It's not that somebody is an asshole, it's that they have made a mistake. And with many people, it's likely that one of them will have made a mistake.
I know, my point was not that the mistake they made was forgetting their phone was set to ring, it was that they did not check to make sure and silence it when the presentator asked that everyone do that.
Yes, that is what the always ignored comment "please make sure your phones are silenced" is supposed to cause. My problem is assholes who think their phones are silenced but are not. CHECK!
Someone walking down the street talking on a cell phone doesn't bother me, nor does someone sitting in a restaurant talking on a cell phone.
What REALLY bothers me is when I'm sitting in a presentation at a conference (or something like that) and they repeatedly ask that people turn off cell phones or set them to vibrate. Then, naturally, someone's phones has to ring half way through.
Now answer me this, what kind of fucked up individual sits there while someone clearly asks them to silence their phone and doesn't? What is the thought process? Is it "Well, everyone else is turning silencing their phones like they asked, but they couldn't have meant me" or is it more "I'm not going to silence my phone, I'll just assume that nobody will call me"? Or is it that these people somehow forgot that they HAVE a phone?
I've never understood this but it seems to happen every time. Almost as if making the announcement before a presentation to silence phones CAUSES one to ring eventually.
Oh, and the worst is when the phone is in some kind of bag or briefcase and the owner just ignores it like everyone around him doesn't know it is his and he doesn't want to give away that HE is the asshole. We all know it is your phone you goober, looking around like you are trying to figure out whos it is will not fool anyone so turn it off!
My point though (and it is "fink, btw:P ), is that if it is really that important, it would be worth either (1) teaching your Dad how to use PGP (it is really frighteningly easy in most email clients now) or (2) using a more secure method of communication.
Great, this fits on a minidisk and is updated twice a month. What a PERFECT use for CDRW minidisks. Except I cannot find them anywhere. Does anyone make such a beast? Is there some technical reason why all the minidisks I can find are all CDR?
I've tried it, it is most accurately called "Gnome with a Sun Theme" That is ALL IT IS. They didn't even bother renaming any of the gnome things. Bluecurve did a better job of pretending it wasn't just repackaged Gnome than Java Desktop does...
Until you try to walk out the front door after cashing out in the electronics or jewelry department so you wouldn't have to wait in the lines up front. Then they ask you if they can search your bags and see a receipt
As a college student living in a town with two walmarts within a few miles of my apartment, I did plenty of shopping there.
I nearly always just bought a few things so I nearly always cashed out at the electronics or sporting goods area. Not ONCE was I EVER stopped at the door and had my stuff checked. This might just be a issue at the wallmart in your area. (Or maybe my walmart is the odd one, but that would be strange in a college town to have that kind of permissiveness when other's don't)
Oh so Clinton never presided over a low unemployment rate, he just was president while a lot of people fell off the unemployment insurance dole and took crap jobs. My that IS a convenient explanation, I'll have to remember that.
You think that's gonna sell in the real world? How many commercial packages can afford to ship broken?
Umm, have you USED commercial packages lately? They have bugs also, often just as much as open source software. And don't get me started on incompatibilities with other software (which seems to be your issue)
So I can see then how this could be a problem, but isn't the burden of proof still on them to prove that you saw their protocol in an improper way (vs reverse engineering it)?
Or is the more insidious than I am thinking, meaning that reverse engineering it will be now illegal because it is licensed?
Either way, Palladium's remote attestation scares me more when it comes to Samba...
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Yes, I know it can be bad. My only point is that it is not as bad a remote root exploits.
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Yes, I know it is bad. My only point is that it is not as bad a remote root exploits.
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I guess I'm not one to ignore certain vulnerabilities and glorify others simply because one comes from Windows.
Nor do I (and frankly I am not sure HOW you got that weird point of view from my comment).
I do however consider remote root vulnerabilities to be significantly more alarming than local privilege escalation.
Besides, Linux has had plenty--and has had many public break-ins in the past six months.
I would never imply otherwise.
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To do local privilege escalation you need to have a local user account no? Remote exploits let the whole world in.
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Besides, local privilege escalation exploits are up there as being just as bad in my book.
:)
I can't think of a nice way to say this...
Your book sucks.
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It's not that somebody is an asshole, it's that they have made a mistake. And with many people, it's likely that one of them will have made a mistake.
I know, my point was not that the mistake they made was forgetting their phone was set to ring, it was that they did not check to make sure and silence it when the presentator asked that everyone do that.
THAT is what makes them assholes. (imho)
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Could check, though, I suppose...
