My desktop is 16.04 (well, whatever the Mint equiv is), but my two servers are still 14.04 and I have no plans to upgrade them. If I replace the hardware I may end up with systemd, but I am trying to avoid it for server as long as possible. For my desktop I care a lot less and it is becoming more difficult to get a newer linux desktop without it. I do not run server type services on my desktop machine, so my interaction with systemd is virtually none. I do have to use linux machines at work that run systemd though, so I am becoming somewhat familiar with it. Every time I need to run journalctl I want to scream.
Where I live this is mostly a non-issue, the side roads are intentionally made so you cannot do this, believe me I have tried. There is no shortcut, the roads end for no reason or take a big curvy path with lots of stop signs. The one place I am aware of that people were using for a shortcut they just blocked the road mid-way through and made you go around a big block that made it not worth it. At first I thought the roads were just asinine,but the longer I live here the more beauty I see in it and the more I am annoyed during construction season.
Perception is everything. Why in the world would anyone really fix/solve problems when they don't have to? Don't blame the institution, blame the sheep that let them. Until people truly care about this sort of thing, nothing will change. Posting comments here will not fix that. Until you understand this, fix the system you will not.
What the makers of laws intend, and what actually result from the laws as written, rarely overlap.
I'm not so sure this is true. What lawmakers say they are passing it for, and the reality of the special interests they are helping are usually different. While this may be ignorance on the part of the lawmakers, if they have lobbiests demanding things, the lawmakers should know the issues are not what they seem. I assume even when these laws were passed, the taxi owners were trying to prevent others from competing using safety as the premise. Politics has been and always will be dirty so long as money is permitted to run through it.
Explain to me where it says it has to be illegal to be bribery. Yes, it does have a definition, and yes, you do not understand it.
A campain contribution is a bribe by the dictionary definition. We have voted in people who made the legal definition different from the dictionary definition.
Seriously, talk to a lawyer. I am not at all versed in various IP/employment laws and I assume you are not either. I have no idea what can go wrong, but you need to know these things. Have that lawyer read anything you are going to sign. You do not want to sign away your rights accidentally. Once you know the finer details of the relevant case law, you can decide how you want to approach it. If you are an employee and you do not want to share your patents and your employer uses them anyway, what happens then? Are you going to sue your employer? Corporations are soulless entities that will suck whatever life/power out of you that you let them. Work on the assumption they are out to screw you and prepare appropriately.
Sales and Marketing departments use tactics I loathe, but are generally very effective. Scaring non-technical people is easy as they see the world differently than we do and tend not to effectively use logic when making decisions. When it comes to sales, anything that can be used against you will be (assuming your competition is competent). Sales isn’t omniscient and many times they misjudge situations, but in this particular case, you should listen to them. Remember, the public doesn’t typically respond to logical arguments unless all actors are using logic in their reasoning. The problem here is that you are trying to present a logical argument. Your competition will not. While I agree that the Sales department could attempt this argument, if they do not believe in it, I do not think it will succeed. I do not view it as laziness, the developer here is making their job more difficult. You want the Sales team to have an easier job so they make more sales.
How do you know they are not using it? They did something to strong arm NZ into raiding Mega. It is entirely possible they use this all the time. Need new copyright laws to appear in a country? Blackmail on the ready. There are many things the US successfully convinces other countries to do. Why outright overthrow a government when you can subvert it slowly and methodically?
Typically you want a nuke at altitude for maximum damage. Setting it off on a boat would not have near the radius. Not only do you get good downward force and range from above, the EMP would do damage to a larger area as well. One would hope you couldn't get close enough with no transponder, hopefully we don't find out. Personally, I would consider it a waste to use one at sea level.
At this point, I wouldn't do anything. If this security vulnerability becomes public from an anonymous source, the vendor will blame you. That is the issue with disclosing it to the vendor, once you have done so, your choices are bend to their will if they won't play ball, or ruin the relationship. I would recommend working towards getting rid of the vendor, as they are leaving your system insecure and not willing to fix the issue. Until that point, suck it up.
