"I simply have zero interest in the crowd who wants to be different. Leet. 'Linux is supposed to be hard so it's exclusive'
This is coming from a guy whose company basically created 'upstart', which is a pure example of someone wishing to be different and making it hard too, for absolutely no reason.
It's great having to edit init files, in year 2013, in order to be able to prevent service from starting up on boot.
Well, as soon as they can get over this ideological bullshit and act like professionals, then, maybe, the year of linux on the desktop might magically materialize.
Yeah, adding bloated support for shitty Microsoft features that noone cares about is suddenly going to make LInux boom on desktop.
It amazes me that when somebody does something as a business that it infuriates people especially when they get something for free. Yes, Ubuntu is taking free software, wrapping it as a supportable bundle and distributing it. So now they've hooked into the information sharing arrangement. It's easy enough to disable as well and the hosts file solution is also there. I wonder if just charging $10 a download / dvd would make more sense then adding another keylogging data collector out there. Frankly Facebook is the worst and the network of data collectors it's partnered with is becoming more and more troublesome.
I donated 40 EUR, while downloading Ubuntu image many mohths ago. Do I get to complain now, since I didn't get it for free? Hell, I'd probably be willing to pay them reasonable yearly 'support' fee in order to help them make some money - it would be worth it.
I won't be donating them anything ever again, nor will I be using it, since I simply don't trust Ubuntu anymore and never will. For all I know, they might re-enable things that I disabled without even asking me, when applying updates. They seem to think that everything is a fair game.
You can encypher your data before uploading on *any* site. At that point they are all equally secure. Kim's claim was that Mega was more secure by design.
However, the claim is completely broken. Mega is using a public/private key pair - generated by the web site - and so their servers actually *do* know both your keys, and *can* decrypt your data. So, basically, it is no more secure than dropbox.
Hahaha. Honestly, you could have at least read the developer's docs. I doubt you'd understand it, but you could have at least try reading it.
I'm pretty sure everyone loves to hate the RIAA/MPAA so Kim Dotcom had little trouble rounding up support when they moved to shut down MegaUpload.
Unfortunately, he's now picking a fight with bigger opponent and possible a mass of small website owners who rely on their Adsense revenues to help pay the bills.
Kicking the RIAA/MPAA for their sins is one thing, taking money out of the mouths of independent content creators (by hijacking their ad-revenues to fund his Mega-services) is something altogether different.
I admire KD for what he's doing with the MegaKey service but I really wonder if he's got an oar out of the water in picking a fight with Google and the many websites who rely on that company's ad-revenue sharing.
BTW: I'm one of those sites and I'll be mighty pissed if Kim starts replacing the ads on *my* webpages that should be generating money to pay for *my* efforts -- because I have *nothing* to do with MegaKey so why should *I* be paying for it?
Not being able to reset the password on their side is a feature.
Not requiring password confirmation is a bug, and a pretty amateurish one, to be perfectly honest.
Password is required in order to confirm/create the account, you can not do it without entering password after you've clicked on the confirmation URL provided in an email.
The patchy availability will be resolved soon I hope, but there's a major flaw I ran into, which is that when you sign up it doesn't ask you to confirm your password by typing it twice. This means you can make typos without realising it. Because the password is also an encryption key, you can't reset it. You can't delete the account either, nor can you register two accounts to one email address. I made a typo in my password. Net result: I permanently can't access my account, nor can I register a new one with my preferred email address.
That is incorrect.
You can not 'confirm' the account unless you type your password (when clicking on confirmation link). So in order to create the account, you had to type the 'mistyped' password again.
If account has not been confirmed, you can just register using same email/etc.
I know because I did it myself (had a very similar scenario to yours).
I really have no interest in just uploading or downloading files through my browser. When this was announced I heard that they were going to support mounting / folder syncing, but I'm not seeing anything like that yet. Am I missing something?
Windows "virtual drive" thingie will be coming soon.
I also expect quite few new tools being developed in coming weeks/months, by 'outsiders'.
Annnnnd this is why I stopped giving a shit about Slashdot right here.
Oh, a phone manufacturer does something cool, original, and out-of-character for what has become an "Intellectual property" knife fight to the death and scraping every last cent from the customer that they can? Cool... wait, it runs Windows Phone?
