If you assume that the remote server is safe, and the communication is safe, then the risk could be at your own box. Forgetting to set even a screensaver with password in a place where are more people (i.e. kids, or in an office ) or even not people (dont think a cat could hit rm -rf, but is your server, not mine) could make a difference in that question. Could be also an hypotetical risk of some rogue app/trojan (?) sending events to the window that have the ssh session too, but odds are somewhat low.
You should have apps signed in your Windows PC too. Even in open source world, apps are "signed" (or at least, the deb/rpm packages are) by the distribution/repository. The requirements to have certain apps signed could be good or bad, but signing by itself should not be seen as something bad.
Don't sell beverages on movie theater and put the old version. You will have a 2D movie + thirst, a whole new dimension to it (and you won't need spice to know how everyone will feel at the end)
Define "people". Big media providers would win big if the "standard" in internet in is forced to a format that take out any potential low-budget competitor. They WANT that it gets massively adopted,so will dump every kind of content that way. Then you have normal people that just use a browser without knowing about the technology behind. And developers of open and closed browsers, plugins and devices that could show those videos, and of open and close apps/devices that could produce somewhat that kind of videos. And the people that want to show their work in internet.
It is something dangerous. A lot of people won't recognize it as danger till they get caught, and for them is a trap, Some will try to take profit of it (either forcing us in, or putting a trap in the alternate path), others will try to avoid it and try to help people to see it.
Probably vi/vim thru ssh plus a web browser for testing/googling/docs and shell utilities has been my IDE for perl/php/bash for years (at least if it qualifies at IDE), and emacs would not be a bad alternative neither
Most could have a portable internet device in the next few years. But its shape could end not being the netbook one. Cellphones, and tablets also want a share in that space, and probably will be a mix of all. Cellphones are getting into shape to be good enough internet devices, and if you want larger screens,tablets with keyboards, hybrids (like Asus T91, cheaper, more powerful and with far more battery life), should be the most popular kind.
This will require fast, cheap and energy efficient cpus, and if well could not be netbooks, ARM and other non-intel (i.e. TI's OMAP4) cpus should have a good portion of the market in that scenario,and probably a lot will be somewhat linux based (android, moblin, maemo,etc)
Dangerous? Why not a medium for plain propaganda? Why just report that some foreing country authorities met, when you can see them in the meeting, maybe eating something that your religion forbids or telling jokes about your country? And that just about international policies, think it being used about your rival political party or justifying some unpopular move.
Heck, if this gets a bit more realistic we could totally buy that we landed in Pandora just to preserve their ecology taking out some dirty metal buried there.
Its called "representative democracy", you vote your representants, and then they do what they want. If their misbehave, is not their fault, or constitution fault. Is yours, or if you like, your countriy's citizen fault, even if was just gullibility.
Maybe the round wheels don't fit well in what they are doing, how they are using PHP, as dynamic language the approach that was taken in roadsend could bump against some core practice in Facebook and thats why they must use another approach to fit into that scheme.
This could give a new twist to input devices, adding a new dimension to the interaction. Will be harder to show in video, and probably will need some training or adjustment, but possibilities could be as big as was multitouch alone.
You could ask too why do tablets all of sudden need a desktop OS (or more precisely, a desktop environment). Desktop experience is designed around having several separate input devices, good size/resolution screens and so on. Phones and Tablets are meant to be used with a very small keyboard, and/or a touchscreen.
While this don't identify you for a lot of reasons, there are some good points of using this. Hitting local caches/distribution network nodes/etc will make internet actually faster (a good percent of total bandwidth comes from places where this applies, and going to somewhat local resources unclogs international links). At least where i live where around 200 ms is the avg ping time with the rest of the world, but 30 or lower to local ones, accessing most of static resources local should make a difference.
And probably more important, dont forbids you to keep your privacy, old nameservers, or if you want, your own authoritative nameserver,will not send that information and you could use them
> Last time I checked the military was part of the government.
The government is a lot of things, not just military. You have there public education, public safety, health and economy sectors, and a lot of other areas that could be related and take part of this. But network safety and good practices (as in every participant on it) should be a civil matter, not militar one.
Putting the base of all of this in military level is like declaring war on a foreing country because there is a disease there, instead of educating people on healthy living, avoiding infections or developing and administering vaccines. Just the prevention have a lot of positive incomes, even if no danger of getting "attacked" by sick people.
