... I don't believe a word he says. Yes, Ubuntu is far and away the best OS choice today. And yes, Ubuntu is almost certainly already backdoored. Canonical does lawful business in anti-freedom countries like the United States and China. Therefore Canonical's software must be compromised.
You know real pedos are vanishingly rare, right? The only people who actually get turned on by kiddie porn are the Law Enforcers and their boot lickers who built a special search engine just so they could find some.
Year or so ago I was sitting in a little dive bar and I happened to overhear a bit of conversation between two white-haired old geezers, not tech folks at all. One of the geezers remarked: "oh no, I don't trust Facebook at all." That's when I knew the decline of Facebook had begun.
This is obviously false. The US Gubmint is vast sprawling collection of agencies. Some parts of it have bad security. Other parts have very, very good security.
Actually that cartoon is not the current situation on Ubuntu. By default root login is disabled and the user account has sudo privileges. So in a sense the user account is the admin account.
Unless you want to authenticate (password, fingerprint, whatever) for every single action you take, at some point the computer needs to be in an "unlocked" mode. Best practice is always to lock it when one steps away from the keyboard, even for a moment.
If you're really paranoid, you could set up a script to monitor the webcam, and lock the computer when no one is sitting in front of it. This might be a good place to start: http://tech.shantanugoel.com/2...
While restrooms at some suburban Bart stations remain open, afaik all restrooms at Bart stations inside San Francisco city limits were permanently closed after 9/11. 'Cuz Osama bin Laden might need to take a dump while commuting, or something like that.
San Francisco seriously lacks diversity. Yea, you'll see a variety of skin colors,
Don't forget the California Apartheid. There's a whole vast servant / menial laborer class of ethnically Hispanic people who are treated as second-class citizens. It's appalling, it's everywhere right in your face, and no one ever says a word about it.
Not the OP, but I did something similar when I was young. Took the Greyhound from a moribund Rustbelt industrial town out to SF. Lived in a bunk bed at a youth hostel for six months, sometimes scraping by paying rent on a day-to-day basis. I was lucky. Then picked up a little bit of work and lived for another few months in a decrepit "residential hotel" (aka "bum hotel") with a filthy shared bathroom down the hall. Eventually things got better. thank the gods.
Nowadays I don't think a kid in my former position could do the same thing. Most of the residential hotels were taken over by City-funded quangos and used to house the deranged street people for which SF is justly famous. The few remaining bum hotels now charge something like $1000/mo (maybe more, haven't checked lately) for third world quality accommodations. Rent for a bunk bed at the hostel is about the same.
No more cheep housing available in SF, no matter how modestly one is willing to live. Makes me kinda sad that kids today don't have the same opportunities I did not that many years ago.
doctors really don't like helping people, they just want your money
The first time you are turned away from a hospital while injured and in pain, because you cannot afford the copay on your worthless Obombercare "insurance", you will understand the truth of this statement.
If you disagree with the law, you can write to your state representative and suggest he/she vote to change the law.
Your suggestion works quite well when the letter to one's masters includes a 7- or 8-figure check. Otherwise, one might as well shake his fist and shout at the sky - it'll have just as much effect on public policy.
Launching a huge rocket to destroy a single satellite isn't very efficient. Better to launch an anti-satellite weapons system that remains in orbit and can be used against multiple targets.
The central neighborhoods of SF are a pedestrian-friendly urban environment. Fairly well suited to human habitation. Outside of a few (also quite expensive) areas in Oakland and Berkeley, the rest of the Bayarrhea is a cars-only suburban wasteland of soul-crushing office parks and grim tract housing.
Do you know how awesome it would be if there were an actual city in Redwood City? (RWC is one of the larger suburbs.) Pretty fucking awesome - the weather is way nicer down there, and obviously land is cheaper. Alas, no such luck. RWC is a hellish drosscape just like the rest of the 'burbs. People commute there only to work in the bigtech salt mines - then retreat back to cold, filthy, expensive, but walkable SF as quickly as possible.
If they had funded openSSL correctly years ago maybe we could have avoided heartbleed.
Heartbleed was not an accident. Seriously, read up on the details of how it works. It's quite subtle and almost beautiful. Totally implausible that it's an inadvertent bug.
So, no, the OP was wrong, he wasn't ousted for simply having an opinion.
Riiiiiiight. Eich was purged for expressing his (very widely shared) political opinion, not for having said opinion. Thank you, Dr Pedant, for drawing out attention to that important distinction.
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... I don't believe a word he says. Yes, Ubuntu is far and away the best OS choice today. And yes, Ubuntu is almost certainly already backdoored. Canonical does lawful business in anti-freedom countries like the United States and China. Therefore Canonical's software must be compromised.
You know real pedos are vanishingly rare, right? The only people who actually get turned on by kiddie porn are the Law Enforcers and their boot lickers who built a special search engine just so they could find some.
One could argue that obesity is a form of malnourishment. Not under-nourishment, malnourishment.
