"If it's possible to get lists of compromised computers, why not spend some resources on notifying the clueless masses that they are compromised and let them know what to do about it?"
If their computer works, most people dont give a shit about the health of the internet. Would I push the button? Hell yeah! then I'd charge by the hour to do data recovery for the mofos.
It is kind of like people who let their car burn oil or have other glaring emissions related problems. If the government didn't step in and have mandatory emissions testing, there would be many people who would simply top up their oil daily.
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"Making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent- This is very bad."
Hilarious. What conceivable situation would a 9mm, a shotgun, a long gun (rifle) and any of the other less "crazy" weapons not defend you against? Why on earth should it be a right for civilians to own ak-47s, flamethrowers and miniguns?
Very bad? Name ONE WAY in which it is even measurably bad. Some people have pointed out that it infringes on their "freedom" (to own assault rifles I would imagine). Well you also dont have the "freedom" to form a private army (sleeper cell) or manufacture and detonate nuclear and biological weapons. What kind of crazy entitlement brings you to the conclusion that assault weaponry is a right?
I dont see what the big deal with community service in highschools is. Most places in canada have had requirements of community service to graduate since the mid 90s. Just go sell books at the library or something, its really not that hard to accomplish. Not to mention that you can put it on a resume.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - author Michael Crichton was found dead in his Claremont home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the American community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to Society and true American patriotism. Truly an American icon.
"I actually got a job in the US 'just' to get health insurance. Where I live the closet Canadian hospital is over an hour and fifteen minutes away, there is 1 medical center in my area, open 2 days a week"
Its not Canadas fault you live in the middle of no where. Typical maritimer, always wanting others to foot the bill for their lifestyle. When my conservative friend talks about the freeloading atlantic provinces I always defended them. You sir have just made me change my mind on that. I guess you are a bunch of ungrateful whiners. Is it canadas fault there's no more fish too?
I for one am glad that my taxes arent buying hospitals for 700 person rural hamlets on the other side of the country. Why should I fund that?
Perhaps you should watch some old dr who episodes instead of this kind of dreamy new stuff. How is it not science fiction? How is it different than babylon 5 or any other made up universe with fictional characters doing siencey things. Was timecop not science fiction as well in your mind? How about demoltion man? You can have adventure science fiction you know.
Is hitchhikers guide science fiction? Thats probably the closest literary parallel. Whimsical adventures through out space and time.
"Someone's gonna win and it doesn't really matter who"
Im pretty sure the only people who dont care who wins the american election are americans. If you are from any other country in the world, your eyes (or ears) will be glued to a live feed that night.
This isn't a sports match where the teams are no different and are fighting over something arbitrary and inconsequential. This election decides the future of the world.
"There are checks and balances in the system one person can not mess it up that bad in just four years."
Sorry, but are you FUCKING RETARDED? ARE YOUR EYES CLOSED AND YOUR BRAIN ADDLED??? HAVE YOU NOT BEEN PAYING ATTENTION FOR THE LAST 8 YEARS????
after all bush has done... after everything thats happened. Is your post a joke? DO you not realize how fucking horrible things are EVERYWHERE? There are real problems out there that need real solutions. Your hippy attitude of "just let it be" is EXACTLY why america is fucked! I cannot even believe you are serious!! One person cannot mess it up so bad? WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU CALL THE LAST 8 YEARS THEN?!?! are you somehow insinuating that bush hasn't completely fucked up everything hes done? Do most americans really think this way???
"Also, Gore would have taken away all of our guns, and would have destroyed our economy with "Global warmming" policies that would have cost our country one hell of a lot more than what we've spent on Iraq and the bailouts combined."
Yes, because spending the money on alternative energy research (both current candidates I believe support this as a goal) is so much worse than a war. Who cares if he spent more, he would have actually GOT something out of it. Maybe some new tech or at least some environmental initiatives. What exactly has the war done for your country that is in any way better than ANYTHING that gore could have conceivably "wasted" money on?
Hopefully you will start using those fucking guns if obama isnt elected. America is all talk. Americans are fucking cowards when it comes to standing up to their government. But we will see what happens when mccain steals the election, you'll pull your gun and get shot down by the army. What good is a gun your not willing to use?
As a non american, i sure as fuck hope not! If it is at all close, I would place that on all the voter fraud going on down there. I really hope if mccain wins you realize he cheated and fucking go apeshit, tearing the country apart. There is a reason they are mobilizing the military - because they are trying to steal the election and they know the people wont stand for that shit again! (at least I hope they wont, but hey you still have tvs and corn syrup so...) I defiantly been let down by americans before. so very many times.