Personally, I prefer it if the boss gets the food then goes away. It is one less distraction. The only exception to this is if my boss can actually help solve the problem or I need someone to bounce ideas off of. Otherwise get the hell out of my way, sitting in an office surfing the web doesn't help anyone solve the problem. I'd rather have my boss get rest so he can fight off the shitstorm better the next day.
Pretty much never. As long as there is money to be made throwing patents through the system and politicians to bribe, it will never happen. The general public is too stupid to care.
I work with a system like this, and you can pretty much guarantee that when something like the flu goes around, you are probably going to get it cause everyone comes into work anyway. Our management says not to come in sick, but I have yet to see them send someone home for it. It is almost counter productive cause you get people coming in and basically accomplishing nothing all day. I've witnessed the opposite abuses though, so I understand both sides. I've seen people call in sick when they were not just to use sick time. I would imagine that happens frequently in countries that mandate sick leave.
I use OpenDNS through comcast, and I still see the OpenDNS error pages and the like, I'm pretty sure it is going through. Perhaps they are looking for failure returns and hijacking those?
Traditionally, the word racket to describe a business is based on the example of the "protection racket" and indicates that the speaker believes that the business is making money by selling a solution to a problem that it created (or that it intentionally allows to continue to exist), specifically so that continuous purchases of the solution are always needed. Example: in a protection racket, a representative from the racket informs a storeowner that a fee of X dollars will be required every month for protection money, though the "protection" that is provided comes in the form of the racket itself not causing damage to the store or its employees.
Google created the problem of a trademark search resulting in a competitors link being presented first unless you pay. To me that would qualify as "a racket". If running a racket is not evil, where do I sign up?
I'm pretty sure if governments put their collective minds to it, they could win. Complacency leads to defeat. There are enough ignorant sheepish humans out there to go along with whatever a government wants to do. Don't be surprised when censorship comes and most people do not give a shit.
It would be interesting to see what the Flash Player penetration is like with this demographic - especially considering I sometimes see Flash banner ads on Slashdot.
You don't use firefox with noscript/flashblock? I don't see shit. Pulling numbers out of my ass like adobe did, I would say over 50% of people reading this have some form of adblock in place. Their statistic is as real as mine, granted they might have some data they twisted to get that number, I have my gut feel!
Sadly he is correct about IE being better than netscape at one point in time. Netscape after being bought by AOL went down the tubes and IE was one of the best that was available for Windows in my opinion. Unfortunately there are still a few sites that do not work in firefox for me and I have to suffer through IE, but other than that I never use it anymore.
Vista for some uses (users) is better than Ubuntu. There are games that do not run on Ubuntu, I cannot easily update my blackberry (without hacks anyway) on Ubuntu. I still have to dual boot my laptop for a few things. It doesn't mean that Vista is a superior operating system, it just means for somethings/people it is better. If I get marked troll so be it.
Hopefully not, I don't. Disagree strongly != hate.
MS doing this is them trying to ensure that Firefox will work with their web apps (or, web apps built with their technology).
Great, if I wanted it I would seek it out, download it and install it. I think most people that go with firefox understand that some MS technologies don't quite work with it in all cases. Genuine windows crap comes to mind.
Now, granted that they are taking liberties they should not.
Many people use firefox to get away from Microsoft. Understand that what MS is doing here is blasphemy to many. Actions like this reinforce the "MS is evil" notion. If a firefox update installed something into IE without asking or without an uninstall, I would be offended too.
On the other hand MS is trying to make the browsing experience BETTER for people who use.Net with Firefox.
The ends do not justify the means. Oh shit, I forgot this is slashdot, ignore that comment.
I'm not so sure this is a bad thing.
If it is not bad for you, good. I do not doubt that many people will not care about this. For many of us this is bad. I personally do not like anything (iTunes, Java, etc) that installs components without my approval.
Look, if you were running Ubuntu, installed Opera, and automatically got plugins from Synaptic for Opera that added new functionality would you complain?
