Yes, those were the One Directions of their times, but back then they also had Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and lots of other great classic music which people still listen to now. (And before you say any of these weren't popular, IIRC Jimi played at Woodstock in front of a quarter-million people, and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon is the best-selling album in history (or was it AC/DC's Back in Black?).)
There is no such music being made today.
Also, don't forget, AutoTune did not exist prior to roughly 20 years ago.
APB doesn't work for that. It only blocks actual ads, not scripts in general. Plus, it's a memory hog, and also allows some advertising where they pay ABP to be whitelisted.
uBlock Origin is a much better ad-blocker, and uses far fewer resources. However, it still doesn't block all scripts, so you end up with a really slow browser hogging CPU and memory because the ridiculous amount of tracking scripts in use.
NoScript fixes that, but as you point out, it's not as easy to use. However, the rule I've found is that enabling scripts from the host domain gets most stuff working, and frequently you'll see some closely-related *cdn.com domain. Some sites use something like amazon AWS, so enable that too. After that, it can be a pain though, but after I got used to NoScript I'm not finding too many sites where I have to screw around with that stuff.
Well to be fair, back then the tables were turned; we actually didn't do such a shoddy job governing ourselves, and the Germans were terrible at governing in the best interests of the whole population, including its minority groups.
These days, we've become just plain incompetent at governing. Considering how well Denmark and Finland are doing, I think we should outsource our governance to them. But even Greece could do a better job than us.
Software's been locked to specific hardware for a long time. All the early arcade games used custom hardware; the really early ones didn't even have CPUs, they implemented everything with discrete logic chips. All that stuff has been emulated by the MAME project.
Your idea about submitting source code for copyright protection sounds good though.
Oh please. Please point out any new bands who actually write and play their own music (and have become very popular), and weren't just some corporate-created entity. The whole nature of mass-marketed music has changed in the last couple of decades. Music basically died with Napster.
To be fair, at the time, no one had ever built a craft to travel to the Moon, or a module to land on it, or a vehicle to drive on it. I can see how cost estimates might have been too low.
Digitizing forms, setting up databases, making websites, etc., is all old hat now.
Meanwhile, we're basically throwing away all the examples of a nascent art form that combines art and engineering like nothing that came before.
No we're not. Video games aren't "nascent" at all, they've been around since the 1970s, and were better quality in previous decades too. It's just like popular music: it used to be a lot better, and in the last 15 years it's gone to total shit.
You like to retro game on the C64 because games in the 80s were fun. The OP is talking about DRMed games from the 00s and later. It's no big loss if all those disappear, as long as we keep all the stuff from the 70s to mid-90s (which we're doing pretty well in a lot of ways, with various emulators and rom archives).
Similarly, if all popular music from the 00s and 10s disappeared, it'd be no loss at all, whereas the music of the 60s through mid-90s was filled with cultural treasures.
In a nutshell, ever since GWBush took office, everything culturally in America has gone straight down the toilet. I'm not going to blame it on him exactly; a lot of the downfall really started before he took office but the overall timescale is accurate.
Most people who would fall for that are also people who have no idea how to open a console window (or even know what that is). My wife uses Mint KDE on her laptop, and gets along just fine with it for all the basic tasks (web browsing, LibreOffice documents, file management, scanning, etc.), but ask her to do something on the "console" and she'll look at you like you have two heads.
People like this who use Windows instead also never, ever use the shell.
Why would you need to click 100 times to make every website work?
Here's a tip: go to the settings and whitelist all scripts from that site's own domain. That's usually most of the stuff that has to be enabled to make a website work, and doesn't give you too much crap usually.
After that, you'll find some sites need to have *cdn.com (or something like that) enabled. That's where the site is linked to some "content delivery network" like AWS. Whitelist those on an individual basis.
There's a few other things you may need to enable, such as disqus.com if you want to read the comments on some sites.
After you've got it tuned like this, pretty soon you won't even notice it any more.
For example, just for reading and replying on Slashdot now, NoScript tells me there's scripts from 10 (!) different sites on this reply page I'm typing on. The only one I have enabled is slashdot.org. I don't even have slashcdn.com enabled (that's probably for some stupid videos). Of course, all the other junk like janrain.com, jaboola.com, googleadservices.com are disabled.
When? They've already done it. That's exactly what AdBlock Plus does, which is why people are switching to other blockers. Personally I use uBlock Origin; it doesn't have any of that silliness.
A malware app that someone has to be dumb enough to manually install is one thing, getting infected with something because your web browser or your email program is vulnerable is another. Most of the Windows malware I've heard about doesn't require someone to manually install software, it's as easy as clicking on the wrong link in IE.