THIS IS A FUCKING TRAVESTY OMG WHINE BITCH COMPLAIN MOAN
I'm going to go back to other sites now, where the commenters are at least just stupid instead of stupid and pointlessly misanthropic.
You are incredibly stupid if you think this is why people whine about Nokia.
You really should go to other sites, with stupid commenters. You seem to fit right in.
"you're hosting files that violate the DMCA! You're under arrest!"
Hosting, as in distributing it as a copyright violation.
""don't delete any files that are reported to be DMCA violations."
Delete as in delete.
So the Megaupload claim rests on an idea that if you don't delete a file, you must then distribute it over the internet. A false dichotomy. It's quite a ludicrous claim, and the comments in this thread show a lot of people want this play on words to have substance, but it doesn't.
No judge will go along with that, the DMCA is a TAKEDOWN notice, not a delete evidence notice. This is a PR thing, not a legal thing, it's not for a judge, it's to make headlines which might (like Slashdot summary) might conflate deleting a file, with hosting and distributing a file.
Oh, another one that hasn't ready anything about the case but feels comfortable commenting on it.
They were specifically asked to not do anything that would spook the owner of the files. Do you think making the file unavailable is the right thing to do, while being told by DOJ not to spook the owner?
Your comment is, obviously, full of "substance".
I mean, it is amazing how many idiots still can't figure out that DOJ has told Mega not to spook the owner, basically. But they still keep suggesting that Mega should have made files unavailable. Work of genius.
It was time to get rid of it when it was created. The first thing Obama should have done when sworn in was dismantle the Department of "Homeland Security" and fold everything back to how it was before the World Trade Center attacks. With the exceptions of Customs, let the airports handle their own security, and get rid of the "Constitution Free Zone."
You could bet that 'terrorist attack' would happen as soon as TSA is dismantled.
I've heard there are problems with some LG-make screens but not everyone is running into the store for an exchange. The nice thing is Apple is exchanging them if you notice a problem. I wouldn't call it a fiasco.
Linux OSes promote themselves on their security but they're against one of the things that is designed to circumvent stuff like infected bootloaders because they'll have to do a little bit of additional certifying of their OS bootloader?
Yes, because network/computer security is all about infected bootloaders.
Some of the research out there is starting to show that consuming pornography over time changes the reward centers in our brains and impacts our ability to have relationships with the opposite sex. Some of it even suggests that over time there is a need for kinkier pornography because the normal stuff no longer has as much of a dopamine release as it once did. This applies to both men and women, and not just with visual pornography (reading erotica can be an issue as well). I'm not trying to make a case for a blanket pornography ban, but those who imply that consuming explicit media "harms no one" are starting to slowly find themselves on the losing side of the science.
You are an idiot if you think porn has anything to do with people looking for 'different things' as they get older.
I have been using Windows 8 for the last few weeks and it seems to work just as well as Windows 7 did on the same machine. I suspect most of the issues the OP is having is just due to change anxiety due to for example the new Metro interface. Metro does take a while to get used to but like the ribbon it grows on you after a while. I think there are better things to rant about than Windows 8 to be honest.
Apologists are very busy lately explaining how Windows 8 works just as well as Windows 7.
They have problems explaining why one should upgrade to Windows 8 then.
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So you're saying Bradley Manning is a fabrication and not a real person?
So you're saying Bradley had been posting secrets on his blog for 3 years?
"I simply have zero interest in the crowd who wants to be different. Leet. 'Linux is supposed to be hard so it's exclusive'
This is coming from a guy whose company basically created 'upstart', which is a pure example of someone wishing to be different and making it hard too, for absolutely no reason.
It's great having to edit init files, in year 2013, in order to be able to prevent service from starting up on boot.
I guess that is what he calls "easy", then.
I've logged 10 hours in the game already without issue.
Obviously, if it worked for you it had to work for everyone else.
Right?
Well, as soon as they can get over this ideological bullshit and act like professionals, then, maybe, the year of linux on the desktop might magically materialize.
Yeah, adding bloated support for shitty Microsoft features that noone cares about is suddenly going to make LInux boom on desktop.
Silly.
