That's stupid: Besides not being able to update it easily, you installed unsigned code. Glad to know you make a habit of compromising system security to get up to date apps.
Wrong. LibreOffice signs all their apps, and provides their PGP public key to verify them. But you wouldn't know that, because if you actually looked it up, you'd have to let the facts get in the way of a good argument. Unless you're meaning that they haven't had the package signed by a code signing certificate bought at stupidly high cost from a conventional CA. Because we know CAs are all perfect and NEVER do anything that screws up security for the entire planet......
Oh, and you can't install a tar full of debs just by clicking on it. If you extract it first then multi-select and choose Package install from the dropdown, it says the "action is not supported". You have to right-click and install all 46 files individually. Slashdot is full of morons who will upvote the worst, weasel-y defenses of their dysfunctional Linux desktops.
On what planet have you ever managed to find somewhere where you could download "a tar full of debs" to even try to install software in the ass-backwards way? And another question: What happens when you try to multi-select and install 46 msi files on Windows? Seriously, what happens? I don't know, because I've never been stupid enough to try it. I'd imagine it would puke in the exact same way, though, or at the very least, make you finish installing one before you started installing the next, otherwise you'd get an msi installer service error, because the Windows Installer can only install one package at a time. So, what you're saying is, this feature of Linux sucks because it's just like Windows. Well...you might actually have a point, there......
Wow, are you ever a douche. Here's a scenario for you: The government is successful in getting backdoors implemented into most, if not all, encryption standards. Now, as we know, a backdoor for one is a backdoor for the entire world, once the information about how it works is leaked or figured out by third-party researchers. So, that means the terrorists you are so deathly, quaking-in-your-boots afraid of will also be able to use those backdoors to break encryption. So, they figure it out, and start monitoring encrypted US government communications. The POTUS is going for a speech/photo op at some factory somewhere, and various communications are sent between the president, his secretary, the Secret Service, and the factory management, regarding various arrangements. Now, because the terrorists can use the backdoor, they are aware of these arrangements. They know the route, the fact that the Secret Service is going in ahead of time to do a bomb sweep, and the fact that the president is going to be waiting in his limo outside the factory until the SS gives the all clear after the sweep. Now, all they have to have is a delivery truck parked at a loading dock, filled with explosive kittens, and they know they've got a 15 minute window where the president will be waiting outside. They also know where he'll be waiting, due to the communications with the factory managers about where to park, etc, so they know where to park their truck. Set a timer for the middle of that 15 minute window, and the POTUS and entourage is now dead.
The encryption backdoors have made terrorists much more effective at choosing high value targets, making them much more effective at causing terror, rather than less.
Anybody, ANYBODY, who thinks that a government backdoor into encryption will reduce terrorist attacks is either a moron, a paid government shill, or both. This Rogers idiot is stating that the Paris attacks wouldn't have happened without encryption. Well, the Paris attackers used non-encrypted SMS, so according to Rogers, the Paris attacks didn't happen. If they wouldn't have happened without encryption, and there was no encryption, then they couldn't have happened. The man's obviously delusional, and it shows. The question is, cold fjord, why are you agreeing with what he says? Are you a paid government shill, or are you a moron?
Want to know what sucked and sucked really badly? Having to pay for the mighty flagship Microsoft Office for the PC. Then paying for the mighty flagship Microsoft Office for the Mac. Then when you take a document from one to the other, they hardly resemble each other. If' I'm paying for a program on two computers it might be nice to have the same document look the same on each computer
It's worse than that. How about setting up a document, getting pagination, margins, font size, etc, all figured out, so it looks perfect. Then, you go to print it, and change the printer from your cheapo inkjet to your good laser, and suddenly your document formatting takes a dump.
Is this why debian stable is stuck on LO 4.x? Oh wait, that's just the usual Linux BS where you're not allowed to have new apps unless you meticulously install it from the command line and take responsibility for updating it by hand.
You mean how you can download the.deb package from the LibreOffice website, and double click on it to install it? You're right, that's such a huge, painful operation of cryptic commands that nobody could possibly remember.:-/
While you still have to update it manually, that's the same for just about every single program on Windows, including Microsoft Office, if you've still got the default settings for Windows Update.
