"You mean all my biometric data stored on a Google/Apple device? Where do I sign up?? I hope that in the future it's uploaded to the cloud - it would be so cool to have it integrated into every facet of my life" - Timfoil Hatticus
Let's not forget that a SHA512 salted 8 digit mnemonic encoded password is far harder to crack than obtaining one's fingerprint on a touch-screen.
No hacker worth their salt would use that word. In fact - I've only ever heard that word being put to use in three places - the first is obvious for anyone who used a chat room in the late 90's.. the remaining two? Hollywood and the media - coincidence?
It's not about who is losing out - it's about who really gains.
Now? For what you will make.. a few grand?.. Hold onto it for another 20 years - remember that they are divisible down to 10^8 decimal places. That's not to say it won't go tits up in a year or two.
Don't ask any more questions.
Arch is fine if you want to DIY.. it's not like Windows though. Once it's set up there is always an issue. Plug in a USB and away it goes? Forget about it - spend precious time reading up on it, set it up, only to forget how to do it next time you set up your machine or something goes wrong with it.
Laptop tools break, hibernating - rebuild the ramdisk, Pulse - good luck.
Mint just works out of the box.. then why the hell have I been using Arch for two years? The community is very good - a bunch of sarcastic dicks at times.. and will ignore you if you're a newb - but they really know their stuff. Hop onto the Ubuntu IRC and they stop short of licking Windows. (no pun)
Gentoo is a nice compromise with respect to the community - but the learning curve is much higher.
Both have good Wiki - Gentoo edging it. (the Arch Wiki can be a bit vague at times)
Stay away from Ubuntu. If you care about the future of FOSS at all - stay the hell away.
What.. are 17.8m raw reserved LAN IP addresses not enough?
Hell.. I bet even the PR dept. in the US knows how to subnet.
I'll just leave this here.. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYWZZlVlFb4
It sounds like just plain old malware - maybe it does have a rootkit as part of the package - but still.. iFrame injection and a slew of other functional abilities are not in the domain of a 'rootkit'. The definition of a worm is a malicious program that replicates itself.
So true - Fuck personality. If you're a 50 year old doctor you will live alone.. If you're a 50 year old physicist you will live alone.. If you're anything but a red convertible driving buffed up football watching meat-head who can't let go of his twenties - you will live alone. The fact of the matter is - programmers don't usually fight over the telly remote and have a capacity to learn and understand - but fuck that because you will live alone. It's not programmers that scare women off - it's socially awkward nerds. God I am DOOMED.
4.1 has ASLR - although this isn't yet implemented on the linker - it should be at some point in the future. As for bluetooth - keep it switched off... WiFi hacks are only possible if you are using anything BUT a good cryptographic standard - WPA AES - keep the SSID non-standard - fairly random and a 10 character random alphanumeric key - preferably with one or two special characters and varying case. The only way to crack a secure WPA-AES WAP is through a channel DOS and phishing.. i.e. a fake access point.
What you need, if you have the technical know-how (if you are up to the challenge - or maybe the tech' already exists), is 1) a microphone that will detect the noise coming in on a particular vector, 2) a uni-directional speaker (parabolic - they are never 100% uni-directional though) 3) software that will receive the sound, process it, and retransmit the 'inverted' sound-wave back at the source - at the same amplitude. you need to also take into account the distance from the microphone, the speed of sound, and the precise nano-second in which to transmit the inverted sound. It's easy in theory but in practice....
This is essentially how noise cancellation technologies work. It's complicated and don't under-estimate the vectors involved - refraction, caused by an improper calculation of 'direction', will cause leakage and may induce sound-waves that are more irritating to handle than 'normal' sound.
Yeah but I can hit Super+(number key) to switch desktops; alt+F2 for quick launch. super+m maximise, super+z for terminator, alt +h or v to split terminals. a ton of other shortcuts for individual applications - like my browser - all with XFCE. Anyone worth their salt manages their work flow efficiently like that - I barely have to touch the trackpad on my netbook - but more importantly - I still get the option to. I just can't be bothered with desktops beyond hotkeys and resizeable windows - I use a shell for most tasks anyway. XFCE is ready to go - straight out of the box - and for what I need it for it just works and doesn't change; break.
