It sure looks like scam, and even if it wasn't it at least doesn't look like trustworthy or that the people behind it are too skilled. Even their website is like it was made by a 12-year old, including faulty UTF-8 and all. It certainly doesn't instill any sort of confidence in these folks!
A lot of the various Internet-engineers disagree with you. Have you looked at how much traffic is spent on nothing more than headers? There's a lot of stuff spent on those. Now, multiply that with the said scripts and other files you mentioned, with every single file or request generating all those headers. Then, multiply all that with the number of users accessing the servers, and you have shitloads of traffic eating away at your bandwidth all needlessly. There have been a lot of attempts all around that try to reduce this clutter, like e.g. Comet, WebSockets and so on.
You're only seeing things from the perspective of the end-users, but for those running servers or those providing the bandwidth it does really matter.
Actually, it seems the attackers are mostly just a loose bunch of youngsters trying to emulate the big groups, ie. Lizard Squard and Anon et.al. I certainly have not heard anything hinting towards any ransom. F-Secure already has identified and knows from before of several of the attackers, so we can expect arrests soonish.
The compiler doesn't actually do parallel processing when you're compiling the kernel, it does multi-processing and that's the crux here; when you're compiling the kernel each process that spawns works on its own set of files -- multi-processing, that is -- whereas if it was doing parallel-processing they'd be working on the same files simultaneously. They are two very different concepts and you're confusing them.
Is SSD reliability/longevity still lower than the HDD's, or is that no longer true (or is the opposite true nowadays)?
http://hardware.slashdot.org/s... -- Two petabytes of data written on a cheap, consumer-grade drive and it's still going strong. Not all drives last that much, but basically you can use the drive for two decades without much worry. Of course you're still better off using a non-SSD for something that keeps on chugging data to the drive 24/7, but for pretty much any other use-case they're perfectly fine these days.
"Because people will move or travel, and all there games will stop working" -- This has nothing to do with the games not working, it's only about being able to buy games or gift games in those cheap areas. If you have bought the game it'll still continue to work, regardless of where you bought it or where you're playing it in.
Have you checked if it uses HTTP or HTTPS for its traffic? If it's just plain-old HTTP you could redirect the traffic to Sony's servers to a server of your own instead and always just reply with "everything is ok, no updates available, please continue." That's what I've done to several apps and appliances, thereby removing myself from their prying eyes and granting me access to things even when manufacturer's servers are unavailable.
Ugh. Why do so many AAA-games ship with broken controls on PCs? That really pisses me off. I was planning to buy the game, but now.. well, I've been burned by horrible controls so many times in the past that I'm just not so keen on repeating that anymore:S
Regulation or banning would be ineffective, it's so easy to order parts online and build the things yourself. Or 3D-print them. A sniper or two with good rifles on airport grounds, though, would most likely work much better.
Many things in life were not originally designed for the tasks they were later used for. SpaceShipTwo and any future revisions may still yield useful tech or information. Dismissing it all just because it's not designed for deep space is short-sighted.
Windows 8 is pretty much the same OS as 7 with a slightly worse UI.
I've been using Windows 8 with Start8 for well over a year now and I really don't have much to complain. I just simply disabled all the Metro-related hot corners with Start8, set the system to boot to desktop and changed the default apps from Metro-ones to the standard desktop-ones. Visually the only difference to Windows 7 is the lack of translucent window-borders -- something that I do not mind -- and it feels a tad faster in pretty much everything. I upgraded my boyfriend's PC and went and installed a similar Win8 - setup for him, too, and he hasn't been complaining about it, either, and he's just the kind of a person who tends to complain about even quite irrelevant things if they just happen to differ from what he's used to.
All this is to say: I feel Win8 is perfectly useable as long as you don't delve into Metro.
No, they're responsible for maintaining their packages in every repository they wish to add their package to, though. If they want to be part of the Ubuntu repo, rather than hosting their own repository, they play by Ubuntu's rules. Don't like it? Run your own repository.
Providing repos, however, does not fix this. If Ubuntu decides to carry packages for ownCloud on their on repos then keeping those packages up-to-date and secure is their responsibility.
Deliberately destroying equipment because it uses a fake component goes to a whole new level of nastiness.
I came here to also say that deliberately destroying property that doesn't belong to you is, as far as I know, illegal. If it was a private person doing that they'd probably land jailtime real fast, but companies tend to get mere slaps on their wrists, so we'll see..
Anyone who contributes money to a Kickstarter project deserves what they get.
I didn't use Kickstarter, but I backed a game while the devs were still asking for funding on both Kickstarter and a few other places. I got a great, worthy game and didn't feel even the tiniest amount cheated out of my money: the game was Shadowrun Returns. Does that mean I deserve great, enjoyable games?
