Everyone who complains about ATM fees needs to remember something. It costs a lot of money to purchase them, along with the Microsoft licenses necessary to run them. Add in the IT fees every time one of those suckers blue screens, add in the extra workload on the tellers while it's bluescreened, man, you can see it's a burden on the banks to run them. So, belly up and fork over a little more of that Microsoft tax, people. This is the good life, after all!
Key word "expensive". If people had both self discipline and intelligence, then we would have long ago sent signals to the telcos saying, "We kind of like this stuff you're offering, but we can't justify paying the outrageous prices you ask. Give us data plans like Europe has, at prices comparable to Europe, then we'll talk."
But, we in America are accustomed to instant gratification, and we are accustomed to accepting whatever the corporations offer.
Oh, did I say "brainwashed"? Sorry, that was off-target. As I understand it, a huge percentage of our internet traffic is nothing more than porn. Perhaps "conditioned" would be more apt than "brainwashed".
Dude, economics theory today is simply WRONG. And globalisation is just a gimmick for those at the top of the food chain to redistribute the wealth once again, taking the lion's share in the process.
Whatever. You're not going to believe me, because you've had all that "higher education", whereby the masses are indoctrinated to believe and accept whatever the leaders want them to believe. Bottom line is, China has remained at nearly feudal levels until recently, because they refused to adapt. Today, they are adapting, which is commendable. What is not so commendable, is the fact that corporate and political America are busy selling everything we have to China, and at the same time believing that they can exploit China's workforce.
Oh well - tell ya what. We'll all just hang around, and see how all the "intellectual property" nonsense works out. Our people seem to think it's our "ace in the hole" or some such nonsense. But, China respects no one's "intellectual property". At some point in the future, they will make that very clear, and they will leverage all their other economic power to make us agree that our software, our operating systems, our music, and everything else is free for the taking.
And, you know what? I agree with them on the IP thing. We are busy pissing away real wealth, following some moronic dream of growing rich on IP.
We deserve what is coming in another 75 to 250 years, unless we collectively pull our heads out of our asses.
A little isolationism wouldn't hurt us today. Or, self sufficiency. Look at the trade balance, and all the debt we are running up that our great-great-great grandchildren won't be able to pay off.
Annoying or not - if I can't have what I want on my own terms, I'll do without. I'm not about to pay the telcos the prices they demand for the crappy service they offer. My ultra-cheap prepaid telephone allows me to make an emergency phone call, and to get calls from work when I am on call, for $15/month. Why should I pay the telcos more? The service sucks, it's not worth the price, I'd be an idiot to hand them my hard earned dollars for such crap.
Ohhh, I know, the brainwashed masses believe that they can't live without that stupid cell phone, texting, photos, and all the rest. Forget that I said anything.
"that's secure against a brute-force attack... well, except the sort of brute force attack where a Navy SEAL team kicks down your door and shoots you in the face while your computer is running with the TrueCrypt volume mounted - then it's easy. Hooah!"
I see a beautiful quote there to put in a signature. Gotta shave it a little to fit anywhere - care to repeat yourself more concisely?
The question seems to be, "Should Wikileaks be complicit in the corruption, and be quiet, or should Wikileads expose the corruption, even though someone might be killed?"
Obviously our government didn't mind being complicit.
"Seriously, anybody over thirty could do this in their sleep, if they owned a computer in the late 80s or 90s."
Only if I printed out a reference card. I didn't MEMORIZE this stuff! Any programmer over thirty could probably do it in his sleep, but us regular people not so much.
"But the OS with the most security features IS windows."
By this logic, the largest military force would also be the best military force. Maybe you've missed some of the Hollywood movies, like 300, that attempt to depict the heroic efforts of small forces handing the asses of larger forces to the larger force, on a platter.
I don't want more security features, especially if those features cost a lot in terms of resources and performance. I want SAFETY, ie, efficient security. Besides - no security feature should count as such if it had to be implemented to address a security flaw in the operating system.
I think that you help to make GP's point. You can't have legacy and security together. If you want good legacy support, you get crap security. If you want good security, you sacrifice the legacy. Take your choice, but you can't have both.
I quote GP: "When people complain that Windows Vista/7 won't run this or that bit of legacy software, and that they want better security - they are trying to argue both ends of the problem. You can't have your cake and eat it."
