Edie Brickell had a much more philosophical view in the cross-promotional video sample that came with the Windows 95 installation CD-ROM. "Good times, bad times, gimme some of that."
In retrospect, instead of the BSOD, Miscrosoft should have popped up the phrase in a little text bubble and had that song sweetly playing in the background...
Didn't the FBI, less than a year ago, declare that people who know, or talk about VPNS or encryption potential terrorists that should immediately be reported as such to their local law enforcement...?
No, that's complete bullshit. VPNs and encryption are perfectly legal to use and considered to be essential security tools. Especially useful if you live under a repressive anti-privacy government like the US.
May as well dismantle libraries next. They are chock full of information that could be used to subvert the state. The last thing government wants is a well-educated populace.
We can NOT have freedom when we have secret laws & courts.
To make matters worse, ignorantia juris non excusat (ignorance of the law does not excuse) is a fundamental legal principle in this country. Coupled with secret laws, no one can claim with certainty that they are a law-abiding citizen. That's probably what's driving the total surveillance state - we're all criminals that just haven't realized it yet.
Because voting is a right reserved for citizens of the US and the political subdivision holding the election. Stopping people who aren't citizens from voting is a good thing for all of us.
Ahem. You have to register to vote. This already stops people show aren't citizens from voting. Let's stop all this nonsense involving made up scenarios and recognize the real reason behind voter ID laws are to keep poor and minority populations from voting for the democratic party.
The funny thing is, despite these shenanigans and the ridiculous gerrymandering and faux news shows, the GOP is destined to fail. It just a matter of time now. You cannot keep the majority of people voting against their own interests indefinitely. It's just not sustainable.
I've been hearing criticism of the academic publishers for about 20 years by people who are directly impacted and who also have the ability to do something about it. They choose not to.
Aaron Schwartz did choose to change the system. I likely don't need to remind you how that turned out.
Trump is also the most likely of the candidates to start World War III. Big ego, a propensity for insulting others, and access to nukes is probably not a good combination to have in a leader. Just look to North Korea to see the possibilities.
A hacker can really screw with someone without elevating to admin. All the juicy stuff is in the user accounts anyway. In a few seconds they can get your financial information, passwords, email contacts, the screenplay you're working on, any photos of an adult nature that happen to be there...
In contrast, the admin account is quite dull. You already know what's on that. I get the point that once you get admin you can install your badware and stick around for a while, but once you've got all the really good stuff is in the user accounts why bother.
Doesn't everyone already ignore that law anyway? I know I do. It's an absurd law. It get everything I want, when I want, for free. Go ahead and extend copyright laws for 8 billions years; I don't care. Doesn't affect me.
Is a process that takes 2^64 years possible or impossible?
By definition it is possible. It just will take a while. When a figure like that is used to describe an encryption algorithm, it is meant to estimate the average (or sometimes maximum) time it would take to brute force the algorithm for a given key length. It is highly improbable, but far from impossible, to crack strong encryption in much less time than the figure given.
One time pad encryption is another story. That is actually impossible to decrypt give any length of time as each possible output of the decryption process is equally likely. The attacker can never know when they've got it right.
The article also talks of how IoT isn't very lucrative, not too surprising since its not even standardized across vendors (afaik) and needs more public awareness.
IoT is a solution in search of a problem, IMO. I don't necessarily want my toaster posting on Facebook every time I make me a sandwich. I know what's in my fridge without looking. I have no need to adjust the temperature in my home when I'm not there.
You can probably tell that I'm a late adopter of technology. This is one I can't fathom ever getting. I just don't get it.
Do you really think giving your credit card information to a pornography website operator (who in all likelihood is on the other side of the planet) is a good idea? I can't off the top of my head think of anyone less trustworthy. Maybe a crack whore or that Nigerian prince that keeps emailing me, but that's about it.
It's up to parents to monitor what their kiddies are doing online, not Prime Minister David Cameron.
The other absolutely amazing thing they introduced in Windows 95 was the shortcut.
Otherwise known as soft links or symbolic links, which DEC and RDOS have had since 1978.
I'll assume when you say "they introduced" you meant to say "they copied" in the same manner as MSDOS is really a clone of CP/M and the Windows GUI was copied from Apple, etc.
The whole GMO issue has nothing to do with feeding the poor. GMO grains cost more so the starving proles can't afford to buy the seeds, they just save their current seeds for next year.
