I believe that some links that were never public (blind) were 'clicked on' by a bot or even a human, via an ENCRYPTED skype chat, years ago. this was a proof that skype was broken and not secure, even before ebay bought them.
nothing can resist links;) if your link get triggered and there was only 1 place it was published, that's that. its all the proof you need.
so yeah, that's a good idea. not the part about throwing it over the fence. can't think that would be very healthy for the person doing it.
collecting and analyzing data is not the work of lawyers and managers. maybe those were the people you dealt with (?) but should we think the nsa is understaffed wrt hacking talent?
its funny that people argue about this or that news report regarding the three letter agencies. as if we'd even know or anyone who could talk about it, would know a fucking thing.
argue about whether batman could beat jesus in a go-kart race. if you like fantasy and guessing, at least be creative about it and don't kid yourself that its really real.
the nsa could have the most advanced computing center in the world. or it may not. how the hell would we know? the point is that they are secret and the bigger point is that we, somehow, as a people, have allowed an agency to grow to the point where we have zero insight as to what goes on.
is this something the founding fathers would have thought to be OK? again, playing the fantasy/guess game, I don't think they'd approve of where we have gone and what level of power we've signed away to countless government orgs.
usenet used to be free and not owned by any one corp. most was not censor-able and no one could 'take their ball and go home' like they can with websites.
you could fetch news and there was no COOKIE to let on that you were fetching news. think about that for a minute. seriously, think about what we lost when we added our own trackability to things.
usenet was wonderful, for the most part. there was spam and commercial activity but a lot of it was self policed and done well enough so that we could use the medium and get real stuff done (and have fun, too).
the web sucks. its broken by design, at this point. the transport protocols are not secure and we really could use an internet 2.1 (there was a 2.0 but I never got access to it. maybe 2.1 ?)
stop lying. this does not help ANYONE when you keep saying the same incorrect bull over and over and over (and over and over).
go to silicon valley. walk the hallways of a cisco or similar. breakdown is roughly 90% indian, 8% various asian and the rest is western-born.
white men? you gotta be kidding me. are you writing this from kansas or something? because where I sit, in the bay area, whites are the smallest minority. walk down cupertino and its almost all chinese. walk most places in the bay area, its all indian. you hear hindi and mandarin and some cantonese along with korean and vietnamese - but english - not much english anymore.
sick of this lock-out culture. if you are not one of the imports, you are not a first choice for a job in this area.
I wonder who keeps paying the liars to lie to everyone? is this swj gone full-retard? or is this just someone from outside tech areas who write from their ivory tower, totally disconnected from reality?
or maybe everyone who writes this drivel KNOWS its a lie but has the agenda to keep pushing MORE imports into comp-sci and asking for more h1b's to enter the US.
or, finally, its just a ploy to get clicks. they know it will get many of us angry and (like me) it caused me to write this and hit 'submit', which gets them clicks.
no matter what the reason is, I'm sick and tired of this crap.
the rich and elites control too much power in the US. its boiling over and this is the revolution that people keep talking about.
there is no sign of the rich guys easing up and they are running a 'winner keep all, scorched earth policy'. they don't understand that, to keep them going, they need to keep US going. what I see is a failure of the system to support a sustaining middle class. this spells certain doom for the country and perhaps the world as a chain-reaction side-effect.
in the past, during more settled and peaceful times (short durations) the 'job creators' threw us all more bones and kept us in bread and circuses enough to not revolt on them. now, they seem to have forgotton that and are in lock-down mode. look at every country and how its trying to spy on its citizens and keep track of them. they are ALL in fear of their own people. information, shared, is power and its threatening (rightfully so!) the existing power bases. they don't like that, they are scared and they don't know how to dig themselves out. so, they 'double down' and give us more of the same crap, with restrictions on freedoms, new powers granted all the time to authorities and more secrecy (secret courts? who would have imagined that in the US!) - its all they seem to know, even though many of them realize doubling-down is exactly the wrong move.
this is world wide. its about humanity.
we've gotton to a point where we are not wise enough to control and use our technology for only good things.
the universe does not care, its not really 'thinking', and it owes us nothing. if we continue to use tech for bad goals, then we end as a species, plain and simple. if we can control ourselves and think before we act (ha!) then we could course-correct and make it past this critical point in our development.
