I read somewhere that there is a TLS flag you can use in the config to disable the affected code, but for the life of me I can't find it for this post.:(
If these are your take-aways from Burning Man, I am sorry. It is apparent that you just didn't get it. You had a technical experience, but apparently not an emotional one. From your article, it sounds like you were a perfect spectator; but not a participant.
I've only been nine years, and I'd happily share all my tips with you. I have no problem 'making it easy' for people. But if they came back from the event with nothing to share except how to make it easy on themselves I would wonder why they bothered at all.
You can camp with my crew next year. We aren't the perfect camp, but nobody from my camp has ever come away with this dry of an experience.
This was not a case of people believing in magick. This was a case of someone taking a fake product, slapping fake certification labels on the outside, fake circuit boards on the inside, adding bogus 'smart cards', and selling it as a high-tech piece of hardware. It was a scam, but in this case there was active deceit that didn't need to rely on people's belief in 'dousing'; he relied on people's faith in technology and their unwillingness to crack open the case. This would have never fooled a person with the Maker Mentality.:)
I love living in a world where the regular headlines sound like the start of a decent sci fi adventure.
Now let's just hope this puppy doesn't get out of the lab and become a sci-fi/horror. Two hundred years from now it could be on the History Channel as "Zombie Plagues from the Past".
If that was the case, I think he would have explained it that way. He was quite frank in telling me that after I explained it, he felt he could do it himself.
Strictly speaking, this wasn't an interview; but I think it applies.
Many many many moons ago, a friend asked me if I would be interested in setting up a Novell network for his employer. I put together a quote and sent it off. He called me up, and said that he needed a detailed walk-through of the work involved in order to explain the quote to his boss. I explained everything that was necessary. A couple of weeks go by, and I haven't heard anything so I call him. After learning what needed to be done, he decided he could do it himself; and that was the route they were taking. Lost a 'friend', but gained a cautionary tale; I think I came out ahead. (Yes, Jeff; this story is about you.)
I have finished the first two series, and all of the available books in the third series.
Yes, Linden Avery kicks Lord Foul's ass in White Gold Wielder. And then she returns to the default world to find that the man she loves is dead. How the hell is that a happy ending?
Do you make a distinction between depressing and sad? Make Room! Make Room! made me depressed about the future, but Flowers for Algernon made me cry; and yet I think they were two different things.
Microstamping would only work if it were 100% impossible to pick up someone else's casings at a gun range. Plan on committing a crime? Just follow these steps:
1) Go to a local gun range. 2) Shoot next to someone who has a similar gun. 3) Pick up a few of their spent casings. 4) Commit your crime. 5) Pick up your casings. 6) Toss down the casings you picked up in #3.
If law enforcement has faith in micro stamping, you have just successfully framed someone. At least with blood evidence, it is a lot harder to steal someone's blood without them noticing.
Do a little googling, and you'll find lots of people writing about positive results using Walker Game Ear devices as cheap hearing aid substitutes. They don't have the frequency fine-tuning that medical devices have, but you can give a $200 Game Ear a try, and return it if it doesn't work. Try that with a $3k hearing aid...
Now your splitting hairs. If you haven't noticed, there is a drive to make OS X more iOS-like. Let's see what happens after Mountain Lion, if it is iOS that they call the next release of OS X I am still right.:)
Don't get me wrong, I completely agree. This is a mistake.
I love my MacBook Pro; but I fear that in another generation or two I'm going to have to give them up because I don't like where Apple is taking their OS.
It was ALSO a mistake to for the OP to which I was responding to blame Tim Cook for this descent from walled garden to sealed garden.
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Midnight_Falcon, you are indeed a rare bird. :)
Some versions are. The OpenVPN appliance I was running was affected, and there were no updates for it this morning so I had to kill it.
https://security.stackexchange...
I read somewhere that there is a TLS flag you can use in the config to disable the affected code, but for the life of me I can't find it for this post. :(
Sadly, this is not the case. The evidence is that bad actors had this exploit for months: http://arstechnica.com/securit...
If you think fifteen years in the profession makes you an 'old programmer'.
Bennett,
If these are your take-aways from Burning Man, I am sorry. It is apparent that you just didn't get it. You had a technical experience, but apparently not an emotional one. From your article, it sounds like you were a perfect spectator; but not a participant.
I've only been nine years, and I'd happily share all my tips with you. I have no problem 'making it easy' for people. But if they came back from the event with nothing to share except how to make it easy on themselves I would wonder why they bothered at all.
