You can save money by leaving out the three colors which aren't actually used.
He used a $25,000 milling machine to engrave letters on a sign, and you're thinking about saving money based on the number of colors. He would have money by not having bought the $25k machine, which is out of most Slashdotters budgets anyways:)
He could have saved money by using stick-on letters and spray paint on a transparency, and a LED for backlighting.
Or just print the display on photo paper... and put it in a picture frame.
uh...except I can't see what my friends tagged as both "linux" and "security" if I'm saving things locally
You just said I don't use delicious to share links.
In other words, you have already given up the social functions of Delicious, so it's not a factor to consider, not that other systems don't have them.
can't use any comp on the internet and get local copies...etc...
You can by syncing the local datastore to cloud-based storage.
No. I do *not* want a tree. I do *not* want bookmarks.
That does not make any sense. If you don't want bookmarks, then you don't need Delicious or anything like that.
And if a link disappears, I'm ok with that. Why? Because generally speaking, it will be replaced with something or, it will weed out because it was likely just not something worth saving if it wasn't something worth a website staying up for.
Interesting... so if your social bookmarking site disappears, you are ok with your list of bookmarks going away? Because generally speaking, your repository of bookmarks will be replaced with something, or it will weed out, because it wasn't worth anything anyways.
Because sites that disappear are always the worthless sites, not worth saving, and that you had no intention of returning to.... Especially sites or articles that might be subject to slashdotting, DDoS, government or hosting provider censorship.
Nothing... because I'm sure that Intel can turn it back on remotely (for a price). Hmm, I wonder what they're charging to turn it off once it is reported stolen?
Price to turn it off = One arm and One leg
Price to turn it back on = One arm and One leg
* 3G Network Data Service required to "turn it off" or "turn it back on"; service must be purchased and SIM card installed in advance, additional fees apply, based on 3G data network service providers' available data plans and monthly rates.
Sounds like Intel is trying to muscle in on Microsoft's turf.
Not really... Microsoft already has that turf well cornered.
You don't even need any 3G network connectivity for a Windows machine to be bricked, you just need to power it on, and it randomly happens, unpredictably.
Botnets are much more lucrative in the malware world - processor uptime is much more valuable than processor downtime.
Yes, however, this technology could be abused as a counter-disinfection defense.
For example, a technician attempts to disinfect the machine, installs new software that cleans the primary payload.
However, as a secondary payload, a failsafe mechanism re-installs the malware and invokes CHIP-KILL, upon detecting that a disinfection has been attempted, in order to punish.
I don't use delicious to share links, I use it because I'm reading a handy article and I think "huh, in the future, I might want to find this in a few different types of situations...such as [tag name] or [tag name] or [tag name]."
isn't that the primary use of it?
hm... No, I think that's the primary use of browser bookmarks, such as those in Firefox 3, unless you have so many bookmarks Firefox would slow to a crawl had you stored them all. Don't you think Evernote is a little more convenient for that?
You can tag, add free form text, whatever... with the browser addon you "clip" a copy of the web page directly into the software, so the full article with images or some highlighted things can be saved if you like, instead of just a link.
The original article could be gone tomorrow; URL changed, company bought out, etc... last I checked Delicious was just a bookmark system, without support for archiving things.
There's some sort of piece of mind that comes from knowing "I will still be able to see this material tomorrow"; even if the original webpage vanished, or the webmaster messed with it.
And since you are just using it for personal use, 'sharing' links doesn't seem that useful to you... in fact, it sounds like software running on your computer that stores everything locally and talks to other servers could do the trick; if you just want remote backups of a small local database and access from all your computers, there are of course some free ways to do that as well, ala Dropbox.
For common tasks like bookmarks; it seems reasonable to have local software to assist rather than allowing on Javascript bookmarklets and browser popup windows that are subject to breakage by popup blocker, etc
Writing a similar plugin for Firefox on the Mac does not make MS Office better.
Unless they develop a similar plugin for Mac, and restrict access to the plugin to Office users
by distributing with Office, or requiring an activated copy of Office for the plugin to enable itself.
How am I supposed to choose the correct filter when I don't know what the word "intermediate" means?!
I assume this act of Google means reading level will soon be influencing page rank, results sorting, and more basic documents will begin to appear first
No problem. Stories will be at the top.
The top ones will explain what intermediate is
Website operators will have to act.
