Pretty much the same here. People started shooting fireworks already at around 4pm here and the dog is so god damn scared of them that he couldn't pee or poop outside the whole evening. I just had no other choice than to let him do his stuff indoors. I'm just glad New Year's Eve happens only once a year.
I haven't seen a virus or other malware in YEARS that modified the kernel, bootloader or drivers. The ones I have seen have just attached themselves to the system once the kernel and its drivers are already loaded, and thereby Secure Boot wouldn't do a diddly good against those, and these kinds of viruses/malware packages are a dime a dozen.
If you watch enough of these videos like I have on youtube, it's a free-for-all driving over there. Signs and traffic lights are pretty much optional.
I've seen quite a bunch of those videos myself and yeah, it's amazing how EXCEEDINGLY bad drivers there are, it's just god damn horrible. And it's only slightly better when they visit Finland: Lappeenranta here in Finland is a city that's pretty well filled with russians and every time I have to drive there I dread at the sight of russian drivers. Been in many a situation where the russian driver just decides to swerve right in front of me, or pushes me out of the lane, drives straight through red lights and so on and so forth.
I can't say much about them as people as I don't know any personally, but I find myself wishing they were never given cars or driver's licenses.
Huh. Well, I've gotten the impression that these Marvel superheroes die all the god damn time only to be resurrected by some mystical power or similar, or to be revealed later that it only looked like they died. As such I have a hard time caring. I do quite like the idea of Dr. Octopussy going through some really major identity crisis as a Spiderman, though, it'll make for some interesting story.
That said, in general I agree with you: there is no OS that can protect against gullible users, not even Linux can do that.
That's why it's a good idea to have a walled garden store, where apps are vetted before appearing. And where the few items of malware that get past the vetting can be removed from distribution once identified, thus preventing them affecting any more users.
I agree, and it's something I've been saying for a good while now: the Average Joe - user isn't knowledgeable enough to spot malicious software and generally doesn't even want to be knowledgeable -- ignorance is much easier on the brains -- and therefore curated app stores/repositories/whatnot are good. I just advocate that it should be easy enough to turn off the walled garden, too, for those users who do need more than what the garden offers. Currently Apple's walled garden is too strict, it cannot be turned off without jailbreaking the whole thing, and Google's approach is otherwise good enough, but Google isn't actually curating their garden's content! Too bad neither of them can be coerced to see the light.
Mate, nothing you said has anything to do with my comment, and I definitely am NOT going to start downloading some random files you recommend or trust you.
Rootkits aren't the problem, you don't need root privileges to do DDOS-attacks, to spy on users, to delete their files and so on -- it all can be done as a regular user just fine. Often you don't even have to hide the malware package in any way or form, just fool the user into thinking it's useful! That said, in general I agree with you: there is no OS that can protect against gullible users, not even Linux can do that. There are ways of increasing security by leaps and bounds, but those ways would really require a whole new OS.
KDE provides an excellent, highly polished desktop experience
FAR from a polished experience. It's way too bloated, the configuration options are all over the place, there's no consistency whatsoever and generally it feels exactly like what it is: a bundle of various things thrown together by highly enthusiastic coders with too high expectations and too little vision and design skills.
For one, it's uncomfortable. They eye is constantly seeking, working to maintain the picture, and still there are lots of spots where the depth feels completely out-of-place and breaks all visual immersion. Also, having to wear silly glasses on top of glasses doesn't make it any more fun. Secondly, directors still use it as a "LOOK AT THIS EFFECT!! FUCKING LOOK AT IT!" - gimmick, totally ignoring all logic and coherence and making every effort for that particular scene to pop out as much as possible -- switching constantly between normal, non-pronounced effects on calm scenes and then the sudden onslaught of totally overdone effects on action scenes makes for a really jarring experience.
It's not the idea that is stolen, it's the right to control distribution
Still does not work. The copyright holder STILL retains the legal right to control distribution, that right is not removed from the copyright holder even if someone pirates stuff -- the copyright holder just cannot assert that right on the party doing the pirating, but the copyright holder still retains the right and can assert it on anyone who does play along with the copyright laws. So no, it's still not stealing.
