What do you do if after reinstalling the system image, the malware OS just goes ahead and upgrades itself again? There's no way out of this without re-installing an OS that serves the needs of the owner, rather than the vendor.
If your tax forms are in the cloud without first being locally encrypted (by you, explicitly, not integrated into the service in a way that you can't be sure how it's really being done) then you are just plain nuts.
If you are astute you should know that Windows crash reports have been intercepted off the net and used to reveal vulnerabilities about particular machines.
A computer should do nothing without the explicit command or permission of the owner.
No, I'm not that worried about M$ per se. And yes, I assume that the.gov already backs up all my data.
The point is that when the OS is uncontrollably doing unknown things, then it is impossible for me to even estimate how well I am protected from the common computer crooks. Whether they be trying to attack me from the wire, or from inside M$, or by attacking M$, etc.
Don't even try to tell me that this is paranoia. My mother was already scammed by crooks who impersonated me after getting hold of the.gov's database of security clearances.
The more data and control of machines holding that data is out of the direct control of the owner, the worse off we will be.
I'd rather have two of the $130 drives in RAID1, vs. the $264 drive. Then buy a cup of coffee.
I just experienced the first drive failure ever, since getting my first 20MB Winchester hard drive in the 80s. Fortunately it happened while testing before using as temp. storage to allow repartitioning another drive. Granted, my drives have only ever seen "desktop" workloads.
No, it's not about policing. The point is that airlines don't want to loose planes and have their customers get killed and the families sue them. They have an incentive to maintain effective security. The government doesn't. The government has an incentive to grow powerful.
The Feds absolved the airlines of liability for 911. What do you think would have happened if the airlines involved had instead been sued into liquidation? The other airlines would have learned a lesson! We'd have less inconvenience and better security than with the TSA.
Why would anyone trust the very entity that is largely responsible for the conditions which motivated the terrorists, and who dropped the ball on every clue that something was brewing beforehand? Yet, we must have the government protect us, because, well, it's the government! Our new god.
Our system of constraining debate to within the bounds permissible to the authorities is working perfectly once again. There seems to be almost no discussion of the fact that:
Drug tests, besides being an invasion of privacy and likely to produce data which will be abused, do not correlate well with *impairment*.
Whereas *impairment* correlates 100% with *impairment*.
I'm supposed to believe that drug testing, when there are about 100x more substances than tests, is the only thing we can possibly think of to do in order to evaluate impairment? When there are also countless causes of impairment besides drugs?
Or do we really not give a fuck about impairment at all, but just want more reasons to probe people up the ass until the common citizen is totally conditioned to accept random blood draws, anal probes, piss tests, by their employers, the cops, etc.? Then what? Cameras in our bedrooms to be sure we sleep enough, etc.?
Why aren't we talking about how to test for actual impairment, which would raise a lot less fuss, and actually have a chance of giving much more reliable information in cases where it actually matters?
Almost the entire Electrical Engineering grad. student population was Chinese women and a few of their boyfriends when I was in college and by some twist of fate had the good fortune of winding up hanging out with them most of the time. I dated a Chinese girl who was a doctor studying for some speciality. They were adorable and didn't have any gender war baggage. Just straight human beings. It was so easy to just be. And the food! They taught me to cook with them. It was a good time. I was even an undergrad. (but older than most). They didn't give a shit.
My experience visiting in S.E. Asia for some time, practicing in Buddhist monasteries, and spending time in predominantly Asian parts of the SF Bay Area is similar. The Asian born ones, at least, are just people. Whereas Americans are all hung up on this identity shit.
Seriously, I'm an atheist and won't hesitate to criticize Christians' beliefs mercilessly in intellectual debate. But they are also people that I respect as human beings. The bigoted stereotyping here (by Progressives no doubt) is disgusting. But not at all surprising.
He's right though, that even with extremely rigorous backups and archives of data, that will only save your data. But you can be down for hours, days, or worse if the OS vendor breaks your heavily copy protected set of several $5000-$25000 applications. It's remarkable that lawsuits aren't flying already over this shit.
Imagine what they'd be saying if their FOSS GPU drivers got replaced by an automatic update to proprietary, or some shit like that. The sky would be red with fire.
WTF? WinXP ran great with no sense of being limited by HW with a 1.5GHz single core and 1-2GB RAM. Vista was an abomination. The solution to such a thing isn't more HW. It's install XP.
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Yes, you stupid fool, if it was the fucking tire maker who deliberately punctured your tire!
What do you do if after reinstalling the system image, the malware OS just goes ahead and upgrades itself again? There's no way out of this without re-installing an OS that serves the needs of the owner, rather than the vendor.
If your tax forms are in the cloud without first being locally encrypted (by you, explicitly, not integrated into the service in a way that you can't be sure how it's really being done) then you are just plain nuts.