Yes, that is what the always ignored comment "please make sure your phones are silenced" is supposed to cause. My problem is assholes who think their phones are silenced but are not. CHECK!
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Someone walking down the street talking on a cell phone doesn't bother me, nor does someone sitting in a restaurant talking on a cell phone.
What REALLY bothers me is when I'm sitting in a presentation at a conference (or something like that) and they repeatedly ask that people turn off cell phones or set them to vibrate. Then, naturally, someone's phones has to ring half way through.
Now answer me this, what kind of fucked up individual sits there while someone clearly asks them to silence their phone and doesn't? What is the thought process? Is it "Well, everyone else is turning silencing their phones like they asked, but they couldn't have meant me" or is it more "I'm not going to silence my phone, I'll just assume that nobody will call me"? Or is it that these people somehow forgot that they HAVE a phone?
I've never understood this but it seems to happen every time. Almost as if making the announcement before a presentation to silence phones CAUSES one to ring eventually.
Oh, and the worst is when the phone is in some kind of bag or briefcase and the owner just ignores it like everyone around him doesn't know it is his and he doesn't want to give away that HE is the asshole. We all know it is your phone you goober, looking around like you are trying to figure out whos it is will not fool anyone so turn it off!
There, I feel better now.
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Why, was he a homophobe?
Because only a homophobe would ever be embarassed for accidently calling someone cute when they didn't intend to.
Troll
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Oh I agree, I was really just saying that the privacy threat exposed by Gmail storing your mail is no worse than how email works today.
How do you know that any of the numerious routes your mail goes through to get from point A to point B are not storing it as well?
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My point though (and it is "fink, btw :P ), is that if it is really that important, it would be worth either (1) teaching your Dad how to use PGP (it is really frighteningly easy in most email clients now) or (2) using a more secure method of communication.
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I'm picturing several species of small furry Intel engineers gathered together in a cave and grooving with AMD's design documents.
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So, what if they pull it off? What actually happens then?
I'm glad you asked, I have a three part plan for just this kind of event.
Step 1: I drink a toast to the people that pulled this off.
Step 2: I laugh at NASA and the Russian equivalent.
Step 3: My life remains mostly unaffected.
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Apple? Revolutionary? Cheap computers? What the...
History stretches back further 10 years, even regarding computers.
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Or encrypt your mail. If it is that important to keep private, stop writting it on the digital equivilant of a postcard.
Great, this fits on a minidisk and is updated twice a month. What a PERFECT use for CDRW minidisks. Except I cannot find them anywhere. Does anyone make such a beast? Is there some technical reason why all the minidisks I can find are all CDR?
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What is magic, if not simply something we do not (yet) understand?
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I've tried it, it is most accurately called "Gnome with a Sun Theme" That is ALL IT IS. They didn't even bother renaming any of the gnome things. Bluecurve did a better job of pretending it wasn't just repackaged Gnome than Java Desktop does...
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Until you try to walk out the front door after cashing out in the electronics or jewelry department so you wouldn't have to wait in the lines up front. Then they ask you if they can search your bags and see a receipt
As a college student living in a town with two walmarts within a few miles of my apartment, I did plenty of shopping there.
I nearly always just bought a few things so I nearly always cashed out at the electronics or sporting goods area. Not ONCE was I EVER stopped at the door and had my stuff checked. This might just be a issue at the wallmart in your area. (Or maybe my walmart is the odd one, but that would be strange in a college town to have that kind of permissiveness when other's don't)
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These are intelligent, wealthy people, and they did not get that way by filing groundless lawsuits.
Perhaps you are an attorney, but you must be new to the information technology IP industry.
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Kids/Teens
There should be a subcategory of "Porn" under each and every one of those.
Pete Townsend? Is that you?
Oh so Clinton never presided over a low unemployment rate, he just was president while a lot of people fell off the unemployment insurance dole and took crap jobs. My that IS a convenient explanation, I'll have to remember that.
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You think that's gonna sell in the real world? How many commercial packages can afford to ship broken?
Umm, have you USED commercial packages lately? They have bugs also, often just as much as open source software. And don't get me started on incompatibilities with other software (which seems to be your issue)
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So I can see then how this could be a problem, but isn't the burden of proof still on them to prove that you saw their protocol in an improper way (vs reverse engineering it)?
Or is the more insidious than I am thinking, meaning that reverse engineering it will be now illegal because it is licensed?
Either way, Palladium's remote attestation scares me more when it comes to Samba...
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Since when does Samba call windows APIs?
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