I shake my head each time we blindly just plow ahead and don't give enough time to think things thru. this 'rush rush, ship it now!' attitude is killing us, very literally. we do stupid things like a child would, and often once we do something really stupid, it can't be taken back.
case in point, spying is now 'baked in' to our infrastructure and it would take almost a rebirth to fix it and get that cancer removed. all networking companies must 'give in' to the gov and do as they say or they can't make and sell gear. cisco, etc - they all must have calea access baked in, and I suspect there are other not-so-public layers of 'access' also baked in, and not even known by 90% of the company's engineers. you can't lay cables thru major exchanges unless spooks get access. every place where data changes, the gov ensures that they can get data copies as they want and as they need. its in the chips, the line cards, the processors, the os, the drivers (intel's own 'mgmt engine' is a blatant one), its everywhere. the antivirus companies are forced to work with the governments and allow -their- malware thru, etc.
its all baked in, thru and thru, and little fixes can't really do the job.
this means some pretty nasty stuff must happen so that it all gets torn down and redone properly. if anyone is still around then who can do that.
or, we keep this rotton crap we have and somehow keep working around things, if we can, as an arms race.
such a mess of shit. sometimes, I think it would be better to not know about this and live a dumb, happy, ignorant life, thinking all is well. sigh.
I think I see what they are trying to indicate. they want you to think there is only 1 number. that the duality of 'set' vs 'actual' is 'too hard' for stupid americans.
"what's the temp set to?" "its set to 75"
"what is it now?"
"its set to 75, and its smart, so it SHOULD be 75"
I bet that's their line of thinking. convince people that the notion of 2 values, one writable and one read-only, is just 'too complex' for consumers.
of course, they are quite wrong. but they seem to be doubling down on their derp.
the nest series won't last long at this rate. there's only so many dumb rich folks and once they buy them, that's the end of the market.
are you serious - they only show the SET value and not the ACTUAL current value? no option to set the default large text for the one you want? not a split display, even?
laughable, if that's really true.
I don't expect much from google, though. they mark serious bugs as 'wontfix' and nothing will change their minds.
perl can look rather odd if you are not used to it. even with years of comp sci experience, if you don't know perl, you can't always read it. and reading/patching/fixing is important.
python is much more readable even to the point of going too far (insisting on that space stuff). you can write python that 'looks odd' to non-python people, quite true; but it does not come close to the 'huh???' factor that I and many others have when looking at 'tight' perl code. perl is a write-only language, in some ways. I don't prefer those (really hard to get the data back from write-only things, lol)
perl used to be 'it' before python. you had to know perl to do that level of scripting, and sysadmins had to deal with it. now, its not so obvious that it -has to be- perl, if its a new project. not at all obvious, and python now usually gets the pref over perl for new things.
worth a read. I had no idea massimo stole the idea from his student.
I think a lot less of massimo now, sad to say. yeah, he messed up the top.1 spaced headers (a crime in itself) but taking a student's work and calling it your own, that's really something to be publicly shamed over.
and yet, massimo does world tours claiming he's the arduino inventor guy.
just read the student's post about how HE came up with the concepts and had it stolen from him. I feel for him and I can imagine that happening, too.
you can ONLY buy smart tvs, beyond a certain size or quality.
last year this happened. anything over 37", iirc, was 'required' to be smart.
I got my vizio at costco (for peace of mind) and while its 'smart' I never gave it access to my network, wired or wifi. the as-shipped firmware is buggy but all updates after that trade one bug for another, so I'm not interested in flashing it.
I can't imagine ever WANTING to connect a wholly untrustable closed-source network node like a 'smart tv' (or even blueray, and so I refuse to suppor the bd standard) to a network of mine.
my content comes from non-paid sources. which means, it is commercial free and de-bullshitted.
the entertainment industry can go fuck itself. I'm not playing by their rules. let the unwashed idiots do that. folks here generally know how to manage network nodes that can't be trusted. we simply don't connect them to any network.
and things will only get worse, too. yet another 'war' on consumers by content pigs. fuck them. pirate bay still lives on.
android is a steaming pile that ONCE was a respectable linux install.
google had their way, they messed it up and its broken by design, now.
even if we ignore the software, there are many layers to the radio system and you cannot, just CANNOT secure that. diff entities (groups) have access to diff layers of the radio and phone mgmt.
yes, this is for the gullible.
the real secure guys would not be using a phone network, not be using off the shelf carrier-approved chips, not be using anything that started in mtn view and would not have the ability to 'download and run apps' (stupidest thing ever when it comes to phones; the apps privs are so broken, it would have been better to just not have apps at all ON THE PHONE since the phone can never be trusted).
a VM can be contained pretty well. I was used to installing office on my local pc, but now I'm starting to think its going to be safer inside a VM and I'll just run the VM for the few times I have to actually edit word docs. viewing them is ok on libreoffice or similar, but I would not use the free versions to edit ms docs (sigh).
slash is popular enough that it has attracted quite a lot of 'bad elements'.
there are paid shills here, absolutely sure of that. its obvious to anyone who has spent time here and seen the discourse.
it was once very left-leaning and progressive and now the conservatives have invaded and will mod down, in army-like fashion, anything they disagree with.
slash has been invaded. but most of us knew that years ago.
soylent is quite a lot better; but they are not the target that slash is, in terms of trying to counter-spin common sense.
