These 'social issues' are working themselves out at the state level. Some states have legalized weed, many recognize gay marriage, and there's enough variety of pro/anti-gun and pro/anti choice balance to satisfy anyone except hard liners in each camp. There's more important shit out there to be worrying about on the national level: healthcare, immigration, our crumbling infrastructure, and our global reputation getting flushed down the crapper.
However what the states cannot do is anything about an overbearing federal government. The only way to rein in the NSA, TSA, and other TLA's is on the federal level. So if there is a candidate ignoring the things that are already being handled by the states and only focusing on the things the feds are actually supposed to be meddling with (and getting the feds to stop meddling with things they shouldn't have meddled with in the first place).
Those bluetooth locker programs are handy for this, once your phone / headset / whatever is out of range of your computer the lock screen automatically comes on. Some can also be configured for unlock (though that seems like it would add another possible attack surface).
I feel like there would be a market for small bt keychain dongles for this exact purpose.
The skylobby design works well enough - to get from the ground to any floor requires a maximum of one transfer, and elevator shafts can be stacked. The (original) NYC WTC towers for example had an elevator pattern which was: Express elevators to floor 44. Express elevators to floor 76. Shuttle express elevator between 44 and 76 that didn't go to the ground level. Local elevator banks served groups of 7-8 floors and would only take people to the nearest skylobby (or the ground for the lower third of the building). Tourist / freight elevators which could stop at 2, 44, 76, and 107 (possibly also 106, I forgot).
The only drawback of this design was, if you wanted to go from, say, floor 77 to floor 73, you would have to take 3 elevators (with transfers on 76 and 44). But the overwhelming number of elevator trips in any building involve the ground floor anyway, so this isn't really a big deal.
That's what the quick launch bars are/were for, if you make it small enough it's just another menu. I dunno if it's in Windows 8 because I got so frustrated with the start screen's jarring appearance that I just put shortcuts to everything I run on the desktop, removed the start button and trained myself to never hit the windows key unless I'm using it in a key combination. Even though I eventually installed classic shell, my workflow had been destroyed enough by that nonsense that I haven't bothered to set the rest of that up yet. Thanks Microsoft for sending me almost all the way back to windows 3.1, at least Windows+D is a bit easier than alt+tabbing to program manager...
Windows 8 would have been the year of Linux on the desktop, if the Gnome project hadn't decided to radically change their UI at the same time. It would have been easy to get people to switch to Gnome 2. But by inspiring every distro to jump ship for something else, at the crucial time when we really could have convinced people to switch, there was nothing fitting the (worthwhile+easy to use) categories to recommend.
We really were that close. I don't see us ever getting back to that, at this point. At least, I see Microsoft getting their act together again long before.
Agreed, however people generally don't go around doing that even in the absence of such a law / enforcement. Having a simple law against unprovoked attacks would work fine, and allow juries to determine what constitutes a provocation in the event it goes that far. I mentioned the whole "ask people to stop first" as well. The solution to assholes has been around since the dawn of man, if Ugg keeps putting out the fire when everyone else is cold, Ugg will get clubbed over the head and left outside.
in fact Linux typically requires all software to be installed as root no matter what
Technically yes, running "make install", using a package manager or installing an rpm/deb almost certainly requires root/sudo. However, there is nothing stopping you from keeping it all within your home directory (provided the/home filesystem has space and isn't set to noexec), many cases only requiring a wrapper script to modify LD_LIBRARY_PATH. A good example of a complex program which works this way would be apache directory studio, you just untar and launch the executable.
It's a whole lot simpler when you can simply punch out an asshole for being an asshole, and the 'criteria' is that the popular opinion of those observing the situation is that the punch was justified. Simple social ettiquete, if someone has an issue with your use of glass you can put it away or explain calmly, and if they have that much of a problem with it concede for the purpose of keeping the peace. I encounter this a lot with just a camera since I like taking pictures of not-people (buildings, infrastructure, indoor spaces). But of course, our society is now "wah wah I was being an asshole and can you believe he PUNCHED me and now I have a new house and car and he lives in a box!" and since the simple approach is illegal, we pile on asshole laws.
