I think you're missing a point here. This isn't a polished end product, but a proof of concept. It doesn't have to have any of the features you describe as such - it only needs to demonstrate that it works.
Did you know that most young kids in fact DO NOT KNOW HOW TO USE A ROTARY DIALLER as they never have come in contact with one? They end up truing to press numbers in assumption that these are buttons.
Rotary dialler is a significantly more complex device then a keyboard, and a lot less intuitive.
It won't be going away in the next fifty years, and may still be with us in a thousand. Users who think "the computer needs to learn me" rather than the other way around will always have a low ceiling on their competence level and will always be frustrated.
Are you competent in what to do when your car doesn't work as it should? Are you competent in how to fix your refrigerator? Your oven? Your piping? Toilet? Carpentry? Windows (physical ones)?
You are a professional in a narrow field of computer sciences. You are a user of massive amount of other appliances that you have NO COMPETENCE whatsoever in. By your logic, cars should still require you to be a certified mechanic, like it used to be in 1930s, you should not have any plumbing at your home if you don't know how to fix it, etc.
Reality is, this isn't dark ages any more. People can afford to specialize in a narrow field and expect things outside that narrow field to JUST WORK. If they break, they can call a specialist, but it's expected, and normal for things to function without specialist oversight for long periods of time. If they don't, it means that designer of the appliance either hasn't made it for home use, or is incompetent.
Really? Hitler was one of the main causes of WW2. That is over 75 million dead.
Bin Laden was probably behind about 4-5 thousand deaths of 9/11 and a couple of other terrorist incidents. He has no operative leadership at all in Afghanistan. We're looking at 4 orders of magnitude of difference. As a comparison, Bush Jr. and his orders can be directly linked to at least 100 thousand deaths which is still three orders of magnitude less then WW2.
Bin Laden's main crime was popularising terrorism. Comparing him to Hitler is just a direct insult to victims of WW2, and open warfare in general.
Considering there's nothing as feature-complete as IPtables on Linux, I think your best bet is to learn that rather than rely upon some limited GUI interface.
I think you just underscored his point of linux not being usable for a desktop. Modern desktop should NOT, EVER rely on command line interface for anything aimed at end-user if it is to be usable.
There is a reason why we don't use rotary diallers in smartphones. There's a reason why we don't use command line interface on average home desktop machines (and no, your home machine is NOT average by any margin any more then a rotary dialler phone is if it's using linux).
First of all, what exact proof do we have of his guilt that has been shown to public? All we have is "I did it!" boasting, as well as intelligence agencies saying they have proof that it was him as well as press released stuff. Most of this is media-level stuff. Very little of it has been actually shown, mainly for political reasons (Saudi involvement and realpolitik). Court, even a show one would have allowed a judicial test of actual evidence and testimonies, and wiped away many of these doubts. On the other hand, court would have had a chance to actually blow these connections wide open, and as a result damage US politically. Additionally it's highly likely that Bin Laden would have been able to testify on things behind 9/11 that still remain secret by choice of US intelligence agencies. In this regard, this is indeed a clear cut assassination to avoid justice and potential fallout from it.
Second, being a war general is NOT a crime. Else Petraeus would be the biggest war criminal of this century in terms of kill count of civilians. Note that I'm not saying he's advocating the "everyone supporting the enemy is the enemy" approach that modern terrorists have, but am simply quoting the numbers. In this regard, US has eclipsed even Romans when it comes to terror as a tool of vengeance - for every american civilian killed in 9/11 we have several hundred (by a very conservative count) "target country" civilians killed in follow-up wars. The obvious counter-argument here is that US tried to avoid civilian casualties (at least far more then anyone else), but that doesn't help the people who lost family and loved ones. On either side.
When it comes to justice, even a show court is still better then a head shot and a body tossed into the sea. I don't think anyone can seriously argue with this point.
You CAN prove that God exists, by finding proof that he exists.
