If you use jelly as the basement of your house is your fault that the house is unstable. Putting and approving to put critical infrastructure directly accesible on the open internet, that can have present or future vulnerabilities is bordering criminal behaviour. That people should be the first on the line to be jailed, and now, not when something bad happens.
And remember, the ones that started with big scale "war" has been the US. Don't start a war of breaking glasses if your entire house is made of (specially fragile) glasses.
All those having internet facing java services had remote vulnerabilities known by oracle and the NSA for months (at least if Oracle does the same as Microsoft, something very probable if not worse), and if your internal network had some value for the NSA or people working for it, it is already backdoored.
Like sending AWS/rackspace management passwords in plain text by email. If you choose to drive drunk because you know better and kill someone is not an accident anymore.
It is being used as plain money, becoming just a speculative bubble, but its potential is far more than that. The technology is good enough for other uses, like Twister, there is where its value resides.
Having the possibility to gather raw construction materials without having to fight against a gravity field probably enables space factories, both for ships/more asteroid explorations, future space colonies and ship refuelings, and manufacturing of materials or things that can't be easily done down here with gravity, That need won't get obsolete soon (unless the thing that becomes obsolete is us or our capability to get to space).
Of course, you can be shortsighted in your mining operations, and just use it as out of world normal mines without considering what else that it enables.
The kind of investment needed to mine a single asteroid put a limit of what is viable and what is not, at least in the most straightforward way (launch a rocket to that asteroid, mine it, send the materials to earth, game over). But can that limit be lowered changing the goal? What instead of searching for a platinum rich asteroid the goal is iron or needed materials (fuel?) ones to build/resuply ships already in the asteroid belt, would that initial investment raise the bar in what is profitable and what not? One of the biggest costs should be the initial launch of the ships from Earth, where every pound matters.
... by the developers. That a bug or vulnerability is found and announced in certain moment, be in closed or open source programs, don't ensure that the bad guys (working for the NSA or other places) haven't found and been exploiting it for some time already. That the bug can be found in automated ways (in this case was static source analysis, but could be checking for undocumented open ports or sql injection) makes almost certain that it could had been exploited before.
2.6.0 came out in 2004, 3.0 (the next after 2.0.39) in 2011. You are not being very precise saying 2.6 related to redhat kernel. But, about to your point, Redhat/centos 5.x came with kernel 2.6.18 (released in 2007, still had the same kernel version in RedHat 5.10 that came out last october), and Redhat 6.x, that came out in 2010, had kernel 2.6.32 (released in 2009). As enterprise distribution, what matters is stability, and certification for 3rd party software, not having the latest versions, all is tested with an specific kernel version, and that kernel (and in general, packages) are kept in the same version, backporting/patching fixes when necessary, and you won't have to worry about a newer version of a sofware changing a configuration file format or keywords and stopping working after updating. Anyway, you can still install extra repositories (like EPEL) that will give you newer versions of some packages.
If you want to use something bleeding edge, you can try Fedora, Ubuntu, or another of the desktop distributions
More people using CentOS means more potential RedHat clients, specially if you grow enough to need serious support. If well understand that they can't be responsible for what the CentOS devels does with their distro, still would increase even more their client base to give support to CentOS servers too.
Are facebook users aware that anything that they say (or like) can and will be used against them, even if they said/liked it before any warning was given?
What you secure and audit is the protocol, or the source code of the twister (they could even do deterministic builds like the bitcoin people if that becomes a priority), not the physical/virtual PC where it is running. You can do the same with bitcoins, even infected/compromised PCs don't change the network (and your wallet) reliability.
Better compare it with Diaspora or Movim, that are more in the same league, descentralized social networks. at least for the upper layer. If you want to go to the transport protocol, is afaik the bitcoin network protocol, so no darknets or i.e. Tor implied there. And as based on bitcoin, should imply no anonimity neither (what is a good thing in a social network)
Secure, auditable, and distributed or downright personal servers should be the way of the future after we seen the abuses (from governments and companies) that enables to have everything centralized in few places. Of course, is pretty hard to get that for big numbers of people, as they are as group easily manipulable, but at least for the people that want security and privacy, must exist some options.
As individual, being attacked by other humans. As specie, being obliterated by an asteroid. Dinosaurs killed other dinosaurs all the time, but what killed all of their kind was an asteroid. And we have over them the advantage that we could still do something about it, if we prepare for that with enough time. Don't bet everything on the present, try to have a future.
