I really don't think that there is a casual use of Java applets anymore.
Minecraft is hugely popular and the only reason for many of us to temporarily enable browser applets.
You can choose to buy Minecraft without testing its browser demo... but if you want to preview whether your old machine can handle the 3D decently *before* plunking the ~20+ to license the full applet-less version, there's no alternative.
I received this email earlier today. It made no mention of the fact that generating new SSL certificates for certificate authentication on their website broke years ago, and nobody could be bothered to fix it. It's still broken, in fact. I'm guessing their decision to shut it down was more out of apathy than anything else.
That's the problem with lack of paid Service Level Agreements. More realistically on the www, we reduce that statement to "the problem with free services." It is good and bad that almost all we do on the web is expected to be free. Even we can't be bothered to stop signing up for services, despite seeing more and more failures: 1) stuff merging / bought by our ideological enemies (almost joined Instagram a month before their Facebook deal) 2) stuff shut down with no warning (remember WHquestion a whole decade ago?? used it daily and suddenly saw a "sorry, we've closed, join Knowpost if you are still passionate about this". This is a risk at series streaming sites too) 3) stuff or being nerfed / Yahoo'd into uselessness 4) stuff just dissipates but never fully sunsets when a competitor overtakes it. Myspace and Friendster accounts.
I tried my credentils at Friendster to check up on some profiles, like maybe an old crush or wo... just to find a) ALL my friend data and pictures were gone because some Korean MMO company bought it b) they wanted to sell me MMOs, ignoring the emotional annoyance they'd caused.
Given some more years of this garbage, I'm just going to end up a luddite, because everything in the USA has an nsa-inside sticker now, and all my devices and OS's are compromised or assumed tainted in some way.
It is depressing. When I started using the web, an email address was important, but you could post on guestbooks (gasp!) without being forced to give it up. Later, email became your login handle and password reset tool, so you were forced to give it up. Back then it was not so natural to create 4 or 5 addresses, and the mental burden was similar to being asked by a stranger what your cellphone number is. Now, you're like one question away from needing to give not your home number, but your PERSONAL number. It must be a cell because texts are a given. We all know how cell tech is built for GPS monitoring.
Exposition done, I created a hotmail address for someone**. We had to give a phone number or a secondary email address. For older people who you're helping out, which happens to me often, this is a pain because they do not have one. Hotmail wanted a phone, and we were forced to give them THAT. I felt cheated. At least they let you give a non-cellphone number with a voice-based reset system.
This morning I clicked on a link to open a Google App ID or something similar for work and they wanted to "verify" my identity to even let me read someone else's project. Google doesn't play around and they forced a cellphone-only choice. I imagine that in some poor countries, this becomes a pain. The depressing part is that people don't beat around the bush for identification steps. I declined, and every one of these traps makes me use Google less and less.
**I don't know what happened to the ol' password-reset link of days past. That predates security questions, but the latter seem of dubious use because they're easy to guess and rarely customizable.
I was looking for the Stackoverflow comment to post my concern* I never cared for openid until I found no other option to sign up and post a question there. What are we gong to use at Stackoverflow after myopenid croaks? I don't use SO enough to care going there to ask or looking through a faq.
* Slashdot really needs a free-flow forum, because it's annoying having a question you can't ask elsewhere... or risk getting your question closed at the stackexchange sites. I've mulled this over before in another/. thread and the cons are that commercially Dice Holdings wouldsee it removing eyeballs away from the moderation and commenting on articles here.
With the power NSLs have, why is is so hard to conclude that television and papers can be gagged IN ADVANCE just as readily as your friendly beighborhood ISP? It is not like disappearing and poisoning of persona non-gratta needs to be done every day, and they can precision-target the Snowdens we haven't heard from yet
They will add www to it no matter what I tell them to enter.
They add "www" not because they are technical enough to know what it means when they see it. After all, they cannot tell you what the http and the colon and the rest are for. The US mainstream knows about the doble-u's because exactly 100% of web-savvy ads in the nineties spelled it out. Just like reading a phone # aloud, no? It was stuff like "h.t.t.p colon slash slash w.w.w. mcdonalds dot com" It boggles the mind that I lived through that compared to the structure-less "follow us on facebook and twitter"
Ten years ago, almost noone commercial would be risking the huge level of accidental misdirection that we all know can ensue if we say "yeah just google [my name] to find me" So I understand this parent comment
Who here remembers those OFFICIAL microsoft chat servers from back in 1998 or so? I think 6 months after I discovered them, most or all of netmeeting servers were taken offline. I haven't touched that project ever since.
