Except, GPLv3 over-steps software into platform and then governance... and sadly, some platforms cannot be allowed to do whatever they COULD do.
Take for example your wifi card... is it a wifi card or a 2.4ghz radio made to be wifi? you probably could turn many wifi cards into bluetooth sniffers or cordless phone sniffers had you the FPGA code and know how... but then, that hardware manufacturer would be barred from the type approvals needed to sell the device in certain countries. What about 3G modem? Cell sniffer/jammer/sms spammers?!
What about your TiVo? Would make a great copyright infringement device with the right code.
In the real world, considering the software's freedom does not go towards the greater good of humanity if it goes against governance and common law.
Hooks: any shell script/start-up script (many execute with user write permission out of your home folder) do you have a compiler on your system?!
The only thing saving linux from beeing rooted often is its userbase. Does Linux have anything like windows SFC? No not really. At least there are only a handful of auto-run methods in windows and a subsystem that does a somewhat decent job of enforcing no new hooks are created.
Sad fact is because Linux is so open it's mostly a race between white hats and black hats. Add desktop users and desktop apps into the mix and there will be more black hats and a longer delay between applied fixes.
You may argue that most linux problems are third party software or configuration, but I can argue the same for Windows.
That said, I use both... but in by no means is my descision to use either based on this false sense of securtiy about the mal-ware eco-system.
You are joking right?! Linux has sooo many malware entry points and hooks. Give regular users mainstream linux and you will see it get exploited to all hell. Just like Android. If when Linux is mainstream for desktop, it will need much of it's Linux-ness removed, and even then, it will still get raped by those who are combing the code for their payout.
My problem with multiple monitors is they seem to be contageous. They are like a herpes or something. In the office and soon as one person hooks up the second monitor, it starts to spread amongst their department and then others. Eventually someones symptoms get worse and they spring up a 3rd or someone presents differently with a 90* rotation... soon it's this big pissing match of who has the most productive workspace. Next thing you know, you have a 2x3 grid of 30" super high-res monitors and your open gl screen saver won't work because some limitation at 4096 pixels... and all windows in the center monitor because it strains your neck to look so far left or right.
X is awesome but seems nobody knows how to really use it. I run Cygwin with X on Windows and everyone keeps asking me what operating system I am running when running Unix apps and Windows apps at the same time.
My wife doesn't understand why an "orange helicopter" sometimes appears on her dashboard, but she now knows to tell me about it if she ever sees it again.
I'd like to point out... in the UAE, petrol prices are set by the government. The price is ~$0.45/L or something like that, it costs 120aed to fill my land rover (full service even) from empty so I don't even look at the price. The US, and Canada have about as much oil as the UAE so the only thing I understand is that I don't understand.
While I do not dissagree with your point "scope, range and potential damage of a catastrophic nuclear disaster is orders of magnitude beyond any other power source" - I counter that in that the total impact of all the little disasters of every other power source per watt being far worse then nuclear - resiting progress in fear of unknown danger is just unscientific in the least... the biggest challenge in nuclear is that we are too scared to progress further because we had a couple fires and blew up some water tanks dispersing radiation and are affraid of people building atomic bombs - ignore the sucessful generation of millions of kWhrs and 50+year old designs.
And to the previous posters point and your point, where would we be without airplanes? airplanes are safer now. Nuclear is safer now too. Fukushima, unlike chernobyl, was not a catastrophe.
And then you have all the scientific papers about coal ash itself being/not being radioactive then nuclear waste... And then you have all the mining accidents... both environmental and human.
The only reason coal even has a leg to stand is that people often see the pollution which is not the case with nuclear. People are scared of what they don't see/understand.
And not to mention the dB scale is a logarithmic scale... there is still 30db between 120db rock concert(which is too lound for many) and 150db wtf! a differents of 30db is 1000x the air pressure which causes the sound waves...
Actually I have read: 110db is compared to a rock cocert, front row 130db is the threshold of pain 140db is compared to military jet take off 160db is instant perforation of ear drum
I was wondering about the hearing through skull/jaw as well... but I wonder if the method of hearing damage is different for sounds not through the ear canal... I mean if you have -30db ear plugs, will the remaining 120db still cause the same damage?
if you can't climb a mountain because somebody at the top who got there by helicopter is throwing rocks at you and kicking your hands and stuff, well--you just didn't try hard enough. You must not be as smart as them.
