Have you never heard of telecommuting??? Its not like the smog of the southern Californian metropolitan area helps you to code better so you can do that from anywhere. Besides there are other cities with lots of tech businesses. Ever heard of Seattle? Has this little company know for its cloud servers Its called amazon. Or Microsoft heard of them? They're there as well. I could list more, for this and other cities and more all over the country. There is no rule that says you have to be from cali to post on/.
Thank you. I have been seeing this bull shit about the wonderful city of San Fransisco blahblahbalh... for the past couple of weeks on various tech sites and it is getting to be fucking annoying. Especially while the same danm sites report on the Luddite bullshit they have been doing.
You want to know what San Fransicso really is?
San Francisco is city that pushes a go green eco freindly message thats people protest when a tech company tries to create a mass transit system to cut traffic and emissions. The city that objects to innovators moving there and ruining their culture by virtue of living there. The city who populous mobbed the house of googles self driving car team head for no good reason. They sound more like a liberal arts version of the old black and white monster movie peasant mob chasing down scientists and innovators with pitchforks and torches.
But if they weren't dirt poor then they wouldn't be the cliched starving artist they would just be another talentless libral arts major that asks do you want fries with that at work for the rest of their life.
Do you carry your SATA drive around with you wherever you go and attach it to every computer you use?
I used to carry my 2 TB drive with me everywhere until I built my own ssh/sftp server now it is anywhere that has internet and can be accsesed form a tablet with no sata port.
Well, this may be an interesting talking point, but really is a matter of attitude. Remember when Rob Ford admitted to smoking crack? I don't live in Toronto, but I applaud his honesty. The same goes for every other scenario on earth. If I cheat my wife, it's brought up, and I admit to it, I'll gain far more respect than if I deny, deny, deny.
...please consider the problems of secure data erasure, which HDDs rule becuase you can scramble them with electromagnets, or hammers, or even fire. Unless they produce electronics where the chips themselves are destroyed on command, then SSDs cannot compete, the traces left in the chips can be recovered.
For security purposes if their are chips left after you burn something then you aren't using enough thermite.
So you would stand idly by and allow misinformation by a group who clearly and chronically has absolutely no grasp of the field they are discussing ruin your language?
It's not my language. I didn't invent it. I don't own it. I also am not so arrogant as to think other people are stupid and do not grasp the meaning of the word. And even if I have an opinion about it my opinion doesn't mean much.
i think a better term to have said then langauage would have been jargon. eg
So you would stand idly by and allow misinformation by a group who clearly and chronically has absolutely no grasp of the field they are discussing ruin your jargon?
i would not say that the battle is lost they can still be eduacated I hope otherwise we are doomed to listen to media talking heads spout complete techno-babble any time there is a tech related subject at hand as they currently do. Maybe If we keep after them they will figure it out.
Do you believe Congress must understand all the details of how cellular networks or Internet service providers work in order to legislate concerning these topics? This is exactly why they have hired staff to do research for them and to inform them of the issues.
I would hope they learn as much as they can about someting before they try to regualte it. Creating rules for things you don't understand and have no ability to comprehend while simultaneously being bribed I mean lobbied by special interest groups, Is begging for disaster. Oh look we are in the middle of one. Because of that. They don't understand the internet or computersand look at the results.
Net-Neutrality battles, SOAPA, ACTA, DMCA, NSA Spying wire tapping software/infrastructure sabotage, "Illegal" numbers, Internet kill switch, Software Patents, and more.
None of these would be the issue if these people would bother to learn about what they were making rules about. At the very least they could read the wikipedia entry about the tech they make rules for.
Dude, is grandma we're talking about, not a guy spending most of his time watching porn sites. Get her an updated antivirus and a firewall and she'll be safe while browsing for cakes recipes.
Interestingly more resent studies have shown there is more viruses on religious themed sites then on porn sites as porn has become a large bussiness. Now which one is grandma most likely to look at? Secondly what makes you think grandma is more likely to keep her security software up to date then her OS?