The problem is that will be no "them", traveling between star systems is pretty expensive if ever possible (and the odds of having someone close enough capable of making it possible are very very low). And there is no "them" when the threat is an asteroid, a disease, or a supervolcano. We have our own "us vs them", through all the history we basically have not recognized as humans beings (or that deserved human rights, ask the NSA) people with different language, skin color, religions, countries and so on. Even if something involves the fate of mankind or the planet, is always their fault, not ours. No single water drop feels responsible for the flood.
We should forget about the emergence of aggresive outsiders, if the rules of the universe are as they seem so far contact between civilizations of different stellar systems is very improbable. We don't need an outside danger when we have so much inside dangers that could wipe us out, the problem is reacting when that insider danger is in a position of power, either military or culturally. But as an incoming apocalypse will be an excellent opportunity to make profit (how much people could pay to live a bit more, even if its not sustainable in the middle/long term?), it won't be prevented, in fact probably will be promoted.
We have created very persistent memes into our culture, probably the most pervasive of them is the concept of money, as something accumulable, and with attached power. While something with those attributes can't be removed from our culture the base problem will keep being there, things seems to derive to have money as the ultimate goal instead of the common good.
There have been hominids for 5m years, proper humans for only 200k years, civilization for just 20k years, and in 100 years we invented a lot of things (from nukes to biological agents) that could end mankind any day, while going rampant sabotaging the earth ecosystem... and things keeps accelerating. What make you think that will be humans around in not in 1 billon nor 1 millon, but only 10k years in the future being very generous?
Yes, laying eggs somewhere else could improve the chances, self-sustaining space colonies is the way to try it more than generation ships, if any of them is ever possible. But that don't have a chance to happen with current culture where profit in the present is more important than having a future.
To put an example, an asteroid impacted earth 2 days ago that wasn't detected till that moment, how much you think is "invested" on mapping any potential space threats compared with, i.e. spying on ourselves, bailing out banks or even denying climate change? When the federal government had budget problems one of the first victims was the NASA program to detect space debris (a good example of a surveillance system that worth it), while the pentagon wasted 5.5billons the night before the shutdown (if we are talking about our survival, that was a waste), And always will be an "emergency" that will divert efforts and attention to something else, even if we have to create it.
Unless we figure out a practical, safe way to travel (far) into the future (yes, we could done it doing a relativistic speed trip, or some suspended animation process could be developed, but nothing practical and for masses yet) we should not worry about what will happen in a millon years, is just too out of the reach of mankind.
In fact, they are making other nations, groups of people and individuals easier to listen US citizens and companies communications. By weakening the Dual_EC_DRBG pseudo random number generator they made it interceptable not just by them, and here is a proof of concept. The most objective thing is controlling US population, the other nations are less prioritary.
We are not enough to type really at random all shakespeare works, but we are enough to put things that end being true in the middle of all spam, jokes, typos, tales, car analogies, several musings, and, in particular, random "predictions" that we put in internet every minute. If you find deep enough, buried in the mountain of garbage, will be some gold, but that is because the amount of garbage, not because someone intentionally created gold. If enough people write numbers at random around 16000 some could hit tomorrow's dow jones value, but that won't mean that it was predicted or written with actual knowledge of the future.
Time travel to the past is a mined field for paradoxes, even for information. Even knowing for real a future that we could change could make weird things like blue butterflies. And, btw, we are all time travelers, but we travel only to the future, never back.
At the cost of killing half of europe's population in a very painful way? It qualifies as a phyrric victory, or even as a phyrric defeat (or at least, phyrric no victory, phyrric defeat have another use)
Hitler, the Black Death, Attila the Hun, Toba, the Chicxulub asteroid, whatever caused the Great Dying and so on. That we survived despite (at a very high cost) them don't mean that we must be grateful for what they did, even if that meant that had a role on the changes that ended with us right how we are now.
You mean the year of the record breaking massive storms in asia? You know, "global" means all the world, even if people like you in US think that there is nothing outside, and that can't tell the difference between weather and climate. How well you get paid to spread this?
Probably some of this money could had made a difference in how well we could do model climates, or even figure out courses of actions. But seems that is better investment to give it to denialist trolls.