Just three corporations control one quarter of the world's seed market (Monsanto, Syngenta and DuPont) and biodiversity is not high on their agenda. National seed lists in many countries make it illegal to buy and sell unusual varieties and it is prohibitively expensive to keep seeds on the list. Agribusinesses require farmers buying seed to sign contracts that prevent them saving and replanting seeds at a later date. As this is difficult to enforce, seeds are now being genetically modified to be sterile after a year in order to protect company's patents, a process known as terminator technology. While this guarantees profits, an estimated 1.4 billion farmers worldwide depend on seeds saved or exchanged with neighbors. The Chilean Rural and Indigenous Network call this copyrighting or patenting of living things 'a crime against humanity'.
Source: A Handbook For Changing Our World by the Trapese Collective.
When "law enforcement officials" break the law it makes it hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys.
Unwarranted surveillance means we are all considered suspects. We are not citizens anymore, we are suspects. What incentive do we have to cooperate with LEO?.
I hope it's been replaced, but based on what I knew then about government IT policies, it's possible that it's still in use.
I'm pretty sure my states' turnpike still uses PDP-11s to process tolls. DEC has been gone for at least 20 years so I have no idea what they do when they need service.
Reminds me of the time I was working with an older engineer and we needed to know the current coming out of a variac. I went to fetch my digital ammeter and when I came back found he had looped a piece of wire around the output leads and connected it to an analog meter. When I said let's use my meter it will be more accurate he said "I know how this works" (pointing to his setup) ".. and I don't know how that works" (pointing to my digital meter). I have to admit, he won that round.
The thing I never understood about the Kickass torrents site is that to use it they want you to sign up for a "free account", but to get one you need to supply your credit card info. Yeah, I don't think so. I'll go elsewhere, thanks.
I've only watched the first couple of Battlebots this season but already there was one bot with a freaking flame thrower. I expect there are some sort of rules as to what you can attach to your bot in that competition, but was pleasantly surprised to see flame throwers aren't excluded. Explosives, I imagine, are:)
If you look around you'll find wackos of every kind.
Some of them are trolls, I'll bet, just out to make mischief. But I personally know three people who are officially diagnosed with schizophrenia, and talking to them is sometimes illuminating, albeit extremely frustrating. Their world view is just too different to relate to.
Delusional thinking isn't just for full blown schizophrenics, either. One woman I used to work with (and I thought was normal) told me one day about her encounter with a UFO and it's alien occupants. Wow, I did not expect that from her.
When I was a very young kid, I either had visual hallucinations or maybe I was dreaming and only thought I was awake, but my experience was that I saw some really weird stuff. Stuff that can't possibly be true, so I can't exclude myself from the delusional category, either. Thankfully nothing like that has happened since.
I'll bet a steak dinner that he couldn't tell the difference between any of the streaming services and a CD, or any other commercially produced medium, in double blind test.
I'll take you up on that. I l like a nice Delmonico steak, rare, with all the fixins. I can tell the difference, and so can every audio engineer I've ever met. People who make their living from their exceptional hearing tend to take their music seriously.
As for Neil Young , I've never met the man but I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt, given that his considerable career is based on his ability to produce sound others pay for. He's done things I don't care for, but he's probably not losing any sleep over it. There are some songs of his I like. He probably doesn't care about that either.
He's from that hippy era, though, where principles mean something. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it.
The tiny bit of mercury in a mercury switch. Not much more than the mercury in your medicine cabinet if you have a thermometer. I'm not worried about some kid with a tiny bit of mercury.
On the other hand large amounts of gasoline, oil, and black powder are easily and readily obtained by anyone who wants it.
As main tech support person for my mother, I certainly can sympathize and whole-heartedly recommend Teamviewer or the equivalent. Part of the problem is she doesn't have the vocabulary to describe what her problems are. She'll use the word "download" as a placeholder for some concept she doesn't fully grasp and I know now when I see that word I could substitute virtually any other english word in it's place and achieve the same meaning. This is where spending a few minutes on Teamviewer becomes invaluable. I can figure out quickly the exact nature of the problem she is experiencing.
One interesting thing I learned from watching her interaction with the mouse is that if she clicks on something and doesn't get the expected result within a fraction of a second she'll click it again, only harder. Or multiple times. What I find most interesting about that is that's exactly what I have to do to get my air conditioner to turn on and off. It has these faulty flat panel buttons that sometimes don't make contact until I go to absurdly extreme lengths of banging and pleading with it to work properly.
I think some enterprising engineer should design a pressure sensitive mouse so when you press really hard or in rapid succession it means "I really mean to do this, do it NOW!
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Edie Brickell had a much more philosophical view in the cross-promotional video sample that came with the Windows 95 installation CD-ROM. "Good times, bad times, gimme some of that."
In retrospect, instead of the BSOD, Miscrosoft should have popped up the phrase in a little text bubble and had that song sweetly playing in the background ...