Also, a lot of Windows malware seems to thrive because Windows is homogeneous. Remember that Lenovo malware that was (still is I think) baked into their laptops' BIOS, and would replace a critical Windows system DLL? That stuff only works because Windows is so uniform. If someone has Windows 8.1 installed, then you can count on that DLL being there, and you can count on being able to replace it with a modified DLL and have things work out the way you expect. This just isn't the case with Linux: every distro is different, files are in different places, files are not binary compatible (you can't just take libfoo.so.4.2.1.0 from Ubuntu and drop it into an Arch install and expect it to work), distros change versions every 6 months (so libfoo.so from Mint 17 is incompatible with libfoo.so from Mint 17.1), systems don't even use the same init system and low-level utils (Ubuntu and Mint still use upstart, Slackware still uses sysvinit), etc. Everything works fine because of package management and distros building everything all together at once, but malware expecting to monkey with the internals simply won't work because there's too many variables.
Yes, if someone distributes some Linux dancing-monkey malware, there's nothing you can do to prevent people from being stupid and installing it, but I haven't heard about this attack vector being a serious problem on *Windows* for a long time. Even the Windows users aren't that naive any more; they've had this stuff drilled into their heads for years. They're getting infected in other ways.
And how exactly does someone get infected with this anyhow? According to your link: "The malware requires administrator privileges to run and, presumably, a sysadmin who would allow for such a program to run unbridled." There's no mention on that page, or the "Dr. Web" page it links to, how anyone actually gets infected with this thing other than somehow getting themselves a copy and then intentionally running it as root. If there is an infection path it takes in the wild, these pages aren't specifying.
It's also mentioned that it works on systems running MySQL and Apache. Who runs Apache any more? Every serious Linux webserver is running Nginx now.
Finally, you're comparing apples to oranges. The Windows malware is for desktop and/or server Windows. The Linux malware appears to only be targeted at webservers. I don't know about you, but I don't run a webserver; for my websites I just use simple shared hosting and let someone else worry about that stuff (if my web host gets infected, no big deal, I'll just reload from backups). I'm worried about my desktop (/laptop) PCs, but since I run Linux there, I don't have to worry about any *serious* malware threats. No one has yet proven that there is any *serious* malware threat for desktop Linux.
Well, that's what happens when you use Windows: you get infected with badly-written ransomware.
Moral of the story: don't use Windows. (Or, only use it on your employer's computers because they insist on it. If it gets infected, who cares, you're getting paid for the downtime anyway.)
Oversight on research? From who, morons like you who think the Earth is 6000 years old? All the data is publicly available, it's religionist idiots like you who refuse to believe in reality when it's inconvenient or against your religious worldview.
I call your rape of Nanking and raise you a Trail of Tears, Jim Crow, slavery until the 1860s, lynchings until the 1960s or so, and police that shoot black men in the back in the 2010s.
Warehouse personnel probably don't get issued computers at all; they probably have handheld devices, and probably use a few centralized computers, so they probably have to use Windows on those, but they probably don't spend that much time with them. The handheld devices are very likely to run WinCE, however, which is another kind of hell. Any kind of management staff or salespeople, however, would be using Windows all day on company-issued computers.
Why is it that when something bad is said about a nation, the automatic reaction is to compare it to the US like the US is the gold standard of everything.
It's definitely not, but the reason I compared to the US is because, in all likelihood, the anti-emoji poster above is American, so comparing to his own fucked-up country is entirely relevant. He's most likely American for simple reasons: this is an American site, and the majority of its users are American. He also writes like an American, and his obnoxious, ignorant attitude is extremely typical of American posters here. Usually, you don't see citizens of other nations here trashing various countries; that's something that's typical for Americans but not others.
In the long run, less political manipulation of scientific goals and more robust, long term funding would help many fields of science
Sounds great in fantasy-land, but you're just not going to get that in reality. So the scientists have to take what they can get, which is the "disease of the year" problem: something gets public attention and everyone starts screaming for the government to fund it, which it does. It's just like space exploration: there was a big political push to land Americans on the Moon in the 60s, so tons of money was poured into that goal, and they made it happen, and we got a lot of spin-off technology and science in addition. It would be better if we had had a real long-term plan that made sense and had stable funding, but that's just impossible with our political system.
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Yes, those were the One Directions of their times, but back then they also had Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and lots of other great classic music which people still listen to now. (And before you say any of these weren't popular, IIRC Jimi played at Woodstock in front of a quarter-million people, and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon is the best-selling album in history (or was it AC/DC's Back in Black?).)
