I'm not convinced these devices *ARE* safe, nor am i convinced that the people who will be operating them know enough about the technology to do it safely. And than I'm also not comfortable with the idea people are taking scans of me without my consent.
Well, i guess it's moot for me anyway, I'm in Europe and i don't plan to visit the States as long as that security insanity reigns over there.
I've never seen anonymous be referred to as 'Security Researches'. As for whom and what anonymous are, sure, it originated from 4chan, but the beauty of the concept is that *EVERYONE* can be part of it when they chose to, it's an open group without leadership, the way it works is fascinating in my opinion.
People would improve their pictures dramatically just by reading the manual and understanding what the different settings on their camera are made for.But alas, reading requires effort
They didn't say they wouldn't exist anymore, they stated that they might not be integrated in the browser anymore, and that's a fair statement given how fast browsers have evolved lately. And java doesn't come installed by default.
No. Live data however, is pretty safe, data that is in constant use will survive format shifts because they have to, so the data mined by add companies on you will survive, that movie of your cat will probably not survive unless you as the author make sure it does.
You see, it's not only the file formats that change, if you use open standards you might be pretty safe, it's also the storage mediums that change. Having lived through the C64 and Amiga data, i have managed to preserve some data from those days, but a lot was lost, partially because the data was not considered valuable, but that data is gone forever...
In all fairness, it's not sure they'll stay anonymous, we don't know how they hid their identities nor do we know what facilities HBGary had to log their data. If i were to break into your computer somehow, and fail to delete or manipulate the proper logs, you'd have my IP, with my IP, assuming i did not mask it somehow, you could obtain my ISP info, country and city. That data can then be used to issue a subpoena to obtain my info from my ISP.
Masking your IP is a tricky one, it's easy enough to hide from the webserver logs by using proxies, but you can't just tunnel ssh traffic over an HTTP proxy, you need to employ different tactics. You could use a laptop and a wifi connection of someone who has no link to you, but you'd still be giving up your general vicinity, and sitting in a car with a laptop might not be so inconspicuous as you'd hope. If i were to do such a thing, i'd be very wary of using any connection that can be traced back to me in one, two or three hops, maybe you could use TOR for it, i don't know, but erasing all traces is tricky.
Science doesn't ask 'why' because that's a stupid question. Your question is already loaded to imply meaning when there is no logical or factual indication there is a reason. The why question is one for philosophers and people with too much time on their hands. As for religion, that's a whole other load of crap.
Religion has caused wars, famine, genocide,.... The Aztecs believed in child sacrifices for instance.
And for the love of god (pun intended) don't go claiming religion is needed for morality, because you don't want to open that can of worms
'God' isn't the simplest answer, it's NO answer. You can't even define what you suppose this 'god' thing is, and if you do define it, you end up with something so ridiculous that any 7 year old with a grasp of logic and an uncluttered mind can poke holes in.
Scientists don't depend on faith, they collect evidence, make assumptions and then try to prove those assumptions wrong. Why can't some people even understand how science work? I weep for the future *sigh*
I still say it blows, the Quick Launch is gone, the taskbar & it's pinning mechanism blows, the UI does things like minimizing all apps when dragging a window in a specific way, there's no 'pin to top' option, you need a 3rd party app for such a simple functionality...
It breaks my flow of work, forcing me to do things in two, three or more clicks while it used to be doable in one, sure it might look better then Windows95, but that doesn't make it better.
I f'cking hate it.
I can not disagree more with you, the UI is a frustrating nightmare, the taskbar has lost it's quicklaunch feature, for one. Sure, you can pin an app to the taskbar, but pin for instance putty to the taskbar and try to launch it twice with using only two clicks total without touching the keyboard.
I don't care about transparency or flashy 3D effects, i want efficiency, and the way the Windows UI works hinders me more then it aids me, and i'll be danmed if i let a PC dictate how i should work, it's I who am the PC's master.
Honestly, i hate the Windows 7 UI with a passion, if i could switch to a Win2k theme i would. The 'start menu' is unusable in my opinion, the UI does things like autohiding the other windows when dragging another window in a certain way (don't ask me what way, it just does), still no 'stick to top' options, you can pin items to the taskbar, but clicking on them eighter launches them or brings them to the front, you can't use it to launch another instance of an app...
If i didn't have to use this horrid piece of shit for my job i'd have formatted it ages ago....
Java blows. I absolutely hate Java. A while ago we encountered a specific issue with our Java based service bus, that caused it to run out of memory. While diagnosing the issue I noticed the JVM was opening a lot of TCP/IP connections, so I went to one of our Java 'programmers' to get an idea of how much ram/heap such an object uses, and all I got was a blank stare. (Still don't know the answer to it, but i was right that it was the huge number of open TCP/IP sockets that caused the JVM to run out of memory).