I referenced the following part: The anonabox has been developed and refined for the sole purpose of running the open source software Tor, considered the best and most secure way to access the Internet anonymously. All traffic coming out of or going into your computer or network is encrypted this way. The result is strong, secure anonymity.
Relating to the above, I asked exactly how can they make such claims when proper anonymity requires the users to also understand the concept and to actively avoid doing things that would compromise that anonymity, like e.g. logging to Facebook or checking e-mails. I did say that they are very specifically making it sound like the box can just magically make you anonymous even when you do your usual stuff over Tor and they should either rephrase their sales pitch or I'll assume they don't even want people to really understand the concept. My question has gone unanswered, so take what you will!
Well, I just dropped KDE today after trying it briefly. I noticed my system slowing down to a crawl after a while and after digging into it I noticed kded4 eating nearly 14GB RAM due to some memory-leak. Googling for the issue it seems to be an issue that's been around since 2010 or something. The suggested workaround -- disable power-saving service called "Powerdevil" -- didn't work, and no one on KDE's IRC-channel even tried to assist with the issue, so yeah, I dropped it.
There are a lot of women out there who have very low or no sex drive and nothing seems to work, so I can't help but wonder if oxytocin would be useful in this area. Especially in a relationship the woman wouldn't be the only one reaping the rewards as the partner would likely also be quite happy with increased sexual activity around the house.
Disclaimer: I admit to being totally ignorant of what oxytocin really is or what it does and I have no idea if it would work the same in humans.
In your rush to complain about Android you made a few mistakes, there. For one, it's an alternative client on Android to the official one, so how would you actually use it without network-permissions? Secondly, they also offered a web-client useable on browsers, useable on desktops and laptops and whatnot, so again, how's Android at the fault for stuff that isn't even running on Android?
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It sure looks like scam, and even if it wasn't it at least doesn't look like trustworthy or that the people behind it are too skilled. Even their website is like it was made by a 12-year old, including faulty UTF-8 and all. It certainly doesn't instill any sort of confidence in these folks!
A lot of the various Internet-engineers disagree with you. Have you looked at how much traffic is spent on nothing more than headers? There's a lot of stuff spent on those. Now, multiply that with the said scripts and other files you mentioned, with every single file or request generating all those headers. Then, multiply all that with the number of users accessing the servers, and you have shitloads of traffic eating away at your bandwidth all needlessly. There have been a lot of attempts all around that try to reduce this clutter, like e.g. Comet, WebSockets and so on.
You're only seeing things from the perspective of the end-users, but for those running servers or those providing the bandwidth it does really matter.
Actually, it seems the attackers are mostly just a loose bunch of youngsters trying to emulate the big groups, ie. Lizard Squard and Anon et.al. I certainly have not heard anything hinting towards any ransom. F-Secure already has identified and knows from before of several of the attackers, so we can expect arrests soonish.
The compiler doesn't actually do parallel processing when you're compiling the kernel, it does multi-processing and that's the crux here; when you're compiling the kernel each process that spawns works on its own set of files -- multi-processing, that is -- whereas if it was doing parallel-processing they'd be working on the same files simultaneously. They are two very different concepts and you're confusing them.
Is SSD reliability/longevity still lower than the HDD's, or is that no longer true (or is the opposite true nowadays)?
http://hardware.slashdot.org/s... -- Two petabytes of data written on a cheap, consumer-grade drive and it's still going strong. Not all drives last that much, but basically you can use the drive for two decades without much worry. Of course you're still better off using a non-SSD for something that keeps on chugging data to the drive 24/7, but for pretty much any other use-case they're perfectly fine these days.
"Because people will move or travel, and all there games will stop working" -- This has nothing to do with the games not working, it's only about being able to buy games or gift games in those cheap areas. If you have bought the game it'll still continue to work, regardless of where you bought it or where you're playing it in.
Have you checked if it uses HTTP or HTTPS for its traffic? If it's just plain-old HTTP you could redirect the traffic to Sony's servers to a server of your own instead and always just reply with "everything is ok, no updates available, please continue." That's what I've done to several apps and appliances, thereby removing myself from their prying eyes and granting me access to things even when manufacturer's servers are unavailable.
What is a disaster is the PC controls.
Ugh. Why do so many AAA-games ship with broken controls on PCs? That really pisses me off. I was planning to buy the game, but now.. well, I've been burned by horrible controls so many times in the past that I'm just not so keen on repeating that anymore :S
Your wife's phone is rooted, that's what SuperSU is about.