On the other hand, you cannot prove that God doesn't exist for rather obvious reasons, same as why you cannot prove that any other abstract imaginary construct, such as Flying Spaghetti Monster doesn't exist.
Problem is, there is no proof that God exists. There is only conjecture based on religious texts.
Optionally, I could use a phone that doesn't collect such data or allows opt-out of collection? Lack I checked, iphone isn't the only smartphone available.
Or apple could stop making their phone into one-stop lawyer target, and by this I mean that every sensible lawyer will now subpoena your iphone's location data in cases like divorce.
The point is not in "hiding from government", but not allowing your personal friendships into easy view of people with potentially dangerous agendas.
You may or may not know that your friend is now an activist for a political movement that government doesn't like for example. Before, there was no way for them to tell about your level of friendship, and they wouldn't have the man power to investigate every human contact he has. Now, they go to facebook, collect the information on friendships and have a nice list of additional suspects to fine comb through.
In this regard, it's the ease of availability that is dangerous to the user. This is a change on similar scale to telephones, and wiretapping that came with it. It allows for centralised data collection on a level that was impossible before.
He isn't telling you what you should or should not do. He's telling you what you should KNOW before you hit that accept button.
As news have shown time and time again, most people do not read privacy policy of facebook, and do not think of consequences of facebook information availability.
Yes and no. One of the main aspects of best propaganda tool is that it must be both self-sustaining and appear prestigious. That requires concept of limited availability (prestige if you have it) and payment (self-sustainability).
On the other hand, they can rely on mass media networks to spread material to general masses for "free" (ad supported). This has been done successfully on global scale already.
Requirement on black box pingers life time is at least several weeks iirc. This is why they searched for quite a long time on the first time, and intensified the search towards end-of-life of pingers.
This is quite possibly one of the best examples of just how far underwater robotics have come. They literally found something that is harder to find then a needle in a haystack by several orders of magnitude.
Most people seem to miss the reason why this will NEVER be allowed and nipped in the bud.
Entertainment is the best, most functional propaganda arm of both capitalist system, and "american way". Abroad it has successfully advertised US system as working and US itself as a desirable. At the same time at home keeps US population itself pacified when its right are being trampled.
Do not underestimate the power of projected crowd control that entertainment industry is generating. For that reason alone, both government and current powerful interests will make sure key companies in entertainment industry will always remain in hands of those who will use them for their interests.
It's fairly obvious that we cannot tell for certain that there is no such policy as we have only a few testimonies from customers to base our opinions on. Based on these we can only state that if such policy exists, it is not enforced on any meaningful level, meaning the policy itself is pointless.
Or, a far more likely scenario, there is no such policy and AC was just fishing for fanboyism.
Step one: do not use IE for anything other then company/personal intranet. Block it on software firewall level from accessing anything else. Step two: Install firefox. Step three: Install the following add-ons: Adblock+, noscript. Properly white-list things you need. Step four: Sandbox your browser if paranoid (sandboxie etc). Step five: Avoid visiting shoddy sites.
You can never make a possibility of infection zero without rendering your machine completely autistic, just as you cannot totally nullify a risk of getting hit by a car if you ever have to go outside of your house. But you can minimize it to extent where your chances of infection are non-existent, and even if infected, the infected process is likely to reveal itself in the exact way you described.
It will still not be zero, but it will be about as good as you can make it, security updates or not. In this regard, most of the loopholes closed by updates add an extra layer of security, but when you're at the level described above, you're already behind so many layers, that one extra just won't make a meaningful difference. As you have observed with your system. That is the point I'm trying to make here.
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I think you're missing a point here. This isn't a polished end product, but a proof of concept. It doesn't have to have any of the features you describe as such - it only needs to demonstrate that it works.
Is non-existent in size, generally uses other networks and piggy-backs on them (such as in case of skype).
Two words: track record.
Did you know that most young kids in fact DO NOT KNOW HOW TO USE A ROTARY DIALLER as they never have come in contact with one? They end up truing to press numbers in assumption that these are buttons.
