Re:It's like the 70's and 80's
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Exactly, what a bunch of idiots.
People doing this are going to discover that cops may not care much when you transfer copyrighted files over the net from the privacy of your own home, but they will care and will take notice when people start acting suspiciously in open public areas. People will probably start being arrested on suspicion of trading drugs, planting bombs, etc.
But such is the way with open source. Dump a working solution in favor of an up and coming newbie with its own set of problems.
Dump Debian for Gentoo. Gentoo for RedHat. and so on...
Oh that must be my problem, I went the other way (kinda). I dropped Red Hat for Gentoo and then dumped Gentoo for Ubuntu. At least on my workstations. I've mostly used RedHat/CentOS flavors always for my servers. This recent Xen drop thing has made me consider using Debian instead. And I'm an RHCE, go to Red Hat Summit nearly every year and have been using Red Hat since version 4.1 (the original 4.1, not RHEL), so I don't make these decisions lightly.
RHEL6 dumping Xen is actually a mistake. Not that KVM is bad, but Xen is actually really good and works well in production. The community is at fault for not trying to do more to integrate Xen into the kernel better.
But such is the way with open source. Dump a working solution in favor of an up and coming newbie with its own set of problems.
Even if the sun isn't shining on your side of the planet, its still shining on the planet. If you block it all together, I think it would have unforeseen consequences. Like a sudden chill.
Pretty good, but take note that all the examples where objects sitting on pretty flat colored backgrounds. I'd like to see what happens when you try to remove an object in a complex environment. Like removing a single person standing in a crowd.
Ever here of elevated privileges? I'm not talking about a band either. Like I said, its not really about the data that said user has, its about the fact that if a malicious user can gain access to their account, they then have an account on the system they can use to possibly gain further access. Thus, you want to make sure all accounts are as secure as possible to minimize your attack window. There are far more local exploits out there than remote exploits, so your goal is to keep unauthorized users off your machine all together.
Working in an enterprise, one of the biggest excuses I hear from people when I talk to them about password security is they will say "oh my account doesn't do much" or "its not a big deal if someone gets my stuff".
They have no idea that its not so much about them having their stuff (which incidentally probably indeed doesn't matter much), but just people having access to accounts that they shouldn't. I usually tell them why its important after they give me an excuse like that. But most people just don't seem to care. But of course they care when something happens.
Now that this information is public, we're going to start seeing networks called "Free Public Wifi - eatatjoes.com". Good job. Should have just kept quiet about it.
How do you think kids feel now. On one hand you have the government, parents and everyone saying that marijuana is not good for you. And on the other hand you have a Facebook founder telling them its ok and should be legal. I'm afraid that if the proposition isn't passed that it will just make it all the much harder for the people against it to gain ground.
Actually, that brings up a question--when they transmit these messages, do they lead the target, aiming for where it should be in 40 years, or just blanket the system?
Actually a better question would be why did they only send it for one day. I would think you'd want to build up a heck of a lead time, like maybe a countdown of a year that shows when the important part of the signal would be transmitted. Otherwise, you'd likely waste the effort on transmitting a short message that arrives on New Glieseyear Eve and nobody is paying attention.
According to the link you provided, they only sent it on one day. Why?
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report to the bridge to see Major Dix. Oh wait, this is the Navy, not the Army.
Sounds like this would be great for skyscapers, where you have huge windows all the way up and direct sunlight for long periods of the day.
Would it survive a Wordpress installation?
Exactly, what a bunch of idiots.
People doing this are going to discover that cops may not care much when you transfer copyrighted files over the net from the privacy of your own home, but they will care and will take notice when people start acting suspiciously in open public areas. People will probably start being arrested on suspicion of trading drugs, planting bombs, etc.
Fat fingers!
That's a pretty big finger, or I guess it could have been typed on the keypad.
But such is the way with open source. Dump a working solution in favor of an up and coming newbie with its own set of problems.
