stephenj@lords:~$ banshee The program 'banshee' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install banshee bash: banshee: command not found stephenj@lords:~$
That's pretty neat. Something DOES know which package contains what I want.
How weird. You have an organisation that supports some rights you hold dear, but you won't support it because it doesn't support __all__ the rights you hold dear.
That seems like a recipe for having none of the rights you hold dear supported.
the virtual world's regular visitors -- at most 40,000 of them online at any time -- are not only disinterested in in-world marketing, but actively hostile to it, staging attacks on corporate presences such as the Reebok and American Apparel stores.
Quelle surprise. Marketers in the real world always and everywhere have to pay for the ability to get their message out because at bottom people are reluctant to host it and reluctant to see it. People do not like advertising.
This is exactly what you would expect if there are no consequences to acting on that dislike, unless you are a marketer whose self-esteem depends on fooling yourself that people like what you do for a living.
Bill Hicks:
By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself.
No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself.
Seriously though, if you are, do.
Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers. Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself.
Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke..." there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking makinations. Machi... Whatever, you know what I mean.
I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart."
Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags!
"every nation is thinking how it can model [intellectual property governance] after the U.S"
Other nations are thinking about it because of heavy pressure from the US to comply with the US model. That pressure comes in turn from lobbying of US govt by US businesses. In no way are other countries spontaneously saying "Hey, what a neat model!" Absent US pressure for trade agreements etc we would keep the status quo, or even free up current regimes.
I don't care what distribution they settle on, as long as they don't rely on proprietary drivers. From my POV if it is running some kind of mainstream Linux distro, the odds that my preferred distro will work are very much higher.
"good news for the victims, but not really an incentive to take more care in future"
Consumers are told by people who market computers that they are easy and safe to use. Consumers are told by internet service providers that online services are easy and safe to use. Consumers are told by banks that online banking is secure and convenient.
Aside from the criminals, who appear to have escaped without any consequences to them, the burden is falling where it should be, namely on agents who allow marketing over reality. While the/. crowd may know better, the average punter does not, and shouldn't have to.
I absolutely agree. And make the charity markup ones A DIFFERENT COLOUR. Then a) you can tell I didn't steal it off a kid, or buy it on the black market and b) I get the credit when people see my "Donor Model" OLPC.
I have the opposite problem: my productivity declines as my tasks get simpler.
Wow. That is exactly my problem. Complex tasks are engaging enough that they consititute a world of distraction in themselves.
Perhaps this is why I have a lot of unfinished projects. Once it's obvious what needs to be done, and the real mysteries are cracked, you leave the rest as an exercise for the student.
Meh. As a shareholder, cash is nothing if you don't do something with it that's better than what I can get in bonds. If all you can do with it is sit on it, you should give it back to me so I can sit on it myself.
If that cash can't be invested productively it will not prevent Microsoft's decline. Eventually some raider will make a pitch for MS, use their own cash to fund it, and break it up.
My (New Zealand) bank has adopted a strategy where they do not allow more than $2000 to be transferred through IB in one day, unless you have signed up with a programme to text a code to the bank to authorise it.
When I worked on internet banking at another bank, they limited their exposure by imposing daily transaction limits. It's the way to go. You can't guarantee perfection at the browser end, so enforce limits in the (in this case mainframe) back end for transactions through the internet banking channel.
Your keystrokes are not encrypted as they are captured. The dialog box API does not encrypt the string it returns to the app. The app must pass plaintext to the encrypted socket (or whatever it writes to). There are several points of interception available BEFORE encryption takes place.
SSL only protects things in transit. It does not protect them before they are sent or after they arrive. (And there's a bunch of attacks on SSL itself, but let's leave it there).
And there's a simple countermeasure for spammers, which is to extend their trojans' functionality to subvert the mail client and log keystrokes. In fact, you could probably queue spam in some people's OUT boxes and they wouldn't notice. SSL only secures the bit in the middle, that doesn't help with the endpoint (the trojanned PC).
Perhaps the Chinese government likes it this way for other reasons. If the whole world firewalls off China, that will be more effective at blocking subversive communication than any amount of official censorship. Why pay Cisco et al (boo!) to do it when you can induce others to do it for free and make a buck on the way?
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On Ubuntu Heron:
stephenj@lords:~$ banshee
The program 'banshee' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install banshee
bash: banshee: command not found
stephenj@lords:~$
That's pretty neat. Something DOES know which package contains what I want.
How weird. You have an organisation that supports some rights you hold dear, but you won't support it because it doesn't support __all__ the rights you hold dear.
That seems like a recipe for having none of the rights you hold dear supported.
Cutting off your nose to spite your face.
No, it's worse than that.
It's telegraphing that like the rubber hose, this can be used without leaving marks.