Rotary dialler is a significantly more complex device then a keyboard, and a lot less intuitive.
It won't be going away in the next fifty years, and may still be with us in a thousand. Users who think "the computer needs to learn me" rather than the other way around will always have a low ceiling on their competence level and will always be frustrated.
Are you competent in what to do when your car doesn't work as it should? Are you competent in how to fix your refrigerator? Your oven? Your piping? Toilet? Carpentry? Windows (physical ones)?
You are a professional in a narrow field of computer sciences. You are a user of massive amount of other appliances that you have NO COMPETENCE whatsoever in. By your logic, cars should still require you to be a certified mechanic, like it used to be in 1930s, you should not have any plumbing at your home if you don't know how to fix it, etc.
Reality is, this isn't dark ages any more. People can afford to specialize in a narrow field and expect things outside that narrow field to JUST WORK. If they break, they can call a specialist, but it's expected, and normal for things to function without specialist oversight for long periods of time. If they don't, it means that designer of the appliance either hasn't made it for home use, or is incompetent.
But you know, they got Hitler II.
Really? Hitler was one of the main causes of WW2. That is over 75 million dead.
Bin Laden was probably behind about 4-5 thousand deaths of 9/11 and a couple of other terrorist incidents. He has no operative leadership at all in Afghanistan. We're looking at 4 orders of magnitude of difference. As a comparison, Bush Jr. and his orders can be directly linked to at least 100 thousand deaths which is still three orders of magnitude less then WW2.
Bin Laden's main crime was popularising terrorism. Comparing him to Hitler is just a direct insult to victims of WW2, and open warfare in general.
Considering there's nothing as feature-complete as IPtables on Linux, I think your best bet is to learn that rather than rely upon some limited GUI interface.
I think you just underscored his point of linux not being usable for a desktop. Modern desktop should NOT, EVER rely on command line interface for anything aimed at end-user if it is to be usable.
There is a reason why we don't use rotary diallers in smartphones. There's a reason why we don't use command line interface on average home desktop machines (and no, your home machine is NOT average by any margin any more then a rotary dialler phone is if it's using linux).
Mod points seem to come much faster when you get modded up a lot. I got 2x15 in last few days.
First of all, what exact proof do we have of his guilt that has been shown to public? All we have is "I did it!" boasting, as well as intelligence agencies saying they have proof that it was him as well as press released stuff. Most of this is media-level stuff. Very little of it has been actually shown, mainly for political reasons (Saudi involvement and realpolitik). Court, even a show one would have allowed a judicial test of actual evidence and testimonies, and wiped away many of these doubts.
On the other hand, court would have had a chance to actually blow these connections wide open, and as a result damage US politically. Additionally it's highly likely that Bin Laden would have been able to testify on things behind 9/11 that still remain secret by choice of US intelligence agencies. In this regard, this is indeed a clear cut assassination to avoid justice and potential fallout from it.
Second, being a war general is NOT a crime. Else Petraeus would be the biggest war criminal of this century in terms of kill count of civilians. Note that I'm not saying he's advocating the "everyone supporting the enemy is the enemy" approach that modern terrorists have, but am simply quoting the numbers. In this regard, US has eclipsed even Romans when it comes to terror as a tool of vengeance - for every american civilian killed in 9/11 we have several hundred (by a very conservative count) "target country" civilians killed in follow-up wars. The obvious counter-argument here is that US tried to avoid civilian casualties (at least far more then anyone else), but that doesn't help the people who lost family and loved ones. On either side.
When it comes to justice, even a show court is still better then a head shot and a body tossed into the sea. I don't think anyone can seriously argue with this point.
You CAN prove that God exists, by finding proof that he exists.
On the other hand, you cannot prove that God doesn't exist for rather obvious reasons, same as why you cannot prove that any other abstract imaginary construct, such as Flying Spaghetti Monster doesn't exist.
Problem is, there is no proof that God exists. There is only conjecture based on religious texts.