If you can't handle allocating and managing memory, you don't deserve the right to call yourself a programmer.
You choose to avoid all insignificant risks to your health? I have to assume you are trolling.
Nope, I'm serious. If they want to search me, they'll have to pat me down. Want to check my cavities? They'll have to get a qualified medic to do it. I'm not going to let high school dropouts point an x-ray device at me.
It's not so much that i distrust the technology, it's that i distrust the people using it. And there's also the matter of principle, I'm not going to cooperate in that circus.
As for the technology, avoiding unnecessary radiation exposure seems like a fairly sane position if you ask me.
Oh well, it's moot anyway, I'm from Europe and I'm not planning of going to the USA as long as you guys have insane policies.
Insignificant according to our current understanding of the effects of radiation on living tissue, we all know what happened to Madame Curie and prior the 50's. Even if the risk is insignificant to my health, i still chose to avoid that risk. I will not go through those body scanners and most certainly not through these things. If they want to search me, they"ll just have to drive me to clinic where trained personnel will do it.
The events in Tunesia, Egypt, Iran, Libya, Bahrain,.... are historic, i don't think we've ever seen so many uprisings happen in so many countries in such a short time, and they all use the internet to fuel, organize and share the protests and events as they happen. Never before has a technology enabled such a thing on such a scale.
Even in Egypt, when they tried to cut of the Internet, people found ways to keep connected using new and old tech, fascinating time we're living in right now.
However, this fight with Sony might up being historic as well, if it for instance abolishes the EULA and the idea someone can dictate what you can do with your bought hardware, it sure isn't on the same level as the events in the Middle East, but never the less, it again illustrates the impact of the Internet on this here old world
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I'm not convinced these devices *ARE* safe, nor am i convinced that the people who will be operating them know enough about the technology to do it safely. And than I'm also not comfortable with the idea people are taking scans of me without my consent.
Well, i guess it's moot for me anyway, I'm in Europe and i don't plan to visit the States as long as that security insanity reigns over there.
I've never seen anonymous be referred to as 'Security Researches'. As for whom and what anonymous are, sure, it originated from 4chan, but the beauty of the concept is that *EVERYONE* can be part of it when they chose to, it's an open group without leadership, the way it works is fascinating in my opinion.
"No doubt the alleged HBGary plot is troubling..."
Troubling? That's an understatement... "The Obama Administration’s Justice Department advised the largest bank in America where to find a corporate hacker [Three military contracting 'cyber-security' companies] to fabricate information that could be used to blackmail American journalists" Corporate America, the Military Industrial Complex and the Government all in bed together to operate outside the law inside the US and without any checks, balances or semblance of respect for the law... and this Ted Samson character is more worried about the civil disobedience group Anonymous... Hellooo... threat assessment!?
Yea, that bit in the TFS come across to me as it's written by a chill to manipulate the public opinion... You know, like out of HBGary's proposals?
People would improve their pictures dramatically just by reading the manual and understanding what the different settings on their camera are made for.But alas, reading requires effort
Actually, 99% of people with camera's could improve their pictures dramatically just by reading the damned manual
HBGary?
Java will be around in *50* years time.
/me screams in agony
They didn't say they wouldn't exist anymore, they stated that they might not be integrated in the browser anymore, and that's a fair statement given how fast browsers have evolved lately. And java doesn't come installed by default.
No. Live data however, is pretty safe, data that is in constant use will survive format shifts because they have to, so the data mined by add companies on you will survive, that movie of your cat will probably not survive unless you as the author make sure it does.
You see, it's not only the file formats that change, if you use open standards you might be pretty safe, it's also the storage mediums that change. Having lived through the C64 and Amiga data, i have managed to preserve some data from those days, but a lot was lost, partially because the data was not considered valuable, but that data is gone forever...
In all fairness, it's not sure they'll stay anonymous, we don't know how they hid their identities nor do we know what facilities HBGary had to log their data. If i were to break into your computer somehow, and fail to delete or manipulate the proper logs, you'd have my IP, with my IP, assuming i did not mask it somehow, you could obtain my ISP info, country and city. That data can then be used to issue a subpoena to obtain my info from my ISP.
Masking your IP is a tricky one, it's easy enough to hide from the webserver logs by using proxies, but you can't just tunnel ssh traffic over an HTTP proxy, you need to employ different tactics. You could use a laptop and a wifi connection of someone who has no link to you, but you'd still be giving up your general vicinity, and sitting in a car with a laptop might not be so inconspicuous as you'd hope. If i were to do such a thing, i'd be very wary of using any connection that can be traced back to me in one, two or three hops, maybe you could use TOR for it, i don't know, but erasing all traces is tricky.
