I'll say this at a risk of sounding like a severe linux fanboy, but...
You sound like a severe linux fanboy, but...
I like playing around with linux at home, but in work I rely on Windows.
What is the difference between having policy on disabling automounts in linux with etc/fstab and doing same thing with Windows? All you need to have is your IT policies set on the required security rules. This goes for both Linux and Windows.
If your Linux security suck on corporate level, you can have very insecure system.
No complicated solutions involving proprietary registry editors, just call up vi or emacs, even ed will do the job! Or just open AD and create corporate wide Group policy that get applied to every user when they log on next time.
Securing Windows enviroments isn't that difficult on most cases. Yes, there are a lot of vulnerabilities on Windows, but many of them can be handled with limited user access, firewalls, group policies and so on.
Windows doesn't lack means to secure system, corporations lack professional IT managers to make use of those means.
Home systems are totally different, Windows home versions out-of-box suck, but enough default installations of Linux could be almost as dangerous.
Here is an idea, lets forget the whole space colonization thing coz it aint happening any time soon. Let us use the space programs for actual science, to actually improve our knowledge so that some time we may actually have the technology we may decide to do space colonization if we wanted to.
So you want us to stop studying science required for space colonization and consentrate on science to mayby take us to space some day. Stuff like that doesn't come up randomly, you need to have a plan to know what needs to be studied.
If NASA doesn't have large scale plans to do something big, there is no funding. No funding, no actual science. Private companies can do this space-age small science studies on their own, and they do it all the time.
Most of the modern phones work everywhere. All they need to have is decent operator. For past 10 years I have been few times on such places on my travels where there werent any coverage. Otherwise most of my phones have worked without problems. At least in Europe and Asia.
Most of the messages here tend to complain about their mobile operator being crappy, others blame operators shortcomings on phones. When browsing mobilephone catalogs, there seems to be model for every need and price range, all you have to do is know what you want and what you are willing to pay for it. And make sure that you aren't tied to some crappy operator.
After all, if you are not doing anything wrong, why object to such a system?
That would just be their way of not paying for my famous home videos.
They could also boost their finances be creating new pay-per-view system. I mean, if the techonology is already there and nobody has nothing to hide, why shouldn't they support their goverment by allowing other people to watch you.
The world can take a lot more than we small humans are dishing out to it. The oceans alone can absorb 100 times more CO2 than we have ever pumped into the atmosphere without taking a blink. This is just more proof of nature's resilience. Don't bow to the environmentalist hype machine.
I have agree with you in here. There aren't really anything that nature couldn't handle.
It's these selfish enviromentalists that wish that nature would act on their will and on their controll and not to extinct most of the harmful species on earth. All they want to save is their own but, not the nature.
Does this mean we're gonna see big "Drink Coke!" advertisments next time we look through a telescope at the ISS? That would be some impressive brand placement...
I think they go with Pepsi. I mean, their logo is a lot easir to paint on the moon.
Ah, yes. Perfect timing as I spent the better part of the morning fixing up about a dozen machines that had a certain application break as the result of a Windows update.
So you didn't test it before you decided to install it. Testing doesn't mean having ability to read the source, it is to find out how each installation will effect your whole system.
Yes, many of M$ patches can halt part of your system, you just have to have the knowledge about what you are doing to stop it.
Why is it so hard to get Linux people to understand importance of testing. I wouldn't put any yum updates to production before testing them beforehand. Something like Linux being more reliable most of the time doesn't mean that there wouldn't be case where these kind of problems wouldn't happen. Getting fund to do tests on these reliable systems is task that I don't like to be doing too often.
Thanks for that reliability and dependability.
Microsoft updates are reliable because you allways know that those have to be tested before installing them on production.
This "problem" is not limited to ServersCheck. A Google 'Suggest' search for just about any popular software package will turn up entries that include the words "crack", "serial" or "keygen".
Common problem with this is that their marketing department sucks. Unless googlebombing doesn't work anymore, nothing stops these companies on linking those searchwords to their online ordering page as number one on the list.
Think about it: free energy means the oil industries and the rest of the infrastructure built around them are suddenly obsolete.