I might try out a window manager in the future - which would you suggest?
Well for that kind of thing I prefer config' files - but I don't want to have to write LUA scripts just to get a functional desktop. It's best that a desktop provides me an interface ready to go for file management and key-bindings - that's all I care about in terms of a desktop - as long as it's not clumsy. XFCE4: for all it's imperfections I still find it the closest thing to Gnome 2. Admittedly I haven't tried any of the Gnome forks but for what it's worth XFCE4 does the job. I have looked into things like Enlightenment and Awesome but they don't provide anything other than bells and whistles. Shit like Unity is just the kind of thing I would find on an Apple device. Maybe if there were some more readily 'install and go' window managers I would be prepared to use one - but to maintain and configure one is still a large time sink for something so trivial.
I understand what you are saying but my point was that you won't find many embedded systems that don't run a variant of Linux. Sure the RPi might be headless for most people but if you want to pursue such a path further than the level of a seven year old - at some point you will need to learn Linux and learn it well.
Because sometimes people cannot be bothered, wasting so much time and energy, tweaking and fiddling with things they would rather 'just worked' .
I know Linux pretty well but I actually can't be bothered with trivial desktop shit - I'd rather that stuff just worked out of the box. It's not that I can't - I just can't be bothered..
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Believe it or not the majority of smart-phone users have absolutely no idea of the correlation between password length and a secure hash.
"You mean all my biometric data stored on a Google/Apple device? Where do I sign up?? I hope that in the future it's uploaded to the cloud - it would be so cool to have it integrated into every facet of my life" - Timfoil Hatticus
Let's not forget that a SHA512 salted 8 digit mnemonic encoded password is far harder to crack than obtaining one's fingerprint on a touch-screen.
No hacker worth their salt would use that word. In fact - I've only ever heard that word being put to use in three places - the first is obvious for anyone who used a chat room in the late 90's.. the remaining two? Hollywood and the media - coincidence? It's not about who is losing out - it's about who really gains.
Now? For what you will make.. a few grand?.. Hold onto it for another 20 years - remember that they are divisible down to 10^8 decimal places. That's not to say it won't go tits up in a year or two.
Don't ask any more questions.
Arch is fine if you want to DIY.. it's not like Windows though. Once it's set up there is always an issue. Plug in a USB and away it goes? Forget about it - spend precious time reading up on it, set it up, only to forget how to do it next time you set up your machine or something goes wrong with it.
Laptop tools break, hibernating - rebuild the ramdisk, Pulse - good luck.
Mint just works out of the box.. then why the hell have I been using Arch for two years? The community is very good - a bunch of sarcastic dicks at times.. and will ignore you if you're a newb - but they really know their stuff. Hop onto the Ubuntu IRC and they stop short of licking Windows. (no pun)
Gentoo is a nice compromise with respect to the community - but the learning curve is much higher.
Both have good Wiki - Gentoo edging it. (the Arch Wiki can be a bit vague at times)
Stay away from Ubuntu. If you care about the future of FOSS at all - stay the hell away.
What.. are 17.8m raw reserved LAN IP addresses not enough? Hell.. I bet even the PR dept. in the US knows how to subnet. I'll just leave this here.. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYWZZlVlFb4
A baseball bat and a bad temper.
I was thinking the same thing. It's no more impressive than the build script in the Arch User Repository.
Linux desktop is a mess man. Nothing just works as intended - it almost forces you to learn to use a shell..
You've just been Slashdotted..
It sounds like just plain old malware - maybe it does have a rootkit as part of the package - but still.. iFrame injection and a slew of other functional abilities are not in the domain of a 'rootkit'. The definition of a worm is a malicious program that replicates itself.
Give me a glass of water - 5 degrees..