Not to mention the soaring number of people who are being admitted to hospitals for reactions to weed (not to mention the people who are killing themselves because of it),
I'm as non-religious as it gets and I'd consider moving to SLC, uhm, never. I would not even want to be buried there if I died there, due to a flyover airplane trip.
have to say, same about the deep south. any place where religion dominates, that's no place for a guy like me. its not just about religion, its the whole mind-set of people who are so into their own cult that outsiders are never really welcome and can't ever be integrated. progress and modernization is slow in those areas.
tech will never flourish in such backwater places like that, no matter what the press is paid to advertise. when people of a region think that 'bathroom gender' is the highest prio that needs solving - no - I don't want to be living with people who think along those lines.
Slashdot Mirror
I'll be willing to believe a lot.
but a bay area person keeping a job and not getting laid off in 6 yrs?
yeah, something sure does smell fishy about that, right there.
I believe that some links that were never public (blind) were 'clicked on' by a bot or even a human, via an ENCRYPTED skype chat, years ago. this was a proof that skype was broken and not secure, even before ebay bought them.
nothing can resist links ;) if your link get triggered and there was only 1 place it was published, that's that. its all the proof you need.
so yeah, that's a good idea. not the part about throwing it over the fence. can't think that would be very healthy for the person doing it.
(holds up sign) citation needed.
collecting and analyzing data is not the work of lawyers and managers. maybe those were the people you dealt with (?) but should we think the nsa is understaffed wrt hacking talent?
its funny that people argue about this or that news report regarding the three letter agencies. as if we'd even know or anyone who could talk about it, would know a fucking thing.
argue about whether batman could beat jesus in a go-kart race. if you like fantasy and guessing, at least be creative about it and don't kid yourself that its really real.
the nsa could have the most advanced computing center in the world. or it may not. how the hell would we know? the point is that they are secret and the bigger point is that we, somehow, as a people, have allowed an agency to grow to the point where we have zero insight as to what goes on.
is this something the founding fathers would have thought to be OK? again, playing the fantasy/guess game, I don't think they'd approve of where we have gone and what level of power we've signed away to countless government orgs.
usenet used to be free and not owned by any one corp. most was not censor-able and no one could 'take their ball and go home' like they can with websites.
you could fetch news and there was no COOKIE to let on that you were fetching news. think about that for a minute. seriously, think about what we lost when we added our own trackability to things.
usenet was wonderful, for the most part. there was spam and commercial activity but a lot of it was self policed and done well enough so that we could use the medium and get real stuff done (and have fun, too).
the web sucks. its broken by design, at this point. the transport protocols are not secure and we really could use an internet 2.1 (there was a 2.0 but I never got access to it. maybe 2.1 ?)
BULLSHIT!
stop lying. this does not help ANYONE when you keep saying the same incorrect bull over and over and over (and over and over).
go to silicon valley. walk the hallways of a cisco or similar. breakdown is roughly 90% indian, 8% various asian and the rest is western-born.
white men? you gotta be kidding me. are you writing this from kansas or something? because where I sit, in the bay area, whites are the smallest minority. walk down cupertino and its almost all chinese. walk most places in the bay area, its all indian. you hear hindi and mandarin and some cantonese along with korean and vietnamese - but english - not much english anymore.
sick of this lock-out culture. if you are not one of the imports, you are not a first choice for a job in this area.