Having fewer employees does increase that risk. If one person has to do the work of five, they will have to take some shortcuts (either to complete tasks quicker, or to drop 'low impact' tasks like checking and patching the latest vulnerabilities in software in use).
Actually no, excellent advice but for too old a user. At age 10 I started hacking away on a hand me down commodore vic 20 while everyone else was enjoying Windows. The stuff I discovered with a few reference manuals, sample programs on tapes, and the goal of building programs with menu driven interfaces...
Isn't selinux's whole purpose is to solve this exact problem?
Any yet I get a lot of flak whenever I try to even enable it in "permissive" mode (as opposed to outright disabled) so I can at least audit when applications are trying to do things to files they shouldn't...
The problem is, when you trigger a strong emotional reaction, laws don't matter. If you piss someone off enough, they just want to hurt you and aren't thinking of the consequences. Or worse, if it is premeditated (like this obviously was) the thoughts on consequences become "no matter what happens to me, you'll still be dead". So unless you're prepared to deal with a worst case reaction, it's better to avoid conflict. Common sense with anything really, just because you're in the right doesn't mean you'll come out the victor.
Why are these misquotes getting upvoted. I thought/. was smarter than that. All he was implying was:
1. Violence is wrong 2. Insulting people can lead to violence 3. If you are afraid of violence happening to you, it is not a good idea to insult people
Too bad you're A/C and I have no mod points, but this is well said. Just because something is wrong doesn't mean it won't happen, so be careful. Simple common sense.
That's what sssd is for (I believe in authconfig it's the checkbox that has the word "caching" in it). And most machines with wireless are laptops which generally will need to have the wifi configured every time you go somewhere new... which of course needs to be done after logging in anyway, so you'll want the caching.
Don't get me wrong I love WPA supplicant but sometimes I just want to get on the damn wifi and not have to play around on the command line for 5 minutes every time I am at a new hotel, train station, airport or coffee shop.
My phone's 1 year past contract expiration and still gets updates. I predicted this would happen when I was shopping for a phone, paying the extra $100 for something in the Samsung Galaxy line versus the cheaper options (including one with a hardware keyboard which I desparately wanted).
If you want 3 years of OS updates it seems you have to stick with the "herd" and pick the manufacturer's flagship device, not their experiments. And once out of support there's always the option of rooting and installing your own updated Android or something else like Cyanogen.
I know 3 people who dropped out of college (4 year state school) due to finances, looked for a job, and by the time their graduating class year occurred had a higher salary than the average fresh out of college graduates were getting.
Turns out, the "some college" checkbox really is all you need.
I really don't understand why an ereader app needs to check phone call status, read text messages or activate the camera, but whatever, it's free!
In all seriousness before we worry about future smart gadgets, let's focus on the ones we already have. Android needs the functionality of "permissions denied" or similar apps built into the OS. Smart TVs should not be allowed to "anonymously" send information like the filenames of network files viewed on the tv...
If you think about it, "renting" is a pretty good deal if you count your deposit as lost. You don't have to clean when you leave, you can make as many holes as you damn well please, and if you stay there for a good number of years the additional "per month" cost of that deposit versus the "improvements" you've made, you come out ahead compared to home ownership.
Whether or not "they" can be used with a singular antecedent is up for debate. Unfortunately, the imaginary PC police keep trying to promote he/she and other awkwardisms for a problem that's been solved for over 200 years. Sourced blog entry on the subject.
Either way, I'll continue using "they" as a singular gender neutral pronoun, and if anyone has a problem with that they can go to heck.
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These 'social issues' are working themselves out at the state level. Some states have legalized weed, many recognize gay marriage, and there's enough variety of pro/anti-gun and pro/anti choice balance to satisfy anyone except hard liners in each camp. There's more important shit out there to be worrying about on the national level: healthcare, immigration, our crumbling infrastructure, and our global reputation getting flushed down the crapper.