Science doesn't ask 'why' because that's a stupid question. Your question is already loaded to imply meaning when there is no logical or factual indication there is a reason. The why question is one for philosophers and people with too much time on their hands. As for religion, that's a whole other load of crap.
.... The Aztecs believed in child sacrifices for instance.
Religion has caused wars, famine, genocide,
And for the love of god (pun intended) don't go claiming religion is needed for morality, because you don't want to open that can of worms
'God' isn't the simplest answer, it's NO answer. You can't even define what you suppose this 'god' thing is, and if you do define it, you end up with something so ridiculous that any 7 year old with a grasp of logic and an uncluttered mind can poke holes in.
Scientists don't depend on faith, they collect evidence, make assumptions and then try to prove those assumptions wrong. Why can't some people even understand how science work? I weep for the future *sigh*
The god concept is a joke, get over it.
I still say it blows, the Quick Launch is gone, the taskbar & it's pinning mechanism blows, the UI does things like minimizing all apps when dragging a window in a specific way, there's no 'pin to top' option, you need a 3rd party app for such a simple functionality... It breaks my flow of work, forcing me to do things in two, three or more clicks while it used to be doable in one, sure it might look better then Windows95, but that doesn't make it better. I f'cking hate it.
I can not disagree more with you, the UI is a frustrating nightmare, the taskbar has lost it's quicklaunch feature, for one. Sure, you can pin an app to the taskbar, but pin for instance putty to the taskbar and try to launch it twice with using only two clicks total without touching the keyboard. I don't care about transparency or flashy 3D effects, i want efficiency, and the way the Windows UI works hinders me more then it aids me, and i'll be danmed if i let a PC dictate how i should work, it's I who am the PC's master.
Honestly, i hate the Windows 7 UI with a passion, if i could switch to a Win2k theme i would. The 'start menu' is unusable in my opinion, the UI does things like autohiding the other windows when dragging another window in a certain way (don't ask me what way, it just does), still no 'stick to top' options, you can pin items to the taskbar, but clicking on them eighter launches them or brings them to the front, you can't use it to launch another instance of an app... If i didn't have to use this horrid piece of shit for my job i'd have formatted it ages ago....
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Java blows. I absolutely hate Java. A while ago we encountered a specific issue with our Java based service bus, that caused it to run out of memory. While diagnosing the issue I noticed the JVM was opening a lot of TCP/IP connections, so I went to one of our Java 'programmers' to get an idea of how much ram/heap such an object uses, and all I got was a blank stare. (Still don't know the answer to it, but i was right that it was the huge number of open TCP/IP sockets that caused the JVM to run out of memory). If you can't handle allocating and managing memory, you don't deserve the right to call yourself a programmer.
You choose to avoid all insignificant risks to your health? I have to assume you are trolling.
Nope, I'm serious. If they want to search me, they'll have to pat me down. Want to check my cavities? They'll have to get a qualified medic to do it. I'm not going to let high school dropouts point an x-ray device at me. It's not so much that i distrust the technology, it's that i distrust the people using it. And there's also the matter of principle, I'm not going to cooperate in that circus. As for the technology, avoiding unnecessary radiation exposure seems like a fairly sane position if you ask me. Oh well, it's moot anyway, I'm from Europe and I'm not planning of going to the USA as long as you guys have insane policies.
Insignificant according to our current understanding of the effects of radiation on living tissue, we all know what happened to Madame Curie and prior the 50's. Even if the risk is insignificant to my health, i still chose to avoid that risk. I will not go through those body scanners and most certainly not through these things. If they want to search me, they"ll just have to drive me to clinic where trained personnel will do it.
I'd rather have the probulator then TSA goons, at least that thing doesn't nuke you every time you have to fly, you only get raped by it once.
Mandatory in the UK? Guess i won't be flying there then.
Yet more X-Ray radiation! Woohooo!
/sarcasm
I'll take the pat-down and trip to the clinic, i'm not going to let any TSA goon nuke me.
The events in Tunesia, Egypt, Iran, Libya, Bahrain,.... are historic, i don't think we've ever seen so many uprisings happen in so many countries in such a short time, and they all use the internet to fuel, organize and share the protests and events as they happen. Never before has a technology enabled such a thing on such a scale.
Even in Egypt, when they tried to cut of the Internet, people found ways to keep connected using new and old tech, fascinating time we're living in right now.
However, this fight with Sony might up being historic as well, if it for instance abolishes the EULA and the idea someone can dictate what you can do with your bought hardware, it sure isn't on the same level as the events in the Middle East, but never the less, it again illustrates the impact of the Internet on this here old world
So you'll stop voting?