I've heard "the victim deserves it for not protecting themselves" a couple of dozen times, ad ALWAYS from thieves, as an excuse.
Therefore, most likely sildur and iggy are simply common thieves who are too stupid to even come up with a halfway logical sounding excuse to tell themselves.
sildur, your house must be surrounded by razor wire, and you've replaced all those nice breakable windows in your house and car with solid steel, right?
You COULD do those things to protect yourself, so if you don't do them, it's perfectly okay for me to smash your windows and steal your stuff, right? That's what you said, is it not?
If for some reason you can't use:
PermitRootLogin no
Consider allowing root login only with a key, not with a password:
PermitRootLogin without-password
If you do allow root login with a key by using "without-password", use a passphrase on the key if possible. That gives two factor security. something you have (the key) plus something you know (the passphrase).
For automated SSH login such as remote cron, consider "command=" to an ssh key, so it can run as root, but it can only execute that one command.
What equipment? A computer? From Newegg. The general population of NK is way behind, largely BECAUSE the government spends all the money on military and political posturing. Their military, apparently including cyber-warfare, is quite well funded.
there's no need to change anything, and you can just keep spendign like the year before. No need for furloughs, no need to ground planes, etc.
Yes, when you get MORE money, there's no NEED to furlough anyone. Furloughs can, however, be great political theatre for politicians who want to get even more of your money next year.
Did nobody in this thread read about this when it was posted on Slashdot a week or two ago? Everybody is wondering about whether or not they got a warrant, etc. and that was all thoroughly covered last time. The FBI claimed this was covered under an order telling Verizon to provide technical assistance locating the card. The judge who signed that order is pissed, saying it did NOT authorize the FBI to do ANYTHING, and especially it did not authorize them to use a Stingray. The judge's colleagues agree, and are pissed that the FBI was pulling this crap.
So no need for Slashdotters to wonder whether or not the order allowed the Stingray - the very judge who issued the order says it certainly does not. The FBI has since sent a memo to their agents saying the same thing, that a Stingray requires an order that specifically mentions a Stingray, not a "technical assistance" order.
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True. In the case of web severs serving static files, the CPU sits around waiting for the hard drive to send a file to the network card. Partly because CPU speeds have increased by 40X while hard drive speeds have only doubled, for many workloads the CPU isn't the limiting factor and an Atom would work just fine.
Indeed, the year of the Linux desktop was 2011/2012. Some of us just didn't notice because the GUI was neither Gnome nor KDE, but Android. By 1014 people will be buying more Android devices than Windows devices.
"Is an Android device a computer?", you might ask. An Vista machine with a dual core 1.3 GHz processor and a GB of RAM is always counted as a computer, so I see no reason why a machine with the same specs running Linux, Android or any other distribution, isn't also a computer. So the way I see it, there's soon to be more Linux computers than Windows computers. They're just a lot more portable than we expected.
The people running the central banks don't know a bitcoin from a cupcake and don't care. There are over 100,000 times as many dollars as there are Bitchcoins.
In ten years, PAYPAL might be worried about bitcoin. PayPal is 30 times as large as bitcoin (by transaction volume), so if bitcoin got 20 times as popular it would be real competion for PayPal.
For the US dollar? The Federal Reserve is about as concerned about bitcoins as Coca Cola is concerned about some kid's lemondade stand.
The Fed IS concerned about people switching to the Euro because currently about half of all international trade is in USD, but much is moving to the Euro.
That reduces the amount of USD governments and institutions keep in reserve, which are effectively free loans to the fed. (They get to sell dollars which
get locked away, without inflating the market.) So the euro matters, bitcoins are such a tiny, tiny market that big bankers hardly notice they exist.
Where did you get that idea? Facebook may not be as vocal as Google about denying requests they aren't required to comply with, but they don't just hand over the info to anyone who asks.
PIs don't have any special legal authority to access any information. The only thing a PI license allows you to do is to charge the client for investigative services. In that way, ot's just like a cosmetology license or a food handler's permit. Source - I used to be a PI.
soak it all up, save for the next thing to learn, make contacts
Indeed. If you get a good gig while mobile is growing so fast, remember hard times WILL come. There are thousands of other young (and old) developers learning the next thing, competing for your next job. Some major events will strike the industry. You may get injured, who knows, but shit hapeens, it's certain that some kind of shit will happen. When good times come use them to prepare for leaner times.
