Um... "To be clear the main reason we do that is that i get sick of having to shred my mail because the homeless are going through my trash." I don't care if you *don't* have homeless going through your trash, there's no way you should *not* be doing this. You can be sure that someone will get one of your un-shredded bits *sometime*, even if you make sure it gets onto the truck safely. And when you lose that info, well... it's a big deal. So, yes, I'm actually thinking those homeless have done you a service, by letting you know that people *do* go through your trash, and you *had better* shred anything important.
Not really. The above command proves he has root access, while not letting(much) secret data out. The bottom one would be what, say, LulsSec would do, and is sort of overkil and much more dangerous to you if you get caught, I think...
"phones and iPods and tablets that are simply LCD panels with memory and some kind of ARM processor."... and an OS, with loads of developers behind it. That's the only reason they've done well so far - they managed to convince enough devlopers to gain a virtual monopoly, like how Windows has the same sort of monopoly in the x86 market.
Well, until Android came on scene, cheaper and more developer friendly anyway...
Not necessarily a good thing, unless you're Apple (only they can sell you a replacement, and they can get full MSRP for it since you need to return the PC), but no one else could get away with it.
I don't think we'll *cause* an ice age(though one is likely fairly soon, looking at the solar cycles...), but we could cirtainly distroy our economy through crap like the "carbon tax".
However, if we ignore it, it might get quietly slipped through - One might argue that the strategy is to make sure there are so many stupid bills which never get anywhere that the senators(and others) start ignoring them. At which point one might manage to slip through.
What, you mean their Google Apps datacenters don't count? Watching the tour video on youtube, and I think their getting close: Everything from fingerprint/eye readers to camera banks and 24/7 security guards.
That's a point, but I hope Google succeeds. Why? Because it will *have* to mean better/cheaper mobile internet, due to the points you mentioned.
Maby when enough people get thin clients, get charged huge amounts, and complain to whoever deals with that sort of things, maby then things will change. But for now, people aren't at that point, so things won't improve really...
Of course, it *might* have not happened on their machines! AFAIK, it was due to some faulty bios tables, and only from some MFGRs. So, one same-spec'd model might not have the problem, and others might.
See, that would be great, except it doesn't work quite like that: Generally such hardware configuration would be entered into the driver, which works great... Until you end up with two or more pieces sharing the same VPD, but need slightly different handling rules. Or, what happens if a piece of hardware just plain lies about it's capibilities? That's the real problem, and it's hard to work around: Some driver may work perfectly well on the dev's device, but on someone's newer/older revision(etc.) it doesn't work quite right and crashes. On top of that you have the issue of occasional flakey boards, so when you end up with an error like this, how do you detemine if it's the driver or the hardware, especially if you aren't in possession of the hardware yourself?
It's more two things: 1. In most common distros(ubuntu being a good example), the first/primary user is not running as root by default. The user has to actually type a passsord each session(or more frequently sometimes to gain access, and usually be using the terminal to do so. 2, and most important: keyed repositories with near everything in it. If your user isn't randomly grabbing excecutable files off the internet, and instead from a trusted/verified repo, it's more secure than not. Also, the universal auto-update setup is nice, and *far* faster than Windows Update. It also requires fewer reboots, meaning for the most part it can run automatically and not bug the user to reboot afterwards.
This is what I really meant by dams and canals: They work fine for known problems, and is better than nothing... but not perfect.
Of course, you could always get a (mostly)Desktop Linux-based phone, like the N900. Near as I can see, it has just about 0 viruses, due to being A, Linux and B, ARM(which isn't that popular compared to x86).
To continue your flood analogy, you have three options: 1. Build out of so ething floodproof, like concrete. The *entire* house. When a flood happens, no big deal... but making changes to the house would be a big problem. This is the ChromeOS or DeepFreeze aproach: Read-only filesystem and checksums.
2. Build dams, canals and build a few feet into the air. This works for small floods, but if you get something new, it might still wipe you out. This is the Linux aproach: Try to secure things, deal with the few issues as they come up.
3. Build cheaply, and rebuild after each flood. This is the Windows re-image approach: Just assume it's going to get hit, and have a plan to rebuild afterwards.
Yea, exactly. When it first came out, I *really* wanted the Natscha. I kept thinking it was so awesome... Until I finally got one. I spent a couple weeks messing with it, then went back to the original minigun. It's just far better, especially if you can aim. The Natascha is only good against scouts and such, if you can't aim.
Backburner's only really good on a group of people all looking forward. It's the same thing the Your Eternal Reward spy is good at. If someone's looking around, it's no more dangerous than the original flamethrower. Personally, I like the Degreaser/Axetinguisher combo.
Yea... I'm running FF7 nightly with about 45 tabs open, and my memory usage from FF is less than 750mb(note: running Kubuntu 11.04 x86_64). Sure, on a 1gb laptop, that could be an issue, but you wouldn't be running 46 tabs there, either.
Yes, but not in the add-on configuration document. You have maxversion and minversion attributes, which can be set to any version... But Mozilla.org won't host it if the maxversion's major number isn't out yet. So, for your own site, you can set it to 99.*** and it'll work, but you can't post that version to mozilla. Yes, it's broken.
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Um...
"To be clear the main reason we do that is that i get sick of having to shred my mail because the homeless are going through my trash."
I don't care if you *don't* have homeless going through your trash, there's no way you should *not* be doing this. You can be sure that someone will get one of your un-shredded bits *sometime*, even if you make sure it gets onto the truck safely.