Oil industry wouldn't be be obsolete because oil would be used to create more cheap plastic things.
Antigravity means free transportation. Suddenly the airlines, rail industry, (nautical) shipping, and even the automobile industry to some extent, are irrelevant.
Building things that would run with antigravity would require huge investments to build kind of equipment to carry enough people to make it profitable. Only industries having enoug money to create antigravity transportation ships or planes would be same companies that create aircraft, ships or trains. They would just change the techonolgy that they are using.
Even if I had a anti-gravity car that would run with free energy I would need to buy it from somebody, like current car maker. And I'm quite sure that I wouldn't be using my car or 1$ anti-gravity belt to fly to different continents. I'd want a plane with all required services for that trip.
Oil companies haven't stopped the development for electric cars because required oil needed to build parts for that car. New technologies rarely but any old players out of business, they just have to adapt for it.
If we had alien technology, had reverse engineered it, and knew how to make it work, we would be using it right now.
We would, but the EULA on that technology didn't allow us to make any copies for our own use. Goverment is smart enough not to get in trouble with all those organizations controlling piracy.
So we just have to wait until aliens release open source version of their technologies
And if they have that, they don't need the newspaper's computer to prove anything further.
leave any incriminating evidence lying around on their own computer either (gosh, how difficult is it to purge your browse history and cookies if you are done?
So what you are saying is that when they have address of that single computer, they don't need others because that certain one has everything wiped out. If you just take that one you knew about, it leaves criminals time to make sure that other computers are wiped clean when those are wanted for further investigations. And what if that computer that the crime was made with isn't the crimals computer?
3. you can't kill the idiot who is sitting next to you.
Yeah, thats why watching movies at home is a lot better. You can kill anybody you (don't) like and don't have to worry about people complaining about being too loud.
possibly by giving financial benefits to inteligent people who have children and heavily taxing less inteligent people who do... which runs into the problem of how you measure inteligence reliably)
If that tax-form is normal state form, you have to be inteligent enough to be able to fill it.
The fundamental one in that regard is that the west accepts the separation of church and state,
At the moment, but more and more religous aspects are entering to the state affairs, like deciding what schools can and cannot teach.
And doesn't take that many generations to this separation to be gone for good. It's done in small pieces so that it would be easily accaptable for masses.
It's democracy if everybody is allowed vote their canditate from several others having different agendas. And in democracy everybody is allowed to be canditate, no matter what their bank account says.
it's also about access to justice, education, freedom of speech and concerns about the minority.
If majority of voters believe that these are not key issues and they want to give their vote for somebody who does oppose these things, then not having access to these things has been part of democrazy.
Hasmas has huge popularity because it is providing schooling, unfortunatelly their schools tend to blow up by Isreali missiles or tanks.
I would say it is borderline entrapment if you install "illegal" software on someone's computer and bust them when they start to use it...
goverment allows me to have a car that goes 130mph, but busts me when I do so on 55mph zone.
I'm allowed to have a gun, but get busted doing something illegal with it.
I'm living in a free world, having free will. If I know something to be illegal or against policies it is up to me to choose what I want to do. I may break the law/policies as much as I want to, but I have to face penalties if being coucht.
Google may indeed have a hard time ahead of it, especially legally.
Normal legal bills aren't the only problems google might be expexting. They are sitting on huge amount of money and are on publics eye. How long you think that you'll see some mom suing google for their kid being weird. All they have to say that "my son was normal until he found google and started doing evil things with things that he found from there."
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And I tought they were talking politics, like this continent that got in the way to India.
Now if only I had enough Gold for my mount...
I could help you with this VR money problem, but unfortunatelly I don't seem to be able to log back to my farm.
Of course, why not? In fact better yet, just take them out. Totally unneeded in a modern office environment.
And keyboards, with those users can type in something insecure when "this nice guy from helpdesk/support" calls to test something.
For outside attacks you can defend yourself with firewalls and software restrictions.
For social engineering you can only take cautions by educating people.
I'll say this at a risk of sounding like a severe linux fanboy, but...
You sound like a severe linux fanboy, but...
I like playing around with linux at home, but in work I rely on Windows.