That company doing app development had other employees to pay besides developers. Also overhead, workers comp, unemployment taxes, business personal property taxes, Obamacare, etc. etc. All of which means they have to bring in at least four times as much revenue per developer compared to someone doing it from home. The company structure, with business taxes and regulations, makes it a lot HARDER, not easier.
When we have FTL communication in which packets arrive before they are sent, I will have written the needed protocols in 2010. I'll start them in 2016, complete them in 2010, and finish compatibilty testing in 2009. That'll let Microsoft implement them in 2057.
Buying crap you can't afford with credit cards is not the same thing as home ownership. In fact, they have the opposite effect on wealth. If you spend $2,000 on a TV with your Visa card, ten years later you have some trash to haul to the dump. Your wealth decreased by the $2,000 you spent on the TV. If you buy a $20,000 with a loan that costs $25,000, ten years later you'll have a $2,000 junker, costing you $23,000 in wealth. That's what spending on credit does.
If you invest $20,000 in a house, ten years later the $100,000 house is worth $115,000, so you've put in $20,000 and have $35,000 in equity. Your wealth has INCREASED by $15,000. That's if you buy a house you can afford, which will cost about the same as the rent you'd otherwise pay. In fact, if you would have spent $20,000 on rent, that would have decreased your wealth by $20,000, so buying is $35,000 better.
Or I suppose you think those running the megacorps didn't take out debt to finance their startup
That is correct. Megacorps primarily sell equity, not debt. The very smallest businesses sometimes take on debt, and MOST fail and are unable to pay back the debt.
or that those very corporations don't issue billions in bonds total to raise capital for expansion
They sometimes use bonds to invest in new buildings, aircraft, or other major capital. As with investing in a home, that's a zero or positive wealth exchange, not spending. They hand someone $1M and in exchange get a $1M building. Before and after, they have something worth $1M, which will continue to be worth $1M or more. (In fact, they only make the deal if they can invest $1M into a building that is expected be worth more than $1M)..
or to cover operating costs during temporary shortfalls?
Not often, those are junk bonds. A company that is borrowing to cover operating costs is a company headed into the ground, meaning they have to pay high rates due to the risk. That interest puts them into a worse position, so if they need another round the rate will be even higher. More often, if they need cash for operating expenses, they sell off business units or assets because when revenue is unable to meet expenses that's unsustainable.
(I assume we don't need to get into 24 hour liquidity transactions and such).
Ask all the people who have been foreclosed in the last six years if they wish they had paid off their mortgage.
The possible exception would be if you DID invest it in something SAFE that paid 8%, so that money was there
for you when you need it. Most people who say "could invest that money and earn 8%" COULD, but don't.
Instead, they buy a slightly nicer TV and eat out more often with the money. COULD invest means nothing when
you actually buy overpriced restaurant steaks with the money.
Even if you did invest it, you probably know that risk is interchangeable with return. An investment that is expected to return 8% is going to be riskier than one that's expected to return 5%, for example. Paying off the mortgage is risk free. You KNOW you'll get that 5% return by not paying the interest, vs. you HOPE to make 8%.
The question was about a recruiter seeing things you posted on Facebook. If you post your diary on the web for all to read, don't be suprised if someone reads it.
By the measure used in your Walton statistic, someone with $1 and no credit card debt or car loan is wealthier than 25% of country. There's a lesson there. A large portion of the country has negative wealth, meaning they owe more than they have. Virtually all get there the same way. To have negative net worth - buy stuff you can't pay for. The wealthy, by your definition, are simply those who spend lesss than they make, people who save. You can whine, or you can learn something from that fact.
Facebook is for some a mental dump, where they can vent their frustrations or indulge in guilty pleasures.
That would be REALLY dumb. Facebook is for posting things you want to share with everyone you know, and everyone they know. If you send out your "brain dumps" and "guilty pleasures" to everyone in town, well that's just stupid.
Put it this way, the rest of the population is even dumber than/., for that reason alone nothing should be regulated, because who do you think comes up with regulations and votes for people that set regulations?
Newton's DESCRIPTION of the laws of physics were approximate. The laws themselves are unchanging, inviolate. He just didn't describe them with the level of precision that Einstein later described them. Physics didn't change, our knowledge of it did.
