Poor baby. Sucks to be you, huh? Not once in your life, has a (actually, more than ten in my lifetime) woman grabbed you in a bar, and told you, "You're going home with me tonight!" Nor, have you ever experienced a (different) woman dragging you to the bedroom, saying "Gotta make hay while the sun shines", totally ignoring your protests that you need a shower. You can't find a woman who DEMANDS to have your baby? Damn. Sometimes I think life sucks but it would REALLY suck to be you! Everyone has their highs and lows - except you. All you know, is lows!!
I could recommend that you go see a shrink - but the shrink won't get you laid or anything. All he can do is make you feel better about not getting laid.
Well, you go a long way toward distancing yourself from the assorted bungholes. First, you actually work for a living, doing things that people value enough to pay for. Second, you point out that your work in films is both fun, and rewarding, in other ways than simply financial.
So, you seem to have a pretty good idea of your true worth. Valuable? Yes. Worth billions? No.
The question poses itself here: How do you feel if/when you find that some cretin downloaded your film and watched it FOR FREE?!?!? Do you feel like he deserves to die, or do you just get over it?
But, most neanderthals can't even spell git, or SHA-1. There's no need to relieve their worries - just let them fret. That's the most exercise - mental or otherwise - that many of them will ever get.
This intrusion could be a good thing, all things considered. Maybe it will scare the morons away from using Unix-like kernels, and send them mewling back into the arms of Microsoft. It would be nice to see the "Year of the Linux Desktop", but face it. For that to happen, we'll have to welcome millions of idiots into the Linux world! *shudder*
"desensitized to piracy" Interesting concept. I presume that there are actually a few people who are sensitized to piracy? Who could that possibly be?
Oh! Silly me! That would be the authors, directors, actors, and assorted bungholes who depend on the industry for a living, because they mostly can't do honest work. All of those people who believe that they are valuable. Or, at least they believe that they are far more valuable than reality says they are.
Of course, there are a lot of treatments for various sensitivities nowadays. Maybe they should just visit their analysts?
Well - those Windows machines loaded with malware occupy one end of a spectrum, while the Apple Walled Garden is at the other end of the same spectrum. Us Linux folk have a nice garden, and we can easily run systems within the garden - or we can venture out of the garden and take our chances.
Take your pick of distros - Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, Redhat, it doesn't matter. Everything that most people ever really need is available right there, in the official repositories. Even the potentially illegal codecs are available in an (wink) unofficial (wink) unsupported (wink) repository. There's no need to go outside the walled garden. Unless, of course, you are adventurous, or you are some kind of professional who needs something not available in the garden.
So, here we are at or near the middle of that spectrum - and we like it.
Ideally, in a perfectly utopian world, you wouldn't need backups. You purchase the music, software, movie, or whatever one time, and it goes into your account somewhere on a secure server. Forever afterward, you can access the content you paid for. The move wouldn't even have to be stored on that server, only your "token" that licenses you to use the content.
Part of my rationale for downloading music "illegally", is that I've paid for that music, several times over in some cases. It's not MY FAULT that the media has worn out. I paid for music, not vinyl, not tape, not even some optical format. Pay once, listen forever should be a standard in the entertainment and sofware world.
I refuse most redirects. Unless and until I examine them, redirects are pretty much dead-ends. I've not yet found such an addon for Chromium, but Firefox has had it for a long time now. Call me paranoid, but I really don't like content being downloaded to my machine from places that I've never heard of. I want all my content to come from the server on which I landed when I clicked the link. Cross site scripting is also blocked on my machine. FFS, do you have any idea what those two vectors are capable of causing? People with a clue should block all that nonsense, as part of their layered defense against malware and other exploits.
And, I thought those racists in La Raza coined that phrase themselves. "For the Race, everything. Outside the Race, nothing."
Of course, it's not politically correct to mention that La Raza are a bunch of racist criminals. It's only correct to mention racism in reference to white people.
You send computer homework home with the kids? That seems counter intuitive. In my part of the world, there are homes that don't HAVE computers! Kids are sent to school, expecting that whatever computer education they get can all be done at school!