If it came from Opera, no. If it came from another source, yes I would complain. Your example is a bit different. If Windows had something like Synaptic, and I got firefox through it, I wouldn't be surprised if they pushed an update that modified it. But I didn't get firefox through a MS service. Your comparison fails. I compile my own firefox for both Windows and Linux, for optimization and more control. I don't fully trust Synaptic for everything either.
We do this all the time (targeting people in the company by name and other random fun), the key that keeps us safe is we only do it in debug compiles. This doesn't help when one of your co-workers accidentally demos with a debug compile, but they learn pretty quick not to do that. I don't think I'd ever put one in a release compile without approval, but it really depends on the cost of your software. If people are paying $20 a pop for it, it is probably not as bad. When they are up beyond $10000, you probably want management approval for anything like that, especially in the current economic conditions.
I wouldn't ever rat out a place I worked for unless the shit hit the fan and I was in court defending my ass. That will not look good on your resume if you get caught. While your odds of getting caught are low, they are not zero. Just let the site figure out what you are doing and block you. If you want to code it in such a way that they find it faster that is fine, but no future employer wants a whistle blower since just about every place I've worked for has broken a law or 100 (mostly small and harmless ones) and really don't want that kind of person working for them.
In my experience sales force is usually purely focused on short-term sales more than long-term. Many will sacrifice long term plays to make their current commission/sales goals/whatever. It is the job of upper management to think about the long term and reign in stupidity in the sales team (in reality this doesn't happen often, but it does from time to time).
That being said, let them crash and burn. These people honestly wouldn't take an idea from an engineer no matter how good it is (I'm dead serious about that one, from years of experience). If they didn't invent the idea, it sucks (I don't bother offering up suggestions to marketing anymore). Let them do their job and prey it doesn't cost you yours, because fighting them now on it will likely end it quicker. Point out your objection once, maybe twice calmly, and let it slide when they don't listen.
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My desktop is 16.04 (well, whatever the Mint equiv is), but my two servers are still 14.04 and I have no plans to upgrade them. If I replace the hardware I may end up with systemd, but I am trying to avoid it for server as long as possible. For my desktop I care a lot less and it is becoming more difficult to get a newer linux desktop without it. I do not run server type services on my desktop machine, so my interaction with systemd is virtually none. I do have to use linux machines at work that run systemd though, so I am becoming somewhat familiar with it. Every time I need to run journalctl I want to scream.
Where I live this is mostly a non-issue, the side roads are intentionally made so you cannot do this, believe me I have tried. There is no shortcut, the roads end for no reason or take a big curvy path with lots of stop signs. The one place I am aware of that people were using for a shortcut they just blocked the road mid-way through and made you go around a big block that made it not worth it. At first I thought the roads were just asinine,but the longer I live here the more beauty I see in it and the more I am annoyed during construction season.
Perception is everything. Why in the world would anyone really fix/solve problems when they don't have to? Don't blame the institution, blame the sheep that let them. Until people truly care about this sort of thing, nothing will change. Posting comments here will not fix that. Until you understand this, fix the system you will not.
Couldn't they just put the price at 0.00000000000000000000001 per article or something and have google just send them a little bit per year?
What the makers of laws intend, and what actually result from the laws as written, rarely overlap.
I'm not so sure this is true. What lawmakers say they are passing it for, and the reality of the special interests they are helping are usually different. While this may be ignorance on the part of the lawmakers, if they have lobbiests demanding things, the lawmakers should know the issues are not what they seem. I assume even when these laws were passed, the taxi owners were trying to prevent others from competing using safety as the premise. Politics has been and always will be dirty so long as money is permitted to run through it.
http://www.merriam-webster.com...
"the act or practice of giving or taking a bribe"
http://www.merriam-webster.com...
"2: something that serves to induce or influence"
Explain to me where it says it has to be illegal to be bribery. Yes, it does have a definition, and yes, you do not understand it.
A campain contribution is a bribe by the dictionary definition. We have voted in people who made the legal definition different from the dictionary definition.