Today I noticed that with the huge heavyhanded April push sunsetting MSN messenger in favor of Skype, skype has been updated repeatedly and I've been declining without seeing what they're taking out.
I had to help someone test the software on their own computer today. Their updated "Call" button is now "Call PHONE" (implies cash expenses.) I won't be putting up with GUI changes meant to force me into paying.
MS also chose to fail to migrate the Hotmail new email and single-sign-on integration that its userbase loved. They were clearly aiming at forcing more Skype chatting, more potential paid calling and less email usage.
Who here remembers those OFFICIAL microsoft chat servers from back in 1998 or so? I think 6 months after I discovered them, most or all of netmeeting servers were taken offline. I haven't touched that project ever since.
OK, I can see this becoming a filler article on some crappy "tech" website (coughcoughgizmodocough). But Slashdot? Seriously?
And it's not even written for our audience.
To be fair, I recently asked someone about what forum someone could point me to where slashdotters could freely talk about encryption. We can only talk about something for about 2 days here, and then container story gets buried no matter how important the topic. When the Journal system debutted here it sort of provided that, but besides technolust there was very little eyeball traffic. Your post made me realize that what/. is missing is a forums.slashdot.org. Imagine a PHP-like board where we can post freely and start our own new topics or questions without needing to mind how long ago something was added. Stuff like reddit comes to mind, but it's too mainstream and joke-ish. Others have stringent rules where everything must be on topic (stackexchange et all) and moderation is too in your face, causing competition (down to editing, moving and closing other people's threads) / there's no real community, unless you count meta.
Both can mount samba shares and play most formats.
Youtube video can easily take hundreds of megs, and the video app provides no local-savable functionality so it obviously is built to STREAM. So I should be able to stream much audio via SMB, but always wondered why it that can't be shared without downloading permanently into the poor space contraints on the low-end of android phones. This contrast makes it clear what Google was thinking from the onset for Android and user-friendly SMB *streaming*.
What I don't understand is why music apps fail to fill in the SMB gap, despite knowing we use Wifi and have local networks at home. Tangentially, devs also have done nothing to let one remote type with a real PC into an android device. Bluetooth keyboards are horrible.
Windows PowerShell is arguably a superior CLI to Bash.
Not sure it can be without a built-in command history. It's just a culture pain to use it for actual work which requires reusing a lot of code. Sure, I can try cut-and-paste to get around it, but not from my mouse... and Control-V fails. And we must use a menu to paste, and windows likes block select rather than line-select. It's got the same behaviors as a normal dosbox, which is the whole point driving us to just installing cygwin / bash
Also, I too support criticizing Microsoft for their relationship with NSA, but it is interesting how many shy away from recognizing Google, Apple and others having the exact same relationship.
Not the same relationship, because you can bet impact projections mean different tax dollar amounts, and different deal sweeteners. The official Google Talk client targets Windows first MacOS has Facetime and iChat. Sure, you can own those separately, but supposing we had to give out a sardonic award for the largest breach^W accomplishment, you wouldn't go to the alternative guys first.
They are all targets, but guess which company started it all, thanks to owning the fattest install base for the longest number of months? Boom! 80+ percent userbase in a single compromise op. Want ~100%? the NSA can follow up on that during their spare time while the majority of the data pours in. The same company bought Skype just to add NSA backdoors. It was not enough to just scoop up old users, so the NSA forced it as a replacement to the Windows Messenger client back in April of this year. Also juicy, considering how Skype has Native Windows, Linux and OSX clients. That is thinking big, my friend.
Yeah, but all you can do in Paint is draw Hitler mustaches on supermodels and junk.
Haha, yes. Seriously, though MSPaint is ALL we have in corporate environments for troubleshooting and cropping images on the fly.
For MacOS users I don't recall any built-in alternative for general mustache work "and junk";). Sure, taking screenshots is automated through key combos for Macs, but the MacOS is missing the true magic of Paint's scribbling, trying to make circles and connect lines and triangles into fake arrows, etc.