Those people who do have computers in their homes, generally lock them down, if they are smart. Kids do the darndest things - at least that was the name of a television show when I was growing up. I have repaired a number of home computers that kids (and sometimes idiot dads with a taste for porn, but no common sense) had really screwed up. Then, I have proceeded to A: start locking those computers down and B: show Mom and/or Dad how to lock it down.
As for anything that requires bandwidth, the school blows everyone in the area away. The high school has at least triple the bandwidth of all the rest of the town, combined!
I think that if teachers sent computer homework home around here, the teacher might be lynched!
If we haven't wiped ourselves out by the year 10,000, there will still be people using passwords like that. Even the equivalent to today's "security experts" will be caught now and then with idiotic passwords.
We claim to be intelligent, but sometimes the evidence makes that lie.
I give a fuck. I'm not a teeny bopper, but I have my idiot sons, my dingaling wife and her dingaling sisters, a myriad of lackwit coworkers, some oddball friends and associates, and some freaky neighbors who are all pretty clueless about online privacy. None of them listen to me, but one day, when a whole bunch of them start saying, "How did blah-blah learn all this crap about me?" I can say, "I told you so!"
Much of what happens to privacy online is unconscionable. Sending an email, or a message to a personal friend should NOT expose you to targeted advertising, or to scrutiny by ICE, or subject you to an interrogation by your employer. It's time that we developed some ethics regarding online privacy, and it's time the government began to enforce some of those ethics. Taking Rupert Murdoch down is a rather feeble start - but it's a start.
Censorship is almost never a "good thing", and it's just so easy for it to become a "bad thing". To have your school hovering over you, watching all your emails, your homework, everything you do seems preposterous to me.
I know, it's Sunday, traffic is low, and Google has more servers than anyone. But, I'm watching "Anonymous user xxxx has opened this document" pop up, repeatedly. And, I'm just wondering if we could ever slashdot Google to death. It would be fun to try!
I hate to say it - but, yes, you're naive. You must have missed the government bailout of my nation's largest banking corporations. Despite the fact that our largest banks were on the brink of bankruptcy and disaster, those same banks took bailouts in one hand, and paid their executives exorbitant bonuses with the other hand. There have been numerous news stories in the past decade, of executives being sacked, or even convicted, but still demanding (and getting) lucrative bonuses and/or severance packages. I have no idea how the rest of the world handles these things, but here in America, if you are one of the "Good Old Boys", you can't lose. Drive a good company into the dirt, and walk away with awesome bonuses.
I agree one thousand percent! All bonuses should be tied to the corporate welfare. If the corporation goes bankrupt, then all the execs should be on the streets looking for handouts. If the corporation does well, then execs should get a bonus. If the corporation does exceedingly well, then execs might get a really good bonus.
Oh, wait now - let's not take our tinfoil hats off to quickly! You don't think that Canonical took a bribe from the US government to use Microsoft libraries on their machine do you? Hey, they might be disguised with a new name or something!
Thanks for your post though - when I read GP post, I was sort of scratching my head. "Didn't I read Ubuntu in the summary?" My brain works slow when I wake up, but it does work, LOL
Most assuredly, there is a balance. It's been said many times, that if you're really concerned about security, you won't ever connect your machine to the internet.
But, when people are connected, they should be AWARE that they are in an insecure environment. Sounds like these security contractors failed to educate their employees, not to mention that they failed to properly secure their networks. Reading an email from Joe Random Stranger is certainly not in any security protocols that I have ever heard of! Opening an attachment in that email? DUHHH!
Correct. Long ago, when the world and I were both younger, the "formula" was, one drink for every 75 pounds of body weight kept you legally sober. And, you lost 1 drink per hour through metabolism. Meaning, a guy around 200 pounds could tip three drinks down, then maintain a low keyed buzz all night long, then drive home. Today? Crap, drinking one or two is enough to qualify as "drunk". If you're a commercial driver, sniffing a beer bottle cap can make you legally "drunk".