Paedophiles get 5 years - and a cushy job, next to a school, when they get out.
So true - Fuck personality. If you're a 50 year old doctor you will live alone.. If you're a 50 year old physicist you will live alone.. If you're anything but a red convertible driving buffed up football watching meat-head who can't let go of his twenties - you will live alone. The fact of the matter is - programmers don't usually fight over the telly remote and have a capacity to learn and understand - but fuck that because you will live alone. It's not programmers that scare women off - it's socially awkward nerds. God I am DOOMED.
Interesting choice of words.. I still don't know what I'm buying - but it won't be for another ten years.. that's for sure.
4.1 has ASLR - although this isn't yet implemented on the linker - it should be at some point in the future. As for bluetooth - keep it switched off... WiFi hacks are only possible if you are using anything BUT a good cryptographic standard - WPA AES - keep the SSID non-standard - fairly random and a 10 character random alphanumeric key - preferably with one or two special characters and varying case. The only way to crack a secure WPA-AES WAP is through a channel DOS and phishing.. i.e. a fake access point.
C++, Python, Javascript, PHP, Java - in that order. Age 23-27 - soon to graduate. Yes.. late I know.. lots of fun though. :)
What you need, if you have the technical know-how (if you are up to the challenge - or maybe the tech' already exists), is 1) a microphone that will detect the noise coming in on a particular vector, 2) a uni-directional speaker (parabolic - they are never 100% uni-directional though) 3) software that will receive the sound, process it, and retransmit the 'inverted' sound-wave back at the source - at the same amplitude. you need to also take into account the distance from the microphone, the speed of sound, and the precise nano-second in which to transmit the inverted sound. It's easy in theory but in practice.... This is essentially how noise cancellation technologies work. It's complicated and don't under-estimate the vectors involved - refraction, caused by an improper calculation of 'direction', will cause leakage and may induce sound-waves that are more irritating to handle than 'normal' sound.
Yeah but I can hit Super+(number key) to switch desktops; alt+F2 for quick launch. super+m maximise, super+z for terminator, alt +h or v to split terminals. a ton of other shortcuts for individual applications - like my browser - all with XFCE. Anyone worth their salt manages their work flow efficiently like that - I barely have to touch the trackpad on my netbook - but more importantly - I still get the option to. I just can't be bothered with desktops beyond hotkeys and resizeable windows - I use a shell for most tasks anyway. XFCE is ready to go - straight out of the box - and for what I need it for it just works and doesn't change; break. I might try out a window manager in the future - which would you suggest?
Well for that kind of thing I prefer config' files - but I don't want to have to write LUA scripts just to get a functional desktop. It's best that a desktop provides me an interface ready to go for file management and key-bindings - that's all I care about in terms of a desktop - as long as it's not clumsy. XFCE4: for all it's imperfections I still find it the closest thing to Gnome 2. Admittedly I haven't tried any of the Gnome forks but for what it's worth XFCE4 does the job. I have looked into things like Enlightenment and Awesome but they don't provide anything other than bells and whistles. Shit like Unity is just the kind of thing I would find on an Apple device. Maybe if there were some more readily 'install and go' window managers I would be prepared to use one - but to maintain and configure one is still a large time sink for something so trivial.
I understand what you are saying but my point was that you won't find many embedded systems that don't run a variant of Linux. Sure the RPi might be headless for most people but if you want to pursue such a path further than the level of a seven year old - at some point you will need to learn Linux and learn it well.
And it ends there... Unless something totally dazzles me. Using Arch for a desktop (pain at times - nice though) and Gentoo Hardened for a server.
Because sometimes people cannot be bothered, wasting so much time and energy, tweaking and fiddling with things they would rather 'just worked' . I know Linux pretty well but I actually can't be bothered with trivial desktop shit - I'd rather that stuff just worked out of the box. It's not that I can't - I just can't be bothered..
I think he was implying that Romney actually is a moron.
No but the possession of a brain might just do the trick.