If you are astute you should know that Windows crash reports have been intercepted off the net and used to reveal vulnerabilities about particular machines.
A computer should do nothing without the explicit command or permission of the owner.
No, I'm not that worried about M$ per se. And yes, I assume that the .gov already backs up all my data.
The point is that when the OS is uncontrollably doing unknown things, then it is impossible for me to even estimate how well I am protected from the common computer crooks. Whether they be trying to attack me from the wire, or from inside M$, or by attacking M$, etc.
Don't even try to tell me that this is paranoia. My mother was already scammed by crooks who impersonated me after getting hold of the .gov's database of security clearances.
The more data and control of machines holding that data is out of the direct control of the owner, the worse off we will be.
Fucking capitalists kick ass!
I'd rather have two of the $130 drives in RAID1, vs. the $264 drive. Then buy a cup of coffee.
I just experienced the first drive failure ever, since getting my first 20MB Winchester hard drive in the 80s. Fortunately it happened while testing before using as temp. storage to allow repartitioning another drive. Granted, my drives have only ever seen "desktop" workloads.
No, it's not about policing. The point is that airlines don't want to loose planes and have their customers get killed and the families sue them. They have an incentive to maintain effective security. The government doesn't. The government has an incentive to grow powerful.
The Feds absolved the airlines of liability for 911. What do you think would have happened if the airlines involved had instead been sued into liquidation? The other airlines would have learned a lesson! We'd have less inconvenience and better security than with the TSA.
Why would anyone trust the very entity that is largely responsible for the conditions which motivated the terrorists, and who dropped the ball on every clue that something was brewing beforehand? Yet, we must have the government protect us, because, well, it's the government! Our new god.
Our system of constraining debate to within the bounds permissible to the authorities is working perfectly once again. There seems to be almost no discussion of the fact that:
Drug tests, besides being an invasion of privacy and likely to produce data which will be abused, do not correlate well with *impairment*.
Whereas *impairment* correlates 100% with *impairment*.
I'm supposed to believe that drug testing, when there are about 100x more substances than tests, is the only thing we can possibly think of to do in order to evaluate impairment? When there are also countless causes of impairment besides drugs?
Or do we really not give a fuck about impairment at all, but just want more reasons to probe people up the ass until the common citizen is totally conditioned to accept random blood draws, anal probes, piss tests, by their employers, the cops, etc.? Then what? Cameras in our bedrooms to be sure we sleep enough, etc.?
Why aren't we talking about how to test for actual impairment, which would raise a lot less fuss, and actually have a chance of giving much more reliable information in cases where it actually matters?
I'd also like to see their boss watching it (with shit eating grin).
Almost the entire Electrical Engineering grad. student population was Chinese women and a few of their boyfriends when I was in college and by some twist of fate had the good fortune of winding up hanging out with them most of the time. I dated a Chinese girl who was a doctor studying for some speciality. They were adorable and didn't have any gender war baggage. Just straight human beings. It was so easy to just be. And the food! They taught me to cook with them. It was a good time. I was even an undergrad. (but older than most). They didn't give a shit.
My experience visiting in S.E. Asia for some time, practicing in Buddhist monasteries, and spending time in predominantly Asian parts of the SF Bay Area is similar. The Asian born ones, at least, are just people. Whereas Americans are all hung up on this identity shit.
Learn more about Japan.
Hopefully she at least puts out?
Seriously, I'm an atheist and won't hesitate to criticize Christians' beliefs mercilessly in intellectual debate. But they are also people that I respect as human beings. The bigoted stereotyping here (by Progressives no doubt) is disgusting. But not at all surprising.
Not in CA.
Sadly some of the arrogant attitude of "we know best how you should use your computer" has even seeped into the GNU/Linux/KDE|Gnome world.
Very clever. Too bad you have to resort to such trickery though.
WTF, did it just egg them on? This is worse than any other shit they did. Maybe it happened too early.
He's right though, that even with extremely rigorous backups and archives of data, that will only save your data. But you can be down for hours, days, or worse if the OS vendor breaks your heavily copy protected set of several $5000-$25000 applications. It's remarkable that lawsuits aren't flying already over this shit.
Imagine what they'd be saying if their FOSS GPU drivers got replaced by an automatic update to proprietary, or some shit like that. The sky would be red with fire.
Some of the high end software looks at drives, not just MACs to ID a machine.
You sound traumatized. That's how it went down for me, in 1993 (!) with Win 3.1. Something awful happened, and I switched to Linux.
Bullshit. You can get thrown in jail just for calling Ergodan an asshole.
WTF? WinXP ran great with no sense of being limited by HW with a 1.5GHz single core and 1-2GB RAM. Vista was an abomination. The solution to such a thing isn't more HW. It's install XP.
Funny how letting some corporation remotely do god knows what to your computer constitutes compliance with a consumer privacy law. We are so far gone.