Similarly, "honesty is the best policy" is an approximation. Like Newton's approximations, it's close enough to.work well for 99% of what we encounter in daily life. (Combined with the first and highext law, love.) A more precise description of exactly what the rule is would require a couple paragraphs or more.
General Relativity and Quantum Theory: At least one is is wrong.
Which makes the precise point you're replying to. One is wrong, the other right. You can't say the same about two theories of interior design. Slow tempo or fast tempo? Neither is right or wrong.
Science is about discovering what's right and what's wrong, then making use of that knowledge. Morals
is about discovering what's righ and what's wrong, then making use of that knowledge.
Scientific minded people are accustomed to working with clear rules, and declaring that "2+2=5" is WRONG. Artsy types, in contrast, say "personally I prefer not to use orange with blue, but of course it's all a matter of opinion."
In science, the laws of physics are inviolate. Try to break them, you are WRONG, and that's not an opinion. Morality is the same. At work, I regularly encounter non-science types who can't understand that the laws of computer science can't be changed based on their preference, that O(N) isn't my preference or opinion.
It's therefore no suprise to me that science types are also comfortable stating that cheating on your spouse is WRONG, whereas artsy types would more often treat that as opinion. Morality, in one sense, is nothing more or less than observing which rules or principles are timelessly applicable, just as science does. A "strict" moral compass is one that believes (understands) that these principles are true even when you don't want them to be, just as a scientist recognizes that mass X velocity = momentum, even when that fact is inconvenient.
My phone isn't locked at akk, nectar of convenience. A FAST fingerprint reader is better them a password just because it would be more convenient, so I might use it. Which also refutes "fingerprint readers can be hacked". Yeah, so can PINs, much more easily, and I can pick any common lock within a minute, but they are still useful.
I wonder what would happen if the US used a stealth bomber to drop a 500 lb. bag of candy on Kim's house, just to make the point that we can drop anything on him at any time. Just a reminder that he lives precisely as long as Obama chooses to allow.
Maybe follow it up with dropping a few thousand teddy bears on major population centers.
The 500 Mhz Pentium and the Core i7 will have roughly the same performance in this use case because IO is the bottleneck. The speed is the speed of the disk and filesystem.
To be more specific, a Pentium has a throughput of around 2 GB/s. Compare to 10 MB/s for a 7200 RPM drive doing random access on small files, 100 MB/s on large ones.
So it's entirely reasonably to use a small low power Linux system like a Western Digital World Edition network drive or the ARM based stuff you mentioned for IO bound applications such as a file server or IMAP. You won't lose any appreciable performance.
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I've heard "the victim deserves it for not protecting themselves" a couple of dozen times, ad ALWAYS from thieves, as an excuse. Therefore, most likely sildur and iggy are simply common thieves who are too stupid to even come up with a halfway logical sounding excuse to tell themselves.
sildur, your house must be surrounded by razor wire, and you've replaced all those nice breakable windows in your house and car with solid steel, right?
You COULD do those things to protect yourself, so if you don't do them, it's perfectly okay for me to smash your windows and steal your stuff, right? That's what you said, is it not?
If for some reason you can't use: PermitRootLogin no Consider allowing root login only with a key, not with a password: PermitRootLogin without-password If you do allow root login with a key by using "without-password", use a passphrase on the key if possible. That gives two factor security. something you have (the key) plus something you know (the passphrase). For automated SSH login such as remote cron, consider "command=" to an ssh key, so it can run as root, but it can only execute that one command.
What equipment? A computer? From Newegg. The general population of NK is way behind, largely BECAUSE the government spends all the money on military and political posturing. Their military, apparently including cyber-warfare, is quite well funded.
there's no need to change anything, and you can just keep spendign like the year before. No need for furloughs, no need to ground planes, etc.
Yes, when you get MORE money, there's no NEED to furlough anyone. Furloughs can, however, be great political theatre for politicians who want to get even more of your money next year.
Did nobody in this thread read about this when it was posted on Slashdot a week or two ago? Everybody is wondering about whether or not they got a warrant, etc. and that was all thoroughly covered last time. The FBI claimed this was covered under an order telling Verizon to provide technical assistance locating the card. The judge who signed that order is pissed, saying it did NOT authorize the FBI to do ANYTHING, and especially it did not authorize them to use a Stingray. The judge's colleagues agree, and are pissed that the FBI was pulling this crap.