I wonder who keeps paying the liars to lie to everyone? is this swj gone full-retard? or is this just someone from outside tech areas who write from their ivory tower, totally disconnected from reality?
or maybe everyone who writes this drivel KNOWS its a lie but has the agenda to keep pushing MORE imports into comp-sci and asking for more h1b's to enter the US.
or, finally, its just a ploy to get clicks. they know it will get many of us angry and (like me) it caused me to write this and hit 'submit', which gets them clicks.
no matter what the reason is, I'm sick and tired of this crap.
the rich and elites control too much power in the US. its boiling over and this is the revolution that people keep talking about.
there is no sign of the rich guys easing up and they are running a 'winner keep all, scorched earth policy'. they don't understand that, to keep them going, they need to keep US going. what I see is a failure of the system to support a sustaining middle class. this spells certain doom for the country and perhaps the world as a chain-reaction side-effect.
in the past, during more settled and peaceful times (short durations) the 'job creators' threw us all more bones and kept us in bread and circuses enough to not revolt on them. now, they seem to have forgotton that and are in lock-down mode. look at every country and how its trying to spy on its citizens and keep track of them. they are ALL in fear of their own people. information, shared, is power and its threatening (rightfully so!) the existing power bases. they don't like that, they are scared and they don't know how to dig themselves out. so, they 'double down' and give us more of the same crap, with restrictions on freedoms, new powers granted all the time to authorities and more secrecy (secret courts? who would have imagined that in the US!) - its all they seem to know, even though many of them realize doubling-down is exactly the wrong move.
this is world wide. its about humanity.
we've gotton to a point where we are not wise enough to control and use our technology for only good things.
the universe does not care, its not really 'thinking', and it owes us nothing. if we continue to use tech for bad goals, then we end as a species, plain and simple. if we can control ourselves and think before we act (ha!) then we could course-correct and make it past this critical point in our development.
I shake my head each time we blindly just plow ahead and don't give enough time to think things thru. this 'rush rush, ship it now!' attitude is killing us, very literally. we do stupid things like a child would, and often once we do something really stupid, it can't be taken back.
case in point, spying is now 'baked in' to our infrastructure and it would take almost a rebirth to fix it and get that cancer removed. all networking companies must 'give in' to the gov and do as they say or they can't make and sell gear. cisco, etc - they all must have calea access baked in, and I suspect there are other not-so-public layers of 'access' also baked in, and not even known by 90% of the company's engineers. you can't lay cables thru major exchanges unless spooks get access. every place where data changes, the gov ensures that they can get data copies as they want and as they need. its in the chips, the line cards, the processors, the os, the drivers (intel's own 'mgmt engine' is a blatant one), its everywhere. the antivirus companies are forced to work with the governments and allow -their- malware thru, etc.
its all baked in, thru and thru, and little fixes can't really do the job.
this means some pretty nasty stuff must happen so that it all gets torn down and redone properly. if anyone is still around then who can do that.
or, we keep this rotton crap we have and somehow keep working around things, if we can, as an arms race.
such a mess of shit. sometimes, I think it would be better to not know about this and live a dumb, happy, ignorant life, thinking all is well. sigh.
I think I see what they are trying to indicate. they want you to think there is only 1 number. that the duality of 'set' vs 'actual' is 'too hard' for stupid americans.
"what's the temp set to?" "its set to 75"
"what is it now?"
"its set to 75, and its smart, so it SHOULD be 75"
I bet that's their line of thinking. convince people that the notion of 2 values, one writable and one read-only, is just 'too complex' for consumers.
of course, they are quite wrong. but they seem to be doubling down on their derp.
the nest series won't last long at this rate. there's only so many dumb rich folks and once they buy them, that's the end of the market.
are you serious - they only show the SET value and not the ACTUAL current value? no option to set the default large text for the one you want? not a split display, even?
laughable, if that's really true.
I don't expect much from google, though. they mark serious bugs as 'wontfix' and nothing will change their minds.
they are all a lost cause.
I kinda wonder why there isn't a Taco Shell....
the upside down punctuation, while nicely bracketing, IS a pain to type.
also, some verbs have changed:
see_esther(10)
will sleep for 10 seconds.
I used to think the cloud was great.
then I learned that clouds suck. now I use RAIN, Randomly Available Internet Nodes.
oh, wait. nevermind.
perl can look rather odd if you are not used to it. even with years of comp sci experience, if you don't know perl, you can't always read it. and reading/patching/fixing is important.
python is much more readable even to the point of going too far (insisting on that space stuff). you can write python that 'looks odd' to non-python people, quite true; but it does not come close to the 'huh???' factor that I and many others have when looking at 'tight' perl code. perl is a write-only language, in some ways. I don't prefer those (really hard to get the data back from write-only things, lol)
perl used to be 'it' before python. you had to know perl to do that level of scripting, and sysadmins had to deal with it. now, its not so obvious that it -has to be- perl, if its a new project. not at all obvious, and python now usually gets the pref over perl for new things.
ctl-alt-flush
then enter the PIN
oh wait - the PIN was supposed to go AFTER or BEFORE the flush?
damn.
where's my abacus. fuck this shit.
lets get that out of the way, early ;)
anyone know if systemd, our favorite component of late, has anything to do with this?
https://arduinohistory.github....
worth a read. I had no idea massimo stole the idea from his student.