Exactly my thought. Especially considering the value difference between an employee list, and a backdoor key to every encryption method on the planet (I know, I know....except OTPs), there's no way in hell every hacking group on the planet won't be trying to break into the FBI/NSA/etc to get their hands on this key. If they actually manage to force through some stupid encryption backdoor law, I give it a month, tops, before someone evil.....make that "someone else who's also evil".....has the backdoor key.
This serves no such purpose. It's a juvenile action. Just because you have unauthorized access to do something and you have the skills to do so, that doesn't make it right.
I read it as "You want a backdoor key to every encryption scheme in the world, and you can't even keep your own employee lists safe?"
If the most complex software you write is a guestbook, then yes, you should probably avoid OO. The rest of us, though, who write complex, 10,000+ line code bases have much nigger problems than the 4 guestbook signatures on our nerdrage blog with a total of 3 posts bitching about MS, Oracle, and systemd.
You don't contribute to charity while you are carrying a balance on your credit cards...
Really? If you live your life in such a way that you waste your money, you solve the problem not by reigning in your own excesses, but by taking from the poorest?
You must work for the music/movie industries. In no way is "not giving money to party X" the same as "taking money from party X".
IMO it has NULL value. It's just words which third-world countries are going to ignore, while the leaders of western countries pass laws forcing us to adhere to it costing our economy [mb]illions of dollars and jobs, while at the same time paying [mb]illions of dollars to aforementioned third-world countries to ostensibly help them with green technology development, which the leaders of those countries will promptly spend on weapons to destroy anti-government protesters, with no penalties whatsoever.
That graph is the result of two completely different methodologies plotted on the same graph. Temperatures before 1870 are estimated based on ice core data and other proxies. Temperatures since 1870 are actual measured temperatures using thermometers. Anybody at all who plots these on the same graph as if they were continuous data doesn't deserve to call themselves a scientist.
My Google-fu isn't working at the moment, but I've read some papers that say if you use the same proxies for the last 150 years of temperature, rather than switching to actual measurements, that spike doesn't show up. Of course, that means that such spikes could have been continuous through the last few thousand years, but we have no record accurate enough to show them. I've worked in scientific data analysis before, and consistency was so important that if I upgraded a software version on a computer during the course of a large project, old data from that project had to be reanalysed to ensure the results didn't change. Not only are the climate "scientists" not doing this, they are intentionally using data from completely disparate sources and methodologies in an attempt to prove their hypothesis. If this isn't acceptable in any other scientific field, why is it done in climate science?
Based in Canada, so no NSL/NSA/FBI crap to deal with, either.
If Dear Leader Harper is re-elected you might discover NSL/CSEC/CSIS/RCMP/CBS knocking on your company door.
Well, two things: 1. Dear Leader Harper was pretty well trounced. Whether frat-boy Trudeau will be an improvement or not remains to be seen. 2. Customer data is not stored on the C-Box hardware, other than a list of computers and hardware/software installed. While an "anti-terrorism/anti-dissent" law could certainly legally (illegally?) require me to provide data stored on my computers to the authorities, there is no way at all that a law requiring me to help said authorities break into a third party computer would ever pass. Customer data is only stored on the customer's machine. I don't own that computer, and cannot be required to provide access to it.
A C-Box. It's brand new, (so new it hasn't officially launched, yet.) but it will do all you're asking for. Manage installed software, automatically install updates for various software when available, provides monitored antivirus, and runs a "second opinion" virus scan based on hashes and multiple A/V engines. Also provides remote desktop style support for hands-on needs.
The website (which is little more than a placeholder, right now) is http://www.clouditdept.com/ Based in Canada, so no NSL/NSA/FBI crap to deal with, either.
I suppose you're not opposed to Bernie Madoff's investment plan then, nor WorldCom's Ebber's statements about the finances? Or a host of others that "thought" differently.
Wow. The bad analogies are out in force, today. Stealing money is not speech. It's stealing money.
95% may agree that climate change is happening, sure. That's obvious. Climate change has been happening for millions of years, well before humans even came on the scene, forget about discovered fossil fuels.