Also, if we were talking about ideas then the whole premise of your comment makes no sense. If two people came up with the same idea but the first guy came up with it a few seconds before the other the first guy should be allowed to dictate whether or not the second guy can use the idea or tell about it? The thing is, these are totally immaterial concepts with no physical properties, no physics tied to them and therefore no loss of materials due to scarcity even if someone did copy the concept. The fact that our society tries to assert physical properties to immaterial concepts and therefore introduce artificial scarcity in order to monetize them tells a lot about our society, but it does not change the fact that they are not physical objects.
Which is exactly what/etc/shadow does, and it's been around for a long time. These are all solved problems if anyone would pay attention.
No one was talking about unix passwords here. Data can be almost anything that needs to be hashed and it may be stored in SQL - databases, random text files, proprietary binary files and so on. In other words your referral to/etc/shadow is irrelevant.
So use a generic hashthis() function (or class, whatever), and then you don't have to replace sha3() or blake2() or whatever through your code, merely modify the hashthis() function to use the new algorithm instead. Forward thinking amirite?
Otherwise yes, but it would make all the existing data unreadable. If you make it easy to change the hashing method like that then you will also have to always track what data was hashed with what method.
You cannot e.g. take an idea from someone and not return it -- there is absolutely NO WAY of removing the idea from someone else, you merely copy it. Similarly, piracy is all about copying, not stealing. You should learn the difference.
I'm comparing arbitrary criteria that can be used for discrimination. I used jews as a referential since people have usually been indoctrinated that discrimination against jews is particularly bad.
Discriminating people based on religion or ethnicity makes as much sense as discriminating them based on what they own. (which is, in both cases, none).
I cannot agree. Guns are first and foremost designed for causing bodily harm whereas one's ethnicity obviously isn't, and even religion in and of itself cannot cause physical harm as religion is a virtual concept, not a physical property or object. If someone in your neighbourhood possessed large amounts of radio-active materials or a large collection of highly contagious, airborne bio-weapons you'd want to know about that, wouldn't you? If your answer is yes, then you've just yourself discriminated against them based on what they own.
They could be targeted by anti-gun zealots. It's like publishing a map which pinpoints where the jews are. Maybe they should put a star on their houses.
When Facebook uses the content we create for free it's bad, but when we use other people's content for free RIAA is bad!
I know you're trying to make a point, but the situation isn't really comparable. For one, pirates do not claim ownership over the content, and secondly, pirates can't legally make money out of it whereas when a company imposes a ToS - change like this on its userbase they actually CAN then legally make money out of your content. That makes the whole premise of the situation quite different, with pirates mostly focusing on consuming the content themselves, and companies focusing on monetizing the content.
My guess is that you have a thing for pedophilia and necrophilia involving female pre-teens.
By that logic people who like animal pictures are into bestiality, people who like the works of Picasso are into horribly malformed people, people who like pictures of small children are pedophiles, people who like pictures of cars are sexually attracted to cars and so on and so forth. Now, ask yourself: does the world REALLY work like that?
But I guess this is what comes from a 35 year old overweight Neck Beard like you spending all your time in your mom's basement wearing your dead sisters panties while looking at Japanese Tentacle Porn.
I just turned 30 a few weeks ago, and considering the fact that I'm female the "beard" part of "Neck Beard" seems quite out-of-place. Oh, and all of my sisters are still alive and I am not really into hentai. I prefer looking at real people instead.
Well, both innerdepravity.com and remyfx.com are being redirected to http://www.supportremy.com/ at the moment. There are a few pictures there, but it's mostly about this court case now, unfortunately.
Why art in quotation marks? I atleast find his work exceedingly interesting, it takes special kind of talent to do what he does. Some of those pictures are really, really good and I'll probably spend a while googling around this evening. I've never heard of the guy before, but I'm glad I did now.
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to justify a piracy site
Except that he wasn't trying to justify it. Piracy is not theft and that's that.
Pretty much the same here. People started shooting fireworks already at around 4pm here and the dog is so god damn scared of them that he couldn't pee or poop outside the whole evening. I just had no other choice than to let him do his stuff indoors. I'm just glad New Year's Eve happens only once a year.
Who needs security vulnerability when you have a complete lack of services and modern IRC features?