I think a lot less of massimo now, sad to say. yeah, he messed up the top .1 spaced headers (a crime in itself) but taking a student's work and calling it your own, that's really something to be publicly shamed over.
and yet, massimo does world tours claiming he's the arduino inventor guy.
just read the student's post about how HE came up with the concepts and had it stolen from him. I feel for him and I can imagine that happening, too.
"its Hedley"
"what the hell are you worried about, this is 1874, you can sue HER!"
(oblig)
let me take 10 of your marbles away.
now, I'll give you 2 of them back.
see, you now have a big win!
(pathetic.)
you can ONLY buy smart tvs, beyond a certain size or quality.
last year this happened. anything over 37", iirc, was 'required' to be smart.
I got my vizio at costco (for peace of mind) and while its 'smart' I never gave it access to my network, wired or wifi. the as-shipped firmware is buggy but all updates after that trade one bug for another, so I'm not interested in flashing it.
I can't imagine ever WANTING to connect a wholly untrustable closed-source network node like a 'smart tv' (or even blueray, and so I refuse to suppor the bd standard) to a network of mine.
my content comes from non-paid sources. which means, it is commercial free and de-bullshitted.
the entertainment industry can go fuck itself. I'm not playing by their rules. let the unwashed idiots do that. folks here generally know how to manage network nodes that can't be trusted. we simply don't connect them to any network.
and things will only get worse, too. yet another 'war' on consumers by content pigs. fuck them. pirate bay still lives on.
you can't secure android. cannot. be. done.
android is a steaming pile that ONCE was a respectable linux install.
google had their way, they messed it up and its broken by design, now.
even if we ignore the software, there are many layers to the radio system and you cannot, just CANNOT secure that. diff entities (groups) have access to diff layers of the radio and phone mgmt.
yes, this is for the gullible.
the real secure guys would not be using a phone network, not be using off the shelf carrier-approved chips, not be using anything that started in mtn view and would not have the ability to 'download and run apps' (stupidest thing ever when it comes to phones; the apps privs are so broken, it would have been better to just not have apps at all ON THE PHONE since the phone can never be trusted).
a VM can be contained pretty well. I was used to installing office on my local pc, but now I'm starting to think its going to be safer inside a VM and I'll just run the VM for the few times I have to actually edit word docs. viewing them is ok on libreoffice or similar, but I would not use the free versions to edit ms docs (sigh).
these days, I can't tell the diff between the good guys and bad guys.
snowden knows this.
holder is wasting his fucking time. I wonder what his hidden agenda is, this time.
evil motherfuckers, all of them. try as you will, snowden seems quite a well-aware fellow and he's not buying your bullshit, holder.
eat a bag of dicks. no one's buying your BS. just retire and put someone competant in your place already!
slash is popular enough that it has attracted quite a lot of 'bad elements'.
there are paid shills here, absolutely sure of that. its obvious to anyone who has spent time here and seen the discourse.
it was once very left-leaning and progressive and now the conservatives have invaded and will mod down, in army-like fashion, anything they disagree with.
slash has been invaded. but most of us knew that years ago.
soylent is quite a lot better; but they are not the target that slash is, in terms of trying to counter-spin common sense.
there were adobe tools (pshop?) for sgi irix, but that was a special case.
irix emulation for linux, funny thought.
Not to mention the soaring number of people who are being admitted to hospitals for reactions to weed (not to mention the people who are killing themselves because of it),
#include "this_is_my_friend_becky__not_even_once.jpg"
hang on.... wait, you were serious?
I'm as non-religious as it gets and I'd consider moving to SLC, uhm, never. I would not even want to be buried there if I died there, due to a flyover airplane trip.
have to say, same about the deep south. any place where religion dominates, that's no place for a guy like me. its not just about religion, its the whole mind-set of people who are so into their own cult that outsiders are never really welcome and can't ever be integrated. progress and modernization is slow in those areas.
tech will never flourish in such backwater places like that, no matter what the press is paid to advertise. when people of a region think that 'bathroom gender' is the highest prio that needs solving - no - I don't want to be living with people who think along those lines.
you are young. I can tell.
and you are a corp's wet dream. good little WORKER BEE.
"pick up that can, citizen."