I have no social media presence... Never had, never will.
Why do you think you need to willingly give up all your privacy, information, list of friends, hangouts, etc to a third party company? If facebook was a.gov and it was the elected few collecting all this information, would you still give it up? Why not? At least the government has many LAWS in place protecting you and what they can do with the information, a private company has none of these.
As far as my social life goes, I still attend parties all the time. I still attend events often. There still exists a thing called a "telephone" and "mouth" which are great tools for communication.
Today, Employeers and the government alike can request you friend them, or otherwise just buy/obtain all your information and make life-altering decisions about you based on that information. Today, Facebook is testing their "suicide prevention" scanning. That's something easy that they can get the heuristics right, before they switch it to other things: identifying drug users, minorities, people who belong to the wrong party, those who don't practice doublethink, etc.
"Everyone else is doing it" is hardly good reason for anything. Think for yourself. Be a person. Or don't, it's your choice. For now.
As the guy who was laughed at for handing a hammer to the man punching the nail: I bow to your superiority. I was obviously doing it wrong, I'll move along. Want a band-aid?
Fact is, a language doesn't fix stupid programming. There's always gonna be some bimbo that doesn't think he needs to check the length of a string, or check that the SSL certificate matches the host..
However, I've tried to make my own custom builds of Firefox and it's a nightmare. The build process used by Firefox is so complicated and convoluted, it would make Rube Goldberg laugh. I haven't tried building Chrome, but reading the build instructions, it appears to be only marginally better.
These are "stock" browsers without security plugins or addons, correct? None too surprising really.
You mean malware like Symantec? I agree, exploiting anything on a Symantec infested machine would take much longer... but only because everything running on that system would run at about 1/17th max throughput.
And http (without the S) has been hijacked by every single ISP ever. That's not the point. There are still many many paths to get there. Better to take a three-letter-agency's approach and leave it open, but track who is resolving those domains. That way, you know who to hassle. By forcing dumb (or just curious) people to use identity-hiding tools instead of doing it plain-faced, you lose that ability.
Filtering like this is like saying "People with mouth's cannot open the door that leads to the bank vault." It just forces these stupid people to smarten up and wear a mask, instead of allowing for the many who would try to walk in plain-faced.
Note I don't support censorship of any kind, but they could at least be doing it right.. Why be evil and not go all the way?
This will work for anyone who has never heard of TOR, proxies, tunneling, forwarding servlets.... And since from description it sounds like they are blocking by DNS or IP. Both are very short turnaround to put up a new one. And then what? 100,000 records that are tested for every entry? And what about alternate ports?
So useless.
Because to block https traffic to specific portions of host you need to intercept, decrypt, and resign the traffic. This defeats the whole purpose of SSL. The connection only contains the hostname, then handshake, and encrypted from there. It's called a Man in the Middle.
Because all those sources will sell every image, message, and status you've ever had for a nominal fee. Lots of hiring companies require you "Friend" them nowadays anyway, so they don't even have to pay. Considering some doufas could just post something stupid on my account and I'd lose the ability for employment... why?
I've ran into this ALLL THE TIME! There is some perception that if it's done elsewhere it's good, and if it's done internally it's crap. This exists in not only management but in coworkers. I try to explain all the time the advantages of in-house software
1. Does exactly what we want, how we want it
2. Does it now
3. We update on our own terms, we are not forced to migrate when external migrates
It is a huge waste of time to have to update tons of things internally to work with some refactoring done externally, and a huge waste of time to jump loops and hoops to try to shove the square peg in the round hole.
I've presented solutions using ~20 lines of python code, but been told "No, we don't want to have to maintain that" (a bogus argument), "Let's instead leverage these 5 million+ line codebase external products, configured in a non-intended way, to accomplish 80% of the goal you accomplished in 20 direct lines".
It's a very similar trend I think to what I see all the time with knowledge. There is no such thing as first-hand knowledge. I can never tell people my discoveries or theories, "Nope, that's not what wiki says." Just because they know me and the source of wiki is some anonymous as far as they are concerned, the "anonymous" source becomes "truth", because it can be verified through some sort of self-fulfilling dogma.
The point is to not have to repeat freeing variables, releasing locks, etc everywhere. It's like a "finally" clause for people who cna only think in exceptions.
Don't home school... your kid will miss all the social growth that happens during 5-18, and not really be better off (except maybe better at taking tests, due to doing nothing else). Little of anything I know I learned in school, I learned because I was interested in something and actively pursued it. It's easy to point out home schooled people, and was especially apparent in college days... The very awkward kids with dependence issues.