Of course, that is what happens when people start complaining, "There should be a law!" A law gets passed - sometimes even a good law. But the lawmakers can't let it rest, especially when they see that there might be revenues involved! That "good law" is raped, raked, filleted, then stir fried to see just how much money can be squeezed from it.
Actually - I have to give MS a grudging "attaboy" for MS Security Essentials. I tested, and retested it a few times. It's pretty fast, pretty effective, light on resources, updated regularly - it's very nearly what McAfee, Symantec, and the others wish they could be! Given an administrator, and users, who actually READ those warnings from the OS and from their ant-malware app, MSE can be very effective.
Of course, as long as users just dismiss warnings, nothing can effectively secure their machines.
Ditto. Way back, in the Win98 days, McAfee actually destroyed an installation of Windows. So, I swore off of McAfee. OnTrack seemed a likely candidate - but they sold out to someone. I flirted with Symantec for awhile, primarily because Norton's name was associated with them. Finally got tired of that stupidity. I branched out to some lesser knowns - Comodo, Tiny, and others. Tiny was actually pretty damned good - but complicated.
Ultimately, I gave up on all of them. Now, I'm a distro hopper. I just download a new version of Linux every week, and try it out. Not only is there no need for a "security solution" on Linux - but there is certainly no need for such a solution if you're just going to nuke from orbit every week or so!
Writing, sure, but you could have the BIOS refuse to boot any MBR not signed by its password/key.
Why bother? If the MBR is infected you can fix it and eventually unwind the damage. If you refuse to boot from the MBR you lock yourself out of the system until you find a copy of Knopix.
Why does it have to be Knopix? And - doesn't EVERYONE have a copy lying around? Crap - my workstation has at least 30 *nix OS installation and/or LiveCD's lying around it. Some of them even mount NT drives by default!
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Poor baby. Sucks to be you, huh? Not once in your life, has a (actually, more than ten in my lifetime) woman grabbed you in a bar, and told you, "You're going home with me tonight!" Nor, have you ever experienced a (different) woman dragging you to the bedroom, saying "Gotta make hay while the sun shines", totally ignoring your protests that you need a shower. You can't find a woman who DEMANDS to have your baby? Damn. Sometimes I think life sucks but it would REALLY suck to be you! Everyone has their highs and lows - except you. All you know, is lows!!
I could recommend that you go see a shrink - but the shrink won't get you laid or anything. All he can do is make you feel better about not getting laid.
Well, you go a long way toward distancing yourself from the assorted bungholes. First, you actually work for a living, doing things that people value enough to pay for. Second, you point out that your work in films is both fun, and rewarding, in other ways than simply financial.
So, you seem to have a pretty good idea of your true worth. Valuable? Yes. Worth billions? No.
The question poses itself here: How do you feel if/when you find that some cretin downloaded your film and watched it FOR FREE?!?!? Do you feel like he deserves to die, or do you just get over it?
May I point out that you can't be 100% certain that ANY food is "safe" to eat? Unless, of course, you actually grow and process all of your own food.
But, most neanderthals can't even spell git, or SHA-1. There's no need to relieve their worries - just let them fret. That's the most exercise - mental or otherwise - that many of them will ever get.
This intrusion could be a good thing, all things considered. Maybe it will scare the morons away from using Unix-like kernels, and send them mewling back into the arms of Microsoft. It would be nice to see the "Year of the Linux Desktop", but face it. For that to happen, we'll have to welcome millions of idiots into the Linux world! *shudder*
"desensitized to piracy" Interesting concept. I presume that there are actually a few people who are sensitized to piracy? Who could that possibly be?
Oh! Silly me! That would be the authors, directors, actors, and assorted bungholes who depend on the industry for a living, because they mostly can't do honest work. All of those people who believe that they are valuable. Or, at least they believe that they are far more valuable than reality says they are.
Of course, there are a lot of treatments for various sensitivities nowadays. Maybe they should just visit their analysts?
Well - those Windows machines loaded with malware occupy one end of a spectrum, while the Apple Walled Garden is at the other end of the same spectrum. Us Linux folk have a nice garden, and we can easily run systems within the garden - or we can venture out of the garden and take our chances.