It amazes me that when somebody does something as a business that it infuriates people especially when they get something for free. Yes, Ubuntu is taking free software, wrapping it as a supportable bundle and distributing it. So now they've hooked into the information sharing arrangement. It's easy enough to disable as well and the hosts file solution is also there. I wonder if just charging $10 a download / dvd would make more sense then adding another keylogging data collector out there. Frankly Facebook is the worst and the network of data collectors it's partnered with is becoming more and more troublesome.
I donated 40 EUR, while downloading Ubuntu image many mohths ago. Do I get to complain now, since I didn't get it for free? Hell, I'd probably be willing to pay them reasonable yearly 'support' fee in order to help them make some money - it would be worth it.
I won't be donating them anything ever again, nor will I be using it, since I simply don't trust Ubuntu anymore and never will. For all I know, they might re-enable things that I disabled without even asking me, when applying updates. They seem to think that everything is a fair game.
... that seemingly random attention whores with no idea what they are talking about are called "security professionals".
Even scarier is that they somehow get their place in media and people end up listening to them.
You can encypher your data before uploading on *any* site. At that point they are all equally secure. Kim's claim was that Mega was more secure by design.
However, the claim is completely broken. Mega is using a public/private key pair - generated by the web site - and so their servers actually *do* know both your keys, and *can* decrypt your data. So, basically, it is no more secure than dropbox.
Hahaha. Honestly, you could have at least read the developer's docs. I doubt you'd understand it, but you could have at least try reading it.
I'm pretty sure everyone loves to hate the RIAA/MPAA so Kim Dotcom had little trouble rounding up support when they moved to shut down MegaUpload.
Unfortunately, he's now picking a fight with bigger opponent and possible a mass of small website owners who rely on their Adsense revenues to help pay the bills.
Kicking the RIAA/MPAA for their sins is one thing, taking money out of the mouths of independent content creators (by hijacking their ad-revenues to fund his Mega-services) is something altogether different.
I admire KD for what he's doing with the MegaKey service but I really wonder if he's got an oar out of the water in picking a fight with Google and the many websites who rely on that company's ad-revenue sharing.
BTW: I'm one of those sites and I'll be mighty pissed if Kim starts replacing the ads on *my* webpages that should be generating money to pay for *my* efforts -- because I have *nothing* to do with MegaKey so why should *I* be paying for it?
Are you also very angry at AdBlock authors/users?
You wouldn't be using it yourself, would you?
Not being able to reset the password on their side is a feature.
Not requiring password confirmation is a bug, and a pretty amateurish one, to be perfectly honest.
Password is required in order to confirm/create the account, you can not do it without entering password after you've clicked on the confirmation URL provided in an email.
The patchy availability will be resolved soon I hope, but there's a major flaw I ran into, which is that when you sign up it doesn't ask you to confirm your password by typing it twice. This means you can make typos without realising it. Because the password is also an encryption key, you can't reset it. You can't delete the account either, nor can you register two accounts to one email address. I made a typo in my password. Net result: I permanently can't access my account, nor can I register a new one with my preferred email address.
That is incorrect.
You can not 'confirm' the account unless you type your password (when clicking on confirmation link). So in order to create the account, you had to type the 'mistyped' password again.
If account has not been confirmed, you can just register using same email/etc.
I know because I did it myself (had a very similar scenario to yours).
I really have no interest in just uploading or downloading files through my browser. When this was announced I heard that they were going to support mounting / folder syncing, but I'm not seeing anything like that yet. Am I missing something?
Windows "virtual drive" thingie will be coming soon.
I also expect quite few new tools being developed in coming weeks/months, by 'outsiders'.
Annnnnd this is why I stopped giving a shit about Slashdot right here.
Oh, a phone manufacturer does something cool, original, and out-of-character for what has become an "Intellectual property" knife fight to the death and scraping every last cent from the customer that they can? Cool... wait, it runs Windows Phone?
THIS IS A FUCKING TRAVESTY OMG WHINE BITCH COMPLAIN MOAN
I'm going to go back to other sites now, where the commenters are at least just stupid instead of stupid and pointlessly misanthropic.
You are incredibly stupid if you think this is why people whine about Nokia.
You really should go to other sites, with stupid commenters. You seem to fit right in.
"you're hosting files that violate the DMCA! You're under arrest!"
Hosting, as in distributing it as a copyright violation.
""don't delete any files that are reported to be DMCA violations."