Wal Mart sells "Lodge" brand cast iron for about $20-$40 per, depending on size. Of course cast iron must be cleaned well each use, or else it will develop rust, even with proper curing, so it's not-for-you if you are lazy.
I remember in a school I attended there was a "Web Master's" club. I thought it would be a great place to go to practice web technologies, and give back some of the experience I had. Unfortunately, when I attended the first meeting of that year, I was horrified to find that they were using Cold Fusion for the web page! This meant I had to buy a very expensive license, just to learn something obtuse that I probably wouldn't use anywhere else, and that none of my real-world experience really translated. I continued to attend the club, because I learned there was basically no web programming going on and it was more to "hang-out", but I can't help but feel like if they had used real open languages like HTML and JS, it could have been a useful experience for a lot of people.
When it comes to more complex constructs Python cannot do them and I would be forced to rely on C (which is incredibly complex for a junior developer) VB acts as the transition between the two and introduces the concepts without the difficult conventions required.
What complex constructs can't python do? I spent years of advanced python programming and NEVER had to write a module in C. I certainly have used other, open source modules written in C, but these are generally for very advanced or performance-intensive tasks...
I had to walk to elementary school, also in Maryland. The rule was if you lived less than a mile away, you had to walk. I lived.98. Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever once had an issue. What's up with these pussies?
What? preserving root is default. From rm man page:
--no-preserve-root
do not treat `/' specially
--preserve-root
do not remove `/' (default)
So, is this a "generalization" that it did "rm / -Rf" ? I can't imagine a world they would specify the non-default flag of --no-preserve-root. Seems BS to me.
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I have no social media presence... Never had, never will.
Why do you think you need to willingly give up all your privacy, information, list of friends, hangouts, etc to a third party company? If facebook was a .gov and it was the elected few collecting all this information, would you still give it up? Why not? At least the government has many LAWS in place protecting you and what they can do with the information, a private company has none of these.
As far as my social life goes, I still attend parties all the time. I still attend events often. There still exists a thing called a "telephone" and "mouth" which are great tools for communication.
Today, Employeers and the government alike can request you friend them, or otherwise just buy/obtain all your information and make life-altering decisions about you based on that information. Today, Facebook is testing their "suicide prevention" scanning. That's something easy that they can get the heuristics right, before they switch it to other things: identifying drug users, minorities, people who belong to the wrong party, those who don't practice doublethink, etc.
"Everyone else is doing it" is hardly good reason for anything. Think for yourself. Be a person. Or don't, it's your choice. For now.
As the guy who was laughed at for handing a hammer to the man punching the nail: I bow to your superiority. I was obviously doing it wrong, I'll move along. Want a band-aid?
but I bet they can be blamed on C.
Well, it could have be written in python and have broken SSL support for years...
https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/...
Fact is, a language doesn't fix stupid programming. There's always gonna be some bimbo that doesn't think he needs to check the length of a string, or check that the SSL certificate matches the host..
plugging aside, building firefox is little more than using standard make.
Technically, this is correct.
However, I've tried to make my own custom builds of Firefox and it's a nightmare. The build process used by Firefox is so complicated and convoluted, it would make Rube Goldberg laugh. I haven't tried building Chrome, but reading the build instructions, it appears to be only marginally better.
https://projects.archlinux.org...
1. Download
2. Run "makepkg"
3. pacman -U *.pkg
3b. If you see "No command found" or "Windows cannot find ....", www.archlinux.org
WTF is this garbage?
These are "stock" browsers without security plugins or addons, correct? None too surprising really.
You mean malware like Symantec? I agree, exploiting anything on a Symantec infested machine would take much longer... but only because everything running on that system would run at about 1/17th max throughput.
And http (without the S) has been hijacked by every single ISP ever. That's not the point. There are still many many paths to get there. Better to take a three-letter-agency's approach and leave it open, but track who is resolving those domains. That way, you know who to hassle. By forcing dumb (or just curious) people to use identity-hiding tools instead of doing it plain-faced, you lose that ability.
Filtering like this is like saying "People with mouth's cannot open the door that leads to the bank vault." It just forces these stupid people to smarten up and wear a mask, instead of allowing for the many who would try to walk in plain-faced.
Note I don't support censorship of any kind, but they could at least be doing it right.. Why be evil and not go all the way?
www.whitehouse.gov
Back in the day, the .com version was better.