The number who agree on human causes and extent is nowhere near that high, though.
The Crusades weren't a witch hunt because actual evil people who were trying to destroy humanity were the ones being investigated. The Salem Witch Trials weren't a witch hunt because actual evil people who were trying to destroy humanity were the ones being investigated. etc.etc.etc.
The more you spout off in support of global warming, the more you sound exactly like a witch hunt. Church of Global Warming is right......
It sounds a conspiracy to try to harm what the scientists have already voted on so prison time is appropriate.
You keep saying that. So you admit that global warming is political, rather than scientific? Science doesn't "vote" on anything. As soon as you feel the need to get a bunch of yeas and nays, then you've eliminated science from the situation.
Science comes up with theories and tests them. They can be tested repeatedly, and thought to be correct for decades, and then something else comes along and invalidates them completely. This has happened repeatedly, and no vote can counteract the truth.
(AC spends an hour looking around the website for almost the most expensive support option there is.....) See?! It's not free!!! You have to pay eleventy thousand dollars just for the manual!!! IT'S A SCAM!!!!!
Meanwhile, the software is free to download, there are free guides for every part of the install process (hardware selection, software install, etc) There are probably over 100 tutorials for various scenarios, there's a very active and useful forum, etc.etc.etc, all of which are free. The book you're referring to is also available separately from the support subscription, for around $40 US in paperback form; cheaper for an electronic edition.
Basically, what you're saying is: Linux isn't free at all, for anybody, because Red Hat charges $1300/year for an enterprise support contract. Translation: You're an idiot.
Maybe. But since I have to pay $100 just to read the manual for this "free" software, I really don't feel that I can evaluate it properly.
What the ever loving fuck are you talking about? Unless you're saying you need to become a gold member subscriber to get access to the manual (meaning the Pfsense: The Definitive Guide book, which, along with a pile of other stuff, comes with that gold membership.) In that case, you're a complete idiot, and probably aren't capable of setting up said firewall in the first place.
All of these are free. The forums are some of the best of any open source product as far as activity and usefulness.
Incidentally, the book is also available in paperback form from Amazon.ca for $48 CAD (about $40 US), so even if you did insist on having that book as your pfSense "manual," you still don't have to pay $100 for it. The Kindle version is even cheaper, at $36 CAD. http://www.amazon.ca/Pfsense-Definitive-Christopher-M-Buechler/dp/0979034280
My network runs on a pfSense router; an old PIII 800MHz desktop system with 512MB RAM and a 10GB hard disk. Plug whatever NICs in you want, whether they're 10/100s that you have kicking around, or Gigabit if you have them. The system itself was free for me, as it was a castoff from some other purpose that it was no longer powerful enough for. I think my NICs (I have 4 in mine) were all castoffs, too. They're all 10/100, but it doesn't matter, because my local Internet speed is only about 15Mb down. Then I've got a castoff Cisco 10/100 switch that came from a customer who was upgrading. Their head office was supposed to send me a box and shipping label to send it back, but after harassing them for several months, and always hearing "Yes...we'll get that sent right out," I gave up on them and started using it myself.
But, the beauty of it is, if I need to upgrade to Gigabit at some point about 27 years from now, when local ISPs finally get their act together, then all I have to do is swap out the 10/100 NICs for Gb, and all of a sudden I've upgraded my router to higher speed for somewhere in the neighbourhood of $50.
Yes, you can buy a complete pfSense hardware router solution, but unless you need some kind of warranty support for a commercial application, I don't see why you'd need to.
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Glad you enjoyed it. Somebody's got to put these propagandists in their place, and it might as well be me......
That's stupid: Besides not being able to update it easily, you installed unsigned code. Glad to know you make a habit of compromising system security to get up to date apps.
Wrong. LibreOffice signs all their apps, and provides their PGP public key to verify them. But you wouldn't know that, because if you actually looked it up, you'd have to let the facts get in the way of a good argument.
Unless you're meaning that they haven't had the package signed by a code signing certificate bought at stupidly high cost from a conventional CA. Because we know CAs are all perfect and NEVER do anything that screws up security for the entire planet......