What is the difference between having policy on disabling automounts in linux with etc/fstab and doing same thing with Windows?
All you need to have is your IT policies set on the required security rules. This goes for both Linux and Windows.
If your Linux security suck on corporate level, you can have very insecure system.
No complicated solutions involving proprietary registry editors, just call up vi or emacs, even ed will do the job!
Or just open AD and create corporate wide Group policy that get applied to every user when they log on next time.
Securing Windows enviroments isn't that difficult on most cases. Yes, there are a lot of vulnerabilities on Windows, but many of them can be handled with limited user access, firewalls, group policies and so on.
Windows doesn't lack means to secure system, corporations lack professional IT managers to make use of those means.
Home systems are totally different, Windows home versions out-of-box suck, but enough default installations of Linux could be almost as dangerous.
Here is an idea, lets forget the whole space colonization thing coz it aint happening any time soon. Let us use the space programs for actual science, to actually improve our knowledge so that some time we may actually have the technology we may decide to do space colonization if we wanted to.
So you want us to stop studying science required for space colonization and consentrate on science to mayby take us to space some day. Stuff like that doesn't come up randomly, you need to have a plan to know what needs to be studied.
If NASA doesn't have large scale plans to do something big, there is no funding. No funding, no actual science. Private companies can do this space-age small science studies on their own, and they do it all the time.
Syncs with the address book. No browser, no IM, no SMS, no Java games, no calendar, no address book, no MP3 player, no photo/movie viewer.
No wonder mobile companies cannot come with phones that meet the needs of their customers.
Just give me a phone that just works everywhere.
Most of the modern phones work everywhere. All they need to have is decent operator. For past 10 years I have been few times on such places on my travels where there werent any coverage. Otherwise most of my phones have worked without problems. At least in Europe and Asia.
Most of the messages here tend to complain about their mobile operator being crappy, others blame operators shortcomings on phones. When browsing mobilephone catalogs, there seems to be model for every need and price range, all you have to do is know what you want and what you are willing to pay for it. And make sure that you aren't tied to some crappy operator.
After all, if you are not doing anything wrong, why object to such a system?
That would just be their way of not paying for my famous home videos.
They could also boost their finances be creating new pay-per-view system. I mean, if the techonology is already there and nobody has nothing to hide, why shouldn't they support their goverment by allowing other people to watch you.
The world can take a lot more than we small humans are dishing out to it. The oceans alone can absorb 100 times more CO2 than we have ever pumped into the atmosphere without taking a blink. This is just more proof of nature's resilience. Don't bow to the environmentalist hype machine.
I have agree with you in here. There aren't really anything that nature couldn't handle.
It's these selfish enviromentalists that wish that nature would act on their will and on their controll and not to extinct most of the harmful species on earth. All they want to save is their own but, not the nature.
Does this mean we're gonna see big "Drink Coke!" advertisments next time we look through a telescope at the ISS? That would be some impressive brand placement...
I think they go with Pepsi. I mean, their logo is a lot easir to paint on the moon.
It would be nice to see NASA expand there business.
National Assassins Space Association
Their next hit is in Mars, therefore all these tasks for manned flights.
Ah, yes. Perfect timing as I spent the better part of the morning fixing up about a dozen machines that had a certain application break as the result of a Windows update.
So you didn't test it before you decided to install it. Testing doesn't mean having ability to read the source, it is to find out how each installation will effect your whole system.
Yes, many of M$ patches can halt part of your system, you just have to have the knowledge about what you are doing to stop it.
Why is it so hard to get Linux people to understand importance of testing. I wouldn't put any yum updates to production before testing them beforehand. Something like Linux being more reliable most of the time doesn't mean that there wouldn't be case where these kind of problems wouldn't happen. Getting fund to do tests on these reliable systems is task that I don't like to be doing too often.
Thanks for that reliability and dependability.
Microsoft updates are reliable because you allways know that those have to be tested before installing them on production.
This "problem" is not limited to ServersCheck. A Google 'Suggest' search for just about any popular software package will turn up entries that include the words "crack", "serial" or "keygen".
Common problem with this is that their marketing department sucks. Unless googlebombing doesn't work anymore, nothing stops these companies on linking those searchwords to their online ordering page as number one on the list.