Lack of services and IRC-features? Like what?
Wake-on-LAN
...isn't on by default.
I haven't seen a virus or other malware in YEARS that modified the kernel, bootloader or drivers. The ones I have seen have just attached themselves to the system once the kernel and its drivers are already loaded, and thereby Secure Boot wouldn't do a diddly good against those, and these kinds of viruses/malware packages are a dime a dozen.
If you watch enough of these videos like I have on youtube, it's a free-for-all driving over there. Signs and traffic lights are pretty much optional.
I've seen quite a bunch of those videos myself and yeah, it's amazing how EXCEEDINGLY bad drivers there are, it's just god damn horrible. And it's only slightly better when they visit Finland: Lappeenranta here in Finland is a city that's pretty well filled with russians and every time I have to drive there I dread at the sight of russian drivers. Been in many a situation where the russian driver just decides to swerve right in front of me, or pushes me out of the lane, drives straight through red lights and so on and so forth.
I can't say much about them as people as I don't know any personally, but I find myself wishing they were never given cars or driver's licenses.
This is pretty messed up... where is the creative control now? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9767988/Peter-Parker-the-alter-ego-of-Spider-Man-killed-off.html
Huh. Well, I've gotten the impression that these Marvel superheroes die all the god damn time only to be resurrected by some mystical power or similar, or to be revealed later that it only looked like they died. As such I have a hard time caring. I do quite like the idea of Dr. Octopussy going through some really major identity crisis as a Spiderman, though, it'll make for some interesting story.
(if you are a Windows user)
Indeed. The discussion was about Linux.
That said, in general I agree with you: there is no OS that can protect against gullible users, not even Linux can do that.
That's why it's a good idea to have a walled garden store, where apps are vetted before appearing. And where the few items of malware that get past the vetting can be removed from distribution once identified, thus preventing them affecting any more users.
I agree, and it's something I've been saying for a good while now: the Average Joe - user isn't knowledgeable enough to spot malicious software and generally doesn't even want to be knowledgeable -- ignorance is much easier on the brains -- and therefore curated app stores/repositories/whatnot are good. I just advocate that it should be easy enough to turn off the walled garden, too, for those users who do need more than what the garden offers. Currently Apple's walled garden is too strict, it cannot be turned off without jailbreaking the whole thing, and Google's approach is otherwise good enough, but Google isn't actually curating their garden's content! Too bad neither of them can be coerced to see the light.
Mate, nothing you said has anything to do with my comment, and I definitely am NOT going to start downloading some random files you recommend or trust you.
Any machine anywhere can get a rootkit, or worse
Rootkits aren't the problem, you don't need root privileges to do DDOS-attacks, to spy on users, to delete their files and so on -- it all can be done as a regular user just fine. Often you don't even have to hide the malware package in any way or form, just fool the user into thinking it's useful! That said, in general I agree with you: there is no OS that can protect against gullible users, not even Linux can do that. There are ways of increasing security by leaps and bounds, but those ways would really require a whole new OS.
KDE provides an excellent, highly polished desktop experience
FAR from a polished experience. It's way too bloated, the configuration options are all over the place, there's no consistency whatsoever and generally it feels exactly like what it is: a bundle of various things thrown together by highly enthusiastic coders with too high expectations and too little vision and design skills.
For one, it's uncomfortable. They eye is constantly seeking, working to maintain the picture, and still there are lots of spots where the depth feels completely out-of-place and breaks all visual immersion. Also, having to wear silly glasses on top of glasses doesn't make it any more fun. Secondly, directors still use it as a "LOOK AT THIS EFFECT!! FUCKING LOOK AT IT!" - gimmick, totally ignoring all logic and coherence and making every effort for that particular scene to pop out as much as possible -- switching constantly between normal, non-pronounced effects on calm scenes and then the sudden onslaught of totally overdone effects on action scenes makes for a really jarring experience.
It's not the idea that is stolen, it's the right to control distribution
Still does not work. The copyright holder STILL retains the legal right to control distribution, that right is not removed from the copyright holder even if someone pirates stuff -- the copyright holder just cannot assert that right on the party doing the pirating, but the copyright holder still retains the right and can assert it on anyone who does play along with the copyright laws. So no, it's still not stealing.