Take your pick of distros - Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, Redhat, it doesn't matter. Everything that most people ever really need is available right there, in the official repositories. Even the potentially illegal codecs are available in an (wink) unofficial (wink) unsupported (wink) repository. There's no need to go outside the walled garden. Unless, of course, you are adventurous, or you are some kind of professional who needs something not available in the garden.
So, here we are at or near the middle of that spectrum - and we like it.
Ideally, in a perfectly utopian world, you wouldn't need backups. You purchase the music, software, movie, or whatever one time, and it goes into your account somewhere on a secure server. Forever afterward, you can access the content you paid for. The move wouldn't even have to be stored on that server, only your "token" that licenses you to use the content.
Part of my rationale for downloading music "illegally", is that I've paid for that music, several times over in some cases. It's not MY FAULT that the media has worn out. I paid for music, not vinyl, not tape, not even some optical format. Pay once, listen forever should be a standard in the entertainment and sofware world.
I refuse most redirects. Unless and until I examine them, redirects are pretty much dead-ends. I've not yet found such an addon for Chromium, but Firefox has had it for a long time now. Call me paranoid, but I really don't like content being downloaded to my machine from places that I've never heard of. I want all my content to come from the server on which I landed when I clicked the link. Cross site scripting is also blocked on my machine. FFS, do you have any idea what those two vectors are capable of causing? People with a clue should block all that nonsense, as part of their layered defense against malware and other exploits.
And, I thought those racists in La Raza coined that phrase themselves. "For the Race, everything. Outside the Race, nothing."
Of course, it's not politically correct to mention that La Raza are a bunch of racist criminals. It's only correct to mention racism in reference to white people.
THAT ISN'T ALWAYS TRUE!! You better take it back! Do your research, and you'll find that your statement is only true about 93.56% of the time. /sarcasm
You send computer homework home with the kids? That seems counter intuitive. In my part of the world, there are homes that don't HAVE computers! Kids are sent to school, expecting that whatever computer education they get can all be done at school!
Those people who do have computers in their homes, generally lock them down, if they are smart. Kids do the darndest things - at least that was the name of a television show when I was growing up. I have repaired a number of home computers that kids (and sometimes idiot dads with a taste for porn, but no common sense) had really screwed up. Then, I have proceeded to A: start locking those computers down and B: show Mom and/or Dad how to lock it down.
As for anything that requires bandwidth, the school blows everyone in the area away. The high school has at least triple the bandwidth of all the rest of the town, combined!
I think that if teachers sent computer homework home around here, the teacher might be lynched!
If we haven't wiped ourselves out by the year 10,000, there will still be people using passwords like that. Even the equivalent to today's "security experts" will be caught now and then with idiotic passwords.
We claim to be intelligent, but sometimes the evidence makes that lie.
I give a fuck. I'm not a teeny bopper, but I have my idiot sons, my dingaling wife and her dingaling sisters, a myriad of lackwit coworkers, some oddball friends and associates, and some freaky neighbors who are all pretty clueless about online privacy. None of them listen to me, but one day, when a whole bunch of them start saying, "How did blah-blah learn all this crap about me?" I can say, "I told you so!"
Much of what happens to privacy online is unconscionable. Sending an email, or a message to a personal friend should NOT expose you to targeted advertising, or to scrutiny by ICE, or subject you to an interrogation by your employer. It's time that we developed some ethics regarding online privacy, and it's time the government began to enforce some of those ethics. Taking Rupert Murdoch down is a rather feeble start - but it's a start.
I would phrase that a little differently.
"If in doubt, don't censor."
Censorship is almost never a "good thing", and it's just so easy for it to become a "bad thing". To have your school hovering over you, watching all your emails, your homework, everything you do seems preposterous to me.
I know, it's Sunday, traffic is low, and Google has more servers than anyone. But, I'm watching "Anonymous user xxxx has opened this document" pop up, repeatedly. And, I'm just wondering if we could ever slashdot Google to death. It would be fun to try!