The lobby on feature-complete Drawing tools for all OSs is sure deficient. It's an accepted fact of life how unprofessional it looks when a high-paid manager has no choice but to improvise without the correct tools, like maybe visio or photoshoop. Their troubleshooting or "the problem on this image is here" directions are done in Paint, and always look like something out of a 4chan drawing. * And apparently FINALLY on Windows 8
I'm afraid you missed the larger point. This is NOT a setting and cannot just silently be sent out on a whim to your enterprise image like you can send "Hide the shut down button"
Getting the old behavior back requires + researching a list of untrusted third party programs with potential licenses and costs + confirming they don't cause incompatibilities + getting approved by your apathetic managers Not all software can be packaged and distributed as self-installing MSIs, especially if they do shell modifications. Miming a menu whose code was NEVER checked into windows 8 counts as such a risky endeavor. So this naturally leads to: Then you have to go back and rebuild various default images with it and test again.
Now, all of this is moot when you're not in an enterprise. The real annoyance we're being trolled with is that admin access or not, there are thousands of computers out there that you will have to sit at. How many of them is it practical to update when they belong to our friends, kids, girlfriends, coworkers, relatives, managers? what about people who barely trust us to sit at their computer and want us off their desk with as few clicks as possible? It's a losing battle. Just 2 years ago, Mozilla removed the File menu from Firefox, threw out the status bar, merged the Stop and Reload buttons and put the tabs on top. This has NOT all come out at once, so you need to track down a myriad of fix packs and move them as you migrate machines and visit other friends whose computers you use. The challenge is this: find people you visit who installed extensions to fix every one of those throughout all their machines, partitions and login profiles. The point is that we lose in the long run, even if it's not a problem to make the change on a single OS
Half is too low. We should aim for 90% being smart enough to value privacy.
90% is too high, even for slashdotters. Need proof? Replace your proposed goal headline: [90% of ] Teens actually [being smart enough to ] care about online privacy with [90% of ] SLASHDOTTERS actually [being smart enough to ] care about online privacy
The latter headline is only true after you append "and avoid having opened social network accounts in the first place." Most people here openly admin that this "secures" their accounts: used only with immediate family and trusted(tm) single-digit friends has a fake name is part of a real-plus-fake-name pair where the real name account is a dummy and has diff data than the fake name account
In the end, cookies follow you equally across the web on all of them, your home IPs are known, and someone will always give away your name in the wrong place (say, tagging photos of you to the wrong account.) The only winning move is not to play, but nobody is smart enough to #win in an empty stadium of their choosing just yet. So we all really want to play, even though we think we're smart and security conscious. If that is us, then what can we expect of the mainstream... let alone their untrained kids?
Don't wait until you're doing something you want to hide, then suddenly start using high-end crypto and data obfuscation and special networks to shout "LOOK AT ME, I HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE".
I'm considering it but the friends that could technically do it may not care. They also use gmail for their mail, which even encrypted and pre-Snoden, I've not trusted much*.
Network effect is horrible for this, so I'll never be able to go full encryption. SO... Is there some forum frequented^W dominated by slashdotters (away from bugged FB, Google et al) where we could seriously test this, and maybe implement more lasting trust relationships? of course, the focus would be via communicating with email instead of the commenting system here or at that place. Barring that, is there some #irc channel?
* Stuff like Google Latitude sounded like a bad idea when it came out in pre-android, pre-google plus, pre-wifi-collection scandal days, let alone now.
Sorry to hear that. It seems I got saved because of #2, since the person only has one computer and the FB cookie must have been fresh. I don't know if / why there are no security questions available as an option. A birthday is too easy for your friends and family to abuse and it's meant to be the easy choice of the two in normal circumstances. The only way out of it is probably de-regging your email account, causing a few days of bouncebacks to silence FB. Of course, that would affect all your relationships and destroy your mail, even if you could re-register the address weeks later to test. Also, knowing the likes of FB and linked in, they probably monitor even long-dead addresses once a month even after marking them bad. It's too cheap not to.