:"Social engineering" is indeed a "hack". The malware creator somehow enticed the user into desiring to install the malware, and the user let down whatever defenses prevented the malware from installing. H B Gary Federal was "hacked" through social engineering, along with other methods. Mac, Linux, and even Unix can be hacked in the very same way. Ask the user for whatever you need to bypass his defenses, and if he responds favorably, you have "hacked" him.
Every hacking guide that I have ever seen includes social engineering as part of it's tool kit.
Every computer securiy guide that I have ever seen tries to make the user aware of social engineering, and tries to explain how to defend against it.
Let me ask - do you have ANY SOFTWARE AT ALL that did not come directly from Mac? Personally, I run Linux. Almost everything on my machine came from an official repository - but I have a few things from unofficial sources. So far, the social engineering resulting in those installations has had no bad effects. If/when I see bad effects from downloading software from SourceForge and other places, then I'll re-think some of my assumptions about safe sources.
No, you should be expected to: A: learn to read B: learn about time zones C: learn how to take multiple witness account and correlate them together D: understand that you're not the sharpest tool in the shed
Those tweets are not the only first hand witness accounts of the action taking place. Everything that I've read supports the US government version of events pretty closely. The differences only help to support the story. I mean, if everyone gave out the identical same version of events, I'd be very suspicious!!
But, the thing is, you can't understand that you FAILED. Black, white, liberal, conservative, gay, straight, male, female - the vast majority of each of those groups are well aware that you can tell when a politician is lying. If his lips are moving, he's lying. If his lips are not moving, he's hiding something. So, your troll failed, because the original post was denigrating Obama for being a politician, not for being black.
In short, you read into the post what you wanted/expected to hear, which means the psychological projection link was right for you.
"they won't provision ethernet on my residential account"
I've heard that before - maybe even here on/. Simple solution to that is, plug a router into Verizon's router. You have one single connection coming out of Verizon's modem/router, so the router is happy. Plug whatever the hell you want to plug into your own router. You're paying for a service, you not paying to be told how you may use that service.
Odd. I think that it's widely recognized that ATI has good proprietary drivers, for it's newer cards. But, when the card reaches an age "threshold" they drop support, and refuse to release the code for the open sourcer community to maintain support.
When I switched to Nvidia, is when I found that they actually do release code so that the open source people can MAINTAIN support for older cards.
So - if you have a modern, up to date ATI, you may get better support than I get - but when that machine reaches a couple years in age, you'll lose that support, and have to rely on the X driver - which may be decent, or not.
Version? I've already noted that I'm using two versions of Firefox, 3.6.18 and 6.0a. And, I've never seen two gig of memory in use, unless I combined the usage of both browsers.
I leave multiple instances and multiple versions of Firefox open for weeks - and I don't notice all this leakage that's being talked about. Firefox sometimes seems to USE a lot of memory - but when I notice that, I look to see how many windows and tabs I have open, and close some. Memory usage drops significantly when I do.
Firefox isn't perfect, but it isn't the piece of shit that some here seem to think.
Memory is getting relatively cheaper and cheaper. We demand that our OS as well as our browser do more and more. Sandboxing, preloading sites, javascript tasks, Flash and Java, along with music and movie playback in various encodings.
Today, if I were selling machines, I would be ashamed to sell a machine with less than 4 gig of memory installed. I tell everyone to load their board with all the memory it will hold - typically, 4 sticks of 2 GB. It won't be wasted. People who have invested in boards that support more than 8 gig are almost certainly going to load those boards to the max, as well - because they have a use for the board and the memory.
It isn't just "throwing money" at a problem. It's a matter of realism.
The most memory I've ever seen my Firefox using was just over 1.5 gig. I closed about 30 tabs, and the memory dropped to about.5 gig. So - you might blame yourself for having so many windows and tabs open?
I haven't really kept up, so I don't know exactly what the various channels are supposed to be. But, I know that I have the nightly channel enabled in Synaptic, and that my Nightly reports itself to be 6.0a1 My Namoroka, on the other hand, reports itself to be 3.6.18pre I might get interested enough to figure out where versions 4 and 5 are. Then again - maybe not.
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Everyone who complains about ATM fees needs to remember something. It costs a lot of money to purchase them, along with the Microsoft licenses necessary to run them. Add in the IT fees every time one of those suckers blue screens, add in the extra workload on the tellers while it's bluescreened, man, you can see it's a burden on the banks to run them. So, belly up and fork over a little more of that Microsoft tax, people. This is the good life, after all!