Oh, and you can't install a tar full of debs just by clicking on it. If you extract it first then multi-select and choose Package install from the dropdown, it says the "action is not supported". You have to right-click and install all 46 files individually. Slashdot is full of morons who will upvote the worst, weasel-y defenses of their dysfunctional Linux desktops.
On what planet have you ever managed to find somewhere where you could download "a tar full of debs" to even try to install software in the ass-backwards way?
And another question: What happens when you try to multi-select and install 46 msi files on Windows? Seriously, what happens? I don't know, because I've never been stupid enough to try it. I'd imagine it would puke in the exact same way, though, or at the very least, make you finish installing one before you started installing the next, otherwise you'd get an msi installer service error, because the Windows Installer can only install one package at a time.
So, what you're saying is, this feature of Linux sucks because it's just like Windows. Well...you might actually have a point, there......
Mine is simple. There would not have been a Paris attack if there were no Paris.
But we'll always have Paris.
Wow, are you ever a douche.
Here's a scenario for you:
The government is successful in getting backdoors implemented into most, if not all, encryption standards. Now, as we know, a backdoor for one is a backdoor for the entire world, once the information about how it works is leaked or figured out by third-party researchers. So, that means the terrorists you are so deathly, quaking-in-your-boots afraid of will also be able to use those backdoors to break encryption.
So, they figure it out, and start monitoring encrypted US government communications. The POTUS is going for a speech/photo op at some factory somewhere, and various communications are sent between the president, his secretary, the Secret Service, and the factory management, regarding various arrangements.
Now, because the terrorists can use the backdoor, they are aware of these arrangements. They know the route, the fact that the Secret Service is going in ahead of time to do a bomb sweep, and the fact that the president is going to be waiting in his limo outside the factory until the SS gives the all clear after the sweep.
Now, all they have to have is a delivery truck parked at a loading dock, filled with explosive kittens, and they know they've got a 15 minute window where the president will be waiting outside. They also know where he'll be waiting, due to the communications with the factory managers about where to park, etc, so they know where to park their truck.
Set a timer for the middle of that 15 minute window, and the POTUS and entourage is now dead.
The encryption backdoors have made terrorists much more effective at choosing high value targets, making them much more effective at causing terror, rather than less.
Anybody, ANYBODY, who thinks that a government backdoor into encryption will reduce terrorist attacks is either a moron, a paid government shill, or both. This Rogers idiot is stating that the Paris attacks wouldn't have happened without encryption. Well, the Paris attackers used non-encrypted SMS, so according to Rogers, the Paris attacks didn't happen. If they wouldn't have happened without encryption, and there was no encryption, then they couldn't have happened.
The man's obviously delusional, and it shows. The question is, cold fjord, why are you agreeing with what he says? Are you a paid government shill, or are you a moron?
What's it going to be?
Want to know what sucked and sucked really badly? Having to pay for the mighty flagship Microsoft Office for the PC. Then paying for the mighty flagship Microsoft Office for the Mac. Then when you take a document from one to the other, they hardly resemble each other. If' I'm paying for a program on two computers it might be nice to have the same document look the same on each computer
It's worse than that. How about setting up a document, getting pagination, margins, font size, etc, all figured out, so it looks perfect. Then, you go to print it, and change the printer from your cheapo inkjet to your good laser, and suddenly your document formatting takes a dump.
Is this why debian stable is stuck on LO 4.x? Oh wait, that's just the usual Linux BS where you're not allowed to have new apps unless you meticulously install it from the command line and take responsibility for updating it by hand.
You mean how you can download the .deb package from the LibreOffice website, and double click on it to install it? You're right, that's such a huge, painful operation of cryptic commands that nobody could possibly remember. :-/
While you still have to update it manually, that's the same for just about every single program on Windows, including Microsoft Office, if you've still got the default settings for Windows Update.
Exactly my thought. Especially considering the value difference between an employee list, and a backdoor key to every encryption method on the planet (I know, I know....except OTPs), there's no way in hell every hacking group on the planet won't be trying to break into the FBI/NSA/etc to get their hands on this key.