I don't think helicopters can make it up to the top of the tallest mountains because the air desnity. Maybe smaller, easier mountains...
If only the world was so simple. Passwords sometimes need to be stored un-hashed. For example, your ISP may have your password unhashed or stored in a reversable encryption to facilitate secureish un-encrypted authentication such as CHAP.
And even if said well managed site stores salted hashes, it is often trivial for someone with access to a compromised server to log the username/password pairs before the salted hash is compared... and sure the client can send a salted hash which is salted based off a challenge - and then hashed and compared against a different hash but thats a little redonkeylous and even then an attacker who has access to the code could still make the clients send only hashes which are based off of a salt that they have rainbow tables for - or just fix it.
The golden rule of life is simple: Don't believe any information/procedure you create/disclose/share will be used for the purpose you originally created/disclosed/shared it... and when that sinks in you will either be parinoid or indifferent.
I painfully still burn photos to DL-DVDs$$ as well as copy to a seperate removable HD. I calculated once that BD-ROM broke even for write once storage but have yet to buy a burner...
Hey it might work out in your favour that big corporations know what you like...
I was walking through the Dubai mall... and wouldn't you know it but they turned the ice rink into a go-kart race track for my enjoyment. It's like they read my facebook interests, knew where I was going to be, and made a senseless promotion just for me.
I moved to the UAE. I haven't been keeping track of everyone's local number because 1/2 will change by time I get back. Facebook is great to keep in contact as we creep each others adventures. It would suck if FB disappeared, but I'd move on.
I easily have about 2000 photos on my facebook 1/2 of which were commented on by my friends and family. I have backups, but no way I am uploading them all again. It's taken 5 years to upload them all, and if I uploaded them all at once, I doubt anyone would have noticed them.
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Except, GPLv3 over-steps software into platform and then governance... and sadly, some platforms cannot be allowed to do whatever they COULD do.
Take for example your wifi card... is it a wifi card or a 2.4ghz radio made to be wifi? you probably could turn many wifi cards into bluetooth sniffers or cordless phone sniffers had you the FPGA code and know how... but then, that hardware manufacturer would be barred from the type approvals needed to sell the device in certain countries. What about 3G modem? Cell sniffer/jammer/sms spammers?!
What about your TiVo? Would make a great copyright infringement device with the right code.
In the real world, considering the software's freedom does not go towards the greater good of humanity if it goes against governance and common law.
I for one, welcome our clang compiled overlords.
No sorry, I am not. I wish I was because I am sure to get down modded for my blasphemy.
Entry points:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search-results?query=LINUX&search_type=all&cves=on
Hooks:
any shell script/start-up script (many execute with user write permission out of your home folder) do you have a compiler on your system?!
The only thing saving linux from beeing rooted often is its userbase. Does Linux have anything like windows SFC? No not really. At least there are only a handful of auto-run methods in windows and a subsystem that does a somewhat decent job of enforcing no new hooks are created.
Sad fact is because Linux is so open it's mostly a race between white hats and black hats. Add desktop users and desktop apps into the mix and there will be more black hats and a longer delay between applied fixes.
You may argue that most linux problems are third party software or configuration, but I can argue the same for Windows.
That said, I use both... but in by no means is my descision to use either based on this false sense of securtiy about the mal-ware eco-system.
Hmm would you look at that... http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0509/whats_new/helicopter_everest.html
You are joking right?! Linux has sooo many malware entry points and hooks. Give regular users mainstream linux and you will see it get exploited to all hell. Just like Android. If when Linux is mainstream for desktop, it will need much of it's Linux-ness removed, and even then, it will still get raped by those who are combing the code for their payout.
My problem with multiple monitors is they seem to be contageous. They are like a herpes or something. In the office and soon as one person hooks up the second monitor, it starts to spread amongst their department and then others. Eventually someones symptoms get worse and they spring up a 3rd or someone presents differently with a 90* rotation... soon it's this big pissing match of who has the most productive workspace. Next thing you know, you have a 2x3 grid of 30" super high-res monitors and your open gl screen saver won't work because some limitation at 4096 pixels... and all windows in the center monitor because it strains your neck to look so far left or right.
X is awesome but seems nobody knows how to really use it. I run Cygwin with X on Windows and everyone keeps asking me what operating system I am running when running Unix apps and Windows apps at the same time.
My wife doesn't understand why an "orange helicopter" sometimes appears on her dashboard, but she now knows to tell me about it if she ever sees it again.