Key word "expensive". If people had both self discipline and intelligence, then we would have long ago sent signals to the telcos saying, "We kind of like this stuff you're offering, but we can't justify paying the outrageous prices you ask. Give us data plans like Europe has, at prices comparable to Europe, then we'll talk."
But, we in America are accustomed to instant gratification, and we are accustomed to accepting whatever the corporations offer.
Oh, did I say "brainwashed"? Sorry, that was off-target. As I understand it, a huge percentage of our internet traffic is nothing more than porn. Perhaps "conditioned" would be more apt than "brainwashed".
Dude, economics theory today is simply WRONG. And globalisation is just a gimmick for those at the top of the food chain to redistribute the wealth once again, taking the lion's share in the process.
Whatever. You're not going to believe me, because you've had all that "higher education", whereby the masses are indoctrinated to believe and accept whatever the leaders want them to believe. Bottom line is, China has remained at nearly feudal levels until recently, because they refused to adapt. Today, they are adapting, which is commendable. What is not so commendable, is the fact that corporate and political America are busy selling everything we have to China, and at the same time believing that they can exploit China's workforce.
Oh well - tell ya what. We'll all just hang around, and see how all the "intellectual property" nonsense works out. Our people seem to think it's our "ace in the hole" or some such nonsense. But, China respects no one's "intellectual property". At some point in the future, they will make that very clear, and they will leverage all their other economic power to make us agree that our software, our operating systems, our music, and everything else is free for the taking.
And, you know what? I agree with them on the IP thing. We are busy pissing away real wealth, following some moronic dream of growing rich on IP.
We deserve what is coming in another 75 to 250 years, unless we collectively pull our heads out of our asses.
A little isolationism wouldn't hurt us today. Or, self sufficiency. Look at the trade balance, and all the debt we are running up that our great-great-great grandchildren won't be able to pay off.
Dude, we're doing something very, very WRONG!!!
Annoying or not - if I can't have what I want on my own terms, I'll do without. I'm not about to pay the telcos the prices they demand for the crappy service they offer. My ultra-cheap prepaid telephone allows me to make an emergency phone call, and to get calls from work when I am on call, for $15/month. Why should I pay the telcos more? The service sucks, it's not worth the price, I'd be an idiot to hand them my hard earned dollars for such crap.
So - stop paying. Drop the freaking service.
Ohhh, I know, the brainwashed masses believe that they can't live without that stupid cell phone, texting, photos, and all the rest. Forget that I said anything.
"that's secure against a brute-force attack ... well, except the sort of brute force attack where a Navy SEAL team kicks down your door and shoots you in the face while your computer is running with the TrueCrypt volume mounted - then it's easy. Hooah!"
I see a beautiful quote there to put in a signature. Gotta shave it a little to fit anywhere - care to repeat yourself more concisely?
Superb link. But, the bloodthirsty will ignore it, or argue it, or try to discredit anyone who contributes to spreading the word.
Ahhh, go ahead and quote. We don't hear enough of Benjamin these days. Seems the old bastard is politically incorrect, of some such thing.
The question seems to be, "Should Wikileaks be complicit in the corruption, and be quiet, or should Wikileads expose the corruption, even though someone might be killed?"
Obviously our government didn't mind being complicit.
"Seriously, anybody over thirty could do this in their sleep, if they owned a computer in the late 80s or 90s."
Only if I printed out a reference card. I didn't MEMORIZE this stuff! Any programmer over thirty could probably do it in his sleep, but us regular people not so much.
"But the OS with the most security features IS windows."
By this logic, the largest military force would also be the best military force. Maybe you've missed some of the Hollywood movies, like 300, that attempt to depict the heroic efforts of small forces handing the asses of larger forces to the larger force, on a platter.
I don't want more security features, especially if those features cost a lot in terms of resources and performance. I want SAFETY, ie, efficient security. Besides - no security feature should count as such if it had to be implemented to address a security flaw in the operating system.
I think that you help to make GP's point. You can't have legacy and security together. If you want good legacy support, you get crap security. If you want good security, you sacrifice the legacy. Take your choice, but you can't have both.
I quote GP: "When people complain that Windows Vista/7 won't run this or that bit of legacy software, and that they want better security - they are trying to argue both ends of the problem. You can't have your cake and eat it."