If they actually manage to force through some stupid encryption backdoor law, I give it a month, tops, before someone evil.....make that "someone else who's also evil".....has the backdoor key.
I'm surrounded by a hoard of blooming idiots!
So you're collecting the idiots, and keeping them all to yourself? The word you're looking for is "horde".
This serves no such purpose. It's a juvenile action. Just because you have unauthorized access to do something and you have the skills to do so, that doesn't make it right.
I read it as "You want a backdoor key to every encryption scheme in the world, and you can't even keep your own employee lists safe?"
If the most complex software you write is a guestbook, then yes, you should probably avoid OO. The rest of us, though, who write complex, 10,000+ line code bases have much nigger problems than the 4 guestbook signatures on our nerdrage blog with a total of 3 posts bitching about MS, Oracle, and systemd.
Hue exposes a REST API, you can talk to it yourself in whatever way you want.
Hey, Hue! You stupid sonofabitch! Turn my fucking lights on!!!!
You don't contribute to charity while you are carrying a balance on your credit cards...
Really? If you live your life in such a way that you waste your money, you solve the problem not by reigning in your own excesses, but by taking from the poorest?
You must work for the music/movie industries. In no way is "not giving money to party X" the same as "taking money from party X".
IMO it has NULL value. It's just words which third-world countries are going to ignore, while the leaders of western countries pass laws forcing us to adhere to it costing our economy [mb]illions of dollars and jobs, while at the same time paying [mb]illions of dollars to aforementioned third-world countries to ostensibly help them with green technology development, which the leaders of those countries will promptly spend on weapons to destroy anti-government protesters, with no penalties whatsoever.
FTFY
I have a Bitcoin App! Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Hopefully it will make your head explode.
Cows are for COWS! MOOOO! Cows are all cows!
Wait.....
That graph is the result of two completely different methodologies plotted on the same graph.
Temperatures before 1870 are estimated based on ice core data and other proxies. Temperatures since 1870 are actual measured temperatures using thermometers.
Anybody at all who plots these on the same graph as if they were continuous data doesn't deserve to call themselves a scientist.
My Google-fu isn't working at the moment, but I've read some papers that say if you use the same proxies for the last 150 years of temperature, rather than switching to actual measurements, that spike doesn't show up. Of course, that means that such spikes could have been continuous through the last few thousand years, but we have no record accurate enough to show them.
I've worked in scientific data analysis before, and consistency was so important that if I upgraded a software version on a computer during the course of a large project, old data from that project had to be reanalysed to ensure the results didn't change.
Not only are the climate "scientists" not doing this, they are intentionally using data from completely disparate sources and methodologies in an attempt to prove their hypothesis. If this isn't acceptable in any other scientific field, why is it done in climate science?
Show me consistently obtained data
Disclaimer: I own the company I'm promoting here.
Based in Canada, so no NSL/NSA/FBI crap to deal with, either.
If Dear Leader Harper is re-elected you might discover NSL/CSEC/CSIS/RCMP/CBS knocking on your company door.
Well, two things:
1. Dear Leader Harper was pretty well trounced. Whether frat-boy Trudeau will be an improvement or not remains to be seen.
2. Customer data is not stored on the C-Box hardware, other than a list of computers and hardware/software installed. While an "anti-terrorism/anti-dissent" law could certainly legally (illegally?) require me to provide data stored on my computers to the authorities, there is no way at all that a law requiring me to help said authorities break into a third party computer would ever pass. Customer data is only stored on the customer's machine. I don't own that computer, and cannot be required to provide access to it.
Disclaimer: I own the company I'm promoting here.
A C-Box. It's brand new, (so new it hasn't officially launched, yet.) but it will do all you're asking for. Manage installed software, automatically install updates for various software when available, provides monitored antivirus, and runs a "second opinion" virus scan based on hashes and multiple A/V engines.
Also provides remote desktop style support for hands-on needs.
The website (which is little more than a placeholder, right now) is http://www.clouditdept.com/
Based in Canada, so no NSL/NSA/FBI crap to deal with, either.