Seriously, talk to a lawyer. I am not at all versed in various IP /employment laws and I assume you are not either. I have no idea what can go wrong, but you need to know these things. Have that lawyer read anything you are going to sign. You do not want to sign away your rights accidentally. Once you know the finer details of the relevant case law, you can decide how you want to approach it. If you are an employee and you do not want to share your patents and your employer uses them anyway, what happens then? Are you going to sue your employer? Corporations are soulless entities that will suck whatever life/power out of you that you let them. Work on the assumption they are out to screw you and prepare appropriately.
This probably means it requires python 2 and you are running python 3.
Sales and Marketing departments use tactics I loathe, but are generally very effective. Scaring non-technical people is easy as they see the world differently than we do and tend not to effectively use logic when making decisions. When it comes to sales, anything that can be used against you will be (assuming your competition is competent). Sales isn’t omniscient and many times they misjudge situations, but in this particular case, you should listen to them. Remember, the public doesn’t typically respond to logical arguments unless all actors are using logic in their reasoning. The problem here is that you are trying to present a logical argument. Your competition will not. While I agree that the Sales department could attempt this argument, if they do not believe in it, I do not think it will succeed. I do not view it as laziness, the developer here is making their job more difficult. You want the Sales team to have an easier job so they make more sales.
How do you know they are not using it? They did something to strong arm NZ into raiding Mega. It is entirely possible they use this all the time. Need new copyright laws to appear in a country? Blackmail on the ready. There are many things the US successfully convinces other countries to do. Why outright overthrow a government when you can subvert it slowly and methodically?
Typically you want a nuke at altitude for maximum damage. Setting it off on a boat would not have near the radius. Not only do you get good downward force and range from above, the EMP would do damage to a larger area as well. One would hope you couldn't get close enough with no transponder, hopefully we don't find out. Personally, I would consider it a waste to use one at sea level.
At this point, I wouldn't do anything. If this security vulnerability becomes public from an anonymous source, the vendor will blame you. That is the issue with disclosing it to the vendor, once you have done so, your choices are bend to their will if they won't play ball, or ruin the relationship. I would recommend working towards getting rid of the vendor, as they are leaving your system insecure and not willing to fix the issue. Until that point, suck it up.
Personally, I prefer it if the boss gets the food then goes away. It is one less distraction. The only exception to this is if my boss can actually help solve the problem or I need someone to bounce ideas off of. Otherwise get the hell out of my way, sitting in an office surfing the web doesn't help anyone solve the problem. I'd rather have my boss get rest so he can fight off the shitstorm better the next day.
Pretty much never. As long as there is money to be made throwing patents through the system and politicians to bribe, it will never happen. The general public is too stupid to care.
I work with a system like this, and you can pretty much guarantee that when something like the flu goes around, you are probably going to get it cause everyone comes into work anyway. Our management says not to come in sick, but I have yet to see them send someone home for it. It is almost counter productive cause you get people coming in and basically accomplishing nothing all day. I've witnessed the opposite abuses though, so I understand both sides. I've seen people call in sick when they were not just to use sick time. I would imagine that happens frequently in countries that mandate sick leave.
I use OpenDNS through comcast, and I still see the OpenDNS error pages and the like, I'm pretty sure it is going through. Perhaps they are looking for failure returns and hijacking those?
From Wikipedia:
Traditionally, the word racket to describe a business is based on the example of the "protection racket" and indicates that the speaker believes that the business is making money by selling a solution to a problem that it created (or that it intentionally allows to continue to exist), specifically so that continuous purchases of the solution are always needed. Example: in a protection racket, a representative from the racket informs a storeowner that a fee of X dollars will be required every month for protection money, though the "protection" that is provided comes in the form of the racket itself not causing damage to the store or its employees.
Google created the problem of a trademark search resulting in a competitors link being presented first unless you pay. To me that would qualify as "a racket". If running a racket is not evil, where do I sign up?
I'm not trying to say it illegal, just evil.
I'm pretty sure if governments put their collective minds to it, they could win. Complacency leads to defeat. There are enough ignorant sheepish humans out there to go along with whatever a government wants to do. Don't be surprised when censorship comes and most people do not give a shit.
