Whatsapp is just a modified implementation of the XMPP (Jabber) standard. I will stick with standard XMPP and choose from the dozens of applications that support it. Thanks.
Most of these malware articles are terrible. The articles don't mention the operating system, they don't mention the method or vulnerability being used to propagate. They are mostly useless for an administration who would want to stop such malware.
Who gives a crap that these desktops don't work with "Wayland"? Just run them under X11. Then you get network transparency and the functionality of tens of thousands of other GUI applications that have been written over the last 30 years.
You obviously are not up to speed on PSR B1913+16. The observations of PSR B1913+16 did not just fit models of gravitational waves, PSR B1913+16 was predicted to radiate gravitational waves. Using the configuration of the pulsars, astronomers made predictions decades into the future about how that configuration would change over time due to the radiation of gravitational waves. Short story: they nailed it. Your comparing astronomy to a magic show demonstrates your vast ignorance of modern astronomy.
All modern detections are "indirect". Did someone search through the jungles and return with a Polaroid photo of the Higgs boson? No. The Higgs boson appeared as a tiny excess of a certain type of distribution of secondary particles from billions of high energy interactions. The boson itself was never seen or measured. It is possible that a different physical phenomenon or error was responsible for that tiny excess. Just because you do it in a laboratory does not make it more "direct".
Hey, folks, gravity waves were already confirmed, the Nobel prize was already awarded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... It is funny how experimental physicists get all excited about things that were confirmed by astronomy a while back.
Why should I have to install software on my device just to do the job that an image, an html table, a couple of text fields, and a couple of buttons can do? Screw that. I don't need to give some corporation access to my location and personal data just to find me a damn restaurant.
This is why you have scientific FDA oversight of medical products. Medicine for profit drives innovation. Unfortunately history has shown that hucksters abound with their secret formulas and technology. This is why the FDA exists. You can make all the money you want, but you have to prove to the FDA that it works both in principle and in practice.
In reality it would cost Facebook no more to allow these people full internet access than it does to allow them the limited access that they have. The reality is that they are just being assholes, limiting peoples' access. But by giving it to poor people for "free", they can get all sorts of ignorant people to come to their defense. "Oh, restricted internet is better than no internet." Facebook, Google, etc. are evil.
Mod parent up! He explains well why simple games like Tetris and Candy Crush will never be popular. No story line, no 3D graphic artists, no big explosions, etc.
Use different browsers for different web sites. I use firefox, seamonkey, chromium, konqueror, each one for a different kind of browsing (banking & bill payments vs. shopping vs. videos, etc.) At most they can figure out only a quarter of what I do online.
It's not just Linux. I think it is also X-windows! Write a media player in javascript? WTF? I am continually amazed that people buy up crap that restricts what they can do on really powerful computers.
This article shows the sad state of the internet. Why are most people not using standard internet protocols for communication? They talk about how people can't chat because WhatsApp is down. Why are people not using standard XMPP apps which could be switched among providers? Why are people not using standard VOIP services that can be switched among providers? Why do people keep migrating to these crappy proprietary solutions?
so anyone can use any phone to call emergency services even if the owner happens to be incapacitated. How could you possibly think that's a bad thing?
The GP did not say it was a bad thing. It is however, really annoying having an extra button there to accidentally hit. Perhaps we should put emergency buttons everywhere! One on every wall of every room of my house! Oh my God! How was mankind able to survive for millions of years without emergency call buttons on their cell phones????
Back in 1987 I had just purchased my Casio FX-7000G scientific calculator. I read the whole manual, and made program that output a random number 1d20 number and a 1d6 (sword) number with the touch of a button. My fellow D&Ders were reluctant to let me use it for the game, but I assured them, that it was OK. After a few rounds of poor throws, they seemed OK with it. But as the evening went on all my throws were poor. I kept having to run from monsters. The next day I made a plot of the numbers from the calculator's uniform random number generator. They were not even close to uniform! The histogram showed many more small numbers than large ones! POS! And that is how I discovered a poor RNG in my calculator using D&D.
Everytime someone drops a phone into water, the first thing I say "Take the battery out and dry the phone for a couple days." Unless they have an "iPhone", in which case I laugh and say, "You're screwed."
I have been trying to get off pine/alpine for years. But everytime I try to go with mutt, I give up for all the work and custom configuration required. I would like to have a text-based mail reader that will do IMAPS, SMTPS, GPG, address book, mbox, maildir, message searching, etc, while making configuration manageable. I can dream right?
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Whatsapp is just a modified implementation of the XMPP (Jabber) standard. I will stick with standard XMPP and choose from the dozens of applications that support it. Thanks.
Most of these malware articles are terrible. The articles don't mention the operating system, they don't mention the method or vulnerability being used to propagate. They are mostly useless for an administration who would want to stop such malware.