This will work for anyone who has never heard of TOR, proxies, tunneling, forwarding servlets.... And since from description it sounds like they are blocking by DNS or IP. Both are very short turnaround to put up a new one. And then what? 100,000 records that are tested for every entry? And what about alternate ports? So useless.
Because to block https traffic to specific portions of host you need to intercept, decrypt, and resign the traffic. This defeats the whole purpose of SSL. The connection only contains the hostname, then handshake, and encrypted from there. It's called a Man in the Middle.
Because all those sources will sell every image, message, and status you've ever had for a nominal fee. Lots of hiring companies require you "Friend" them nowadays anyway, so they don't even have to pay. Considering some doufas could just post something stupid on my account and I'd lose the ability for employment... why?
I've ran into this ALLL THE TIME! There is some perception that if it's done elsewhere it's good, and if it's done internally it's crap. This exists in not only management but in coworkers. I try to explain all the time the advantages of in-house software
1. Does exactly what we want, how we want it
2. Does it now
3. We update on our own terms, we are not forced to migrate when external migrates
It is a huge waste of time to have to update tons of things internally to work with some refactoring done externally, and a huge waste of time to jump loops and hoops to try to shove the square peg in the round hole.
I've presented solutions using ~20 lines of python code, but been told "No, we don't want to have to maintain that" (a bogus argument), "Let's instead leverage these 5 million+ line codebase external products, configured in a non-intended way, to accomplish 80% of the goal you accomplished in 20 direct lines".
It's a very similar trend I think to what I see all the time with knowledge. There is no such thing as first-hand knowledge. I can never tell people my discoveries or theories, "Nope, that's not what wiki says." Just because they know me and the source of wiki is some anonymous as far as they are concerned, the "anonymous" source becomes "truth", because it can be verified through some sort of self-fulfilling dogma.
Sugar is, in fact, a drug.
If you reconstruct a soldier, replacing every body part one by one until all body parts have been replaced, is it still the original soldier?
The point is to not have to repeat freeing variables, releasing locks, etc everywhere. It's like a "finally" clause for people who cna only think in exceptions.
Here's a better example I think:
int something(void)
{
int x = 0;
char *y, *z;
int lock;
int error; // stores error code, or 0 on success
y = malloc...
z = malloc...
lock = get_lock()
if(error) goto out;
if(error) goto out;
if(error) goto out;
out:
free(y);
free(z);
release_lock(lock);
return error;
}
Don't home school... your kid will miss all the social growth that happens during 5-18, and not really be better off (except maybe better at taking tests, due to doing nothing else). Little of anything I know I learned in school, I learned because I was interested in something and actively pursued it. It's easy to point out home schooled people, and was especially apparent in college days... The very awkward kids with dependence issues.
Wal Mart sells "Lodge" brand cast iron for about $20-$40 per, depending on size. Of course cast iron must be cleaned well each use, or else it will develop rust, even with proper curing, so it's not-for-you if you are lazy.
why get excited for having a button for ctrl-v? do you also have a button for ctrl-c and ctrl-x? you make no sense.
Yes. middle mouse pastes the last highlighted text, so double-left-click is control+c.
I remember in a school I attended there was a "Web Master's" club. I thought it would be a great place to go to practice web technologies, and give back some of the experience I had. Unfortunately, when I attended the first meeting of that year, I was horrified to find that they were using Cold Fusion for the web page! This meant I had to buy a very expensive license, just to learn something obtuse that I probably wouldn't use anywhere else, and that none of my real-world experience really translated. I continued to attend the club, because I learned there was basically no web programming going on and it was more to "hang-out", but I can't help but feel like if they had used real open languages like HTML and JS, it could have been a useful experience for a lot of people.
When it comes to more complex constructs Python cannot do them and I would be forced to rely on C (which is incredibly complex for a junior developer) VB acts as the transition between the two and introduces the concepts without the difficult conventions required.
What complex constructs can't python do? I spent years of advanced python programming and NEVER had to write a module in C. I certainly have used other, open source modules written in C, but these are generally for very advanced or performance-intensive tasks...
I had to walk to elementary school, also in Maryland. The rule was if you lived less than a mile away, you had to walk. I lived .98. Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever once had an issue. What's up with these pussies?
What? preserving root is default. From rm man page: --no-preserve-root do not treat `/' specially --preserve-root do not remove `/' (default) So, is this a "generalization" that it did "rm / -Rf" ? I can't imagine a world they would specify the non-default flag of --no-preserve-root. Seems BS to me.