How many desktops in Redmond squeal "Windows 8" when they boot up? Not counting the demo units in the lobby or the one in the lab. How many actual employees are using it day-to-day.
1. Its still a dirty, poisonous product 2. Its still being priced and controlled by large behemoth monopolies that will gouge us for every penny 3. It still requires massive installations for refinement and transportation which remain dangerous points of failure 4. The byproducts are still going to cause massive health issues involving lung disease and cancer 5. It cant be used in space or on other planets 6. Regardless of the warming aspects, its still not good for the environment 7. The companies have a habit of tampering with democracies that are inconvenient 8. The devices used to convert oil to energy require too much maintenance. We need oil to become obsolete.
So I'll bite back. If you purchase an MP3 on Amazon and its watermarked in a way that says "Its yours", and you use it on all your devices, your car, your ipod, your brain implant that would be groovy with you. If you say "Hey, I hate this song now" and sell the mp3 to your friend for a dollar, that would be fine with you. But if Amazon had a way of telling that the watermarked version was being used by multiple people would you have a problem with it? Would you have a problem if Amazon (them because they are easy to type) -had- to be the intermediary for the sale? Just curious.
He interviews suspects with a tape recorder on the table. Then he writes his report. And then purposely erases the tape. So its his testimony and not the tape thats admitted into evidence. I suspect this will be used just like that.
It should be possible to have drm that satisfies the needs of both the customer and the vendor. But since the vendor is responsible for the implementation, they think they're done working on it when their needs are satisfied. Perhaps we as a technological group should create a list to help them. Maybe its hard do see it from the customer's point of view. We should create a list of what would make acceptable drm product and company behavior.
Who didnt need to climb a mounting to achieve that altitude. We could be visited by alien kids on a joy ride. They could be driven from their homes by the same pressures that drive us from our homes. Their would could incur a extinction event. Or they may just want to get a tan. Or maybe, just maybe, they have a problem and would like a different point of view.
Too little, and you are a depressed atheist. Too much and you have sudden uncontrollable violent urges to blow up Olympic events and fly planes into buildings. And what about the truly mentally ill people who fixate that god is telling them to drown their children? Who else would have the authority in their minds to demand that? I am not saying the belief in God is pernicious. But it seems like there is a certain toxic baggage that has accumulated along with organized religion that keeps people dying a lot.
If enough people come forward and sign a petition claiming abuse of authority, this should force a officer of greater rank from an unrelated jurisdiction to come in and investigate. If a judge holds people in contempt for half their lives, there must be repercussions. If a DA withholds exculpatory evidence, there must be repercussions. If a police officer abuses his power, then the people he works with every day should not be the ones who give him a pass. Let alternate jurisdictions oversee each other. That way they can leave without fear of reprisals. Otherwise the truth is being stolen from the people. And at some point there must be criminal liability for abuse of power.
Firefox works from a list thats different than Chrome. I assume that there is another list again for people writing software for https connections. Maybe thats why I see the ssl libraries updating on my machine? If this is broken, then why is there not software available to "tune it" or test it so that it can be made to work? Can the web server see what Cert you used? Can they tell that a fake cert was used? Maybe it should draw a warning on your pages that the cert authority had no business issuing the cert that was used? Turn every browser in to a cert tester. Obviously you trust your browser.
If there are Authorities you do not need in the browser list, how do you choose which ones to untrust? What if you only use https with a few sites, should you just look at the information and whitelist only those?