To keep their top spot.
Writers will need to make their sites basic.
Advanced grammar will go away.
Compound sentences will be banned.
Most pronouns will be banned.
Most contractions will be banned.
Making lists of things in one sentence will be banned.
Since TV news is how most people become informed, I would argue that on the correlation to causation scale, this would lean towards the causation side.
You seem to have the misperception that Correlation + Nice Theory = Causation
Hm... the folks at XKCD need to come up with a comic about obligatory XKCD and arguments on Slashdot about which XKCD comic is most applicable to the situation:)
Attacking financial services, banks and government websites is probably the best idea in the world.
And if the attacker is anonymous, associating yourself with them in any way, even making a "press release" that sounds like it might be on their behalf, is probably not a very smart idea either.
I suppose based on what the authorities will do, it will eventually become known whether this person is directly involved in the attacks or not, or just some commentator trying to take advantage of a situation for Ad revenues.
Personally, I'd prefer war this way. Less lives lost.
You think attacks against computers are incapable of causing lives to be lost?
People need a supply of food to survive.
What happens if an enemy infects the banking system and manages to shut down all ETF Transactions,
Wire transfers, the ATM network, and causes a nationwide blackout and bricking of key infrastructure components?
And we haven't even gotten to the possibility of trojan horses messing with weapons systems and causing them to self-destruct or activate targetting the country that owns them.
And it's pretty obvious what it should do, also.... close and invalidate any file descriptors attached to that process that are TTY devices. If there are any pipes (named or otherwise) open for write access, then substitute with/dev/null
And to beat it all, no-one even knows who was actually responsible for this. Oh yes, the future of modern warfare and sabotage is most certainly here.
This is what happens when you use off the shelf bloated (buggy) operating systems to power your infrastructure,
rather than using slim custom-built OSes that only run approved code which includes only the functions necessary for that system.
You cannot support or defend that which you do not know, regardless of whether it applies to you or not.
Yes you can.
If you promise to protect a facility, you can do so, without any idea whatsoever what is inside it, or even where exactly the building you are defending is located.
You simply have to rely on your superiors telling you exactly where to go, and what to do.
For example "Go to this position, don't let anyone past this gate. Shoot anyone unidenfieid who tries to climb the fence or who comes in from the forest."
Defending the constitution can work the same way,
your superiors give you orders, and you have to trust that they are designed to defend the constitution.
There was never any OpenBSD contributor named Scott Lowe. Did anyone actually bother to read the source material or check facts, before claiming as such?
The finger was being pointed at Scott Lowe FOR HIS Virtualization BLOG, which are merely articles that discuss the use of OpenBSD.
The mailing list author, was making a totally reckless claim with no proof shown that He was advocating OpenBSD for the benefit of the FBI
which is downright ludicrous attention whoring attempt on the part of someone reposting that claim without corroboration.
A mailing list posting by one person is not a credible source to be taken at face value. Information needs to be corroborated. Posting some random person's vague accusations as front page news borders on gross negligence.
If you're legally required to know an order, its not illegal to know the order.
There you go again... assuming the government is sane and self-consistent, despite, we have evidence of inconsistency in the form of banning access to "classified material" that is already part of publicly available documents.
Just wait until you find out about the backdoors in OpenSSL, SSLeay, GPG, PGP, TruCrypt, LibNSS, Linux CryptoAPI,
Blowfish, Windows CSP system, and the AES algorithm itself.
OpenBSD IPSEC is childs play, was a marginal player back then, and yet was still worth the backdooring.
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It's not 25 000$, however you weren't far from the actual retail price
Maybe the base unit won't cost 25k. But you need additional accessories such as CAD and CAM software to make the machine do what it's supposed to.
CAM Software starts around $2000
You can save money by leaving out the three colors which aren't actually used.
He used a $25,000 milling machine to engrave letters on a sign, and you're thinking about saving money based on the number of colors. He would have money by not having bought the $25k machine, which is out of most Slashdotters budgets anyways :)
He could have saved money by using stick-on letters and spray paint on a transparency, and a LED for backlighting.
Or just print the display on photo paper... and put it in a picture frame.
uh...except I can't see what my friends tagged as both "linux" and "security" if I'm saving things locally
You just said I don't use delicious to share links.
In other words, you have already given up the social functions of Delicious, so it's not a factor to consider, not that other systems don't have them.
can't use any comp on the internet and get local copies...etc...