So no need for Slashdotters to wonder whether or not the order allowed the Stingray - the very judge who issued the order says it certainly does not. The FBI has since sent a memo to their agents saying the same thing, that a Stingray requires an order that specifically mentions a Stingray, not a "technical assistance" order.
True. In the case of web severs serving static files, the CPU sits around waiting for the hard drive to send a file to the network card. Partly because CPU speeds have increased by 40X while hard drive speeds have only doubled, for many workloads the CPU isn't the limiting factor and an Atom would work just fine.
It's called the iPad
If you choose to throw away your money and your freedom. You could also pay 1/5th as much for a similar Android device for the same use case.
Indeed, the year of the Linux desktop was 2011/2012. Some of us just didn't notice because the GUI was neither Gnome nor KDE, but Android. By 1014 people will be buying more Android devices than Windows devices.
"Is an Android device a computer?", you might ask. An Vista machine with a dual core 1.3 GHz processor and a GB of RAM is always counted as a computer, so I see no reason why a machine with the same specs running Linux, Android or any other distribution, isn't also a computer. So the way I see it, there's soon to be more Linux computers than Windows computers. They're just a lot more portable than we expected.
The people running the central banks don't know a bitcoin from a cupcake and don't care. There are over 100,000 times as many dollars as there are Bitchcoins. In ten years, PAYPAL might be worried about bitcoin. PayPal is 30 times as large as bitcoin (by transaction volume), so if bitcoin got 20 times as popular it would be real competion for PayPal.
For the US dollar? The Federal Reserve is about as concerned about bitcoins as Coca Cola is concerned about some kid's lemondade stand. The Fed IS concerned about people switching to the Euro because currently about half of all international trade is in USD, but much is moving to the Euro. That reduces the amount of USD governments and institutions keep in reserve, which are effectively free loans to the fed. (They get to sell dollars which get locked away, without inflating the market.) So the euro matters, bitcoins are such a tiny, tiny market that big bankers hardly notice they exist.
Where did you get that idea? Facebook may not be as vocal as Google about denying requests they aren't required to comply with, but they don't just hand over the info to anyone who asks.
PIs don't have any special legal authority to access any information. The only thing a PI license allows you to do is to charge the client for investigative services. In that way, ot's just like a cosmetology license or a food handler's permit. Source - I used to be a PI.
soak it all up, save for the next thing to learn, make contacts
Indeed. If you get a good gig while mobile is growing so fast, remember hard times WILL come. There are thousands of other young (and old) developers learning the next thing, competing for your next job. Some major events will strike the industry. You may get injured, who knows, but shit hapeens, it's certain that some kind of shit will happen. When good times come use them to prepare for leaner times.
That company doing app development had other employees to pay besides developers. Also overhead, workers comp, unemployment taxes, business personal property taxes, Obamacare, etc. etc. All of which means they have to bring in at least four times as much revenue per developer compared to someone doing it from home. The company structure, with business taxes and regulations, makes it a lot HARDER, not easier.
When we have FTL communication in which packets arrive before they are sent, I will have written the needed protocols in 2010. I'll start them in 2016, complete them in 2010, and finish compatibilty testing in 2009. That'll let Microsoft implement them in 2057.
Or I suppose you think those running the megacorps didn't take out debt to finance their startup
That is correct. Megacorps primarily sell equity, not debt. The very smallest businesses sometimes take on debt, and MOST fail and are unable to pay back the debt.
or that those very corporations don't issue billions in bonds total to raise capital for expansion
They sometimes use bonds to invest in new buildings, aircraft, or other major capital. As with investing in a home, that's a zero or positive wealth exchange, not spending. They hand someone $1M and in exchange get a $1M building. Before and after, they have something worth $1M, which will continue to be worth $1M or more. (In fact, they only make the deal if they can invest $1M into a building that is expected be worth more than $1M)..
or to cover operating costs during temporary shortfalls?
Not often, those are junk bonds. A company that is borrowing to cover operating costs is a company headed into the ground, meaning they have to pay high rates due to the risk. That interest puts them into a worse position, so if they need another round the rate will be even higher. More often, if they need cash for operating expenses, they sell off business units or assets because when revenue is unable to meet expenses that's unsustainable.
(I assume we don't need to get into 24 hour liquidity transactions and such).