"Remember, only incompetent admins apply patches without testing them."
I hope you don't think this applies to every environment out there. I am sure some very tightly integrated, heavily customized servers require this level of paranoia, but for most systems / environments, security patches do VASTLY more good than harm. You cant test for everything anyway no matter how hard you try.
Id rather explain to my CEO that I broke an app because I was trying to be safe and secure than get hit by a worm (pants down), with my only excuse being that I didn't want to roll out something that might POSSIBLY fuck shit up. Because at that point shit WOULD definitely be fucked up, and it would be my fault for not testing fast enough.
But again, it depends on your organization. Security patches from M$ have historically been pretty good. You also have the ability to blame them if shit hits the fan. Odds are many other people will have issues if the patch is THAT badly designed.
This seemed like a major issue (codered or mydoom level worm potential). When I read of it last week, I made sure all the machines were patched and rebooted ASAP. Like always its a judgement call you have to make with these things. I take a major issue with being called incompetent because I'd rather protect myself than blindly follow "Best practices".
"Simplicity in design is perceived as a lack of technical skill and therefore considered a weakness."
This is something i've often thought about commercial companies and you have put very well. A good example is cisco. If you take a look at IOS, you need a to take a course just to find out what all their arcane commands and syntaxes are. You spend more time flubbing and researching syntax than actually getting the routers configured and problems solved. Contrast that to an open source package like PFsense, where most of the options and commands are clearly labeled with their syntax and often caveats and pro tips. Command line programs are the same deal. Anyone who tries to use the command line to admin exchange server will probably agree with me here. A good example is the way they do whitelisting. The default behavior (this is unchangeable but there are hacks to get around it) for whitelisting domains on 2007 server is that the new whitelisted domain or email address overwrites the old one. There is no list of whitelisted domains that the set-contentfilterconfig bypassenders updates when you run that command, it simply deletes the old value and inputs the new one.
I guess that example might be a reason why large commercial companies don't dare simplify their processes - because if you took all the byzantine crap away, you would see how badly designed they are much more clearly.
And winamp has global hotkeys from any program for years now.. Your point?
Making movies on a PC is easy, the mac is broken in that its not so easy, forcing blizzard to push out a fix and that is some how better than the pc world?
"Once you're through security, you rip up the fake boarding pass, and use the real boarding pass that has the name from the stolen credit card. Then you board the plane, because they're not checking your name against your ID at boarding.""
THis is completely false. Every flight ive been on in canada in the last 4 years has checked ID right when you board the plane. I suppose it could be different in amerika but that would strike me as kind of stupid, to not check right when you board.
"I think it would be better if Microsoft implemented something closer to sudo or su, but I think people would complain about that too."
I dont get this mentality. Do most of you people make serious errors on your machine consistently? You cant help but type rm -rf / at every opportunity? I always do all my linux administration as root. Who the fuck wants to waste time typing in passwords for something that I KNOW I want it to do! Its the reason working on macs is so damn infuriating. A billion password prompts to get any settings changed. If I was an idiot who didnt know what I was doing it would make me what, think twice? NOPE I would just type in my password and do it anyway!
If you make it so a user types in their password frequently, without thinking - I think that does a helluva lot more to expose users to maliciousness then a few mis typed/clicked commands ever would. Its like, people already don't read the errors that come up on the screen (even when they are in plain english; im looking at you "the email address has been rejected by the server") So MS's great idea? throw more fucking prompts at them! the more prompts they get, the more likely they are to read one or two? god...
I also turn off deletion confirmation dialog boxes. Yes windows I DO WANT TO DELETE THE FILE I JUST HIT DELETE ON. I mean you have the fucking trash can RIGHT THERE.
"The entire world watches our shows, movies, listens to our music, uses our software, plays our games, etc."
This statement is laughable. America does not create quality culture. Sure there are some positive examples (southpark) of your countries cultural contribution. But for every one good show there are 10-20 90210's or britney spears's or metallicas or EAs. The only thing america has going for it is volume of culture which is then marketed with more money than many countries have in their entire economies. No one would dispute the fact that america PUSHES their culture on everyone more than anyone else, but that doesn't mean its good culture or that it is wanted.
"Pirates think everything should be free and argue like they're entitled to steal."
Pirates do no such thing, because its not stealing its copyright infringment. HUMANITY is hard coded to relay stories and information to one another. That is how we evolved, that is what we are about. Computers let many people do this cheaply and with no message or quality loss. This is the height of our story telling civilization. More people have more access to more information than ever before in history. Complaining about these facts is akin to saying that PBX's are "stealing" wages from telephone operators. It makes no sense in the world we live in today.