Also, if we were talking about ideas then the whole premise of your comment makes no sense. If two people came up with the same idea but the first guy came up with it a few seconds before the other the first guy should be allowed to dictate whether or not the second guy can use the idea or tell about it? The thing is, these are totally immaterial concepts with no physical properties, no physics tied to them and therefore no loss of materials due to scarcity even if someone did copy the concept. The fact that our society tries to assert physical properties to immaterial concepts and therefore introduce artificial scarcity in order to monetize them tells a lot about our society, but it does not change the fact that they are not physical objects.
Which is exactly what /etc/shadow does, and it's been around for a long time. These are all solved problems if anyone would pay attention.
No one was talking about unix passwords here. Data can be almost anything that needs to be hashed and it may be stored in SQL - databases, random text files, proprietary binary files and so on. In other words your referral to /etc/shadow is irrelevant.
So use a generic hashthis() function (or class, whatever), and then you don't have to replace sha3() or blake2() or whatever through your code, merely modify the hashthis() function to use the new algorithm instead. Forward thinking amirite?
Otherwise yes, but it would make all the existing data unreadable. If you make it easy to change the hashing method like that then you will also have to always track what data was hashed with what method.
You cannot e.g. take an idea from someone and not return it -- there is absolutely NO WAY of removing the idea from someone else, you merely copy it. Similarly, piracy is all about copying, not stealing. You should learn the difference.
I'm comparing arbitrary criteria that can be used for discrimination.
I used jews as a referential since people have usually been indoctrinated that discrimination against jews is particularly bad.
Discriminating people based on religion or ethnicity makes as much sense as discriminating them based on what they own. (which is, in both cases, none).
I cannot agree. Guns are first and foremost designed for causing bodily harm whereas one's ethnicity obviously isn't, and even religion in and of itself cannot cause physical harm as religion is a virtual concept, not a physical property or object. If someone in your neighbourhood possessed large amounts of radio-active materials or a large collection of highly contagious, airborne bio-weapons you'd want to know about that, wouldn't you? If your answer is yes, then you've just yourself discriminated against them based on what they own.
Taking something that isn't yours is called stealing
True. However, when you pirate something you don't steal anything.
They could be targeted by anti-gun zealots.
It's like publishing a map which pinpoints where the jews are. Maybe they should put a star on their houses.
.....You're comparing jews to guns?
When Facebook uses the content we create for free it's bad, but when we use other people's content for free RIAA is bad!
I know you're trying to make a point, but the situation isn't really comparable. For one, pirates do not claim ownership over the content, and secondly, pirates can't legally make money out of it whereas when a company imposes a ToS - change like this on its userbase they actually CAN then legally make money out of your content. That makes the whole premise of the situation quite different, with pirates mostly focusing on consuming the content themselves, and companies focusing on monetizing the content.
My guess is that you have a thing for pedophilia and necrophilia involving female pre-teens.
By that logic people who like animal pictures are into bestiality, people who like the works of Picasso are into horribly malformed people, people who like pictures of small children are pedophiles, people who like pictures of cars are sexually attracted to cars and so on and so forth. Now, ask yourself: does the world REALLY work like that?
But I guess this is what comes from a 35 year old overweight Neck Beard like you spending all your time in your mom's basement wearing your dead sisters panties while looking at Japanese Tentacle Porn.
I just turned 30 a few weeks ago, and considering the fact that I'm female the "beard" part of "Neck Beard" seems quite out-of-place. Oh, and all of my sisters are still alive and I am not really into hentai. I prefer looking at real people instead.
Than you are a sick indevidual.
Well, I don't really feel terribly insulted when a person who can't even spell "individual" and "then" properly calls me sick.
Well, both innerdepravity.com and remyfx.com are being redirected to http://www.supportremy.com/ at the moment. There are a few pictures there, but it's mostly about this court case now, unfortunately.
Why art in quotation marks? I atleast find his work exceedingly interesting, it takes special kind of talent to do what he does. Some of those pictures are really, really good and I'll probably spend a while googling around this evening. I've never heard of the guy before, but I'm glad I did now.