Delete as in delete.
So the Megaupload claim rests on an idea that if you don't delete a file, you must then distribute it over the internet. A false dichotomy. It's quite a ludicrous claim, and the comments in this thread show a lot of people want this play on words to have substance, but it doesn't.
No judge will go along with that, the DMCA is a TAKEDOWN notice, not a delete evidence notice. This is a PR thing, not a legal thing, it's not for a judge, it's to make headlines which might (like Slashdot summary) might conflate deleting a file, with hosting and distributing a file.
Oh, another one that hasn't ready anything about the case but feels comfortable commenting on it.
They were specifically asked to not do anything that would spook the owner of the files. Do you think making the file unavailable is the right thing to do, while being told by DOJ not to spook the owner?
Your comment is, obviously, full of "substance".
I mean, it is amazing how many idiots still can't figure out that DOJ has told Mega not to spook the owner, basically. But they still keep suggesting that Mega should have made files unavailable. Work of genius.
Perhaps, but couldn't they have stopped sharing the files or making them available while at the same time not deleting them?
Did you even read ANYTHING related to this case? At all?
They were specifically asked not to do anything that would alert owner of the files.
Do you think disabling links to files would alert him, huh?
It was time to get rid of it when it was created. The first thing Obama should have done when sworn in was dismantle the Department of "Homeland Security" and fold everything back to how it was before the World Trade Center attacks. With the exceptions of Customs, let the airports handle their own security, and get rid of the "Constitution Free Zone."
You could bet that 'terrorist attack' would happen as soon as TSA is dismantled.
Do you realize how much money is in play here?
I've heard there are problems with some LG-make screens but not everyone is running into the store for an exchange. The nice thing is Apple is exchanging them if you notice a problem. I wouldn't call it a fiasco.
I presume you've read this, then?
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4034848?start=0&tstart=0
You can start from page 420 (heh), and go backwards.
Linux OSes promote themselves on their security but they're against one of the things that is designed to circumvent stuff like infected bootloaders because they'll have to do a little bit of additional certifying of their OS bootloader?
Yes, because network/computer security is all about infected bootloaders.
I might be late with this, but if you are considering ASUS motherboards, this can help:
http://www.asus.com/websites/global/aboutasus/OS/Linux.pdf
Who exactly is it that isn't password protecting their ssh keys? I mean if you choose to press enter shame on you.
It appears that you haven't seen any workplace yet.
When Facebook uses the content we create for free it's bad, but when we use other people's content for free RIAA is bad!
Facebook is (supposed to be) profiting from that 'usage'. People downloading movies off the Internet are not.
I understand the difference might be really hard to spot, but at least try.
Some of the research out there is starting to show that consuming pornography over time changes the reward centers in our brains and impacts our ability to have relationships with the opposite sex. Some of it even suggests that over time there is a need for kinkier pornography because the normal stuff no longer has as much of a dopamine release as it once did. This applies to both men and women, and not just with visual pornography (reading erotica can be an issue as well). I'm not trying to make a case for a blanket pornography ban, but those who imply that consuming explicit media "harms no one" are starting to slowly find themselves on the losing side of the science.
You are an idiot if you think porn has anything to do with people looking for 'different things' as they get older.
Since every person I know with a windows 8 machine has no problem figuring anything out on their own, I don't see that as an issue.
Since very person I know with a Windows 8 machine has problem figuring out things on their own, I see that as an issue.
You are silly.
I have been using Windows 8 for the last few weeks and it seems to work just as well as Windows 7 did on the same machine. I suspect most of the issues the OP is having is just due to change anxiety due to for example the new Metro interface. Metro does take a while to get used to but like the ribbon it grows on you after a while. I think there are better things to rant about than Windows 8 to be honest.
Apologists are very busy lately explaining how Windows 8 works just as well as Windows 7.
They have problems explaining why one should upgrade to Windows 8 then.
Care to take a shot?
I know this will get 400 replies about how self-signed certificates don't provide complete security.
Self-signed certs are much more secure than 'commercial' certs.
Anyone telling you anything different is simply lying and/or doesn't know what he's talking about.
Google can do what they want. This move improves security. Sometimes you have to force people to wake up so that they move their feet out of the fire.
Haha.
Ok, how does this improve security, pretty please?