This is not a "news item" because he used some "arcane technology" from the view of the uninitiated.
This is a calculated iteration in the advancement of declaring web automation tools "instruments of terror" and "cyber weapons", for prosecutorial purposes.
You vilate a ToS with these, and WHAM! Terror suspect!
Commercial, propietary and expensive. Stand up a linux box on EC3, with your storage portal of choice.
ownCloud is open source. If you are a Slashdotter, the time investment should be trivial and the geek/maker factor somewhat exhilarating. 20 bucks a month will blow the doors off of Dropbox pricing for terabyte in the sky. Plus you have a migration/passthrough to Drop, etc.
Have a little respect for the emergency responders that died, just like the people who died back in Rio Tercero when Menem made it blow to cover his arms trading...
Slashdot Mirror
Theory is outdated, and not taking into account past 10 years of experience.
Kernel can be whitelisted. Userspace? Good luck.
Have you ever seen this done well? It always looks good on paper.
What about virtualization, and byte-code virtualmachine processes? How many context switches will you do "all the way down"?
How about subjecting hardware access to the same environment as arbitrary use case and unlimited connectivity options of a user context.
Whoops! Flash exploit just took over my filesystem and network card!
User Space Drivers != "Improvement".
This is normally called a "defect". Performance design failure and security disaster, in one convenient package!
There are no terrorists. Just people who define "Terror" for political expedience.
Have a tinfoil hat.
Yes. I will place it on the grave of Aaron Schwartz
You're ALL missing the point.
This is not a "news item" because he used some "arcane technology" from the view of the uninitiated.
This is a calculated iteration in the advancement of declaring web automation tools "instruments of terror" and "cyber weapons", for prosecutorial purposes.
You vilate a ToS with these, and WHAM! Terror suspect!
Grasshopper ALWAYS wrong, in argument with chicken.
"Science needs to be open to new ideas"
I'll tell him when he gets back in.
From yo momma's house...
Ask Alan Partridge. It's Norfolk.
Early primitive man could have left these footprints, up to our present day.
Yeah. I run on noname VPS. But Amazon is an easy to do 1-shot for app + storage. I was contrasting to the Closed Source app.
Sometimes, a Cop dies.
See, there's some justice in the universe.
Backed by AWS? You aren't reading.. :-)
Troll.
v6. If you want stability, I can vouch for v4.
Commercial, propietary and expensive. Stand up a linux box on EC3, with your storage portal of choice.
ownCloud is open source. If you are a Slashdotter, the time investment should be trivial and the geek/maker factor somewhat exhilarating. 20 bucks a month will blow the doors off of Dropbox pricing for terabyte in the sky. Plus you have a migration/passthrough to Drop, etc.
Amazon with OwnCloud
Russia is a BAD place, that tells homos buttsex is wrong!
"Is 'Nothing' sacred?"
"I paint what I see, child."
Have a little respect for the emergency responders that died, just like the people who died back in Rio Tercero when Menem made it blow to cover his arms trading...
Or the 3000 killed by USaudIsrael on 9/11.
Chromebook
I know the formula!
It's been around for ages.
NETCRAFT IS DEAD!
When do we discover Ballmer's previously undisclosed leukemia/cancer/critical illness?