Didn't the FBI, less than a year ago, declare that people who know, or talk about VPNS or encryption potential terrorists that should immediately be reported as such to their local law enforcement...?
No, that's complete bullshit. VPNs and encryption are perfectly legal to use and considered to be essential security tools. Especially useful if you live under a repressive anti-privacy government like the US.
May as well dismantle libraries next. They are chock full of information that could be used to subvert the state. The last thing government wants is a well-educated populace.
We can NOT have freedom when we have secret laws & courts.
To make matters worse, ignorantia juris non excusat (ignorance of the law does not excuse) is a fundamental legal principle in this country. Coupled with secret laws, no one can claim with certainty that they are a law-abiding citizen. That's probably what's driving the total surveillance state - we're all criminals that just haven't realized it yet.
Because voting is a right reserved for citizens of the US and the political subdivision holding the election. Stopping people who aren't citizens from voting is a good thing for all of us.
Ahem. You have to register to vote. This already stops people show aren't citizens from voting. Let's stop all this nonsense involving made up scenarios and recognize the real reason behind voter ID laws are to keep poor and minority populations from voting for the democratic party.
The funny thing is, despite these shenanigans and the ridiculous gerrymandering and faux news shows, the GOP is destined to fail. It just a matter of time now. You cannot keep the majority of people voting against their own interests indefinitely. It's just not sustainable.
I've been hearing criticism of the academic publishers for about 20 years by people who are directly impacted and who also have the ability to do something about it. They choose not to.
Aaron Schwartz did choose to change the system. I likely don't need to remind you how that turned out.
Trump is also the most likely of the candidates to start World War III. Big ego, a propensity for insulting others, and access to nukes is probably not a good combination to have in a leader. Just look to North Korea to see the possibilities.
A hacker can really screw with someone without elevating to admin. All the juicy stuff is in the user accounts anyway. In a few seconds they can get your financial information, passwords, email contacts, the screenplay you're working on, any photos of an adult nature that happen to be there...
In contrast, the admin account is quite dull. You already know what's on that. I get the point that once you get admin you can install your badware and stick around for a while, but once you've got all the really good stuff is in the user accounts why bother.
Doesn't everyone already ignore that law anyway? I know I do. It's an absurd law. It get everything I want, when I want, for free. Go ahead and extend copyright laws for 8 billions years; I don't care. Doesn't affect me.
Is a process that takes 2^64 years possible or impossible?
By definition it is possible. It just will take a while. When a figure like that is used to describe an encryption algorithm, it is meant to estimate the average (or sometimes maximum) time it would take to brute force the algorithm for a given key length. It is highly improbable, but far from impossible, to crack strong encryption in much less time than the figure given.
One time pad encryption is another story. That is actually impossible to decrypt give any length of time as each possible output of the decryption process is equally likely. The attacker can never know when they've got it right.
No no no, thyroids are mythical.
I assure you thyroid glands are real. When you go to the doctor and he palpates the base of your neck he is checking your thyroid.
If you don't believe in prostate glands either, you're in for a big surprise when your doctor decides to check it.
The article also talks of how IoT isn't very lucrative, not too surprising since its not even standardized across vendors (afaik) and needs more public awareness.
IoT is a solution in search of a problem, IMO. I don't necessarily want my toaster posting on Facebook every time I make me a sandwich. I know what's in my fridge without looking. I have no need to adjust the temperature in my home when I'm not there.
You can probably tell that I'm a late adopter of technology. This is one I can't fathom ever getting. I just don't get it.
Yes. Use CC verification.
Do you really think giving your credit card information to a pornography website operator (who in all likelihood is on the other side of the planet) is a good idea? I can't off the top of my head think of anyone less trustworthy. Maybe a crack whore or that Nigerian prince that keeps emailing me, but that's about it.
It's up to parents to monitor what their kiddies are doing online, not Prime Minister David Cameron.
The other absolutely amazing thing they introduced in Windows 95 was the shortcut.
Otherwise known as soft links or symbolic links, which DEC and RDOS have had since 1978.
I'll assume when you say "they introduced" you meant to say "they copied" in the same manner as MSDOS is really a clone of CP/M and the Windows GUI was copied from Apple, etc.
The whole GMO issue has nothing to do with feeding the poor. GMO grains cost more so the starving proles can't afford to buy the seeds, they just save their current seeds for next year.