In cyberspace, traditional "army" concepts have no meaning, specially the partt when we talk about huge number of active/willing participants. The only thing that could have army-like numbers are zombie PCs, something that "should" not be used (your country hacking your pc to attack what they consider enemies? and leaving the door open so potentially youir enemy could use your pc too?. They should behave as firefighters (taking measures/educating to limit a lot the odds that someone gets zombified) or terrorists/commandos (skilled individuals could make big differences).
In fact, the weapons in cyberwar only have meaning because no or weak defenses. And a good attack would be improving those "defenses", both at consumer level (they should punish or do official statements about recommending NOT using vulnerable software, as i.e. did several countries last weeks about IE, promote secure practices and alternative software and platforms, etc) as an enterprise level (from security scanning/assessment of critical and general places). And that is no work of military but of government.
Was not about books, but about music this concern, but probably applies. Is good that they used an open format for ebooks, i agree, but 2 things
- ePub don't have an standard for DRM yet, but enables to add one. They could pick their own, put a big patent/copyright/whatever over it, and turn an open format in something that is in practice a closed one
- How you transfer your own files to (or maybe even from) the device? What if the only (legal, without cracking the device) source of "open format" ebooks is Apple? That will defeat the meaning of being an "open" format too.
Wonder if is in the making another zombie movie, this one called "The night of the rich dead".
Even reducing the costs of launching is a step in the right direction, the motto is to boldly go, not to blindly go. Launching rockets just for the joy of it, if there are no chance of improving or learning anything of it is dumb.
But creating a commission to study the creation of a commision to (etc etc) to see is we ever will try to go to space is the kind of thing that could postpone things till is too late. And when is too late you could dump all the saved money in the biggest end of the world party for what it would matter.
We need to go outside, now or later (but hopely, not too late). In history there was just too much extintion level events to deny that will not happen another in the future. Is a long road to get to a point where we could survive elsewhere (planets, space stations, somewhere), but we will never get there if we don't take the first steps.
Maybe the moon won't be apt to live in,but will be a first step,and could be useful for mining or as intermediate point for more serious travels (or both, what if the limited materials that are there could be used to build spaceships without polluting our planet in the process?)
Slashdot Mirror
only the 1st rule is needed, put the windows boxes behind fire walls
If you assume that the remote server is safe, and the communication is safe, then the risk could be at your own box.
Forgetting to set even a screensaver with password in a place where are more people (i.e. kids, or in an office ) or even not people (dont think a cat could hit rm -rf, but is your server, not mine) could make a difference in that question. Could be also an hypotetical risk of some rogue app/trojan (?) sending events to the window that have the ssh session too, but odds are somewhat low.
You should have apps signed in your Windows PC too. Even in open source world, apps are "signed" (or at least, the deb/rpm packages are) by the distribution/repository. The requirements to have certain apps signed could be good or bad, but signing by itself should not be seen as something bad.
A private company could be delegated for most of the dirty stuff. OCP, Cyberdyne, and Umbrella Corporation already proposed themselves for that task.
In any organization, there will always be one person who knows what's going on. That person must be fired
Don't sell beverages on movie theater and put the old version. You will have a 2D movie + thirst, a whole new dimension to it (and you won't need spice to know how everyone will feel at the end)
Define "people". Big media providers would win big if the "standard" in internet in is forced to a format that take out any potential low-budget competitor. They WANT that it gets massively adopted,so will dump every kind of content that way. Then you have normal people that just use a browser without knowing about the technology behind. And developers of open and closed browsers, plugins and devices that could show those videos, and of open and close apps/devices that could produce somewhat that kind of videos. And the people that want to show their work in internet.
It is something dangerous. A lot of people won't recognize it as danger till they get caught, and for them is a trap, Some will try to take profit of it (either forcing us in, or putting a trap in the alternate path), others will try to avoid it and try to help people to see it.
Probably vi/vim thru ssh plus a web browser for testing/googling/docs and shell utilities has been my IDE for perl/php/bash for years (at least if it qualifies at IDE), and emacs would not be a bad alternative neither
This will require fast, cheap and energy efficient cpus, and if well could not be netbooks, ARM and other non-intel (i.e. TI's OMAP4) cpus should have a good portion of the market in that scenario,and probably a lot will be somewhat linux based (android, moblin, maemo,etc)
Dangerous? Why not a medium for plain propaganda? Why just report that some foreing country authorities met, when you can see them in the meeting, maybe eating something that your religion forbids or telling jokes about your country? And that just about international policies, think it being used about your rival political party or justifying some unpopular move.