For me to do my offline backups.
Who gives a crap that these desktops don't work with "Wayland"? Just run them under X11. Then you get network transparency and the functionality of tens of thousands of other GUI applications that have been written over the last 30 years.
See the subject line.
Obviously this poster has no idea
1. of what he is doing
2. that XFCE in Debian is not "Linux"
You obviously are not up to speed on PSR B1913+16.
The observations of PSR B1913+16 did not just fit models of gravitational waves, PSR B1913+16 was predicted to radiate gravitational waves. Using the configuration of the pulsars, astronomers made predictions decades into the future about how that configuration would change over time due to the radiation of gravitational waves. Short story: they nailed it.
Your comparing astronomy to a magic show demonstrates your vast ignorance of modern astronomy.
All modern detections are "indirect".
Did someone search through the jungles and return with a Polaroid photo of the Higgs boson? No.
The Higgs boson appeared as a tiny excess of a certain type of distribution of secondary particles from billions of high energy interactions. The boson itself was never seen or measured. It is possible that a different physical phenomenon or error was responsible for that tiny excess.
Just because you do it in a laboratory does not make it more "direct".
Hey, folks, gravity waves were already confirmed, the Nobel prize was already awarded:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It is funny how experimental physicists get all excited about things that were confirmed by astronomy a while back.
Why should I have to install software on my device just to do the job that an image, an html table, a couple of text fields, and a couple of buttons can do?
Screw that. I don't need to give some corporation access to my location and personal data just to find me a damn restaurant.
This is why you have scientific FDA oversight of medical products.
Medicine for profit drives innovation. Unfortunately history has shown that hucksters abound with their secret formulas and technology. This is why the FDA exists. You can make all the money you want, but you have to prove to the FDA that it works both in principle and in practice.
In reality it would cost Facebook no more to allow these people full internet access than it does to allow them the limited access that they have. The reality is that they are just being assholes, limiting peoples' access. But by giving it to poor people for "free", they can get all sorts of ignorant people to come to their defense. "Oh, restricted internet is better than no internet."
Facebook, Google, etc. are evil.
Mod parent up!
He explains well why simple games like Tetris and Candy Crush will never be popular. No story line, no 3D graphic artists, no big explosions, etc.
I was just thinking of switching to Thunderbird from pine.
Use different browsers for different web sites. I use firefox, seamonkey, chromium, konqueror, each one for a different kind of browsing (banking & bill payments vs. shopping vs. videos, etc.) At most they can figure out only a quarter of what I do online.
It's not just Linux. I think it is also X-windows!
Write a media player in javascript? WTF?
I am continually amazed that people buy up crap that restricts what they can do on really powerful computers.
This article shows the sad state of the internet. Why are most people not using standard internet protocols for communication? They talk about how people can't chat because WhatsApp is down. Why are people not using standard XMPP apps which could be switched among providers? Why are people not using standard VOIP services that can be switched among providers?
Why do people keep migrating to these crappy proprietary solutions?
so anyone can use any phone to call emergency services even if the owner happens to be incapacitated. How could you possibly think that's a bad thing?
The GP did not say it was a bad thing. It is however, really annoying having an extra button there to accidentally hit.
Perhaps we should put emergency buttons everywhere! One on every wall of every room of my house! Oh my God! How was mankind able to survive for millions of years without emergency call buttons on their cell phones????
Back in 1987 I had just purchased my Casio FX-7000G scientific calculator. I read the whole manual, and made program that output a random number 1d20 number and a 1d6 (sword) number with the touch of a button. My fellow D&Ders were reluctant to let me use it for the game, but I assured them, that it was OK. After a few rounds of poor throws, they seemed OK with it. But as the evening went on all my throws were poor. I kept having to run from monsters.
The next day I made a plot of the numbers from the calculator's uniform random number generator. They were not even close to uniform! The histogram showed many more small numbers than large ones! POS!
And that is how I discovered a poor RNG in my calculator using D&D.
Clouds may have better defenses, but they are also bigger targets.
John McAfee for president! ;)
Brian Krebs is awesome.
Everytime someone drops a phone into water, the first thing I say "Take the battery out and dry the phone for a couple days." Unless they have an "iPhone", in which case I laugh and say, "You're screwed."
We're riding on the edge of the uncanny valley here.
I have been trying to get off pine/alpine for years. But everytime I try to go with mutt, I give up for all the work and custom configuration required.
I would like to have a text-based mail reader that will do IMAPS, SMTPS, GPG, address book, mbox, maildir, message searching, etc, while making configuration manageable.
I can dream right?
3) The LHC does not run as continuously as a telescope. Optical telescopes run 12x7x365.