It would be interesting to see what the Flash Player penetration is like with this demographic - especially considering I sometimes see Flash banner ads on Slashdot.
You don't use firefox with noscript/flashblock? I don't see shit. Pulling numbers out of my ass like adobe did, I would say over 50% of people reading this have some form of adblock in place. Their statistic is as real as mine, granted they might have some data they twisted to get that number, I have my gut feel!
Sadly he is correct about IE being better than netscape at one point in time. Netscape after being bought by AOL went down the tubes and IE was one of the best that was available for Windows in my opinion. Unfortunately there are still a few sites that do not work in firefox for me and I have to suffer through IE, but other than that I never use it anymore.
Vista for some uses (users) is better than Ubuntu. There are games that do not run on Ubuntu, I cannot easily update my blackberry (without hacks anyway) on Ubuntu. I still have to dual boot my laptop for a few things. It doesn't mean that Vista is a superior operating system, it just means for somethings/people it is better. If I get marked troll so be it.
Yes.
A lot of you will hate me for this...
Hopefully not, I don't. Disagree strongly != hate.
MS doing this is them trying to ensure that Firefox will work with their web apps (or, web apps built with their technology).
Great, if I wanted it I would seek it out, download it and install it. I think most people that go with firefox understand that some MS technologies don't quite work with it in all cases. Genuine windows crap comes to mind.
Now, granted that they are taking liberties they should not.
Many people use firefox to get away from Microsoft. Understand that what MS is doing here is blasphemy to many. Actions like this reinforce the "MS is evil" notion. If a firefox update installed something into IE without asking or without an uninstall, I would be offended too.
On the other hand MS is trying to make the browsing experience BETTER for people who use .Net with Firefox.
The ends do not justify the means. Oh shit, I forgot this is slashdot, ignore that comment.
I'm not so sure this is a bad thing.
If it is not bad for you, good. I do not doubt that many people will not care about this. For many of us this is bad. I personally do not like anything (iTunes, Java, etc) that installs components without my approval.
Look, if you were running Ubuntu, installed Opera, and automatically got plugins from Synaptic for Opera that added new functionality would you complain?
If it came from Opera, no. If it came from another source, yes I would complain. Your example is a bit different. If Windows had something like Synaptic, and I got firefox through it, I wouldn't be surprised if they pushed an update that modified it. But I didn't get firefox through a MS service. Your comparison fails. I compile my own firefox for both Windows and Linux, for optimization and more control. I don't fully trust Synaptic for everything either.
We do this all the time (targeting people in the company by name and other random fun), the key that keeps us safe is we only do it in debug compiles. This doesn't help when one of your co-workers accidentally demos with a debug compile, but they learn pretty quick not to do that. I don't think I'd ever put one in a release compile without approval, but it really depends on the cost of your software. If people are paying $20 a pop for it, it is probably not as bad. When they are up beyond $10000, you probably want management approval for anything like that, especially in the current economic conditions.
System must actively prevent you from installing non-free software to be considered free?
It's not DRM, it's FRM (free-rights management)!
I wouldn't ever rat out a place I worked for unless the shit hit the fan and I was in court defending my ass. That will not look good on your resume if you get caught. While your odds of getting caught are low, they are not zero. Just let the site figure out what you are doing and block you. If you want to code it in such a way that they find it faster that is fine, but no future employer wants a whistle blower since just about every place I've worked for has broken a law or 100 (mostly small and harmless ones) and really don't want that kind of person working for them.
In my experience sales force is usually purely focused on short-term sales more than long-term. Many will sacrifice long term plays to make their current commission/sales goals/whatever. It is the job of upper management to think about the long term and reign in stupidity in the sales team (in reality this doesn't happen often, but it does from time to time).
That being said, let them crash and burn. These people honestly wouldn't take an idea from an engineer no matter how good it is (I'm dead serious about that one, from years of experience). If they didn't invent the idea, it sucks (I don't bother offering up suggestions to marketing anymore). Let them do their job and prey it doesn't cost you yours, because fighting them now on it will likely end it quicker. Point out your objection once, maybe twice calmly, and let it slide when they don't listen.