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If you use jelly as the basement of your house is your fault that the house is unstable. Putting and approving to put critical infrastructure directly accesible on the open internet, that can have present or future vulnerabilities is bordering criminal behaviour. That people should be the first on the line to be jailed, and now, not when something bad happens.
And remember, the ones that started with big scale "war" has been the US. Don't start a war of breaking glasses if your entire house is made of (specially fragile) glasses.
All those having internet facing java services had remote vulnerabilities known by oracle and the NSA for months (at least if Oracle does the same as Microsoft, something very probable if not worse), and if your internal network had some value for the NSA or people working for it, it is already backdoored.
Like sending AWS/rackspace management passwords in plain text by email. If you choose to drive drunk because you know better and kill someone is not an accident anymore.
Trying to make people forget what originally meant "Blue Screen of Death"
It is being used as plain money, becoming just a speculative bubble, but its potential is far more than that. The technology is good enough for other uses, like Twister, there is where its value resides.
Having the possibility to gather raw construction materials without having to fight against a gravity field probably enables space factories, both for ships/more asteroid explorations, future space colonies and ship refuelings, and manufacturing of materials or things that can't be easily done down here with gravity, That need won't get obsolete soon (unless the thing that becomes obsolete is us or our capability to get to space).
Of course, you can be shortsighted in your mining operations, and just use it as out of world normal mines without considering what else that it enables.
The kind of investment needed to mine a single asteroid put a limit of what is viable and what is not, at least in the most straightforward way (launch a rocket to that asteroid, mine it, send the materials to earth, game over). But can that limit be lowered changing the goal? What instead of searching for a platinum rich asteroid the goal is iron or needed materials (fuel?) ones to build/resuply ships already in the asteroid belt, would that initial investment raise the bar in what is profitable and what not? One of the biggest costs should be the initial launch of the ships from Earth, where every pound matters.
... by the developers. That a bug or vulnerability is found and announced in certain moment, be in closed or open source programs, don't ensure that the bad guys (working for the NSA or other places) haven't found and been exploiting it for some time already. That the bug can be found in automated ways (in this case was static source analysis, but could be checking for undocumented open ports or sql injection) makes almost certain that it could had been exploited before.
2.6.0 came out in 2004, 3.0 (the next after 2.0.39) in 2011. You are not being very precise saying 2.6 related to redhat kernel. But, about to your point, Redhat/centos 5.x came with kernel 2.6.18 (released in 2007, still had the same kernel version in RedHat 5.10 that came out last october), and Redhat 6.x, that came out in 2010, had kernel 2.6.32 (released in 2009). As enterprise distribution, what matters is stability, and certification for 3rd party software, not having the latest versions, all is tested with an specific kernel version, and that kernel (and in general, packages) are kept in the same version, backporting/patching fixes when necessary, and you won't have to worry about a newer version of a sofware changing a configuration file format or keywords and stopping working after updating. Anyway, you can still install extra repositories (like EPEL) that will give you newer versions of some packages.
If you want to use something bleeding edge, you can try Fedora, Ubuntu, or another of the desktop distributions
More people using CentOS means more potential RedHat clients, specially if you grow enough to need serious support. If well understand that they can't be responsible for what the CentOS devels does with their distro, still would increase even more their client base to give support to CentOS servers too.
Are facebook users aware that anything that they say (or like) can and will be used against them, even if they said/liked it before any warning was given?
What you secure and audit is the protocol, or the source code of the twister (they could even do deterministic builds like the bitcoin people if that becomes a priority), not the physical/virtual PC where it is running. You can do the same with bitcoins, even infected/compromised PCs don't change the network (and your wallet) reliability.
Better compare it with Diaspora or Movim, that are more in the same league, descentralized social networks. at least for the upper layer. If you want to go to the transport protocol, is afaik the bitcoin network protocol, so no darknets or i.e. Tor implied there. And as based on bitcoin, should imply no anonimity neither (what is a good thing in a social network)
Secure, auditable, and distributed or downright personal servers should be the way of the future after we seen the abuses (from governments and companies) that enables to have everything centralized in few places. Of course, is pretty hard to get that for big numbers of people, as they are as group easily manipulable, but at least for the people that want security and privacy, must exist some options.
As individual, being attacked by other humans. As specie, being obliterated by an asteroid. Dinosaurs killed other dinosaurs all the time, but what killed all of their kind was an asteroid. And we have over them the advantage that we could still do something about it, if we prepare for that with enough time. Don't bet everything on the present, try to have a future.
