If you decide to get a $19.99 bargain bin android from one of the major carriers then it will probably loaded to the gills with crap-ware. Why? Because you only paid $20 for the phone and they need to make money on it somehow - enter third-party crap-ware vendors that pay to be preloaded onto your phone.
You want a crap-ware free phone? Suck it up and buy a Nexus, yes they are $350 but in exchange you get a bare as-vanilla-as-you-can-get OS with nothing aside from Google Apps loaded onto it. The fact that it's trivially rootable and gets updates direct from Google, guaranteed, is icing on the cake.
You want to have a crap-ware free phone but don't feel like shelling out the cash for a Nexus, fine, root the phone you have. Install an AOSP (Android Open Source Project) ROM like CyanogenMod and call it done.
I thought the quote was "Life will find a way". Or are you implying that Life == Stupid? Considering the shenanigans the human race has been engaging in you might have an argument there...
No, encryption won't get your data back, that's what backups are for. Encryption does mean that the thief cannot skim your passwords and whatnot before fencing your computer at the local pawnshop. You might not have the data anymore but no one else should be able to get it either.
They don't need to be. By your own words, the extremists have the lion's share of rebel military hardware. Guns make for a very persuasive political amplifier (e.g. "do what we say or your village burns")
If the exec is aggressive and will fire you for not "getting with the program" then politely bring it to their attention and then shut up and abide by whatever decision they make. They want to be The Decision Maker(TM)? Fine, let them, just make sure your ass is covered when the defecation inevitably interfaces with the oscillation so that they can't throw you under the bus to save their own hide (or at least make it a touch more difficult for them to do so).
That's why you make any warnings or recommendations in writing so that there can be a paper trail you can point to and say "I warned them about this, they chose not to act on my warning, Ergo they're liable. They had the authority to take the corrective measures that I suggested but chose not to, ultimate fault lies not with me the messenger but them the executor"
CEO response: "You are not a profit center, you are a cost center; therefore you a necessary evil that we tolerate only as much as we absolutely need to. You get in the way of business, of making money, of paying your bloody paycheck, and expect me to thank you for that and say "more please"? Get the fsck out of my office, you're fired!"
And yet you are required to have homeowners or renters insurance to have a house/apt. By your logic, if your domicile never gets burgled or burns to the ground then all that money you are paying for insurance is money wasted.
Security systems of any kind are reactionary, they only act if Something Bad happens first. In other words, you don't WANT to actually use your security system or insurance, you just want them available and standing by to mitigate any damage that comes from whatever Bad Thing happened to disrupt your home.
You may consider that money wasted but when you compare the cost of insurance or a security system against the cost of a home invasion or fire you are actually saving money. It's all about measured and accepted risk. If you truly believe that money is wasted then don't pay for it; just don't come crying to me when your house burns down and your have no way to rebuild or pay off the bank loan on the pile of ashes you used to call a house.
How many people check the cert fingerprint? If the rogue cert has the a good root CA signature then most browsers will likely not flag it and that is probably as far as most users go towards verifying their SSL traffic is not being snarfed by a MITM attack.
So War really is Peace then? Suddenly it all makes sense!
1. Unify a broad coalition of groups that ordinarily hate one another against a common external foe (that would be us). 2. Keep them pissed off at common foe long enough for regional grievances to subside (figure a few generations for complete effect) 3.... 4. PROFIT!!!
Because we have been meddling in their internal affairs for the last 70 years.
How would you feel if some jerkwad (the USA) from across town inserted themselves into a dispute between you and your immediate neighbors (the Middle East)? What business do they have intervening in matters internal to your neighborhood? Now factor in the fact that the neighborhood douchebag (Israel) is said jerkwad's cousin and gets special perks and considerations because of it. Now how would you feel about the jerkwad from across town?
Personally I would resent their actions, see them as an intrusion into my autonomy and want them the fuck out of my affairs. I imagine that most folks in the Middle East take a similar point of view towards the US.
Slashdot Mirror
next time Shuttleworth gets a wild hare up his ass.
You mean gerbil right?
No. Those laws are secret.
Which one? Louis XIV was the fracking Sun King. Louis XVI was the one who lost his head.
If you decide to get a $19.99 bargain bin android from one of the major carriers then it will probably loaded to the gills with crap-ware. Why? Because you only paid $20 for the phone and they need to make money on it somehow - enter third-party crap-ware vendors that pay to be preloaded onto your phone.