There are certain things in the kernel itself for Linux that my customers have found drastically confusing and I've found difficult to explain. So really I don't think Linux (or computers) are great for old people. Single purpose devices seemed more popular for a bit years ago like e-mail only devices but I don't know what happened to that big market.
Why the hell are they looking at the kernal in the first place?
unless she has sensitive information stored on her machine or uses it for card purchases then the risk posed by malware is minimal.
Or if you want to be some botnet masters bitch, and have your computer used for mineing bitcoins for him eating your power, or be used for his backup porn storage array. then yeah go ahead and run a massively insecure unsupported unpatched outdated OS then by all means go ahead and leave it alone.
There are time to not evangelize and try to convert people to the church of linux. But this is not one of those times or cases the guy is going to be the one forced to fix all of the problems anyway and is more familiar/comfortable in linux, old people will be just as confused with linux or windows 8 either way, and leaving them on XP just is not a realistic option unless he wants to reimage his grandmothers OS install every weekend for the rest of her natural life.
Seriously. Why even bother updating if what she has works, and that's all she does with it.
Really????
Because Windows XP support is dropped next month and has for the past 10 plus years has been in a constant cracker/patcher battle because it is about as secure as a sieve is water tight. After next month there will be no more patches period. Mean while Windows Server 2003 which is based on the same exact source code will be getting patched for years more. These Windows Server 2003 patches will essentially be giving a security exploit guide to crackers and will leave millions of computers with absolutely no protection whatsoever. Running windows XP on the internet the day after support is dropped is like just asking to become some botnet masters bitch. THATS WHY!
Secondly the submitter wants to avoid this situation form ever happening again. If he uses Linux or other open source software he can much more easily migrate and mitigate issues like this.
And finally windows 8 will be very confusing to older relives that have only ever used Windows XP, which they already barely understand how to use. So moving them to Linux will be less traumatic because the only interface they see will be much more similar to what they are used to.
What's the value of knowing the intimate details of the lives of the Kardashians?
absolutely no value.
I can only yurn for the days when I thought it odd people were talking about Cardassians from Deep Space 9. Now that would be an interesting show I would watch religiously. A show about say Garek before being banished to Bajor and DS9 that would be worth watching as apposed to seeing what rapper/football player is knocking up a ex porn star between trips to the mall.
And what is the evidence in favor of him being "the guy"?
His name is the same as a notoriously anonymous programmers online handle and thats about it. On the other hand one of the real Satoshi's known accounts posted that he is not this guy. And has been verified as a the legit account by the forums admin.
X11 should be dustbinned just for the lack of multi-target network transparency. You know, the limitation that says while OSX and Windows users can efficiently share apps and desktops in a teleconference, Linux systems have to use VNC to toss around bitmap deltas instead. Its like getting a shot of Novocaine in the mouth everytime you head out to a party.
Oooooh, wait! Did I just attack X11 on its hallowed territory... Network transparency?! Well, indeed I have and its true that X11 has not gotten any overhauls to support this very important and common use case.
Security also stinks to high heaven on X11, and it took an OS like Qubes completely re-worked around a VM security model to address that architectural flaw (regular hypervisors like VMware won't even protect you). The priestly developers of X11 implementations do not appear to give a rats ass.
This stack (and its anachronistic neckbeard clique) has run its course and should have been on its way out 10 years ago. I think you're wrong about developing replacements for X11; Apple users never regretted it for an instant.
BTW, I don't know about you but I'm tired of my Linux UI's being interspersed with character-mode upchuck, screens flickering and popping momentarily in an out of existence whenever something different happens in the runlevel or login status or number of displays.
X11s security problems the ones patched resently by OpenBSD? One of the many operating systems besides Linux that uses X. One of the operatting systems that wayland and Mir have stated they have no plans for supporting?