And that is why Apple products are consumer devices *ducks for cover*
Forking documents. Auto-save is not understood by many simple users. And I don't know about you, but I often do not want things "saved"
I'd like to point out... in the UAE, petrol prices are set by the government. The price is ~$0.45/L or something like that, it costs 120aed to fill my land rover (full service even) from empty so I don't even look at the price. The US, and Canada have about as much oil as the UAE so the only thing I understand is that I don't understand.
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone would now technically make a great site for a Nuclear reactor...
But, airplanes, when they fail, they can impact a very populated area, instantly killing thousands++... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_arising_from_the_September_11_attacks
While I do not dissagree with your point "scope, range and potential damage of a catastrophic nuclear disaster is orders of magnitude beyond any other power source" - I counter that in that the total impact of all the little disasters of every other power source per watt being far worse then nuclear - resiting progress in fear of unknown danger is just unscientific in the least... the biggest challenge in nuclear is that we are too scared to progress further because we had a couple fires and blew up some water tanks dispersing radiation and are affraid of people building atomic bombs - ignore the sucessful generation of millions of kWhrs and 50+year old designs.
And to the previous posters point and your point, where would we be without airplanes? airplanes are safer now. Nuclear is safer now too. Fukushima, unlike chernobyl, was not a catastrophe.
It goes beyond filtering... after you filter, what do you do with what you filtered out...
Coal slurry accidents have killed thousands and poluted thousands of acres of land.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_slurry
And then you have all the scientific papers about coal ash itself being/not being radioactive then nuclear waste...
And then you have all the mining accidents... both environmental and human.
The only reason coal even has a leg to stand is that people often see the pollution which is not the case with nuclear. People are scared of what they don't see/understand.
Obligatory XKCD http://xkcd.com/670/
And not to mention the dB scale is a logarithmic scale... there is still 30db between 120db rock concert(which is too lound for many) and 150db wtf!
a differents of 30db is 1000x the air pressure which causes the sound waves...
Actually I have read:
110db is compared to a rock cocert, front row
130db is the threshold of pain
140db is compared to military jet take off
160db is instant perforation of ear drum
I was wondering about the hearing through skull/jaw as well... but I wonder if the method of hearing damage is different for sounds not through the ear canal... I mean if you have -30db ear plugs, will the remaining 120db still cause the same damage?
if you can't climb a mountain because somebody at the top who got there by helicopter is throwing rocks at you and kicking your hands and stuff, well--you just didn't try hard enough. You must not be as smart as them.
I don't think helicopters can make it up to the top of the tallest mountains because the air desnity. Maybe smaller, easier mountains...
If only the world was so simple. Passwords sometimes need to be stored un-hashed. For example, your ISP may have your password unhashed or stored in a reversable encryption to facilitate secureish un-encrypted authentication such as CHAP.
And even if said well managed site stores salted hashes, it is often trivial for someone with access to a compromised server to log the username/password pairs before the salted hash is compared... and sure the client can send a salted hash which is salted based off a challenge - and then hashed and compared against a different hash but thats a little redonkeylous and even then an attacker who has access to the code could still make the clients send only hashes which are based off of a salt that they have rainbow tables for - or just fix it.
The golden rule of life is simple:
Don't believe any information/procedure you create/disclose/share will be used for the purpose you originally created/disclosed/shared it... and when that sinks in you will either be parinoid or indifferent.
Yeah I was just being an asshole ;)
I painfully still burn photos to DL-DVDs$$ as well as copy to a seperate removable HD. I calculated once that BD-ROM broke even for write once storage but have yet to buy a burner...
Hey it might work out in your favour that big corporations know what you like...
I was walking through the Dubai mall... and wouldn't you know it but they turned the ice rink into a go-kart race track for my enjoyment. It's like they read my facebook interests, knew where I was going to be, and made a senseless promotion just for me.
I moved to the UAE. I haven't been keeping track of everyone's local number because 1/2 will change by time I get back. Facebook is great to keep in contact as we creep each others adventures. It would suck if FB disappeared, but I'd move on.
Errr... 800MB? why not use a DVD ;) ;)
I easily have about 2000 photos on my facebook 1/2 of which were commented on by my friends and family. I have backups, but no way I am uploading them all again. It's taken 5 years to upload them all, and if I uploaded them all at once, I doubt anyone would have noticed them.
And here an AC comes and ruins all our fun and hits the point dead on.