Obesity is a form of mass poisoning. The food supply is the problem.
It's the Shriners, you clod
I think FB's days are numbered, though
Year or so ago I was sitting in a little dive bar and I happened to overhear a bit of conversation between two white-haired old geezers, not tech folks at all. One of the geezers remarked: "oh no, I don't trust Facebook at all." That's when I knew the decline of Facebook had begun.
This is obviously false. The US Gubmint is vast sprawling collection of agencies. Some parts of it have bad security. Other parts have very, very good security.
Actually that cartoon is not the current situation on Ubuntu. By default root login is disabled and the user account has sudo privileges. So in a sense the user account is the admin account.
Unless you want to authenticate (password, fingerprint, whatever) for every single action you take, at some point the computer needs to be in an "unlocked" mode. Best practice is always to lock it when one steps away from the keyboard, even for a moment.
If you're really paranoid, you could set up a script to monitor the webcam, and lock the computer when no one is sitting in front of it. This might be a good place to start: http://tech.shantanugoel.com/2...
While restrooms at some suburban Bart stations remain open, afaik all restrooms at Bart stations inside San Francisco city limits were permanently closed after 9/11. 'Cuz Osama bin Laden might need to take a dump while commuting, or something like that.
San Francisco seriously lacks diversity. Yea, you'll see a variety of skin colors,
Don't forget the California Apartheid. There's a whole vast servant / menial laborer class of ethnically Hispanic people who are treated as second-class citizens. It's appalling, it's everywhere right in your face, and no one ever says a word about it.
Not the OP, but I did something similar when I was young. Took the Greyhound from a moribund Rustbelt industrial town out to SF. Lived in a bunk bed at a youth hostel for six months, sometimes scraping by paying rent on a day-to-day basis. I was lucky. Then picked up a little bit of work and lived for another few months in a decrepit "residential hotel" (aka "bum hotel") with a filthy shared bathroom down the hall. Eventually things got better. thank the gods.
Nowadays I don't think a kid in my former position could do the same thing. Most of the residential hotels were taken over by City-funded quangos and used to house the deranged street people for which SF is justly famous. The few remaining bum hotels now charge something like $1000/mo (maybe more, haven't checked lately) for third world quality accommodations. Rent for a bunk bed at the hostel is about the same.
No more cheep housing available in SF, no matter how modestly one is willing to live. Makes me kinda sad that kids today don't have the same opportunities I did not that many years ago.
Serious question: which corner is that? I know some areas in downtown SF with a high concentration of Starbucks, but not quite that high.
doctors really don't like helping people, they just want your money
The first time you are turned away from a hospital while injured and in pain, because you cannot afford the copay on your worthless Obombercare "insurance", you will understand the truth of this statement.
While they obtained a warrant, they did it by withholding information they knew to be relevant to the PC determination.
Oh c'mon, we all know warrants are granted with a rubber stamp. Judicial review is nothing but a bad joke.
Afaik Slashdot is written in Perl.
Great idea, zero potential for / certainty of abuse! And so secure! Tricking a fingerprint reader requires special advanced technology.
If you disagree with the law, you can write to your state representative and suggest he/she vote to change the law.
Your suggestion works quite well when the letter to one's masters includes a 7- or 8-figure check. Otherwise, one might as well shake his fist and shout at the sky - it'll have just as much effect on public policy.
Launching a huge rocket to destroy a single satellite isn't very efficient. Better to launch an anti-satellite weapons system that remains in orbit and can be used against multiple targets.
The central neighborhoods of SF are a pedestrian-friendly urban environment. Fairly well suited to human habitation. Outside of a few (also quite expensive) areas in Oakland and Berkeley, the rest of the Bayarrhea is a cars-only suburban wasteland of soul-crushing office parks and grim tract housing.
Do you know how awesome it would be if there were an actual city in Redwood City? (RWC is one of the larger suburbs.) Pretty fucking awesome - the weather is way nicer down there, and obviously land is cheaper. Alas, no such luck. RWC is a hellish drosscape just like the rest of the 'burbs. People commute there only to work in the bigtech salt mines - then retreat back to cold, filthy, expensive, but walkable SF as quickly as possible.
leonine contract != promise
Perhaps they were caught by surprise. After all, no one expects the Spanish Inquisition.
Apparently his view was shared by at least 7 million California voters, a majority in the Prop 8 referendum.
If they had funded openSSL correctly years ago maybe we could have avoided heartbleed.
Heartbleed was not an accident. Seriously, read up on the details of how it works. It's quite subtle and almost beautiful. Totally implausible that it's an inadvertent bug.
So, no, the OP was wrong, he wasn't ousted for simply having an opinion.
Riiiiiiight. Eich was purged for expressing his (very widely shared) political opinion, not for having said opinion. Thank you, Dr Pedant, for drawing out attention to that important distinction.
In Vietnam everyone is a millionaire! (1,000,000VND = 44.86USD at today's exchange rate.)