Are you seriously advocating having people shooting guns into the airspace around an airport?
Of course not, you silly, it was sarcasm. Shooting drones down would be more fun than legislating them, though.
Regulation or banning would be ineffective, it's so easy to order parts online and build the things yourself. Or 3D-print them. A sniper or two with good rifles on airport grounds, though, would most likely work much better.
Many things in life were not originally designed for the tasks they were later used for. SpaceShipTwo and any future revisions may still yield useful tech or information. Dismissing it all just because it's not designed for deep space is short-sighted.
As much as it is off-topic, I do swing both ways.
Windows 8 is pretty much the same OS as 7 with a slightly worse UI.
I've been using Windows 8 with Start8 for well over a year now and I really don't have much to complain. I just simply disabled all the Metro-related hot corners with Start8, set the system to boot to desktop and changed the default apps from Metro-ones to the standard desktop-ones. Visually the only difference to Windows 7 is the lack of translucent window-borders -- something that I do not mind -- and it feels a tad faster in pretty much everything. I upgraded my boyfriend's PC and went and installed a similar Win8 - setup for him, too, and he hasn't been complaining about it, either, and he's just the kind of a person who tends to complain about even quite irrelevant things if they just happen to differ from what he's used to.
All this is to say: I feel Win8 is perfectly useable as long as you don't delve into Metro.
No, they're responsible for maintaining their packages in every repository they wish to add their package to, though. If they want to be part of the Ubuntu repo, rather than hosting their own repository, they play by Ubuntu's rules. Don't like it? Run your own repository.
They do: http://software.opensuse.org/d...
They're not the ones maintaining the packages in Ubuntu's repos, that's Ubuntu-folks' own doing.
They *DO* provide repos for multiple distros: http://software.opensuse.org/d...
Providing repos, however, does not fix this. If Ubuntu decides to carry packages for ownCloud on their on repos then keeping those packages up-to-date and secure is their responsibility.
Deliberately destroying equipment because it uses a fake component goes to a whole new level of nastiness.
I came here to also say that deliberately destroying property that doesn't belong to you is, as far as I know, illegal. If it was a private person doing that they'd probably land jailtime real fast, but companies tend to get mere slaps on their wrists, so we'll see..
No, it means you have questionable taste in Shadowrun games.
Considering that I have no previous experience with Shadowrun games at all I find my experience so far pretty good.
And what reason would I have to lie about it?
Anyone who contributes money to a Kickstarter project deserves what they get.
I didn't use Kickstarter, but I backed a game while the devs were still asking for funding on both Kickstarter and a few other places. I got a great, worthy game and didn't feel even the tiniest amount cheated out of my money: the game was Shadowrun Returns. Does that mean I deserve great, enjoyable games?
I referenced the following part: The anonabox has been developed and refined for the sole purpose of running the open source software Tor, considered the best and most secure way to access the Internet anonymously. All traffic coming out of or going into your computer or network is encrypted this way. The result is strong, secure anonymity.
Relating to the above, I asked exactly how can they make such claims when proper anonymity requires the users to also understand the concept and to actively avoid doing things that would compromise that anonymity, like e.g. logging to Facebook or checking e-mails. I did say that they are very specifically making it sound like the box can just magically make you anonymous even when you do your usual stuff over Tor and they should either rephrase their sales pitch or I'll assume they don't even want people to really understand the concept. My question has gone unanswered, so take what you will!
If you prefer Gnome to KDE, why?
Well, I just dropped KDE today after trying it briefly. I noticed my system slowing down to a crawl after a while and after digging into it I noticed kded4 eating nearly 14GB RAM due to some memory-leak. Googling for the issue it seems to be an issue that's been around since 2010 or something. The suggested workaround -- disable power-saving service called "Powerdevil" -- didn't work, and no one on KDE's IRC-channel even tried to assist with the issue, so yeah, I dropped it.
There are a lot of women out there who have very low or no sex drive and nothing seems to work, so I can't help but wonder if oxytocin would be useful in this area. Especially in a relationship the woman wouldn't be the only one reaping the rewards as the partner would likely also be quite happy with increased sexual activity around the house.
Disclaimer: I admit to being totally ignorant of what oxytocin really is or what it does and I have no idea if it would work the same in humans.
In your rush to complain about Android you made a few mistakes, there. For one, it's an alternative client on Android to the official one, so how would you actually use it without network-permissions? Secondly, they also offered a web-client useable on browsers, useable on desktops and laptops and whatnot, so again, how's Android at the fault for stuff that isn't even running on Android?
(and why in god's name does a service like SnapChat have an API?)
Because it's not possible to design a server-client model without an API?