You clearly havent recently built a computer. That ram that sells at 1333mhz? ACTUALLY only operates at 667 unless you manually overclock. I, like you, thought of overclockers as pathetic e-peen junkies until I actually tried to attain advertised speeds. Now adays you are laughed at for not overclocking your ram in an enthusiast board. It has gotten to the point that many companies sell and advertise features that are only available when overclocked. They all expect you to be overclocking.
"rather than spend $300 on a set of snow tires that will last for 5+ winters."
Plus a hundred bucks to have them installed and balanced every year. Unless you buy seperate rims as well and then your not spending 300$ unless you are buying them used.
Trust me, its alot easier (and cheaper) to just SLOW THE FUCK DOWN in winter and drive responsibly. All season tires should be fine as long as the main roads of your city/town are plowed. I learned to drive in 3 feet of snow. The last thing you want to rely on is a crutch like snow tires. What happens when you have to drive a rental without snow tires?
Oh please. Ive played both and the fact is that if you dont like raiding or manufactured PVP you are either out there trying to fight some people questing or protecting younger players in stv. There are things to do, but the point of the game - questing and making your bar go up - drops off when you get to the level cap. I played from beta for almost 2 years, had multiple 60s etc until one day realizing that i had shit all to do. Raiding is pretty much repetition, going over the motions, for 3 or 4 hours. BORING! Battlegrounds killed world pvp, which was the only fun form of pvp in wow.
Eve online on the other hand lets you do whatever you want. And the PVP is epic. Im talking 40 person battleship fleets with support as a regular occurance. Theres pirating, ganking, fighting over space, moons, and stations. All of this with ships and equipment that equates to real money. Nothing feels as good as narrowly escaping a gate camp in a $20 ship n gear. Your hearts pounding your adrenaline goes up. You don't lose the excitement of pvp because to die is for real and your body knows it.
I played eve for a few years, but by far the funnest I had was fighting in campaign type warfare that goes on for weeks. Its not all like that sure, but those few months of battle rivals any other online experience i've ever had. There is simply nothing like a massive fleet battle, jumping in, calling targets and fighting for your life.
Look macophile, its bad enough we have to support your "different" platform in the corporate world now. Don't be wandering into the gaming world with your turtlenecks, lattes and copies of the communist manifesto. I am tired of mac users, between their sips of ethos water and radiohead tracks, preaching minority rights. YOU made the choice to buy an incompatible, overpriced, non upgradeable "appliance", not me. Whats next, complaining that you cant PC game on your tv or dishwasher?
Shouldn't you be focusing on your schoolwork anyway comrade, instead of thinking about games? How are you going to buy that next overpriced mac if you dont get into some sort of advertising, movie executive, or ceo of a web 2.0 company job?
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If their computer works, most people dont give a shit about the health of the internet.
Would I push the button? Hell yeah! then I'd charge by the hour to do data recovery for the mofos.
It is kind of like people who let their car burn oil or have other glaring emissions related problems. If the government didn't step in and have mandatory emissions testing, there would be many people who would simply top up their oil daily.
Hilarious. What conceivable situation would a 9mm, a shotgun, a long gun (rifle) and any of the other less "crazy" weapons not defend you against? Why on earth should it be a right for civilians to own ak-47s, flamethrowers and miniguns?
Very bad? Name ONE WAY in which it is even measurably bad. Some people have pointed out that it infringes on their "freedom" (to own assault rifles I would imagine). Well you also dont have the "freedom" to form a private army (sleeper cell) or manufacture and detonate nuclear and biological weapons. What kind of crazy entitlement brings you to the conclusion that assault weaponry is a right?
I dont see what the big deal with community service in highschools is. Most places in canada have had requirements of community service to graduate since the mid 90s. Just go sell books at the library or something, its really not that hard to accomplish. Not to mention that you can put it on a resume.
hilarious!
All those are shit.
Roll your own PFsense with whatever hardware you desire.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - author Michael Crichton was found dead in his Claremont home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the American community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to Society and true American patriotism. Truly an American icon.
Its not Canadas fault you live in the middle of no where. Typical maritimer, always wanting others to foot the bill for their lifestyle. When my conservative friend talks about the freeloading atlantic provinces I always defended them. You sir have just made me change my mind on that. I guess you are a bunch of ungrateful whiners. Is it canadas fault there's no more fish too?
I for one am glad that my taxes arent buying hospitals for 700 person rural hamlets on the other side of the country. Why should I fund that?
Perhaps you should watch some old dr who episodes instead of this kind of dreamy new stuff. How is it not science fiction? How is it different than babylon 5 or any other made up universe with fictional characters doing siencey things. Was timecop not science fiction as well in your mind? How about demoltion man? You can have adventure science fiction you know.