However what the states cannot do is anything about an overbearing federal government. The only way to rein in the NSA, TSA, and other TLA's is on the federal level. So if there is a candidate ignoring the things that are already being handled by the states and only focusing on the things the feds are actually supposed to be meddling with (and getting the feds to stop meddling with things they shouldn't have meddled with in the first place).
Those bluetooth locker programs are handy for this, once your phone / headset / whatever is out of range of your computer the lock screen automatically comes on. Some can also be configured for unlock (though that seems like it would add another possible attack surface).
I feel like there would be a market for small bt keychain dongles for this exact purpose.
The skylobby design works well enough - to get from the ground to any floor requires a maximum of one transfer, and elevator shafts can be stacked. The (original) NYC WTC towers for example had an elevator pattern which was:
Express elevators to floor 44.
Express elevators to floor 76.
Shuttle express elevator between 44 and 76 that didn't go to the ground level.
Local elevator banks served groups of 7-8 floors and would only take people to the nearest skylobby (or the ground for the lower third of the building).
Tourist / freight elevators which could stop at 2, 44, 76, and 107 (possibly also 106, I forgot).
The only drawback of this design was, if you wanted to go from, say, floor 77 to floor 73, you would have to take 3 elevators (with transfers on 76 and 44). But the overwhelming number of elevator trips in any building involve the ground floor anyway, so this isn't really a big deal.
That's what the quick launch bars are/were for, if you make it small enough it's just another menu. I dunno if it's in Windows 8 because I got so frustrated with the start screen's jarring appearance that I just put shortcuts to everything I run on the desktop, removed the start button and trained myself to never hit the windows key unless I'm using it in a key combination. Even though I eventually installed classic shell, my workflow had been destroyed enough by that nonsense that I haven't bothered to set the rest of that up yet. Thanks Microsoft for sending me almost all the way back to windows 3.1, at least Windows+D is a bit easier than alt+tabbing to program manager...
Windows 8 would have been the year of Linux on the desktop, if the Gnome project hadn't decided to radically change their UI at the same time. It would have been easy to get people to switch to Gnome 2. But by inspiring every distro to jump ship for something else, at the crucial time when we really could have convinced people to switch, there was nothing fitting the (worthwhile+easy to use) categories to recommend.
We really were that close. I don't see us ever getting back to that, at this point. At least, I see Microsoft getting their act together again long before.
Agreed, however people generally don't go around doing that even in the absence of such a law / enforcement. Having a simple law against unprovoked attacks would work fine, and allow juries to determine what constitutes a provocation in the event it goes that far. I mentioned the whole "ask people to stop first" as well. The solution to assholes has been around since the dawn of man, if Ugg keeps putting out the fire when everyone else is cold, Ugg will get clubbed over the head and left outside.
in fact Linux typically requires all software to be installed as root no matter what
Technically yes, running "make install", using a package manager or installing an rpm/deb almost certainly requires root/sudo. However, there is nothing stopping you from keeping it all within your home directory (provided the /home filesystem has space and isn't set to noexec), many cases only requiring a wrapper script to modify LD_LIBRARY_PATH. A good example of a complex program which works this way would be apache directory studio, you just untar and launch the executable.
It's a whole lot simpler when you can simply punch out an asshole for being an asshole, and the 'criteria' is that the popular opinion of those observing the situation is that the punch was justified. Simple social ettiquete, if someone has an issue with your use of glass you can put it away or explain calmly, and if they have that much of a problem with it concede for the purpose of keeping the peace. I encounter this a lot with just a camera since I like taking pictures of not-people (buildings, infrastructure, indoor spaces). But of course, our society is now "wah wah I was being an asshole and can you believe he PUNCHED me and now I have a new house and car and he lives in a box!" and since the simple approach is illegal, we pile on asshole laws.
I don't always agree with Carlin's nitpicking of common phrases but his save the planet one was gold...