Found this on yahoo search for "facebook forgot my birthday" (without quotes). 1. Make wrong entries for birthday until you are asked to recieve a security code. 2. Click the 'send' button to receive a security code at the associated email address of your facebook account. 3. Enter the security code in the security code box below at facebook page. Proceed to the next step. 4. You'll be informed if your account has been accessed from a different location/country. Click at the 'i recognized it' button. And you'll be escalated to the normal homepage of your account. Have fun! Source
It sounds plausible. I recall the security code thing is legit from helping someone else who reset their password differently from what they had written down (or got keylogged and hacked, it's too soon to know) and eventually we got a pw reset page. I have no idea if you can alter your Bdate later, though.
Funny thing happened last night. I tried to use the convert option to output spc chiptunes to wav files. My goal was to convert this to an mp3 ringtone for android.
I usually go to a place called output plugins in the complicated gui but I have forgotten how to use the program over time. So I saw a convert option and felt surprised it had ogg and mp3 support!
What is bad about this apparent improvement? The old option is probably there, but the new one asked me to BUY pro if I want any stream output to the hard drive. I think that is when I recalled that AOL bought them and started messing with the GUI as a way to pimp their music store after v2.0
A big enough space elevator could move that many people permanently into space on a daily basis.
There is a cheaper solution. A big enough submarine could move people permanently to the bottom of the ocean. But what's there to eat, breathe, do and live in right now? Anything you can name is even scarcer out in "space" where this elevator will "stop" What resources will be awaiting those people at that stop? How will we seed resources that far removed from our own? We still haven't solved the problem of underwater colonies. Baby steps! baby steps! Yet we don't see science trying to learn anything from that practical playground.
Yeah, and seeing how condescending the first run warning is for about config, you will be either scared or very mad. I was appaled the first time I was forced to chase that away with "I'll be good. I promise!" I still am. It's more annoying than the gmail chat popup failure msg that goes "Grrrrr, looks like you have a popup blocker and I can't open your chat window" The windows registry is immensely more hazardous, and it never treated anyone like that. Seriously, if our PC is so hostile now, what can we expect AI to do to us... Well it yell at pebcak users and make threats?
Secure email on mobile phones is not going to happen. The host is compromised.
Why is this not modded higher? The house of cards is about to fall, or may have already fallen. We just need someone with conclusive proof of a Windows specific backdoor to compromise PGP or keylog us. There are so many tens of thousands of files and weekly updates that it's pretty intractable even for AV companies, should MS drop some polymorphic backdoor. I don't quite trust my brand new GPG setup under it. And honestly, why should we trust MS any more than our ISPs? we've known MS to be evil for eons, while Android has only been around since around 2008?
Well in all the controversy and even our learning in the Trust No One mentality, we are looking four someone to trust. That tells you something about humanity. And the fact that encryption its not just a game means we must trust someone our our work from scratch will be cracked by the experts we were up against. I for one believe some source would be good but four all we know NSA could honeypot anything as fair game, and post backdoored code on the domains we currently still trust, especially Silent Circle ( after NSL does force their hand)
Then the alternative is silly: pgp your own email, never use windows to avoid nsa backdoors that will compromise your priv key, expect to teach each contact how to use it. Even without back doors the problem is network effect. If you cannot convince someone to do something dead easy like joining $BETTER_UNDERDOG_SOCIAL_NETWORK where there is no technical training for key gen process, then good luck with even the geek friends following you into trusted encryption land
There are various headline types, and they "resonate better". Pasting their reasons (go to article to see numbers and stuff): Explosion in content competing for readers' attention 80% of readers never make it past the headline Traffic can vary by as much as 500% based on the headline
What's new is that they break things down:
We determined there to be five high-level headline types
Normal (Ways to Make Drinking Tea More Delightful)
Question (What are Ways to Make Drinking Tea More Delightful?)
How to (How to Make Drinking Tea More Delightful)
Number (30 Ways To Make Drinking Tea More Delightful)
Reader-Addressing (Ways You Need to Make Drinking Tea More Delightful)
I've seen lots of headlines for 2sleep and other trollish headline sites (or ads), which use and abuse those, plus enticing pictures that may or may not have anything to do with the content. Compared to them slashdot is seriously restrained and honext in its journalism.
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I really don't think that there is a casual use of Java applets anymore.
Minecraft is hugely popular and the only reason for many of us to temporarily enable browser applets.
You can choose to buy Minecraft without testing its browser demo... but if you want to preview whether your old machine can handle the 3D decently *before* plunking the ~20+ to license the full applet-less version, there's no alternative.