I suppose you're not opposed to Bernie Madoff's investment plan then, nor WorldCom's Ebber's statements about the finances? Or a host of others that "thought" differently.
Wow. The bad analogies are out in force, today. Stealing money is not speech. It's stealing money.
95% may agree that climate change is happening, sure. That's obvious. Climate change has been happening for millions of years, well before humans even came on the scene, forget about discovered fossil fuels.
The number who agree on human causes and extent is nowhere near that high, though.
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
The Crusades weren't a witch hunt because actual evil people who were trying to destroy humanity were the ones being investigated.
The Salem Witch Trials weren't a witch hunt because actual evil people who were trying to destroy humanity were the ones being investigated.
etc.etc.etc.
The more you spout off in support of global warming, the more you sound exactly like a witch hunt. Church of Global Warming is right......
It sounds a conspiracy to try to harm what the scientists have already voted on so prison time is appropriate.
You keep saying that. So you admit that global warming is political, rather than scientific? Science doesn't "vote" on anything. As soon as you feel the need to get a bunch of yeas and nays, then you've eliminated science from the situation.
Science comes up with theories and tests them. They can be tested repeatedly, and thought to be correct for decades, and then something else comes along and invalidates them completely. This has happened repeatedly, and no vote can counteract the truth.
(AC spends an hour looking around the website for almost the most expensive support option there is.....) See?! It's not free!!! You have to pay eleventy thousand dollars just for the manual!!! IT'S A SCAM!!!!!
Meanwhile, the software is free to download, there are free guides for every part of the install process (hardware selection, software install, etc) There are probably over 100 tutorials for various scenarios, there's a very active and useful forum, etc.etc.etc, all of which are free.
The book you're referring to is also available separately from the support subscription, for around $40 US in paperback form; cheaper for an electronic edition.
Basically, what you're saying is: Linux isn't free at all, for anybody, because Red Hat charges $1300/year for an enterprise support contract.
Translation: You're an idiot.
Maybe. But since I have to pay $100 just to read the manual for this "free" software, I really don't feel that I can evaluate it properly.
What the ever loving fuck are you talking about? Unless you're saying you need to become a gold member subscriber to get access to the manual (meaning the Pfsense: The Definitive Guide book, which, along with a pile of other stuff, comes with that gold membership.) In that case, you're a complete idiot, and probably aren't capable of setting up said firewall in the first place.
Getting started guide: https://www.pfsense.org/getting-started/
Hardware selection guide: https://www.pfsense.org/hardware/
Install guide: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Installing_pfSense
Tutorials: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Tutorials
Full Documentation Wiki: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Main_Page
Forum: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php
All of these are free. The forums are some of the best of any open source product as far as activity and usefulness.
Incidentally, the book is also available in paperback form from Amazon.ca for $48 CAD (about $40 US), so even if you did insist on having that book as your pfSense "manual," you still don't have to pay $100 for it. The Kindle version is even cheaper, at $36 CAD. http://www.amazon.ca/Pfsense-Definitive-Christopher-M-Buechler/dp/0979034280
My network runs on a pfSense router; an old PIII 800MHz desktop system with 512MB RAM and a 10GB hard disk. Plug whatever NICs in you want, whether they're 10/100s that you have kicking around, or Gigabit if you have them. The system itself was free for me, as it was a castoff from some other purpose that it was no longer powerful enough for. I think my NICs (I have 4 in mine) were all castoffs, too. They're all 10/100, but it doesn't matter, because my local Internet speed is only about 15Mb down. Then I've got a castoff Cisco 10/100 switch that came from a customer who was upgrading. Their head office was supposed to send me a box and shipping label to send it back, but after harassing them for several months, and always hearing "Yes...we'll get that sent right out," I gave up on them and started using it myself.
But, the beauty of it is, if I need to upgrade to Gigabit at some point about 27 years from now, when local ISPs finally get their act together, then all I have to do is swap out the 10/100 NICs for Gb, and all of a sudden I've upgraded my router to higher speed for somewhere in the neighbourhood of $50.
Yes, you can buy a complete pfSense hardware router solution, but unless you need some kind of warranty support for a commercial application, I don't see why you'd need to.