Is hitchhikers guide science fiction? Thats probably the closest literary parallel. Whimsical adventures through out space and time.
I use ubuntu servers because of LTS. Debian forces me to upgrade every year or so (or thats what i remember from when i switched off 3 years ago)
Im pretty sure the only people who dont care who wins the american election are americans. If you are from any other country in the world, your eyes (or ears) will be glued to a live feed that night.
This isn't a sports match where the teams are no different and are fighting over something arbitrary and inconsequential. This election decides the future of the world.
Sorry, but are you FUCKING RETARDED? ARE YOUR EYES CLOSED AND YOUR BRAIN ADDLED??? HAVE YOU NOT BEEN PAYING ATTENTION FOR THE LAST 8 YEARS????
after all bush has done... after everything thats happened. Is your post a joke? DO you not realize how fucking horrible things are EVERYWHERE? There are real problems out there that need real solutions. Your hippy attitude of "just let it be" is EXACTLY why america is fucked! I cannot even believe you are serious!! One person cannot mess it up so bad? WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU CALL THE LAST 8 YEARS THEN?!?! are you somehow insinuating that bush hasn't completely fucked up everything hes done? Do most americans really think this way???
Yes, because spending the money on alternative energy research (both current candidates I believe support this as a goal) is so much worse than a war. Who cares if he spent more, he would have actually GOT something out of it. Maybe some new tech or at least some environmental initiatives. What exactly has the war done for your country that is in any way better than ANYTHING that gore could have conceivably "wasted" money on?
Hopefully you will start using those fucking guns if obama isnt elected. America is all talk. Americans are fucking cowards when it comes to standing up to their government. But we will see what happens when mccain steals the election, you'll pull your gun and get shot down by the army. What good is a gun your not willing to use?
As a non american, i sure as fuck hope not! If it is at all close, I would place that on all the voter fraud going on down there. I really hope if mccain wins you realize he cheated and fucking go apeshit, tearing the country apart. There is a reason they are mobilizing the military - because they are trying to steal the election and they know the people wont stand for that shit again! (at least I hope they wont, but hey you still have tvs and corn syrup so...) I defiantly been let down by americans before. so very many times.
I hope you don't think this applies to every environment out there. I am sure some very tightly integrated, heavily customized servers require this level of paranoia, but for most systems / environments, security patches do VASTLY more good than harm. You cant test for everything anyway no matter how hard you try.
Id rather explain to my CEO that I broke an app because I was trying to be safe and secure than get hit by a worm (pants down), with my only excuse being that I didn't want to roll out something that might POSSIBLY fuck shit up. Because at that point shit WOULD definitely be fucked up, and it would be my fault for not testing fast enough.
But again, it depends on your organization. Security patches from M$ have historically been pretty good. You also have the ability to blame them if shit hits the fan. Odds are many other people will have issues if the patch is THAT badly designed.
This seemed like a major issue (codered or mydoom level worm potential). When I read of it last week, I made sure all the machines were patched and rebooted ASAP. Like always its a judgement call you have to make with these things. I take a major issue with being called incompetent because I'd rather protect myself than blindly follow "Best practices".
This is something i've often thought about commercial companies and you have put very well. A good example is cisco. If you take a look at IOS, you need a to take a course just to find out what all their arcane commands and syntaxes are. You spend more time flubbing and researching syntax than actually getting the routers configured and problems solved. Contrast that to an open source package like PFsense, where most of the options and commands are clearly labeled with their syntax and often caveats and pro tips. Command line programs are the same deal. Anyone who tries to use the command line to admin exchange server will probably agree with me here. A good example is the way they do whitelisting. The default behavior (this is unchangeable but there are hacks to get around it) for whitelisting domains on 2007 server is that the new whitelisted domain or email address overwrites the old one. There is no list of whitelisted domains that the set-contentfilterconfig bypassenders updates when you run that command, it simply deletes the old value and inputs the new one.
I guess that example might be a reason why large commercial companies don't dare simplify their processes - because if you took all the byzantine crap away, you would see how badly designed they are much more clearly.
And winamp has global hotkeys from any program for years now.. Your point?
Making movies on a PC is easy, the mac is broken in that its not so easy, forcing blizzard to push out a fix and that is some how better than the pc world?
THis is completely false. Every flight ive been on in canada in the last 4 years has checked ID right when you board the plane. I suppose it could be different in amerika but that would strike me as kind of stupid, to not check right when you board.