The problem is that will be no "them", traveling between star systems is pretty expensive if ever possible (and the odds of having someone close enough capable of making it possible are very very low). And there is no "them" when the threat is an asteroid, a disease, or a supervolcano. We have our own "us vs them", through all the history we basically have not recognized as humans beings (or that deserved human rights, ask the NSA) people with different language, skin color, religions, countries and so on. Even if something involves the fate of mankind or the planet, is always their fault, not ours. No single water drop feels responsible for the flood.
We should forget about the emergence of aggresive outsiders, if the rules of the universe are as they seem so far contact between civilizations of different stellar systems is very improbable. We don't need an outside danger when we have so much inside dangers that could wipe us out, the problem is reacting when that insider danger is in a position of power, either military or culturally. But as an incoming apocalypse will be an excellent opportunity to make profit (how much people could pay to live a bit more, even if its not sustainable in the middle/long term?), it won't be prevented, in fact probably will be promoted.
We have created very persistent memes into our culture, probably the most pervasive of them is the concept of money, as something accumulable, and with attached power. While something with those attributes can't be removed from our culture the base problem will keep being there, things seems to derive to have money as the ultimate goal instead of the common good.
There have been hominids for 5m years, proper humans for only 200k years, civilization for just 20k years, and in 100 years we invented a lot of things (from nukes to biological agents) that could end mankind any day, while going rampant sabotaging the earth ecosystem... and things keeps accelerating. What make you think that will be humans around in not in 1 billon nor 1 millon, but only 10k years in the future being very generous?
Yes, laying eggs somewhere else could improve the chances, self-sustaining space colonies is the way to try it more than generation ships, if any of them is ever possible. But that don't have a chance to happen with current culture where profit in the present is more important than having a future.
To put an example, an asteroid impacted earth 2 days ago that wasn't detected till that moment, how much you think is "invested" on mapping any potential space threats compared with, i.e. spying on ourselves, bailing out banks or even denying climate change? When the federal government had budget problems one of the first victims was the NASA program to detect space debris (a good example of a surveillance system that worth it), while the pentagon wasted 5.5billons the night before the shutdown (if we are talking about our survival, that was a waste), And always will be an "emergency" that will divert efforts and attention to something else, even if we have to create it. Unless we figure out a practical, safe way to travel (far) into the future (yes, we could done it doing a relativistic speed trip, or some suspended animation process could be developed, but nothing practical and for masses yet) we should not worry about what will happen in a millon years, is just too out of the reach of mankind.
A mirror would be the second best place
In fact, they are making other nations, groups of people and individuals easier to listen US citizens and companies communications. By weakening the Dual_EC_DRBG pseudo random number generator they made it interceptable not just by them, and here is a proof of concept. The most objective thing is controlling US population, the other nations are less prioritary.
We are not enough to type really at random all shakespeare works, but we are enough to put things that end being true in the middle of all spam, jokes, typos, tales, car analogies, several musings, and, in particular, random "predictions" that we put in internet every minute. If you find deep enough, buried in the mountain of garbage, will be some gold, but that is because the amount of garbage, not because someone intentionally created gold. If enough people write numbers at random around 16000 some could hit tomorrow's dow jones value, but that won't mean that it was predicted or written with actual knowledge of the future.
Time travel to the past is a mined field for paradoxes, even for information. Even knowing for real a future that we could change could make weird things like blue butterflies. And, btw, we are all time travelers, but we travel only to the future, never back.
At the cost of killing half of europe's population in a very painful way? It qualifies as a phyrric victory, or even as a phyrric defeat (or at least, phyrric no victory, phyrric defeat have another use)
Hitler, the Black Death, Attila the Hun, Toba, the Chicxulub asteroid, whatever caused the Great Dying and so on. That we survived despite (at a very high cost) them don't mean that we must be grateful for what they did, even if that meant that had a role on the changes that ended with us right how we are now.
You mean the year of the record breaking massive storms in asia? You know, "global" means all the world, even if people like you in US think that there is nothing outside, and that can't tell the difference between weather and climate. How well you get paid to spread this?
Probably some of this money could had made a difference in how well we could do model climates, or even figure out courses of actions. But seems that is better investment to give it to denialist trolls.