Its all broken. Its all wrong. Its all crap. Its all fix-it-in-the-field bullshit and people are not biting on the promise that it wont be broken this time. 1., A printer with its own damn webserver in it but I still have to search the manufacturers website for the driver. FU 2. Each application has its own method of delivering updates? FU 3. I have to download a distro and then download the entire freaking thing again and again as updates? DangIt! 4. I install a 500 dollar application and then updates come. And come again. And a service pack comes. A and more updates come again! 5. I change hardware and Windows Media Players says FU to me, I changed my hardware and my digital rights are foobar. No fix. FU,. 6. I have a SSL security system that any two bit monarchy can make a key for any website on the planet? FUUUUUU. 7. I can encrypt my filesystem, except not/boot where the kernel is. Which can be replaced. Really? 8. I go to the store and see computer cases that look 20 years old. Zero innovation. Really? 9. And finally we have a economic system that people dont believe in anymore and they are hoarding their money which is being devalued in their pockets. FE
If the ISP is wrongly identifying her MAC address as performing the download, then they are the ones who should get sued. I assume they are even using the MAC as ID.
IF its a DDOS, then losing control of the stupid little robots will not make it stop, they will just be unstoppable. If you want to prevent DDOS, then you need to force ISPs to perform egress filtering of source addresses that are outside of their network. And also implement a choke protocol to inform the ISPs that they have a bad actor on their network.
One that bounces any mail to you with a bounce message that says: "Please use this link to type in your message to me instead". That link would be to a web-based email interface on your own box. Or the bounce message could say, "Hey I am online right now", lets chat in real-time with this interface. Anyone who emails you more than once will use the link instead of trying email. Email needs to die anyway. Lets kill it with fire (ie. something that serves us better.)
I would concentrate some effort on making sure that no matter what happens, they have a clear path to "putting it back together". Grub boot option to "reprint" the individual machines: clonezilla backups. If these machines are going to be used and then reprinted, you might want to look into a grub partition that can clonezilla reprint the machine at boot time. Are they going to be able to save their work ? Print? They should be able to print so they can prove to someone they did the work.
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How many desktops in Redmond squeal "Windows 8" when they boot up? Not counting the demo units in the lobby or the one in the lab. How many actual employees are using it day-to-day.
I am all for it. I would like to see unencrypted and/or server-based communications go away completely.
1. Its still a dirty, poisonous product
2. Its still being priced and controlled by large behemoth monopolies that will gouge us for every penny
3. It still requires massive installations for refinement and transportation which remain dangerous points of failure
4. The byproducts are still going to cause massive health issues involving lung disease and cancer
5. It cant be used in space or on other planets
6. Regardless of the warming aspects, its still not good for the environment
7. The companies have a habit of tampering with democracies that are inconvenient
8. The devices used to convert oil to energy require too much maintenance.
We need oil to become obsolete.
A computerized voice says "Thank you. Launch codes authenticated. Initiating Global Thermonuclear War. Have a nice day".
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~spikep/Humor/Legally%20Laughing.htm
Hilarious.
So I'll bite back. If you purchase an MP3 on Amazon and its watermarked in a way that says "Its yours", and you use it on all your devices, your car, your ipod, your brain implant that would be groovy with you. If you say "Hey, I hate this song now" and sell the mp3 to your friend for a dollar, that would be fine with you.
But if Amazon had a way of telling that the watermarked version was being used by multiple people would you have a problem with it?
Would you have a problem if Amazon (them because they are easy to type) -had- to be the intermediary for the sale? Just curious.
He interviews suspects with a tape recorder on the table. Then he writes his report. And then purposely erases the tape. So its his testimony and not the tape thats admitted into evidence. I suspect this will be used just like that.
It should be possible to have drm that satisfies the needs of both the customer and the vendor. But since the vendor is responsible for the implementation, they think they're done working on it when their needs are satisfied.
Perhaps we as a technological group should create a list to help them. Maybe its hard do see it from the customer's point of view. We should create a list of what would make acceptable drm product and company behavior.
Who didnt need to climb a mounting to achieve that altitude. We could be visited by alien kids on a joy ride. They could be driven from their homes by the same pressures that drive us from our homes. Their would could incur a extinction event. Or they may just want to get a tan.
Or maybe, just maybe, they have a problem and would like a different point of view.
Surviving isnt enough.
