitoring is directed at you, the owner of the smartphone. With google glass, it turns it all around. Now the rest of the world is monitored for my benefit using my choice of augmentations.
I view a smartphone, and phones in general, as a distraction of little substance, a tiny window into another world, like squinting down a long laneway, trying to make out some life at the other end. Whereas google glass I imagine it as enhancing what is going on around me. I wouldn't be lost like a zombie playing a game or checking my status update in virtual reality, I would be looking ahead, identifying flowers on a walk in the park, monitoring my bio rhythms or using infrared to see clearly in the dark.
In my mind, I see google glass as looking forward, while smart phones are looking downward. That is why I would jump at the chance for google glass or a bionic eye, but would not touch a smart phone with a ten foot poll. I am no fan of google as a company either, but I will just get a cheap deal extreme knock off when the technology matures.
Most americans thought the american economy was doing great before 2008 as well. Low interest rates and profit from home sales and construction cannot continue indefinitely. Its also hard for me to trust any numbers the government puts out, as they may be padded for use abroad and attracting investors. Economics is more about perception than anything. I just do not trust them.
Wait till homeowners start bailing in the major markets and CMHC (read tax payers) cant cover the loans. I refuse to believe that what they are doing is anything but masking and covering the problem. I guess we will have to let history be the judge of it, but I do agree it feels nice at the top as long as you don't look too hard at whats holding you up there.
This statement assumes that canadians will not re elect the conservatives again. Unfortunately, most of my fellow countrymen only care about one thing - the economy. Witness the recent election in BC where the BCliberals (really conservatives, just liberal by name) were super corrupt (head of party resigned in shame) and most people agree are doing a bad job, were re-elected. Why? They ran on the platform of creating more industry jobs, ignoring the effects of climate change, and selling off resources to china which they say will make us and our children rich.
Unless the housing market collapses, and takes the broader economy with it, before the next election, the conservatives will most likely win again. There are many theories as to why this is, but the fact is people have been led to believe that the government having closer ties to business equals a better economy. Thanks in no small part to the shit ton of propaganda (economic action plan = propping up construction sector) that reinforces this belief and glosses over reality. Science is facts, and the conservatives hate fact based policy. They base policy on ideology and authoritarianism. Its stupid and backwards, but thats been the state of canada since 2006.
Pff no way. Matt smith is far better and far quirkier. Tennant had a preachy, soppy, holier than thou attitude that got annoying after a while. Matt smith is all about the fun, whereas tennant was brooding, alternating with bouts of psychotic anger that I dont think ever really felt natural with his face and acting. Not what I want in a doctor. He was always dwelling on his "dark past" and all that.
With matt smith it feels as if he is just taking a whirl around the universe on a lark, and he always solves problems without preaching. If he gets upset its generally reflecting inward to some degree, not making a big deal about it and always keeping it light.
Yes, far easier for you in your comfy life to dictate the lives of your grand children and future generations. Because hey, they aren't here to fight back yet! amirite?
Anyone who believes the human race is not capable of wiping out everything on the planet did not live through the cold war.
Its far too easy for a climate induced global nuclear war to occur, and I would not put it past us in the slightest. The root cause could still be environmental collapse, which would be exasperated by radiation obviously. To a point where nothing survives? it is possible. Doomsday scenarios are alarmingly plausible in these sorts of contexts and with humans the way they are.