Dump Debian for Gentoo. Gentoo for RedHat. and so on...
Oh that must be my problem, I went the other way (kinda). I dropped Red Hat for Gentoo and then dumped Gentoo for Ubuntu. At least on my workstations. I've mostly used RedHat/CentOS flavors always for my servers. This recent Xen drop thing has made me consider using Debian instead. And I'm an RHCE, go to Red Hat Summit nearly every year and have been using Red Hat since version 4.1 (the original 4.1, not RHEL), so I don't make these decisions lightly.
RHEL6 dumping Xen is actually a mistake. Not that KVM is bad, but Xen is actually really good and works well in production. The community is at fault for not trying to do more to integrate Xen into the kernel better.
But such is the way with open source. Dump a working solution in favor of an up and coming newbie with its own set of problems.
I second that. VirtualBox is pretty awesome.
Don't blame the company (unethical as it may be). Blame the tax code that allows for such schenanigans to exist and occur.
Unethical? I thought Google's motto was 'do no evil'?
Even if the sun isn't shining on your side of the planet, its still shining on the planet. If you block it all together, I think it would have unforeseen consequences. Like a sudden chill.
Its dead again? Good thing it has a bunch of friends that can cast level 9 resurrection.
Have they used the Large Hardon Collider to make a black hole yet?
There has never been more of a need for the -1 obvious flag.
conclude this year with a X-mass break.
Is that supposed to be some kind of punny joke?
It's just a subtle reminder to never cross the beams.
Its streams, not beams. Nice try though.
conclude this year with a X-mass break.
Is that supposed to be some kind of punny joke?
I wouldn't say the time of bad capacitors is over. I've still run into and heard about recent cases.
I think more people should know about the whole story and you can read it at http://www.badcaps.net
Facebook caring about user privacy? Pulease!
Pretty good, but take note that all the examples where objects sitting on pretty flat colored backgrounds. I'd like to see what happens when you try to remove an object in a complex environment. Like removing a single person standing in a crowd.
Ever here of elevated privileges? I'm not talking about a band either. Like I said, its not really about the data that said user has, its about the fact that if a malicious user can gain access to their account, they then have an account on the system they can use to possibly gain further access. Thus, you want to make sure all accounts are as secure as possible to minimize your attack window. There are far more local exploits out there than remote exploits, so your goal is to keep unauthorized users off your machine all together.
Working in an enterprise, one of the biggest excuses I hear from people when I talk to them about password security is they will say "oh my account doesn't do much" or "its not a big deal if someone gets my stuff".
They have no idea that its not so much about them having their stuff (which incidentally probably indeed doesn't matter much), but just people having access to accounts that they shouldn't. I usually tell them why its important after they give me an excuse like that. But most people just don't seem to care. But of course they care when something happens.
Now that this information is public, we're going to start seeing networks called "Free Public Wifi - eatatjoes.com". Good job. Should have just kept quiet about it.
I have a T-shirt that I've been waiting to wear today that says 101010 on it, but now I can't find it.
How do you think kids feel now. On one hand you have the government, parents and everyone saying that marijuana is not good for you. And on the other hand you have a Facebook founder telling them its ok and should be legal. I'm afraid that if the proposition isn't passed that it will just make it all the much harder for the people against it to gain ground.
Wouldn't that mean that nobody is friends anymore?
Ta dit boom.
Actually, that brings up a question--when they transmit these messages, do they lead the target, aiming for where it should be in 40 years, or just blanket the system?
Actually a better question would be why did they only send it for one day. I would think you'd want to build up a heck of a lead time, like maybe a countdown of a year that shows when the important part of the signal would be transmitted. Otherwise, you'd likely waste the effort on transmitting a short message that arrives on New Glieseyear Eve and nobody is paying attention.
According to the link you provided, they only sent it on one day. Why?
Maybe her hope was that by starting a lawsuit, she would bury those sites with news articles about her own case.