I was just thinking of capscop on twitter. I'll just leave this right here...
I received this email earlier today. It made no mention of the fact that generating new SSL certificates for certificate authentication on their website broke years ago, and nobody could be bothered to fix it. It's still broken, in fact. I'm guessing their decision to shut it down was more out of apathy than anything else.
That's the problem with lack of paid Service Level Agreements. More realistically on the www, we reduce that statement to "the problem with free services."
It is good and bad that almost all we do on the web is expected to be free. Even we can't be bothered to stop signing up for services, despite seeing more and more failures:
1) stuff merging / bought by our ideological enemies (almost joined Instagram a month before their Facebook deal)
2) stuff shut down with no warning (remember WHquestion a whole decade ago?? used it daily and suddenly saw a "sorry, we've closed, join Knowpost if you are still passionate about this". This is a risk at series streaming sites too)
3) stuff or being nerfed / Yahoo'd into uselessness
4) stuff just dissipates but never fully sunsets when a competitor overtakes it. Myspace and Friendster accounts.
I tried my credentils at Friendster to check up on some profiles, like maybe an old crush or wo... just to find
a) ALL my friend data and pictures were gone because some Korean MMO company bought it
b) they wanted to sell me MMOs, ignoring the emotional annoyance they'd caused.
Given some more years of this garbage, I'm just going to end up a luddite, because everything in the USA has an nsa-inside sticker now, and all my devices and OS's are compromised or assumed tainted in some way.
It is depressing. When I started using the web, an email address was important, but you could post on guestbooks (gasp!) without being forced to give it up. Later, email became your login handle and password reset tool, so you were forced to give it up. Back then it was not so natural to create 4 or 5 addresses, and the mental burden was similar to being asked by a stranger what your cellphone number is.
Now, you're like one question away from needing to give not your home number, but your PERSONAL number. It must be a cell because texts are a given. We all know how cell tech is built for GPS monitoring.
Exposition done, I created a hotmail address for someone**. We had to give a phone number or a secondary email address. For older people who you're helping out, which happens to me often, this is a pain because they do not have one. Hotmail wanted a phone, and we were forced to give them THAT. I felt cheated. At least they let you give a non-cellphone number with a voice-based reset system.
This morning I clicked on a link to open a Google App ID or something similar for work and they wanted to "verify" my identity to even let me read someone else's project. Google doesn't play around and they forced a cellphone-only choice. I imagine that in some poor countries, this becomes a pain. The depressing part is that people don't beat around the bush for identification steps. I declined, and every one of these traps makes me use Google less and less.
**I don't know what happened to the ol' password-reset link of days past. That predates security questions, but the latter seem of dubious use because they're easy to guess and rarely customizable.
I was looking for the Stackoverflow comment to post my concern* I never cared for openid until I found no other option to sign up and post a question there.
What are we gong to use at Stackoverflow after myopenid croaks? I don't use SO enough to care going there to ask or looking through a faq.
* Slashdot really needs a free-flow forum, because it's annoying having a question you can't ask elsewhere... or risk getting your question closed at the stackexchange sites. I've mulled this over before in another /. thread and the cons are that commercially Dice Holdings wouldsee it removing eyeballs away from the moderation and commenting on articles here.
With the power NSLs have, why is is so hard to conclude that television and papers can be gagged IN ADVANCE just as readily as your friendly beighborhood ISP?
It is not like disappearing and poisoning of persona non-gratta needs to be done every day, and they can precision-target the Snowdens we haven't heard from yet
They will add www to it no matter what I tell them to enter.
They add "www" not because they are technical enough to know what it means when they see it. After all, they cannot tell you what the http and the colon and the rest are for. The US mainstream knows about the doble-u's because exactly 100% of web-savvy ads in the nineties spelled it out. Just like reading a phone # aloud, no?
It was stuff like "h.t.t.p colon slash slash w.w.w. mcdonalds dot com"
It boggles the mind that I lived through that compared to the structure-less "follow us on facebook and twitter"
Ten years ago, almost noone commercial would be risking the huge level of accidental misdirection that we all know can ensue if we say "yeah just google [my name] to find me" So I understand this parent comment
Who here remembers those OFFICIAL microsoft chat servers from back in 1998 or so?