Heck, if this gets a bit more realistic we could totally buy that we landed in Pandora just to preserve their ecology taking out some dirty metal buried there.
Each company could be count as one customer, but theirs hundreds of users could count in the price of the license.
Its called "representative democracy", you vote your representants, and then they do what they want. If their misbehave, is not their fault, or constitution fault. Is yours, or if you like, your countriy's citizen fault, even if was just gullibility.
Maybe the round wheels don't fit well in what they are doing, how they are using PHP, as dynamic language the approach that was taken in roadsend could bump against some core practice in Facebook and thats why they must use another approach to fit into that scheme.
We need a Galileo to try to convince them of the evident, even if they want to believe/understand our proofs.
Brown dwarfs stars are cooler than some of the (exo)planets found already?
This could give a new twist to input devices, adding a new dimension to the interaction. Will be harder to show in video, and probably will need some training or adjustment, but possibilities could be as big as was multitouch alone.
You could ask too why do tablets all of sudden need a desktop OS (or more precisely, a desktop environment). Desktop experience is designed around having several separate input devices, good size/resolution screens and so on. Phones and Tablets are meant to be used with a very small keyboard, and/or a touchscreen.
Probably will imply resistive touchscreen instead of capacitive. Both options have its advantages and disadvantages.
While this don't identify you for a lot of reasons, there are some good points of using this. Hitting local caches/distribution network nodes/etc will make internet actually faster (a good percent of total bandwidth comes from places where this applies, and going to somewhat local resources unclogs international links). At least where i live where around 200 ms is the avg ping time with the rest of the world, but 30 or lower to local ones, accessing most of static resources local should make a difference.
And probably more important, dont forbids you to keep your privacy, old nameservers, or if you want, your own authoritative nameserver,will not send that information and you could use them
> Last time I checked the military was part of the government.
The government is a lot of things, not just military. You have there public education, public safety, health and economy sectors, and a lot of other areas that could be related and take part of this. But network safety and good practices (as in every participant on it) should be a civil matter, not militar one.
Putting the base of all of this in military level is like declaring war on a foreing country because there is a disease there, instead of educating people on healthy living, avoiding infections or developing and administering vaccines. Just the prevention have a lot of positive incomes, even if no danger of getting "attacked" by sick people.
In cyberspace, traditional "army" concepts have no meaning, specially the partt when we talk about huge number of active/willing participants. The only thing that could have army-like numbers are zombie PCs, something that "should" not be used (your country hacking your pc to attack what they consider enemies? and leaving the door open so potentially youir enemy could use your pc too?. They should behave as firefighters (taking measures/educating to limit a lot the odds that someone gets zombified) or terrorists/commandos (skilled individuals could make big differences).
In fact, the weapons in cyberwar only have meaning because no or weak defenses. And a good attack would be improving those "defenses", both at consumer level (they should punish or do official statements about recommending NOT using vulnerable software, as i.e. did several countries last weeks about IE, promote secure practices and alternative software and platforms, etc) as an enterprise level (from security scanning/assessment of critical and general places). And that is no work of military but of government.
Was not about books, but about music this concern, but probably applies. Is good that they used an open format for ebooks, i agree, but 2 things
- ePub don't have an standard for DRM yet, but enables to add one. They could pick their own, put a big patent/copyright/whatever over it, and turn an open format in something that is in practice a closed one
- How you transfer your own files to (or maybe even from) the device? What if the only (legal, without cracking the device) source of "open format" ebooks is Apple? That will defeat the meaning of being an "open" format too.
Every time you program curiosity, a lolcat dies. "What happens if" is a very dangerous thing to teach to amoral beings.
Wonder if is in the making another zombie movie, this one called "The night of the rich dead".
Even reducing the costs of launching is a step in the right direction, the motto is to boldly go, not to blindly go. Launching rockets just for the joy of it, if there are no chance of improving or learning anything of it is dumb.
But creating a commission to study the creation of a commision to (etc etc) to see is we ever will try to go to space is the kind of thing that could postpone things till is too late. And when is too late you could dump all the saved money in the biggest end of the world party for what it would matter.
We need to go outside, now or later (but hopely, not too late). In history there was just too much extintion level events to deny that will not happen another in the future. Is a long road to get to a point where we could survive elsewhere (planets, space stations, somewhere), but we will never get there if we don't take the first steps.
Maybe the moon won't be apt to live in,but will be a first step,and could be useful for mining or as intermediate point for more serious travels (or both, what if the limited materials that are there could be used to build spaceships without polluting our planet in the process?)