I hate to say it - but, yes, you're naive. You must have missed the government bailout of my nation's largest banking corporations. Despite the fact that our largest banks were on the brink of bankruptcy and disaster, those same banks took bailouts in one hand, and paid their executives exorbitant bonuses with the other hand. There have been numerous news stories in the past decade, of executives being sacked, or even convicted, but still demanding (and getting) lucrative bonuses and/or severance packages. I have no idea how the rest of the world handles these things, but here in America, if you are one of the "Good Old Boys", you can't lose. Drive a good company into the dirt, and walk away with awesome bonuses.
I agree one thousand percent! All bonuses should be tied to the corporate welfare. If the corporation goes bankrupt, then all the execs should be on the streets looking for handouts. If the corporation does well, then execs should get a bonus. If the corporation does exceedingly well, then execs might get a really good bonus.
Anything else is insanity.
"how much you want to keep the data compared to how much you want to keep it secret."
Exactly. When the data becomes a liability, then you wipe it.
Oh, wait now - let's not take our tinfoil hats off to quickly! You don't think that Canonical took a bribe from the US government to use Microsoft libraries on their machine do you? Hey, they might be disguised with a new name or something!
Thanks for your post though - when I read GP post, I was sort of scratching my head. "Didn't I read Ubuntu in the summary?" My brain works slow when I wake up, but it does work, LOL
Most assuredly, there is a balance. It's been said many times, that if you're really concerned about security, you won't ever connect your machine to the internet.
But, when people are connected, they should be AWARE that they are in an insecure environment. Sounds like these security contractors failed to educate their employees, not to mention that they failed to properly secure their networks. Reading an email from Joe Random Stranger is certainly not in any security protocols that I have ever heard of! Opening an attachment in that email? DUHHH!
Not a GPL zealot - but the GPL depends on copyright. It does NOT depend on the mutated abortion that we call "copyright law" today.
Correct. Long ago, when the world and I were both younger, the "formula" was, one drink for every 75 pounds of body weight kept you legally sober. And, you lost 1 drink per hour through metabolism. Meaning, a guy around 200 pounds could tip three drinks down, then maintain a low keyed buzz all night long, then drive home. Today? Crap, drinking one or two is enough to qualify as "drunk". If you're a commercial driver, sniffing a beer bottle cap can make you legally "drunk".
Of course, that is what happens when people start complaining, "There should be a law!" A law gets passed - sometimes even a good law. But the lawmakers can't let it rest, especially when they see that there might be revenues involved! That "good law" is raped, raked, filleted, then stir fried to see just how much money can be squeezed from it.
Actually - I have to give MS a grudging "attaboy" for MS Security Essentials. I tested, and retested it a few times. It's pretty fast, pretty effective, light on resources, updated regularly - it's very nearly what McAfee, Symantec, and the others wish they could be! Given an administrator, and users, who actually READ those warnings from the OS and from their ant-malware app, MSE can be very effective.
Of course, as long as users just dismiss warnings, nothing can effectively secure their machines.
Ditto. Way back, in the Win98 days, McAfee actually destroyed an installation of Windows. So, I swore off of McAfee. OnTrack seemed a likely candidate - but they sold out to someone. I flirted with Symantec for awhile, primarily because Norton's name was associated with them. Finally got tired of that stupidity. I branched out to some lesser knowns - Comodo, Tiny, and others. Tiny was actually pretty damned good - but complicated.
Ultimately, I gave up on all of them. Now, I'm a distro hopper. I just download a new version of Linux every week, and try it out. Not only is there no need for a "security solution" on Linux - but there is certainly no need for such a solution if you're just going to nuke from orbit every week or so!
"Set us up the bomb!"
Writing, sure, but you could have the BIOS refuse to boot any MBR not signed by its password/key.
Why bother? If the MBR is infected you can fix it and eventually unwind the damage. If you refuse to boot from the MBR you lock yourself out of the system until you find a copy of Knopix.
Why does it have to be Knopix? And - doesn't EVERYONE have a copy lying around? Crap - my workstation has at least 30 *nix OS installation and/or LiveCD's lying around it. Some of them even mount NT drives by default!