I think 6 months after I discovered them, most or all of netmeeting servers were taken offline. I haven't touched that project ever since.
Today I noticed that with the huge heavyhanded April push sunsetting MSN messenger in favor of Skype, skype has been updated repeatedly and I've been declining without seeing what they're taking out.
I had to help someone test the software on their own computer today. Their updated "Call" button is now "Call PHONE" (implies cash expenses.) I won't be putting up with GUI changes meant to force me into paying.
MS also chose to fail to migrate the Hotmail new email and single-sign-on integration that its userbase loved. They were clearly aiming at forcing more Skype chatting, more potential paid calling and less email usage.
Who here remembers those OFFICIAL microsoft chat servers from back in 1998 or so?
I think 6 months after I discovered them, most or all of netmeeting servers were taken offline. I haven't touched that project ever since.
OK, I can see this becoming a filler article on some crappy "tech" website (coughcoughgizmodocough). But Slashdot? Seriously?
And it's not even written for our audience.
To be fair, I recently asked someone about what forum someone could point me to where slashdotters could freely talk about encryption. We can only talk about something for about 2 days here, and then container story gets buried no matter how important the topic. When the Journal system debutted here it sort of provided that, but besides technolust there was very little eyeball traffic. /. is missing is a forums.slashdot.org. Imagine a PHP-like board where we can post freely and start our own new topics or questions without needing to mind how long ago something was added. Stuff like reddit comes to mind, but it's too mainstream and joke-ish. Others have stringent rules where everything must be on topic (stackexchange et all) and moderation is too in your face, causing competition (down to editing, moving and closing other people's threads) / there's no real community, unless you count meta.
Your post made me realize that what
Both can mount samba shares and play most formats.
Youtube video can easily take hundreds of megs, and the video app provides no local-savable functionality so it obviously is built to STREAM. So I should be able to stream much audio via SMB, but always wondered why it that can't be shared without downloading permanently into the poor space contraints on the low-end of android phones. This contrast makes it clear what Google was thinking from the onset for Android and user-friendly SMB *streaming*.
What I don't understand is why music apps fail to fill in the SMB gap, despite knowing we use Wifi and have local networks at home. Tangentially, devs also have done nothing to let one remote type with a real PC into an android device. Bluetooth keyboards are horrible.
Windows PowerShell is arguably a superior CLI to Bash.
Not sure it can be without a built-in command history.
It's just a culture pain to use it for actual work which requires reusing a lot of code.
Sure, I can try cut-and-paste to get around it, but not from my mouse... and Control-V fails. And we must use a menu to paste, and windows likes block select rather than line-select. It's got the same behaviors as a normal dosbox, which is the whole point driving us to just installing cygwin / bash
Also, I too support criticizing Microsoft for their relationship with NSA, but it is interesting how many shy away from recognizing Google, Apple and others having the exact same relationship.
Not the same relationship, because you can bet impact projections mean different tax dollar amounts, and different deal sweeteners. The official Google Talk client targets Windows first
MacOS has Facetime and iChat. Sure, you can own those separately, but supposing we had to give out a sardonic award for the largest breach^W accomplishment, you wouldn't go to the alternative guys first.
They are all targets, but guess which company started it all, thanks to owning the fattest install base for the longest number of months? Boom! 80+ percent userbase in a single compromise op. Want ~100%? the NSA can follow up on that during their spare time while the majority of the data pours in.
The same company bought Skype just to add NSA backdoors. It was not enough to just scoop up old users, so the NSA forced it as a replacement to the Windows Messenger client back in April of this year. Also juicy, considering how Skype has Native Windows, Linux and OSX clients. That is thinking big, my friend.
Yeah, but all you can do in Paint is draw Hitler mustaches on supermodels and junk.
Haha, yes. Seriously, though MSPaint is ALL we have in corporate environments for troubleshooting and cropping images on the fly.
For MacOS users I don't recall any built-in alternative for general mustache work "and junk" ;). Sure, taking screenshots is automated through key combos for Macs, but the MacOS is missing the true magic of Paint's scribbling, trying to make circles and connect lines and triangles into fake arrows, etc.