Too little, and you are a depressed atheist. Too much and you have sudden uncontrollable violent urges to blow up Olympic events and fly planes into buildings.
And what about the truly mentally ill people who fixate that god is telling them to drown their children? Who else would have the authority in their minds to demand that?
I am not saying the belief in God is pernicious. But it seems like there is a certain toxic baggage that has accumulated along with organized religion that keeps people dying a lot.
If enough people come forward and sign a petition claiming abuse of authority, this should force a officer of greater rank from an unrelated jurisdiction to come in and investigate. If a judge holds people in contempt for half their lives, there must be repercussions. If a DA withholds exculpatory evidence, there must be repercussions. If a police officer abuses his power, then the people he works with every day should not be the ones who give him a pass.
Let alternate jurisdictions oversee each other. That way they can leave without fear of reprisals. Otherwise the truth is being stolen from the people.
And at some point there must be criminal liability for abuse of power.
Firefox works from a list thats different than Chrome. I assume that there is another list again for people writing software for https connections. Maybe thats why I see the ssl libraries updating on my machine? If this is broken, then why is there not software available to "tune it" or test it so that it can be made to work?
Can the web server see what Cert you used? Can they tell that a fake cert was used? Maybe it should draw a warning on your pages that the cert authority had no business issuing the cert that was used?
Turn every browser in to a cert tester. Obviously you trust your browser.
If there are Authorities you do not need in the browser list, how do you choose which ones to untrust? What if you only use https with a few sites, should you just look at the information and whitelist only those?
Its all broken. Its all wrong. Its all crap. Its all fix-it-in-the-field bullshit and people are not biting on the promise that it wont be broken this time. /boot where the kernel is. Which can be replaced. Really?
1., A printer with its own damn webserver in it but I still have to search the manufacturers website for the driver. FU
2. Each application has its own method of delivering updates? FU
3. I have to download a distro and then download the entire freaking thing again and again as updates? DangIt!
4. I install a 500 dollar application and then updates come. And come again. And a service pack comes. A and more updates come again!
5. I change hardware and Windows Media Players says FU to me, I changed my hardware and my digital rights are foobar. No fix. FU,.
6. I have a SSL security system that any two bit monarchy can make a key for any website on the planet? FUUUUUU.
7. I can encrypt my filesystem, except not
8. I go to the store and see computer cases that look 20 years old. Zero innovation. Really?
9. And finally we have a economic system that people dont believe in anymore and they are hoarding their money which is being devalued in their pockets. FE
If the ISP is wrongly identifying her MAC address as performing the download, then they are the ones who should get sued. I assume they are even using the MAC as ID.
And why?
Run backups before they arrive, and run restore after they leave. Plus your machine gets backed up which you probably needed to do anyway.
If we weren't spending so much tax revenue on stupid stuff....like the drug war.
Something to completely restore a machine?
IF its a DDOS, then losing control of the stupid little robots will not make it stop, they will just be unstoppable. If you want to prevent DDOS, then you need to force ISPs to perform egress filtering of source addresses that are outside of their network. And also implement a choke protocol to inform the ISPs that they have a bad actor on their network.
One that bounces any mail to you with a bounce message that says: "Please use this link to type in your message to me instead". That link would be to a web-based email interface on your own box. Or the bounce message could say, "Hey I am online right now", lets chat in real-time with this interface. Anyone who emails you more than once will use the link instead of trying email.
Email needs to die anyway. Lets kill it with fire (ie. something that serves us better.)
The burned hand teaches best. :)
I would concentrate some effort on making sure that no matter what happens, they have a clear path to "putting it back together".
Grub boot option to "reprint" the individual machines: clonezilla backups. If these machines are going to be used and then reprinted,
you might want to look into a grub partition that can clonezilla reprint the machine at boot time. Are they going to be able to save
their work ? Print? They should be able to print so they can prove to someone they did the work.
Best of both worlds.