Sure. There are also flight sim and FPS games for keyboards without mouse.
There are also various whips and clamps and such for people who are slightly more true to themselves as to why they really play with those things.
Galaxy on fire would play far, far better with a proper mouse or analogue controller. Refer to: Freelancer.
Optionally, I could use a phone that doesn't collect such data or allows opt-out of collection? Lack I checked, iphone isn't the only smartphone available.
Or apple could stop making their phone into one-stop lawyer target, and by this I mean that every sensible lawyer will now subpoena your iphone's location data in cases like divorce.
The point is not in "hiding from government", but not allowing your personal friendships into easy view of people with potentially dangerous agendas.
You may or may not know that your friend is now an activist for a political movement that government doesn't like for example. Before, there was no way for them to tell about your level of friendship, and they wouldn't have the man power to investigate every human contact he has. Now, they go to facebook, collect the information on friendships and have a nice list of additional suspects to fine comb through.
In this regard, it's the ease of availability that is dangerous to the user. This is a change on similar scale to telephones, and wiretapping that came with it. It allows for centralised data collection on a level that was impossible before.
He isn't telling you what you should or should not do. He's telling you what you should KNOW before you hit that accept button.
As news have shown time and time again, most people do not read privacy policy of facebook, and do not think of consequences of facebook information availability.
Yes and no. One of the main aspects of best propaganda tool is that it must be both self-sustaining and appear prestigious. That requires concept of limited availability (prestige if you have it) and payment (self-sustainability).
On the other hand, they can rely on mass media networks to spread material to general masses for "free" (ad supported). This has been done successfully on global scale already.
Only if when talking about US waging wars for oil, we're talking about secret agents hiding plans for cold fusion.
You mix up "content creators" and "media".
Error on scale of mixing "strategy" and "tactics".
Requirement on black box pingers life time is at least several weeks iirc. This is why they searched for quite a long time on the first time, and intensified the search towards end-of-life of pingers.
This is quite possibly one of the best examples of just how far underwater robotics have come. They literally found something that is harder to find then a needle in a haystack by several orders of magnitude.
Most people seem to miss the reason why this will NEVER be allowed and nipped in the bud.
Entertainment is the best, most functional propaganda arm of both capitalist system, and "american way". Abroad it has successfully advertised US system as working and US itself as a desirable. At the same time at home keeps US population itself pacified when its right are being trampled.
Do not underestimate the power of projected crowd control that entertainment industry is generating. For that reason alone, both government and current powerful interests will make sure key companies in entertainment industry will always remain in hands of those who will use them for their interests.
It's fairly obvious that we cannot tell for certain that there is no such policy as we have only a few testimonies from customers to base our opinions on. Based on these we can only state that if such policy exists, it is not enforced on any meaningful level, meaning the policy itself is pointless.
Or, a far more likely scenario, there is no such policy and AC was just fishing for fanboyism.
The point is that it's not an "apple policy" as AC tries to sell it, as there are concrete observations of the opposite.
Step one: do not use IE for anything other then company/personal intranet. Block it on software firewall level from accessing anything else.
Step two: Install firefox.
Step three: Install the following add-ons: Adblock+, noscript. Properly white-list things you need.
Step four: Sandbox your browser if paranoid (sandboxie etc).
Step five: Avoid visiting shoddy sites.
You can never make a possibility of infection zero without rendering your machine completely autistic, just as you cannot totally nullify a risk of getting hit by a car if you ever have to go outside of your house. But you can minimize it to extent where your chances of infection are non-existent, and even if infected, the infected process is likely to reveal itself in the exact way you described.
It will still not be zero, but it will be about as good as you can make it, security updates or not. In this regard, most of the loopholes closed by updates add an extra layer of security, but when you're at the level described above, you're already behind so many layers, that one extra just won't make a meaningful difference. As you have observed with your system. That is the point I'm trying to make here.
Hence, firewall that stealths all ports and doesn't allow any software you haven't specifically OK'd out.