The lobby on feature-complete Drawing tools for all OSs is sure deficient. It's an accepted fact of life how unprofessional it looks when a high-paid manager has no choice but to improvise without the correct tools, like maybe visio or photoshoop. Their troubleshooting or "the problem on this image is here" directions are done in Paint, and always look like something out of a 4chan drawing.
* And apparently FINALLY on Windows 8
I'm afraid you missed the larger point. This is NOT a setting and cannot just silently be sent out on a whim to your enterprise image like you can send "Hide the shut down button"
Getting the old behavior back requires
+ researching a list of untrusted third party programs with potential licenses and costs
+ confirming they don't cause incompatibilities
+ getting approved by your apathetic managers
Not all software can be packaged and distributed as self-installing MSIs, especially if they do shell modifications. Miming a menu whose code was NEVER checked into windows 8 counts as such a risky endeavor. So this naturally leads to:
Then you have to go back and rebuild various default images with it and test again.
Now, all of this is moot when you're not in an enterprise. The real annoyance we're being trolled with is that admin access or not, there are thousands of computers out there that you will have to sit at. How many of them is it practical to update when they belong to our friends, kids, girlfriends, coworkers, relatives, managers? what about people who barely trust us to sit at their computer and want us off their desk with as few clicks as possible? It's a losing battle. Just 2 years ago, Mozilla removed the File menu from Firefox, threw out the status bar, merged the Stop and Reload buttons and put the tabs on top. This has NOT all come out at once, so you need to track down a myriad of fix packs and move them as you migrate machines and visit other friends whose computers you use. The challenge is this: find people you visit who installed extensions to fix every one of those throughout all their machines, partitions and login profiles. The point is that we lose in the long run, even if it's not a problem to make the change on a single OS
Half is too low. We should aim for 90% being smart enough to value privacy.
90% is too high, even for slashdotters. Need proof? Replace your proposed goal headline:
[90% of ] Teens actually [being smart enough to ] care about online privacy
with
[90% of ] SLASHDOTTERS actually [being smart enough to ] care about online privacy
The latter headline is only true after you append "and avoid having opened social network accounts in the first place." Most people here openly admin that this "secures" their accounts:
used only with immediate family and trusted(tm) single-digit friends
has a fake name
is part of a real-plus-fake-name pair where the real name account is a dummy and has diff data than the fake name account
In the end, cookies follow you equally across the web on all of them, your home IPs are known, and someone will always give away your name in the wrong place (say, tagging photos of you to the wrong account.) The only winning move is not to play, but nobody is smart enough to #win in an empty stadium of their choosing just yet. So we all really want to play, even though we think we're smart and security conscious. If that is us, then what can we expect of the mainstream... let alone their untrained kids?
Don't wait until you're doing something you want to hide, then suddenly start using high-end crypto and data obfuscation and special networks to shout "LOOK AT ME, I HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE".
I'm considering it but the friends that could technically do it may not care. They also use gmail for their mail, which even encrypted and pre-Snoden, I've not trusted much*.
Network effect is horrible for this, so I'll never be able to go full encryption. SO... Is there some forum frequented^W dominated by slashdotters (away from bugged FB, Google et al) where we could seriously test this, and maybe implement more lasting trust relationships? of course, the focus would be via communicating with email instead of the commenting system here or at that place. Barring that, is there some #irc channel?
* Stuff like Google Latitude sounded like a bad idea when it came out in pre-android, pre-google plus, pre-wifi-collection scandal days, let alone now.
Sorry to hear that.
It seems I got saved because of #2, since the person only has one computer and the FB cookie must have been fresh.
I don't know if / why there are no security questions available as an option. A birthday is too easy for your friends and family to abuse and it's meant to be the easy choice of the two in normal circumstances.
The only way out of it is probably de-regging your email account, causing a few days of bouncebacks to silence FB. Of course, that would affect all your relationships and destroy your mail, even if you could re-register the address weeks later to test. Also, knowing the likes of FB and linked in, they probably monitor even long-dead addresses once a month even after marking them bad. It's too cheap not to.
Found this on yahoo search for "facebook forgot my birthday" (without quotes).
1. Make wrong entries for birthday until you are asked to recieve a security code.
2. Click the 'send' button to receive a security code at the associated email address of your facebook account.
3. Enter the security code in the security code box below at facebook page. Proceed to the next step.
4. You'll be informed if your account has been accessed from a different location/country. Click at the 'i recognized it' button.