:"Social engineering" is indeed a "hack". The malware creator somehow enticed the user into desiring to install the malware, and the user let down whatever defenses prevented the malware from installing. H B Gary Federal was "hacked" through social engineering, along with other methods. Mac, Linux, and even Unix can be hacked in the very same way. Ask the user for whatever you need to bypass his defenses, and if he responds favorably, you have "hacked" him.
Every hacking guide that I have ever seen includes social engineering as part of it's tool kit.
Every computer securiy guide that I have ever seen tries to make the user aware of social engineering, and tries to explain how to defend against it.
Let me ask - do you have ANY SOFTWARE AT ALL that did not come directly from Mac? Personally, I run Linux. Almost everything on my machine came from an official repository - but I have a few things from unofficial sources. So far, the social engineering resulting in those installations has had no bad effects. If/when I see bad effects from downloading software from SourceForge and other places, then I'll re-think some of my assumptions about safe sources.
No, you should be expected to:
A: learn to read
B: learn about time zones
C: learn how to take multiple witness account and correlate them together
D: understand that you're not the sharpest tool in the shed
Those tweets are not the only first hand witness accounts of the action taking place. Everything that I've read supports the US government version of events pretty closely. The differences only help to support the story. I mean, if everyone gave out the identical same version of events, I'd be very suspicious!!
"I did troll you for your thinly veiled racism"
But, the thing is, you can't understand that you FAILED. Black, white, liberal, conservative, gay, straight, male, female - the vast majority of each of those groups are well aware that you can tell when a politician is lying. If his lips are moving, he's lying. If his lips are not moving, he's hiding something. So, your troll failed, because the original post was denigrating Obama for being a politician, not for being black.
In short, you read into the post what you wanted/expected to hear, which means the psychological projection link was right for you.
"they won't provision ethernet on my residential account"
I've heard that before - maybe even here on /. Simple solution to that is, plug a router into Verizon's router. You have one single connection coming out of Verizon's modem/router, so the router is happy. Plug whatever the hell you want to plug into your own router. You're paying for a service, you not paying to be told how you may use that service.
Or, route all your traffic through one machine, and keep track on that one machine. That's part of what Internet Connection Sharing is for.
Odd. I think that it's widely recognized that ATI has good proprietary drivers, for it's newer cards. But, when the card reaches an age "threshold" they drop support, and refuse to release the code for the open sourcer community to maintain support.
When I switched to Nvidia, is when I found that they actually do release code so that the open source people can MAINTAIN support for older cards.
So - if you have a modern, up to date ATI, you may get better support than I get - but when that machine reaches a couple years in age, you'll lose that support, and have to rely on the X driver - which may be decent, or not.
Version? I've already noted that I'm using two versions of Firefox, 3.6.18 and 6.0a. And, I've never seen two gig of memory in use, unless I combined the usage of both browsers.
I leave multiple instances and multiple versions of Firefox open for weeks - and I don't notice all this leakage that's being talked about. Firefox sometimes seems to USE a lot of memory - but when I notice that, I look to see how many windows and tabs I have open, and close some. Memory usage drops significantly when I do.
Firefox isn't perfect, but it isn't the piece of shit that some here seem to think.
I'll add to what RobbieThe 1st said.
Memory is getting relatively cheaper and cheaper. We demand that our OS as well as our browser do more and more. Sandboxing, preloading sites, javascript tasks, Flash and Java, along with music and movie playback in various encodings.
Today, if I were selling machines, I would be ashamed to sell a machine with less than 4 gig of memory installed. I tell everyone to load their board with all the memory it will hold - typically, 4 sticks of 2 GB. It won't be wasted. People who have invested in boards that support more than 8 gig are almost certainly going to load those boards to the max, as well - because they have a use for the board and the memory.
It isn't just "throwing money" at a problem. It's a matter of realism.
The most memory I've ever seen my Firefox using was just over 1.5 gig. I closed about 30 tabs, and the memory dropped to about .5 gig. So - you might blame yourself for having so many windows and tabs open?
I haven't really kept up, so I don't know exactly what the various channels are supposed to be. But, I know that I have the nightly channel enabled in Synaptic, and that my Nightly reports itself to be 6.0a1 My Namoroka, on the other hand, reports itself to be 3.6.18pre I might get interested enough to figure out where versions 4 and 5 are. Then again - maybe not.
"start acting reasonably" equates to "agree with me", correct?