There is no such music being made today.
Also, don't forget, AutoTune did not exist prior to roughly 20 years ago.
APB doesn't work for that. It only blocks actual ads, not scripts in general. Plus, it's a memory hog, and also allows some advertising where they pay ABP to be whitelisted.
uBlock Origin is a much better ad-blocker, and uses far fewer resources. However, it still doesn't block all scripts, so you end up with a really slow browser hogging CPU and memory because the ridiculous amount of tracking scripts in use.
NoScript fixes that, but as you point out, it's not as easy to use. However, the rule I've found is that enabling scripts from the host domain gets most stuff working, and frequently you'll see some closely-related *cdn.com domain. Some sites use something like amazon AWS, so enable that too. After that, it can be a pain though, but after I got used to NoScript I'm not finding too many sites where I have to screw around with that stuff.
Well to be fair, back then the tables were turned; we actually didn't do such a shoddy job governing ourselves, and the Germans were terrible at governing in the best interests of the whole population, including its minority groups.
These days, we've become just plain incompetent at governing. Considering how well Denmark and Finland are doing, I think we should outsource our governance to them. But even Greece could do a better job than us.
Software's been locked to specific hardware for a long time. All the early arcade games used custom hardware; the really early ones didn't even have CPUs, they implemented everything with discrete logic chips. All that stuff has been emulated by the MAME project.
Your idea about submitting source code for copyright protection sounds good though.
Oh please. Please point out any new bands who actually write and play their own music (and have become very popular), and weren't just some corporate-created entity. The whole nature of mass-marketed music has changed in the last couple of decades. Music basically died with Napster.
This is why we need to outsource our government to the Europeans.
To be fair, at the time, no one had ever built a craft to travel to the Moon, or a module to land on it, or a vehicle to drive on it. I can see how cost estimates might have been too low.
Digitizing forms, setting up databases, making websites, etc., is all old hat now.
Meanwhile, we're basically throwing away all the examples of a nascent art form that combines art and engineering like nothing that came before.
No we're not. Video games aren't "nascent" at all, they've been around since the 1970s, and were better quality in previous decades too. It's just like popular music: it used to be a lot better, and in the last 15 years it's gone to total shit.
You like to retro game on the C64 because games in the 80s were fun. The OP is talking about DRMed games from the 00s and later. It's no big loss if all those disappear, as long as we keep all the stuff from the 70s to mid-90s (which we're doing pretty well in a lot of ways, with various emulators and rom archives).
Similarly, if all popular music from the 00s and 10s disappeared, it'd be no loss at all, whereas the music of the 60s through mid-90s was filled with cultural treasures.
In a nutshell, ever since GWBush took office, everything culturally in America has gone straight down the toilet. I'm not going to blame it on him exactly; a lot of the downfall really started before he took office but the overall timescale is accurate.
Most people who would fall for that are also people who have no idea how to open a console window (or even know what that is). My wife uses Mint KDE on her laptop, and gets along just fine with it for all the basic tasks (web browsing, LibreOffice documents, file management, scanning, etc.), but ask her to do something on the "console" and she'll look at you like you have two heads.
People like this who use Windows instead also never, ever use the shell.
Why would you need to click 100 times to make every website work?
Here's a tip: go to the settings and whitelist all scripts from that site's own domain. That's usually most of the stuff that has to be enabled to make a website work, and doesn't give you too much crap usually.
After that, you'll find some sites need to have *cdn.com (or something like that) enabled. That's where the site is linked to some "content delivery network" like AWS. Whitelist those on an individual basis.
There's a few other things you may need to enable, such as disqus.com if you want to read the comments on some sites.
After you've got it tuned like this, pretty soon you won't even notice it any more.
For example, just for reading and replying on Slashdot now, NoScript tells me there's scripts from 10 (!) different sites on this reply page I'm typing on. The only one I have enabled is slashdot.org. I don't even have slashcdn.com enabled (that's probably for some stupid videos). Of course, all the other junk like janrain.com, jaboola.com, googleadservices.com are disabled.
Are you running NoScript? That might help with some of that stuff, by blocking the JS that detects ad-blocking. I emphasize "might".
When? They've already done it. That's exactly what AdBlock Plus does, which is why people are switching to other blockers. Personally I use uBlock Origin; it doesn't have any of that silliness.
A malware app that someone has to be dumb enough to manually install is one thing, getting infected with something because your web browser or your email program is vulnerable is another. Most of the Windows malware I've heard about doesn't require someone to manually install software, it's as easy as clicking on the wrong link in IE.