Having fewer employees does increase that risk. If one person has to do the work of five, they will have to take some shortcuts (either to complete tasks quicker, or to drop 'low impact' tasks like checking and patching the latest vulnerabilities in software in use).
Actually no, excellent advice but for too old a user. At age 10 I started hacking away on a hand me down commodore vic 20 while everyone else was enjoying Windows. The stuff I discovered with a few reference manuals, sample programs on tapes, and the goal of building programs with menu driven interfaces...
Isn't selinux's whole purpose is to solve this exact problem?
Any yet I get a lot of flak whenever I try to even enable it in "permissive" mode (as opposed to outright disabled) so I can at least audit when applications are trying to do things to files they shouldn't...
The problem is, when you trigger a strong emotional reaction, laws don't matter. If you piss someone off enough, they just want to hurt you and aren't thinking of the consequences. Or worse, if it is premeditated (like this obviously was) the thoughts on consequences become "no matter what happens to me, you'll still be dead". So unless you're prepared to deal with a worst case reaction, it's better to avoid conflict. Common sense with anything really, just because you're in the right doesn't mean you'll come out the victor.
Why are these misquotes getting upvoted. I thought /. was smarter than that. All he was implying was:
1. Violence is wrong
2. Insulting people can lead to violence
3. If you are afraid of violence happening to you, it is not a good idea to insult people
Too bad you're A/C and I have no mod points, but this is well said. Just because something is wrong doesn't mean it won't happen, so be careful. Simple common sense.
ncsd not sssd, blah, too late in the day.
That's what sssd is for (I believe in authconfig it's the checkbox that has the word "caching" in it). And most machines with wireless are laptops which generally will need to have the wifi configured every time you go somewhere new... which of course needs to be done after logging in anyway, so you'll want the caching.
Don't get me wrong I love WPA supplicant but sometimes I just want to get on the damn wifi and not have to play around on the command line for 5 minutes every time I am at a new hotel, train station, airport or coffee shop.
Some state governments will provide free tax preparation if you are making below a certain amount. New York's program.
My phone's 1 year past contract expiration and still gets updates. I predicted this would happen when I was shopping for a phone, paying the extra $100 for something in the Samsung Galaxy line versus the cheaper options (including one with a hardware keyboard which I desparately wanted).
If you want 3 years of OS updates it seems you have to stick with the "herd" and pick the manufacturer's flagship device, not their experiments.
And once out of support there's always the option of rooting and installing your own updated Android or something else like Cyanogen.
I know 3 people who dropped out of college (4 year state school) due to finances, looked for a job, and by the time their graduating class year occurred had a higher salary than the average fresh out of college graduates were getting.
Turns out, the "some college" checkbox really is all you need.
I really don't understand why an ereader app needs to check phone call status, read text messages or activate the camera, but whatever, it's free!
In all seriousness before we worry about future smart gadgets, let's focus on the ones we already have. Android needs the functionality of "permissions denied" or similar apps built into the OS. Smart TVs should not be allowed to "anonymously" send information like the filenames of network files viewed on the tv...
If you think about it, "renting" is a pretty good deal if you count your deposit as lost. You don't have to clean when you leave, you can make as many holes as you damn well please, and if you stay there for a good number of years the additional "per month" cost of that deposit versus the "improvements" you've made, you come out ahead compared to home ownership.
If/when civilization collapses life is going to suck. Being one of the first to catch a stray bullet is probably preferable.
Whether or not "they" can be used with a singular antecedent is up for debate. Unfortunately, the imaginary PC police keep trying to promote he/she and other awkwardisms for a problem that's been solved for over 200 years. Sourced blog entry on the subject.
Either way, I'll continue using "they" as a singular gender neutral pronoun, and if anyone has a problem with that they can go to heck.
There is a middle ground; the best class on a domestic airline is far from luxury, but better than cattle car.
Source: economy premium on ANA has the same legroom and amenities as domestic first class... *sigh*.