And you'll be escalated to the normal homepage of your account. Have fun!
Source
It sounds plausible. I recall the security code thing is legit from helping someone else who reset their password differently from what they had written down (or got keylogged and hacked, it's too soon to know) and eventually we got a pw reset page. I have no idea if you can alter your Bdate later, though.
Funny thing happened last night. I tried to use the convert option to output spc chiptunes to wav files. My goal was to convert this to an mp3 ringtone for android.
I usually go to a place called output plugins in the complicated gui but I have forgotten how to use the program over time. So I saw a convert option and felt surprised it had ogg and mp3 support!
What is bad about this apparent improvement? The old option is probably there, but the new one asked me to BUY pro if I want any stream output to the hard drive. I think that is when I recalled that AOL bought them and started messing with the GUI as a way to pimp their music store after v2.0
Who pays for a music program anyways?
A big enough space elevator could move that many people permanently into space on a daily basis.
There is a cheaper solution. A big enough submarine could move people permanently to the bottom of the ocean.
But what's there to eat, breathe, do and live in right now?
Anything you can name is even scarcer out in "space" where this elevator will "stop"
What resources will be awaiting those people at that stop? How will we seed resources that far removed from our own? We still haven't solved the problem of underwater colonies. Baby steps! baby steps!
Yet we don't see science trying to learn anything from that practical playground.
Yeah, and seeing how condescending the first run warning is for about config, you will be either scared or very mad.
I was appaled the first time I was forced to chase that away with "I'll be good. I promise!" I still am. It's more annoying than the gmail chat popup failure msg that goes "Grrrrr, looks like you have a popup blocker and I can't open your chat window"
The windows registry is immensely more hazardous, and it never treated anyone like that. Seriously, if our PC is so hostile now, what can we expect AI to do to us... Well it yell at pebcak users and make threats?
Secure email on mobile phones is not going to happen. The host is compromised.
Why is this not modded higher? The house of cards is about to fall, or may have already fallen. We just need someone with conclusive proof of a Windows specific backdoor to compromise PGP or keylog us. There are so many tens of thousands of files and weekly updates that it's pretty intractable even for AV companies, should MS drop some polymorphic backdoor. I don't quite trust my brand new GPG setup under it. And honestly, why should we trust MS any more than our ISPs? we've known MS to be evil for eons, while Android has only been around since around 2008?
Well in all the controversy and even our learning in the Trust No One mentality, we are looking four someone to trust.
That tells you something about humanity. And the fact that encryption its not just a game means we must trust someone our our work from scratch will be cracked by the experts we were up against. I for one believe some source would be good but four all we know NSA could honeypot anything as fair game, and post backdoored code on the domains we currently still trust, especially Silent Circle ( after NSL does force their hand)
Then the alternative is silly: pgp your own email, never use windows to avoid nsa backdoors that will compromise your priv key, expect to teach each contact how to use it.
Even without back doors the problem is network effect. If you cannot convince someone to do something dead easy like joining $BETTER_UNDERDOG_SOCIAL_NETWORK where there is no technical training for key gen process, then good luck with even the geek friends following you into trusted encryption land
Thanks, that was intersting
A slashdot search (wow, didn't have to resort to google!) showed that is here: But Can It Run Crysis 3?
Since Betterigde is mentioned so much, I'll share what I found on Yammer (a social network I haven't heard of here): 5 Data Insights into the Headlines Readers Click
There are various headline types, and they "resonate better". Pasting their reasons (go to article to see numbers and stuff):
Explosion in content competing for readers' attention
80% of readers never make it past the headline
Traffic can vary by as much as 500% based on the headline
What's new is that they break things down:
We determined there to be five high-level headline types
Normal (Ways to Make Drinking Tea More Delightful)
Question (What are Ways to Make Drinking Tea More Delightful?)
How to (How to Make Drinking Tea More Delightful)
Number (30 Ways To Make Drinking Tea More Delightful)
Reader-Addressing (Ways You Need to Make Drinking Tea More Delightful)
I've seen lots of headlines for 2sleep and other trollish headline sites (or ads), which use and abuse those, plus enticing pictures that may or may not have anything to do with the content. Compared to them slashdot is seriously restrained and honext in its journalism.