Try to keep in mind that there's almost certainly never going to be another 'Dark Ages'.
And this is secured be teaching creatism in schools instead of those misleading Darwing teachings that insulted the true god.
Certainly we won't be burning people as witches and burning their books, we are civilizied enough to know who are unpatriotic and we deal with them.
Think about it: free energy means the oil industries and the rest of the infrastructure built around them are suddenly obsolete.
Oil industry wouldn't be be obsolete because oil would be used to create more cheap plastic things.
Antigravity means free transportation. Suddenly the airlines, rail industry, (nautical) shipping, and even the automobile industry to some extent, are irrelevant.
Building things that would run with antigravity would require huge investments to build kind of equipment to carry enough people to make it profitable. Only industries having enoug money to create antigravity transportation ships or planes would be same companies that create aircraft, ships or trains. They would just change the techonolgy that they are using.
Even if I had a anti-gravity car that would run with free energy I would need to buy it from somebody, like current car maker. And I'm quite sure that I wouldn't be using my car or 1$ anti-gravity belt to fly to different continents. I'd want a plane with all required services for that trip.
Oil companies haven't stopped the development for electric cars because required oil needed to build parts for that car. New technologies rarely but any old players out of business, they just have to adapt for it.
If we had alien technology, had reverse engineered it, and knew how to make it work, we would be using it right now.
We would, but the EULA on that technology didn't allow us to make any copies for our own use. Goverment is smart enough not to get in trouble with all those organizations controlling piracy.
So we just have to wait until aliens release open source version of their technologies
And if they have that, they don't need the newspaper's computer to prove anything further.
leave any incriminating evidence lying around on their own computer either (gosh, how difficult is it to purge your browse history and cookies if you are done?
So what you are saying is that when they have address of that single computer, they don't need others because that certain one has everything wiped out. If you just take that one you knew about, it leaves criminals time to make sure that other computers are wiped clean when those are wanted for further investigations. And what if that computer that the crime was made with isn't the crimals computer?
Couldn't they just hire a room full of monkeys to hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button
Most of the monkeys can't be hired, they need to be elected. Some monkeys can then hire other monkeys to do this bush button thing.
3. you can't kill the idiot who is sitting next to you.
Yeah, thats why watching movies at home is a lot better. You can kill anybody you (don't) like and don't have to worry about people complaining about being too loud.
possibly by giving financial benefits to inteligent people who have children and heavily taxing less inteligent people who do ... which runs into the problem of how you measure inteligence reliably)
If that tax-form is normal state form, you have to be inteligent enough to be able to fill it.
Nope, they went to law-school.
The fundamental one in that regard is that the west accepts the separation of church and state,
At the moment, but more and more religous aspects are entering to the state affairs, like deciding what schools can and cannot teach.
And doesn't take that many generations to this separation to be gone for good. It's done in small pieces so that it would be easily accaptable for masses.
Democracy isn't just about voting,
It's democracy if everybody is allowed vote their canditate from several others having different agendas. And in democracy everybody is allowed to be canditate, no matter what their bank account says.
it's also about access to justice, education, freedom of speech and concerns about the minority.
If majority of voters believe that these are not key issues and they want to give their vote for somebody who does oppose these things, then not having access to these things has been part of democrazy.
Hasmas has huge popularity because it is providing schooling, unfortunatelly their schools tend to blow up by Isreali missiles or tanks.
I would say it is borderline entrapment if you install "illegal" software on someone's computer and bust them when they start to use it...
goverment allows me to have a car that goes 130mph, but busts me when I do so on 55mph zone.
I'm allowed to have a gun, but get busted doing something illegal with it.
I'm living in a free world, having free will. If I know something to be illegal or against policies it is up to me to choose what I want to do. I may break the law/policies as much as I want to, but I have to face penalties if being coucht.
Google may indeed have a hard time ahead of it, especially legally.
Normal legal bills aren't the only problems google might be expexting. They are sitting on huge amount of money and are on publics eye. How long you think that you'll see some mom suing google for their kid being weird. All they have to say that "my son was normal until he found google and started doing evil things with things that he found from there."
Just wait and see.