Exactly when I was in high school I took a health course online rather than the standard due to course time collusions. After I finished the course in about a week I went though and took about 5 others classes extra in the same quarter. All were exceedingly easy already plus they forgot to lock you out of making google searches while taking tests. Opps. Even the dumbest moron in the room passed in flying colors. No course grade in there meant anything other than "I can successfully type a question word for word into Google". Thats probably about the time I started to read slashdot come to think of it. I had several weeks where I had no class work in there thanks to them only allowing you to take so many courses on-line per quarter. Graduating with plenty of extra credit hours was nice.
That's a bit of an outdated attitude. Any "secure corporate network" has dozens or even hundreds of compromised client devices on it at any moment (and possibly a compromised employee or two). Not allowing personal devices doesn't increase security all that much. On the other hand, the benefits of BYOD are accepted by most companies that employ knowledge workers. Most places I've worked (some were really big corporations) simply require an employee to sign an acceptable use policy before connecting.
Let me turn that attitude around: are you willing to be held personally responsible when a client is compromised by a zero-day? Control is an illusion in the twenty-first century, it's way past time to start building networks that are able to function properly even with untrusted devices on them.
...and equally the device owners should act as though the network is hostle. It is just best practises no one should trust anyones else's networks, equipment, or software any farther than absolutely necessary.
Conversely, no employee should trust their employer's network so much that they'd be willing to attach their devices to it. And they should absolutely not allow the company to install any software on their devices.
So, win/win!
Exactly we all need a healthy level of mutual distrust when it comes to smart devices and networks.
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Have you never heard of telecommuting??? /.
Its not like the smog of the southern Californian metropolitan area helps you to code better so you can do that from anywhere. Besides there are other cities with lots of tech businesses. Ever heard of Seattle? Has this little company know for its cloud servers Its called amazon. Or Microsoft heard of them? They're there as well. I could list more, for this and other cities and more all over the country. There is no rule that says you have to be from cali to post on
Thank you. I have been seeing this bull shit about the wonderful city of San Fransisco blahblahbalh... for the past couple of weeks on various tech sites and it is getting to be fucking annoying. Especially while the same danm sites report on the Luddite bullshit they have been doing.
You want to know what San Fransicso really is?
San Francisco is city that pushes a go green eco freindly message thats people protest when a tech company tries to create a mass transit system to cut traffic and emissions. The city that objects to innovators moving there and ruining their culture by virtue of living there. The city who populous mobbed the house of googles self driving car team head for no good reason. They sound more like a liberal arts version of the old black and white monster movie peasant mob chasing down scientists and innovators with pitchforks and torches.
But if they weren't dirt poor then they wouldn't be the cliched starving artist they would just be another talentless libral arts major that asks do you want fries with that at work for the rest of their life.
RaspberryPi $30
3 TB drive x2 $200
debian free
truecrypt free
openssh free
owncloud free
safty depost box ~$25 yearly
keep one drive at the bank one drive hooked up to your owncloud server. Your data is now archived and available anywhere and safe from prying eyes.
Unless someone breaks into your house and steals your computer. Then you've lost your 8 1TB drives and everything on them.
who breaks into homes and steals non apple desktops anymore?
Do you carry your SATA drive around with you wherever you go and attach it to every computer you use?
I used to carry my 2 TB drive with me everywhere until I built my own ssh/sftp server now it is anywhere that has internet and can be accsesed form a tablet with no sata port.
MtGox would be a footnote if people had not been using them as a online wallet. With bitcoin you are supposed to be using a local wallet.
Well, this may be an interesting talking point, but really is a matter of attitude. Remember when Rob Ford admitted to smoking crack? I don't live in Toronto, but I applaud his honesty. The same goes for every other scenario on earth. If I cheat my wife, it's brought up, and I admit to it, I'll gain far more respect than if I deny, deny, deny.
say that when you are framed for downloading CP.
...please consider the problems of secure data erasure, which HDDs rule becuase you can scramble them with electromagnets, or hammers, or even fire. Unless they produce electronics where the chips themselves are destroyed on command, then SSDs cannot compete, the traces left in the chips can be recovered.
For security purposes if their are chips left after you burn something then you aren't using enough thermite.