I dont get this mentality. Do most of you people make serious errors on your machine consistently? You cant help but type rm -rf / at every opportunity? I always do all my linux administration as root. Who the fuck wants to waste time typing in passwords for something that I KNOW I want it to do! Its the reason working on macs is so damn infuriating. A billion password prompts to get any settings changed. If I was an idiot who didnt know what I was doing it would make me what, think twice? NOPE I would just type in my password and do it anyway!
If you make it so a user types in their password frequently, without thinking - I think that does a helluva lot more to expose users to maliciousness then a few mis typed/clicked commands ever would. Its like, people already don't read the errors that come up on the screen (even when they are in plain english; im looking at you "the email address has been rejected by the server") So MS's great idea? throw more fucking prompts at them! the more prompts they get, the more likely they are to read one or two? god...
I also turn off deletion confirmation dialog boxes. Yes windows I DO WANT TO DELETE THE FILE I JUST HIT DELETE ON. I mean you have the fucking trash can RIGHT THERE.
But who wants to remember some 32 digit hexadecimal number?
Maybe if they used decimal numbers it would be a bit easier for people to implement.
This statement is laughable. America does not create quality culture. Sure there are some positive examples (southpark) of your countries cultural contribution. But for every one good show there are 10-20 90210's or britney spears's or metallicas or EAs. The only thing america has going for it is volume of culture which is then marketed with more money than many countries have in their entire economies. No one would dispute the fact that america PUSHES their culture on everyone more than anyone else, but that doesn't mean its good culture or that it is wanted.
Pirates do no such thing, because its not stealing its copyright infringment. HUMANITY is hard coded to relay stories and information to one another. That is how we evolved, that is what we are about. Computers let many people do this cheaply and with no message or quality loss. This is the height of our story telling civilization. More people have more access to more information than ever before in history. Complaining about these facts is akin to saying that PBX's are "stealing" wages from telephone operators. It makes no sense in the world we live in today.
A thought I had about this; Whats the difference between a throw away email address that you have used for everything since 1995 and a real identity?
You clearly havent recently built a computer. That ram that sells at 1333mhz? ACTUALLY only operates at 667 unless you manually overclock. I, like you, thought of overclockers as pathetic e-peen junkies until I actually tried to attain advertised speeds. Now adays you are laughed at for not overclocking your ram in an enthusiast board. It has gotten to the point that many companies sell and advertise features that are only available when overclocked. They all expect you to be overclocking.
its a brave new world out there!
Plus a hundred bucks to have them installed and balanced every year. Unless you buy seperate rims as well and then your not spending 300$ unless you are buying them used.
Trust me, its alot easier (and cheaper) to just SLOW THE FUCK DOWN in winter and drive responsibly. All season tires should be fine as long as the main roads of your city/town are plowed. I learned to drive in 3 feet of snow. The last thing you want to rely on is a crutch like snow tires. What happens when you have to drive a rental without snow tires?
Oh please. Ive played both and the fact is that if you dont like raiding or manufactured PVP you are either out there trying to fight some people questing or protecting younger players in stv. There are things to do, but the point of the game - questing and making your bar go up - drops off when you get to the level cap. I played from beta for almost 2 years, had multiple 60s etc until one day realizing that i had shit all to do. Raiding is pretty much repetition, going over the motions, for 3 or 4 hours. BORING! Battlegrounds killed world pvp, which was the only fun form of pvp in wow.
Eve online on the other hand lets you do whatever you want. And the PVP is epic. Im talking 40 person battleship fleets with support as a regular occurance. Theres pirating, ganking, fighting over space, moons, and stations. All of this with ships and equipment that equates to real money. Nothing feels as good as narrowly escaping a gate camp in a $20 ship n gear. Your hearts pounding your adrenaline goes up. You don't lose the excitement of pvp because to die is for real and your body knows it.
I played eve for a few years, but by far the funnest I had was fighting in campaign type warfare that goes on for weeks. Its not all like that sure, but those few months of battle rivals any other online experience i've ever had. There is simply nothing like a massive fleet battle, jumping in, calling targets and fighting for your life.
Look macophile, its bad enough we have to support your "different" platform in the corporate world now. Don't be wandering into the gaming world with your turtlenecks, lattes and copies of the communist manifesto. I am tired of mac users, between their sips of ethos water and radiohead tracks, preaching minority rights. YOU made the choice to buy an incompatible, overpriced, non upgradeable "appliance", not me. Whats next, complaining that you cant PC game on your tv or dishwasher?
Shouldn't you be focusing on your schoolwork anyway comrade, instead of thinking about games? How are you going to buy that next overpriced mac if you dont get into some sort of advertising, movie executive, or ceo of a web 2.0 company job?