You can camp with my crew next year. We aren't the perfect camp, but nobody from my camp has ever come away with this dry of an experience.
From the linked article: "It is currently appraised at over $25,000, potentially making it the most expensive "personal computer" ever!"
There's an Apple I up for auction that is expected to haul in half a million.
In Methuselah's Children, one of the secrets to longevity treatments is transfusions with 'young blood'.
This was not a case of people believing in magick. This was a case of someone taking a fake product, slapping fake certification labels on the outside, fake circuit boards on the inside, adding bogus 'smart cards', and selling it as a high-tech piece of hardware. It was a scam, but in this case there was active deceit that didn't need to rely on people's belief in 'dousing'; he relied on people's faith in technology and their unwillingness to crack open the case. This would have never fooled a person with the Maker Mentality. :)
I love living in a world where the regular headlines sound like the start of a decent sci fi adventure.
Now let's just hope this puppy doesn't get out of the lab and become a sci-fi/horror. Two hundred years from now it could be on the History Channel as "Zombie Plagues from the Past".
If that was the case, I think he would have explained it that way. He was quite frank in telling me that after I explained it, he felt he could do it himself.
Strictly speaking, this wasn't an interview; but I think it applies.
Many many many moons ago, a friend asked me if I would be interested in setting up a Novell network for his employer. I put together a quote and sent it off. He called me up, and said that he needed a detailed walk-through of the work involved in order to explain the quote to his boss. I explained everything that was necessary. A couple of weeks go by, and I haven't heard anything so I call him. After learning what needed to be done, he decided he could do it himself; and that was the route they were taking. Lost a 'friend', but gained a cautionary tale; I think I came out ahead. (Yes, Jeff; this story is about you.)
I've been trying to resolve a Google AdSense issue for a year, and they just don't seem to give a damn.
Sadly, no. There hasn't been a new strip in years. For example, today's strip is a rerun from 2001.
For those too young to remember... 'open sores' is a reference to a User Friendly comic. I miss that comic.
The stupid problems with politics and egos...
I have finished the first two series, and all of the available books in the third series.
Yes, Linden Avery kicks Lord Foul's ass in White Gold Wielder. And then she returns to the default world to find that the man she loves is dead. How the hell is that a happy ending?
None of the Covenant books have had anything close to a happy ending.
Do you make a distinction between depressing and sad? Make Room! Make Room! made me depressed about the future, but Flowers for Algernon made me cry; and yet I think they were two different things.
Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison (http://tinyurl.com/9mnvuux) is the most depressing novel I have ever read.
It was the basis for "Soylent Green" (http://tinyurl.com/8bzfewf), but Soylent Green was a pick-me-up compared to this novel.
Microstamping would only work if it were 100% impossible to pick up someone else's casings at a gun range. Plan on committing a crime? Just follow these steps:
1) Go to a local gun range.
2) Shoot next to someone who has a similar gun.
3) Pick up a few of their spent casings.
4) Commit your crime.
5) Pick up your casings.
6) Toss down the casings you picked up in #3.
If law enforcement has faith in micro stamping, you have just successfully framed someone. At least with blood evidence, it is a lot harder to steal someone's blood without them noticing.
Do a little googling, and you'll find lots of people writing about positive results using Walker Game Ear devices as cheap hearing aid substitutes. They don't have the frequency fine-tuning that medical devices have, but you can give a $200 Game Ear a try, and return it if it doesn't work. Try that with a $3k hearing aid...
http://www.cabelas.com/catalog/browse/hunting-hunting-accessories-hearing-protection-enhancement/walkers-game-ear/_/N-1100132+1000005098/Ne-1000005098?WTz_l=SBC%3BBRprd708259&WTz_st=GuidedNav&WTz_stype=GNU
Looking forward to the payout, either way. :)
Now your splitting hairs. If you haven't noticed, there is a drive to make OS X more iOS-like. Let's see what happens after Mountain Lion, if it is iOS that they call the next release of OS X I am still right. :)
I bet a shot of good scotch and a pint of Guinness on my prediction. Will you bet against me?
Apple has no problem pissing off/on customers; so if that is the linchpin of your argument you might want to pass on my bet.
Don't get me wrong, I completely agree. This is a mistake.
I love my MacBook Pro; but I fear that in another generation or two I'm going to have to give them up because I don't like where Apple is taking their OS.
It was ALSO a mistake to for the OP to which I was responding to blame Tim Cook for this descent from walled garden to sealed garden.