Also, a lot of Windows malware seems to thrive because Windows is homogeneous. Remember that Lenovo malware that was (still is I think) baked into their laptops' BIOS, and would replace a critical Windows system DLL? That stuff only works because Windows is so uniform. If someone has Windows 8.1 installed, then you can count on that DLL being there, and you can count on being able to replace it with a modified DLL and have things work out the way you expect. This just isn't the case with Linux: every distro is different, files are in different places, files are not binary compatible (you can't just take libfoo.so.4.2.1.0 from Ubuntu and drop it into an Arch install and expect it to work), distros change versions every 6 months (so libfoo.so from Mint 17 is incompatible with libfoo.so from Mint 17.1), systems don't even use the same init system and low-level utils (Ubuntu and Mint still use upstart, Slackware still uses sysvinit), etc. Everything works fine because of package management and distros building everything all together at once, but malware expecting to monkey with the internals simply won't work because there's too many variables.
Yes, if someone distributes some Linux dancing-monkey malware, there's nothing you can do to prevent people from being stupid and installing it, but I haven't heard about this attack vector being a serious problem on *Windows* for a long time. Even the Windows users aren't that naive any more; they've had this stuff drilled into their heads for years. They're getting infected in other ways.
And how exactly does someone get infected with this anyhow? According to your link: "The malware requires administrator privileges to run and, presumably, a sysadmin who would allow for such a program to run unbridled." There's no mention on that page, or the "Dr. Web" page it links to, how anyone actually gets infected with this thing other than somehow getting themselves a copy and then intentionally running it as root. If there is an infection path it takes in the wild, these pages aren't specifying.
It's also mentioned that it works on systems running MySQL and Apache. Who runs Apache any more? Every serious Linux webserver is running Nginx now.
Finally, you're comparing apples to oranges. The Windows malware is for desktop and/or server Windows. The Linux malware appears to only be targeted at webservers. I don't know about you, but I don't run a webserver; for my websites I just use simple shared hosting and let someone else worry about that stuff (if my web host gets infected, no big deal, I'll just reload from backups). I'm worried about my desktop (/laptop) PCs, but since I run Linux there, I don't have to worry about any *serious* malware threats. No one has yet proven that there is any *serious* malware threat for desktop Linux.
Well, that's what happens when you use Windows: you get infected with badly-written ransomware.
Moral of the story: don't use Windows. (Or, only use it on your employer's computers because they insist on it. If it gets infected, who cares, you're getting paid for the downtime anyway.)
Oversight on research? From who, morons like you who think the Earth is 6000 years old? All the data is publicly available, it's religionist idiots like you who refuse to believe in reality when it's inconvenient or against your religious worldview.
So you think muzzling scientists is a good idea? Please explain why.
Well you're still murdering black people left and right in 2015 so I don't think you have much of a leg to stand on with your shitty "culture".
I call your rape of Nanking and raise you a Trail of Tears, Jim Crow, slavery until the 1860s, lynchings until the 1960s or so, and police that shoot black men in the back in the 2010s.
Your sarcasm detector is broken. Did you not check the other links in my post there?
As for your linked photo there, I sure hope that was taken in the summertime. It gets really cold in Finland.
Warehouse personnel probably don't get issued computers at all; they probably have handheld devices, and probably use a few centralized computers, so they probably have to use Windows on those, but they probably don't spend that much time with them. The handheld devices are very likely to run WinCE, however, which is another kind of hell. Any kind of management staff or salespeople, however, would be using Windows all day on company-issued computers.
Why is it that when something bad is said about a nation, the automatic reaction is to compare it to the US like the US is the gold standard of everything.
It's definitely not, but the reason I compared to the US is because, in all likelihood, the anti-emoji poster above is American, so comparing to his own fucked-up country is entirely relevant. He's most likely American for simple reasons: this is an American site, and the majority of its users are American. He also writes like an American, and his obnoxious, ignorant attitude is extremely typical of American posters here. Usually, you don't see citizens of other nations here trashing various countries; that's something that's typical for Americans but not others.
In the long run, less political manipulation of scientific goals and more robust, long term funding would help many fields of science
Sounds great in fantasy-land, but you're just not going to get that in reality. So the scientists have to take what they can get, which is the "disease of the year" problem: something gets public attention and everyone starts screaming for the government to fund it, which it does. It's just like space exploration: there was a big political push to land Americans on the Moon in the 60s, so tons of money was poured into that goal, and they made it happen, and we got a lot of spin-off technology and science in addition. It would be better if we had had a real long-term plan that made sense and had stable funding, but that's just impossible with our political system.
The emoji of the people in the sauna shows them as being naked. This is highly offensive to most religious people.
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