Prices have been dropping fast and cheap SSDs are finally on the rise. You can now get an 240GB SSD for $100
and I can buy a 3 TB spinning rust drive for the same price.
Thats 12 times the storage per dollar. As a regular joe sixpack consumer which am i going to pick?
As a computer person I will go with both, a smallish SSD for the OS and a RAID of array of 2-4 3TB Spinning Rust Drives for Storage.
So you would stand idly by and allow misinformation by a group who clearly and chronically has absolutely no grasp of the field they are discussing ruin your language?
It's not my language. I didn't invent it. I don't own it. I also am not so arrogant as to think other people are stupid and do not grasp the meaning of the word. And even if I have an opinion about it my opinion doesn't mean much.
i think a better term to have said then langauage would have been jargon. eg
So you would stand idly by and allow misinformation by a group who clearly and chronically has absolutely no grasp of the field they are discussing ruin your jargon?
i would not say that the battle is lost they can still be eduacated I hope otherwise we are doomed to listen to media talking heads spout complete techno-babble any time there is a tech related subject at hand as they currently do. Maybe If we keep after them they will figure it out.
Do you believe Congress must understand all the details of how cellular networks or Internet service providers work in order to legislate concerning these topics? This is exactly why they have hired staff to do research for them and to inform them of the issues.
I would hope they learn as much as they can about someting before they try to regualte it. Creating rules for things you don't understand and have no ability to comprehend while simultaneously being bribed I mean lobbied by special interest groups, Is begging for disaster. Oh look we are in the middle of one. Because of that.
They don't understand the internet or computersand look at the results.
Net-Neutrality battles, SOAPA, ACTA, DMCA, NSA Spying wire tapping software/infrastructure sabotage, "Illegal" numbers, Internet kill switch, Software Patents, and more.
None of these would be the issue if these people would bother to learn about what they were making rules about. At the very least they could read the wikipedia entry about the tech they make rules for.
Dude, is grandma we're talking about, not a guy spending most of his time watching porn sites.
Get her an updated antivirus and a firewall and she'll be safe while browsing for cakes recipes.
Interestingly more resent studies have shown there is more viruses on religious themed sites then on porn sites as porn has become a large bussiness. Now which one is grandma most likely to look at? Secondly what makes you think grandma is more likely to keep her security software up to date then her OS?
There are certain things in the kernel itself for Linux that my customers have found drastically confusing and I've found difficult to explain. So really I don't think Linux (or computers) are great for old people. Single purpose devices seemed more popular for a bit years ago like e-mail only devices but I don't know what happened to that big market.
Why the hell are they looking at the kernal in the first place?
That might have been an option while windows XP was still getting updates or had a familiar interface that won't confuse old people but its not now.
unless she has sensitive information stored on her machine or uses it for card purchases then the risk posed by malware is minimal.
Or if you want to be some botnet masters bitch, and have your computer used for mineing bitcoins for him eating your power, or be used for his backup porn storage array. then yeah go ahead and run a massively insecure unsupported unpatched outdated OS then by all means go ahead and leave it alone.
There are time to not evangelize and try to convert people to the church of linux. But this is not one of those times or cases the guy is going to be the one forced to fix all of the problems anyway and is more familiar/comfortable in linux, old people will be just as confused with linux or windows 8 either way, and leaving them on XP just is not a realistic option unless he wants to reimage his grandmothers OS install every weekend for the rest of her natural life.
Does ChromeOS not support CUPS for printers that apple and linux both use? and if not why the hell not?
Seriously. Why even bother updating if what she has works, and that's all she does with it.
Really????
Because Windows XP support is dropped next month and has for the past 10 plus years has been in a constant cracker/patcher battle because it is about as secure as a sieve is water tight. After next month there will be no more patches period. Mean while Windows Server 2003 which is based on the same exact source code will be getting patched for years more. These Windows Server 2003 patches will essentially be giving a security exploit guide to crackers and will leave millions of computers with absolutely no protection whatsoever. Running windows XP on the internet the day after support is dropped is like just asking to become some botnet masters bitch. THATS WHY!