You can by syncing the local datastore to cloud-based storage.
No. I do *not* want a tree. I do *not* want bookmarks.
That does not make any sense. If you don't want bookmarks, then you don't need Delicious or anything like that.
And if a link disappears, I'm ok with that. Why? Because generally speaking, it will be replaced with something or, it will weed out because it was likely just not something worth saving if it wasn't something worth a website staying up for.
Interesting... so if your social bookmarking site disappears, you are ok with your list of bookmarks going away? Because generally speaking, your repository of bookmarks will be replaced with something, or it will weed out, because it wasn't worth anything anyways.
Because sites that disappear are always the worthless sites, not worth saving, and that you had no intention of returning to.... Especially sites or articles that might be subject to slashdotting, DDoS, government or hosting provider censorship.
Nothing ... because I'm sure that Intel can turn it back on remotely (for a price). Hmm, I wonder what they're charging to turn it off once it is reported stolen?
Price to turn it off = One arm and One leg
Price to turn it back on = One arm and One leg
* 3G Network Data Service required to "turn it off" or "turn it back on"; service must be purchased and SIM card installed in advance, additional fees apply, based on 3G data network service providers' available data plans and monthly rates.
Sounds like Intel is trying to muscle in on Microsoft's turf.
Not really... Microsoft already has that turf well cornered.
You don't even need any 3G network connectivity for a Windows machine to be bricked, you just need to power it on, and it randomly happens, unpredictably.
Botnets are much more lucrative in the malware world - processor uptime is much more valuable than processor downtime.
Yes, however, this technology could be abused as a counter-disinfection defense.
For example, a technician attempts to disinfect the machine, installs new software that cleans the primary payload.
However, as a secondary payload, a failsafe mechanism re-installs the malware and invokes CHIP-KILL, upon detecting that a disinfection has been attempted, in order to punish.
I don't use delicious to share links, I use it because I'm reading a handy article and I think "huh, in the future, I might want to find this in a few different types of situations...such as [tag name] or [tag name] or [tag name]." isn't that the primary use of it?
hm... No, I think that's the primary use of browser bookmarks, such as those in Firefox 3, unless you have so many bookmarks Firefox would slow to a crawl had you stored them all. Don't you think Evernote is a little more convenient for that? You can tag, add free form text, whatever... with the browser addon you "clip" a copy of the web page directly into the software, so the full article with images or some highlighted things can be saved if you like, instead of just a link.
The original article could be gone tomorrow; URL changed, company bought out, etc... last I checked Delicious was just a bookmark system, without support for archiving things. There's some sort of piece of mind that comes from knowing "I will still be able to see this material tomorrow"; even if the original webpage vanished, or the webmaster messed with it.
And since you are just using it for personal use, 'sharing' links doesn't seem that useful to you... in fact, it sounds like software running on your computer that stores everything locally and talks to other servers could do the trick; if you just want remote backups of a small local database and access from all your computers, there are of course some free ways to do that as well, ala Dropbox.
For common tasks like bookmarks; it seems reasonable to have local software to assist rather than allowing on Javascript bookmarklets and browser popup windows that are subject to breakage by popup blocker, etc
I wouldn't trust to flickr either for same reasons above.
For some rason, I think flickr is a little different, because I actually pay for it... whereas Del.ici.ous and Geocities were free services.
Don't you suppose they would think twice before closing all our accounts and turning away all our $$$? I don't think Yahoo is that ungreedy.
I was thinking more of the lines of imposed political correctness and the shrinking newspeak dictionary.
Eventually even "intermediate" can become an unword.
Writing a similar plugin for Firefox on the Mac does not make MS Office better.
Unless they develop a similar plugin for Mac, and restrict access to the plugin to Office users by distributing with Office, or requiring an activated copy of Office for the plugin to enable itself.
Mac users are not Microsoft's customer! Neither are PS3 users, Android users, Linux users, or iPhone users!
I think that's a narrow view. I know PS3, Android, Mac, and iPhone users, and all of them are Microsoft customers as well.
Most Mac users need to buy things from Microsoft, for example, MS Office, so they can work with documents created by Windows users.
Probably true... Web 2.0 gave rise to Bubble 2.0, which soon enough will give rise to Crash 2.0, I am afraid.
where will we bookmark things such as these delicious Christmas Lights [komar.org] ... HO-HO-HO! ;-)
StumbleUpon, Furl / Diigo, or Xmarks
How am I supposed to choose the correct filter when I don't know what the word "intermediate" means?!