You will say "the police tortured me with the pain thingie". They'll deny it, and there won't be any evidence to support you.
Those are pretty weak weak objections. You need shame.
No, I won't spam because it is antisocial, and you would have to be a jerk to do that.
Quelle surprise. Marketers in the real world always and everywhere have to pay for the ability to get their message out because at bottom people are reluctant to host it and reluctant to see it. People do not like advertising.
This is exactly what you would expect if there are no consequences to acting on that dislike, unless you are a marketer whose self-esteem depends on fooling yourself that people like what you do for a living.
Bill Hicks:
By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself.
No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself.
Seriously though, if you are, do.
Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers. Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself.
Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke..." there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking makinations. Machi... Whatever, you know what I mean.
I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart."
Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags!
Is this the same Google that's no longer displaying NOLA photos showing damage from Katrina?
"every nation is thinking how it can model [intellectual property governance] after the U.S"
Other nations are thinking about it because of heavy pressure from the US to comply with the US model. That pressure comes in turn from lobbying of US govt by US businesses. In no way are other countries spontaneously saying "Hey, what a neat model!" Absent US pressure for trade agreements etc we would keep the status quo, or even free up current regimes.
I don't care what distribution they settle on, as long as they don't rely on proprietary drivers. From my POV if it is running some kind of mainstream Linux distro, the odds that my preferred distro will work are very much higher.
"good news for the victims, but not really an incentive to take more care in future"
/. crowd may know better, the average punter does not, and shouldn't have to.
Consumers are told by people who market computers that they are easy and safe to use. Consumers are told by internet service providers that online services are easy and safe to use. Consumers are told by banks that online banking is secure and convenient.
Aside from the criminals, who appear to have escaped without any consequences to them, the burden is falling where it should be, namely on agents who allow marketing over reality. While the
I absolutely agree. And make the charity markup ones A DIFFERENT COLOUR. Then a) you can tell I didn't steal it off a kid, or buy it on the black market and b) I get the credit when people see my "Donor Model" OLPC.
My bank's system allows you to listen to a computer generated .wav instead.
"Some of the people want to query about democracy, but most of them just want to know about their pop stars."
How naive (or disingenuous). Maybe more people would want to know about subversive subjects if they weren't afraid of being ratted out.
Its != it's
Thank you.
I have the opposite problem: my productivity declines as my tasks get simpler.
Wow. That is exactly my problem. Complex tasks are engaging enough that they consititute a world of distraction in themselves.
Perhaps this is why I have a lot of unfinished projects. Once it's obvious what needs to be done, and the real mysteries are cracked, you leave the rest as an exercise for the student.
If only I had a student.
Word on the street (ie the NZNOG mailing list) is that Cringley is full of shit on this one.
I note there is no source for these reports.
Meh. As a shareholder, cash is nothing if you don't do something with it that's better than what I can get in bonds. If all you can do with it is sit on it, you should give it back to me so I can sit on it myself.
If that cash can't be invested productively it will not prevent Microsoft's decline. Eventually some raider will make a pitch for MS, use their own cash to fund it, and break it up.
My (New Zealand) bank has adopted a strategy where they do not allow more than $2000 to be transferred through IB in one day, unless you have signed up with a programme to text a code to the bank to authorise it.
When I worked on internet banking at another bank, they limited their exposure by imposing daily transaction limits. It's the way to go. You can't guarantee perfection at the browser end, so enforce limits in the (in this case mainframe) back end for transactions through the internet banking channel.
Yup, that makes sense. Flying through the air, even.
Dude, insecure end point.
Your keystrokes are not encrypted as they are captured. The dialog box API does not encrypt the string it returns to the app. The app must pass plaintext to the encrypted socket (or whatever it writes to). There are several points of interception available BEFORE encryption takes place.
SSL only protects things in transit. It does not protect them before they are sent or after they arrive. (And there's a bunch of attacks on SSL itself, but let's leave it there).
And there's a simple countermeasure for spammers, which is to extend their trojans' functionality to subvert the mail client and log keystrokes. In fact, you could probably queue spam in some people's OUT boxes and they wouldn't notice. SSL only secures the bit in the middle, that doesn't help with the endpoint (the trojanned PC).
Perhaps the Chinese government likes it this way for other reasons. If the whole world firewalls off China, that will be more effective at blocking subversive communication than any amount of official censorship. Why pay Cisco et al (boo!) to do it when you can induce others to do it for free and make a buck on the way?
... that Daddy tells computers what to do.
Come on man, sometimes it's hard to explain this stuff to grownups, let alone children.
We're keeping an eye on it mate.
If 1% of readers give you $5, that should make it worthwhile.
I can personally attest that Simon Travaglia on separate occasions changed my password to:
- "fuckwit"
- "ican'tremembermypassword"
Great days, great days.