And when you lose that info, well... it's a big deal.
So, yes, I'm actually thinking those homeless have done you a service, by letting you know that people *do* go through your trash, and you *had better* shred anything important.
Not really. The above command proves he has root access, while not letting(much) secret data out. The bottom one would be what, say, LulsSec would do, and is sort of overkil and much more dangerous to you if you get caught, I think...
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"phones and iPods and tablets that are simply LCD panels with memory and some kind of ARM processor." ... and an OS, with loads of developers behind it.
That's the only reason they've done well so far - they managed to convince enough devlopers to gain a virtual monopoly, like how Windows has the same sort of monopoly in the x86 market.
Well, until Android came on scene, cheaper and more developer friendly anyway...
Not necessarily a good thing, unless you're Apple (only they can sell you a replacement, and they can get full MSRP for it since you need to return the PC), but no one else could get away with it.
FTFY
Yes, and you do it well. :P
Mod parent up.
I don't think we'll *cause* an ice age(though one is likely fairly soon, looking at the solar cycles...), but we could cirtainly distroy our economy through crap like the "carbon tax".
However, if we ignore it, it might get quietly slipped through - One might argue that the strategy is to make sure there are so many stupid bills which never get anywhere that the senators(and others) start ignoring them. At which point one might manage to slip through.
What, you mean their Google Apps datacenters don't count? Watching the tour video on youtube, and I think their getting close: Everything from fingerprint/eye readers to camera banks and 24/7 security guards.
That's a point, but I hope Google succeeds. Why? Because it will *have* to mean better/cheaper mobile internet, due to the points you mentioned.
Maby when enough people get thin clients, get charged huge amounts, and complain to whoever deals with that sort of things, maby then things will change. But for now, people aren't at that point, so things won't improve really...
I dunno... What I saw was close but slightly lower consumption on everything but the T61.
Of course, it *might* have not happened on their machines! AFAIK, it was due to some faulty bios tables, and only from some MFGRs. So, one same-spec'd model might not have the problem, and others might.
See, that would be great, except it doesn't work quite like that: Generally such hardware configuration would be entered into the driver, which works great... Until you end up with two or more pieces sharing the same VPD, but need slightly different handling rules. Or, what happens if a piece of hardware just plain lies about it's capibilities? That's the real problem, and it's hard to work around: Some driver may work perfectly well on the dev's device, but on someone's newer/older revision(etc.) it doesn't work quite right and crashes.
On top of that you have the issue of occasional flakey boards, so when you end up with an error like this, how do you detemine if it's the driver or the hardware, especially if you aren't in possession of the hardware yourself?
It's more two things:
1. In most common distros(ubuntu being a good example), the first/primary user is not running as root by default. The user has to actually type a passsord each session(or more frequently sometimes to gain access, and usually be using the terminal to do so.
2, and most important: keyed repositories with near everything in it. If your user isn't randomly grabbing excecutable files off the internet, and instead from a trusted/verified repo, it's more secure than not. Also, the universal auto-update setup is nice, and *far* faster than Windows Update. It also requires fewer reboots, meaning for the most part it can run automatically and not bug the user to reboot afterwards.
This is what I really meant by dams and canals: They work fine for known problems, and is better than nothing... but not perfect.
Just like Brawndo! Amazing!
Hey, it's got a web browser, and email, so it's already more productive than the malware infected machine.
Of course, you could always get a (mostly)Desktop Linux-based phone, like the N900. Near as I can see, it has just about 0 viruses, due to being A, Linux and B, ARM(which isn't that popular compared to x86).
To continue your flood analogy, you have three options:
1. Build out of so ething floodproof, like concrete. The *entire* house. When a flood happens, no big deal... but making changes to the house would be a big problem. This is the ChromeOS or DeepFreeze aproach: Read-only filesystem and checksums.
2. Build dams, canals and build a few feet into the air. This works for small floods, but if you get something new, it might still wipe you out. This is the Linux aproach: Try to secure things, deal with the few issues as they come up.
3. Build cheaply, and rebuild after each flood. This is the Windows re-image approach: Just assume it's going to get hit, and have a plan to rebuild afterwards.
Just my 2c.
Yea, exactly. When it first came out, I *really* wanted the Natscha. I kept thinking it was so awesome... Until I finally got one. I spent a couple weeks messing with it, then went back to the original minigun. It's just far better, especially if you can aim. The Natascha is only good against scouts and such, if you can't aim.
Backburner's only really good on a group of people all looking forward. It's the same thing the Your Eternal Reward spy is good at. If someone's looking around, it's no more dangerous than the original flamethrower.
Personally, I like the Degreaser/Axetinguisher combo.
Awesome! That's honestly funny, and so true...
Mod parent up!
Yea... I'm running FF7 nightly with about 45 tabs open, and my memory usage from FF is less than 750mb(note: running Kubuntu 11.04 x86_64).
Sure, on a 1gb laptop, that could be an issue, but you wouldn't be running 46 tabs there, either.
Yes, but not in the add-on configuration document. You have maxversion and minversion attributes, which can be set to any version... But Mozilla.org won't host it if the maxversion's major number isn't out yet. So, for your own site, you can set it to 99.*** and it'll work, but you can't post that version to mozilla.
Yes, it's broken.
Mod parent up!
I want to see SPDY support in FF. I don't see any reason for it *not* to be there, someome just needs to *do* it.