Ask all the people who have been foreclosed in the last six years if they wish they had paid off their mortgage. The possible exception would be if you DID invest it in something SAFE that paid 8%, so that money was there for you when you need it. Most people who say "could invest that money and earn 8%" COULD, but don't. Instead, they buy a slightly nicer TV and eat out more often with the money. COULD invest means nothing when you actually buy overpriced restaurant steaks with the money.
Even if you did invest it, you probably know that risk is interchangeable with return. An investment that is expected to return 8% is going to be riskier than one that's expected to return 5%, for example. Paying off the mortgage is risk free. You KNOW you'll get that 5% return by not paying the interest, vs. you HOPE to make 8%.
The question was about a recruiter seeing things you posted on Facebook. If you post your diary on the web for all to read, don't be suprised if someone reads it.
By the measure used in your Walton statistic, someone with $1 and no credit card debt or car loan is wealthier than 25% of country. There's a lesson there. A large portion of the country has negative wealth, meaning they owe more than they have. Virtually all get there the same way. To have negative net worth - buy stuff you can't pay for. The wealthy, by your definition, are simply those who spend lesss than they make, people who save. You can whine, or you can learn something from that fact.
Facebook is for some a mental dump, where they can vent their frustrations or indulge in guilty pleasures.
That would be REALLY dumb. Facebook is for posting things you want to share with everyone you know, and everyone they know. If you send out your "brain dumps" and "guilty pleasures" to everyone in town, well that's just stupid.
Put it this way, the rest of the population is even dumber than /., for that reason alone nothing should be regulated, because who do you think comes up with regulations and votes for people that set regulations?
Lol so true.
Newton's DESCRIPTION of the laws of physics were approximate. The laws themselves are unchanging, inviolate. He just didn't describe them with the level of precision that Einstein later described them. Physics didn't change, our knowledge of it did.
Similarly, "honesty is the best policy" is an approximation. Like Newton's approximations, it's close enough to.work well for 99% of what we encounter in daily life. (Combined with the first and highext law, love.) A more precise description of exactly what the rule is would require a couple paragraphs or more.
General Relativity and Quantum Theory: At least one is is wrong.
Which makes the precise point you're replying to. One is wrong, the other right. You can't say the same about two theories of interior design. Slow tempo or fast tempo? Neither is right or wrong.
Science is about discovering what's right and what's wrong, then making use of that knowledge. Morals is about discovering what's righ and what's wrong, then making use of that knowledge.
Scientific minded people are accustomed to working with clear rules, and declaring that "2+2=5" is WRONG. Artsy types, in contrast, say "personally I prefer not to use orange with blue, but of course it's all a matter of opinion."
In science, the laws of physics are inviolate. Try to break them, you are WRONG, and that's not an opinion. Morality is the same. At work, I regularly encounter non-science types who can't understand that the laws of computer science can't be changed based on their preference, that O(N) isn't my preference or opinion.
It's therefore no suprise to me that science types are also comfortable stating that cheating on your spouse is WRONG, whereas artsy types would more often treat that as opinion. Morality, in one sense, is nothing more or less than observing which rules or principles are timelessly applicable, just as science does. A "strict" moral compass is one that believes (understands) that these principles are true even when you don't want them to be, just as a scientist recognizes that mass X velocity = momentum, even when that fact is inconvenient.
My phone isn't locked at akk, nectar of convenience. A FAST fingerprint reader is better them a password just because it would be more convenient, so I might use it. Which also refutes "fingerprint readers can be hacked". Yeah, so can PINs, much more easily, and I can pick any common lock within a minute, but they are still useful.
I wonder what would happen if the US used a stealth bomber to drop a 500 lb. bag of candy on Kim's house, just to make the point that we can drop anything on him at any time. Just a reminder that he lives precisely as long as Obama chooses to allow. Maybe follow it up with dropping a few thousand teddy bears on major population centers.
The 500 Mhz Pentium and the Core i7 will have roughly the same performance in this use case because IO is the bottleneck. The speed is the speed of the disk and filesystem.
To be more specific, a Pentium has a throughput of around 2 GB/s. Compare to 10 MB/s for a 7200 RPM drive doing random access on small files, 100 MB/s on large ones.
So it's entirely reasonably to use a small low power Linux system like a Western Digital World Edition network drive or the ARM based stuff you mentioned for IO bound applications such as a file server or IMAP. You won't lose any appreciable performance.