Secondly the submitter wants to avoid this situation form ever happening again. If he uses Linux or other open source software he can much more easily migrate and mitigate issues like this.
And finally windows 8 will be very confusing to older relives that have only ever used Windows XP, which they already barely understand how to use. So moving them to Linux will be less traumatic because the only interface they see will be much more similar to what they are used to.
What's the value of knowing the intimate details of the lives of the Kardashians?
absolutely no value.
I can only yurn for the days when I thought it odd people were talking about Cardassians from Deep Space 9. Now that would be an interesting show I would watch religiously. A show about say Garek before being banished to Bajor and DS9 that would be worth watching as apposed to seeing what rapper/football player is knocking up a ex porn star between trips to the mall.
And what is the evidence in favor of him being "the guy"?
His name is the same as a notoriously anonymous programmers online handle and thats about it. On the other hand one of the real Satoshi's known accounts posted that he is not this guy. And has been verified as a the legit account by the forums admin.
http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/...
https://twitter.com/jdaviescoa...
X11 should be dustbinned just for the lack of multi-target network transparency. You know, the limitation that says while OSX and Windows users can efficiently share apps and desktops in a teleconference, Linux systems have to use VNC to toss around bitmap deltas instead. Its like getting a shot of Novocaine in the mouth everytime you head out to a party.
Oooooh, wait! Did I just attack X11 on its hallowed territory... Network transparency?! Well, indeed I have and its true that X11 has not gotten any overhauls to support this very important and common use case.
Security also stinks to high heaven on X11, and it took an OS like Qubes completely re-worked around a VM security model to address that architectural flaw (regular hypervisors like VMware won't even protect you). The priestly developers of X11 implementations do not appear to give a rats ass.
This stack (and its anachronistic neckbeard clique) has run its course and should have been on its way out 10 years ago. I think you're wrong about developing replacements for X11; Apple users never regretted it for an instant.
BTW, I don't know about you but I'm tired of my Linux UI's being interspersed with character-mode upchuck, screens flickering and popping momentarily in an out of existence whenever something different happens in the runlevel or login status or number of displays.
X11s security problems the ones patched resently by OpenBSD? One of the many operating systems besides Linux that uses X. One of the operatting systems that wayland and Mir have stated they have no plans for supporting?
Exactly when I was in high school I took a health course online rather than the standard due to course time collusions. After I finished the course in about a week I went though and took about 5 others classes extra in the same quarter. All were exceedingly easy already plus they forgot to lock you out of making google searches while taking tests. Opps. Even the dumbest moron in the room passed in flying colors. No course grade in there meant anything other than "I can successfully type a question word for word into Google". Thats probably about the time I started to read slashdot come to think of it. I had several weeks where I had no class work in there thanks to them only allowing you to take so many courses on-line per quarter. Graduating with plenty of extra credit hours was nice.
Easy for you to say. I hope someone close to you dies from Gardisil.
Your not very good with statistics are you? Please say you don't buy lottery tickets too.
That's a bit of an outdated attitude. Any "secure corporate network" has dozens or even hundreds of compromised client devices on it at any moment (and possibly a compromised employee or two). Not allowing personal devices doesn't increase security all that much. On the other hand, the benefits of BYOD are accepted by most companies that employ knowledge workers. Most places I've worked (some were really big corporations) simply require an employee to sign an acceptable use policy before connecting.
Let me turn that attitude around: are you willing to be held personally responsible when a client is compromised by a zero-day? Control is an illusion in the twenty-first century, it's way past time to start building networks that are able to function properly even with untrusted devices on them.
...and equally the device owners should act as though the network is hostle. It is just best practises no one should trust anyones else's networks, equipment, or software any farther than absolutely necessary.
Conversely, no employee should trust their employer's network so much that they'd be willing to attach their devices to it. And they should absolutely not allow the company to install any software on their devices.
So, win/win!
Exactly we all need a healthy level of mutual distrust when it comes to smart devices and networks.