You want a crap-ware free phone? Suck it up and buy a Nexus, yes they are $350 but in exchange you get a bare as-vanilla-as-you-can-get OS with nothing aside from Google Apps loaded onto it. The fact that it's trivially rootable and gets updates direct from Google, guaranteed, is icing on the cake.
You want to have a crap-ware free phone but don't feel like shelling out the cash for a Nexus, fine, root the phone you have. Install an AOSP (Android Open Source Project) ROM like CyanogenMod and call it done.
TL;DR you get what you pay for.
I thought the quote was " Life will find a way". Or are you implying that Life == Stupid? Considering the shenanigans the human race has been engaging in you might have an argument there...
No, encryption won't get your data back, that's what backups are for. Encryption does mean that the thief cannot skim your passwords and whatnot before fencing your computer at the local pawnshop. You might not have the data anymore but no one else should be able to get it either.
INGSOC!!
Texas, one of the hardest-core red states out there, for one...
And that surprises you in what way?
They don't need to be. By your own words, the extremists have the lion's share of rebel military hardware. Guns make for a very persuasive political amplifier (e.g. "do what we say or your village burns")
If the exec is aggressive and will fire you for not "getting with the program" then politely bring it to their attention and then shut up and abide by whatever decision they make. They want to be The Decision Maker(TM)? Fine, let them, just make sure your ass is covered when the defecation inevitably interfaces with the oscillation so that they can't throw you under the bus to save their own hide (or at least make it a touch more difficult for them to do so).
probably not but anyone here will automatically run an inline "sed s/s/u" while reading it
That's why you make any warnings or recommendations in writing so that there can be a paper trail you can point to and say "I warned them about this, they chose not to act on my warning, Ergo they're liable. They had the authority to take the corrective measures that I suggested but chose not to, ultimate fault lies not with me the messenger but them the executor"
CEO response: "You are not a profit center, you are a cost center; therefore you a necessary evil that we tolerate only as much as we absolutely need to. You get in the way of business, of making money, of paying your bloody paycheck, and expect me to thank you for that and say "more please"? Get the fsck out of my office, you're fired!"
And yet you are required to have homeowners or renters insurance to have a house/apt. By your logic, if your domicile never gets burgled or burns to the ground then all that money you are paying for insurance is money wasted.
Security systems of any kind are reactionary, they only act if Something Bad happens first. In other words, you don't WANT to actually use your security system or insurance, you just want them available and standing by to mitigate any damage that comes from whatever Bad Thing happened to disrupt your home.
You may consider that money wasted but when you compare the cost of insurance or a security system against the cost of a home invasion or fire you are actually saving money. It's all about measured and accepted risk. If you truly believe that money is wasted then don't pay for it; just don't come crying to me when your house burns down and your have no way to rebuild or pay off the bank loan on the pile of ashes you used to call a house.
What does "destroy" even mean in this context?
Global Thermonuclear Apocalypse
How many people check the cert fingerprint? If the rogue cert has the a good root CA signature then most browsers will likely not flag it and that is probably as far as most users go towards verifying their SSL traffic is not being snarfed by a MITM attack.
Frank Herbert (Dune)
Money over humanity is exactly why the planet is fucked. Money means power, power corrupts. Why is that so hard to comprehend?
FTFY
Why is that?
Because little people don't matter.
Sharknado?
So War really is Peace then? Suddenly it all makes sense!
1. Unify a broad coalition of groups that ordinarily hate one another against a common external foe (that would be us). ...
2. Keep them pissed off at common foe long enough for regional grievances to subside (figure a few generations for complete effect)
3.
4. PROFIT!!!
Because we have been meddling in their internal affairs for the last 70 years.
How would you feel if some jerkwad (the USA) from across town inserted themselves into a dispute between you and your immediate neighbors (the Middle East)? What business do they have intervening in matters internal to your neighborhood? Now factor in the fact that the neighborhood douchebag (Israel) is said jerkwad's cousin and gets special perks and considerations because of it. Now how would you feel about the jerkwad from across town?
Personally I would resent their actions, see them as an intrusion into my autonomy and want them the fuck out of my affairs. I imagine that most folks in the Middle East take a similar point of view towards the US.
And that makes it all kosher right?
Because Shrub wanted to show daddy what a big boy he was by declaring unilateral war all by himself?