I assume this act of Google means reading level will soon be influencing page rank, results sorting, and more basic documents will begin to appear first
No problem. Stories will be at the top. The top ones will explain what intermediate is
Website operators will have to act. To keep their top spot.
Writers will need to make their sites basic.
Advanced grammar will go away.
Compound sentences will be banned.
Most pronouns will be banned.
Most contractions will be banned.
Making lists of things in one sentence will be banned.
Pages that do banned things will be hard to find.
Since TV news is how most people become informed, I would argue that on the correlation to causation scale, this would lean towards the causation side.
You seem to have the misperception that Correlation + Nice Theory = Causation
Do you watch Fox News?
Hm... the folks at XKCD need to come up with a comic about obligatory XKCD and arguments on Slashdot about which XKCD comic is most applicable to the situation :)
Hm... i'm afraid Anonymous may learn a new way to pick a target.
Metadata to make a press release appear to be authored by chosen target.
If authorities will react so spontaneously and so quickly.... anonymous can get anyone arrested that they want, even with no merits whatsoever.
Real-Life "DoS" also known as DoF (Denial of Freedom)
Attacking financial services, banks and government websites is probably the best idea in the world.
And if the attacker is anonymous, associating yourself with them in any way, even making a "press release" that sounds like it might be on their behalf, is probably not a very smart idea either.
I suppose based on what the authorities will do, it will eventually become known whether this person is directly involved in the attacks or not, or just some commentator trying to take advantage of a situation for Ad revenues.
Personally, I'd prefer war this way. Less lives lost.
You think attacks against computers are incapable of causing lives to be lost?
People need a supply of food to survive.
What happens if an enemy infects the banking system and manages to shut down all ETF Transactions, Wire transfers, the ATM network, and causes a nationwide blackout and bricking of key infrastructure components?
And we haven't even gotten to the possibility of trojan horses messing with weapons systems and causing them to self-destruct or activate targetting the country that owns them.
SIGSTFU
Okay, I made the last one up.
This is one we definitely need....
And it's pretty obvious what it should do, also.... close and invalidate any file descriptors attached to that process that are TTY devices. If there are any pipes (named or otherwise) open for write access, then substitute with /dev/null
And to beat it all, no-one even knows who was actually responsible for this. Oh yes, the future of modern warfare and sabotage is most certainly here.
This is what happens when you use off the shelf bloated (buggy) operating systems to power your infrastructure, rather than using slim custom-built OSes that only run approved code which includes only the functions necessary for that system.
You cannot support or defend that which you do not know, regardless of whether it applies to you or not.
Yes you can.
If you promise to protect a facility, you can do so, without any idea whatsoever what is inside it, or even where exactly the building you are defending is located.
You simply have to rely on your superiors telling you exactly where to go, and what to do. For example "Go to this position, don't let anyone past this gate. Shoot anyone unidenfieid who tries to climb the fence or who comes in from the forest."
Defending the constitution can work the same way, your superiors give you orders, and you have to trust that they are designed to defend the constitution.
There was never any OpenBSD contributor named Scott Lowe. Did anyone actually bother to read the source material or check facts, before claiming as such?
The finger was being pointed at Scott Lowe FOR HIS Virtualization BLOG, which are merely articles that discuss the use of OpenBSD.
The mailing list author, was making a totally reckless claim with no proof shown that He was advocating OpenBSD for the benefit of the FBI which is downright ludicrous attention whoring attempt on the part of someone reposting that claim without corroboration.
A mailing list posting by one person is not a credible source to be taken at face value. Information needs to be corroborated. Posting some random person's vague accusations as front page news borders on gross negligence.
If you're legally required to know an order, its not illegal to know the order.
There you go again... assuming the government is sane and self-consistent, despite, we have evidence of inconsistency in the form of banning access to "classified material" that is already part of publicly available documents.
When will people ever learn?
Just wait until you find out about the backdoors in OpenSSL, SSLeay, GPG, PGP, TruCrypt, LibNSS, Linux CryptoAPI, Blowfish, Windows CSP system, and the AES algorithm itself.
OpenBSD IPSEC is childs play, was a marginal player back then, and yet was still worth the backdooring.