Just three corporations control one quarter of the world's seed market (Monsanto, Syngenta and DuPont) and biodiversity is not high on their agenda. National seed lists in many countries make it illegal to buy and sell unusual varieties and it is prohibitively expensive to keep seeds on the list. Agribusinesses require farmers buying seed to sign contracts that prevent them saving and replanting seeds at a later date. As this is difficult to enforce, seeds are now being genetically modified to be sterile after a year in order to protect company's patents, a process known as terminator technology. While this guarantees profits, an estimated 1.4 billion farmers worldwide depend on seeds saved or exchanged with neighbors. The Chilean Rural and Indigenous Network call this copyrighting or patenting of living things 'a crime against humanity'.
Source: A Handbook For Changing Our World by the Trapese Collective.
You could also invest in a tool to remap the key next to 'A' to "Control," like God intended.
Do you really need to "invest in a tool" to do that? If so, let me know and I'll sell you one. Price varies, depending on how much you have.
When "law enforcement officials" break the law it makes it hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys.
Unwarranted surveillance means we are all considered suspects. We are not citizens anymore, we are suspects. What incentive do we have to cooperate with LEO?.
I hope it's been replaced, but based on what I knew then about government IT policies, it's possible that it's still in use.
I'm pretty sure my states' turnpike still uses PDP-11s to process tolls. DEC has been gone for at least 20 years so I have no idea what they do when they need service.
Reminds me of the time I was working with an older engineer and we needed to know the current coming out of a variac. I went to fetch my digital ammeter and when I came back found he had looped a piece of wire around the output leads and connected it to an analog meter. When I said let's use my meter it will be more accurate he said "I know how this works" (pointing to his setup) ".. and I don't know how that works" (pointing to my digital meter). I have to admit, he won that round.
The thing I never understood about the Kickass torrents site is that to use it they want you to sign up for a "free account", but to get one you need to supply your credit card info. Yeah, I don't think so. I'll go elsewhere, thanks.
I've only watched the first couple of Battlebots this season but already there was one bot with a freaking flame thrower. I expect there are some sort of rules as to what you can attach to your bot in that competition, but was pleasantly surprised to see flame throwers aren't excluded. Explosives, I imagine, are :)
If you look around you'll find wackos of every kind.
Some of them are trolls, I'll bet, just out to make mischief. But I personally know three people who are officially diagnosed with schizophrenia, and talking to them is sometimes illuminating, albeit extremely frustrating. Their world view is just too different to relate to.
Delusional thinking isn't just for full blown schizophrenics, either. One woman I used to work with (and I thought was normal) told me one day about her encounter with a UFO and it's alien occupants. Wow, I did not expect that from her.
When I was a very young kid, I either had visual hallucinations or maybe I was dreaming and only thought I was awake, but my experience was that I saw some really weird stuff. Stuff that can't possibly be true, so I can't exclude myself from the delusional category, either. Thankfully nothing like that has happened since.
I'll bet a steak dinner that he couldn't tell the difference between any of the streaming services and a CD, or any other commercially produced medium, in double blind test.
I'll take you up on that. I l like a nice Delmonico steak, rare, with all the fixins. I can tell the difference, and so can every audio engineer I've ever met. People who make their living from their exceptional hearing tend to take their music seriously.
As for Neil Young , I've never met the man but I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt, given that his considerable career is based on his ability to produce sound others pay for. He's done things I don't care for, but he's probably not losing any sleep over it. There are some songs of his I like. He probably doesn't care about that either.
He's from that hippy era, though, where principles mean something. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it.
The tiny bit of mercury in a mercury switch. Not much more than the mercury in your medicine cabinet if you have a thermometer. I'm not worried about some kid with a tiny bit of mercury.
On the other hand large amounts of gasoline, oil, and black powder are easily and readily obtained by anyone who wants it.
As main tech support person for my mother, I certainly can sympathize and whole-heartedly recommend Teamviewer or the equivalent. Part of the problem is she doesn't have the vocabulary to describe what her problems are. She'll use the word "download" as a placeholder for some concept she doesn't fully grasp and I know now when I see that word I could substitute virtually any other english word in it's place and achieve the same meaning. This is where spending a few minutes on Teamviewer becomes invaluable. I can figure out quickly the exact nature of the problem she is experiencing.
One interesting thing I learned from watching her interaction with the mouse is that if she clicks on something and doesn't get the expected result within a fraction of a second she'll click it again, only harder. Or multiple times. What I find most interesting about that is that's exactly what I have to do to get my air conditioner to turn on and off. It has these faulty flat panel buttons that sometimes don't make contact until I go to absurdly extreme lengths of banging and pleading with it to work properly.
I think some enterprising engineer should design a pressure sensitive mouse so when you press really hard or in rapid succession it means "I really mean to do this, do it NOW!