Encrypted communication/https "should" protect some of the info sent to remote sites from NSA. But if your browser/os have a backdoor that send some info somewhere else too it could be seen. More than that, if you run a trojan, or some app that want to access your data in some way, that the passwords you use are safe from it is a difference between browsers. Here is how different browsers store your saved passwords, the bottom line: Firefox with a master password makes extremely hard to get your saved passwords without the master one, Chrome (on windows) or IE makes it easy.
Coming from the company that is listed to happily give info to the NSA, that send them skype conversation (that was there before MS bought it, but they kept sending it), that have a nice NSAKEY since last century in their main OS, and that just delays fixing vulnerabilities until NSA makes use of them, makes them at the very least dubious as a company to put your trust.
But leaving "hypotetical" company ethics beside, now that you named recent versions of IE, they worsened how they store our passwords, easing the task to retrieve them if your computer is compromised (ok, it runs windows already, so we can skip that requirement).
The odds of being in a car accident don't reduce the odds of a meteorite hitting you tomorrow in the head. But probably we should worry only about the car accident. And the odds that some "misuse" smart AIs against us is far far higher than the odds of developing AIs with free will, human way of thinking, deciding that wiping us all worth the effort, and having the medium to do it. If internet serves as a hint, it didn't became aware yet, but went from a place for freedom for us all to, well, ask the NSA what it became.
"Should" is overrated. Justice is just a meme that have no meaning in the real universe. No matter how much people believe in it, in the end is money what counts (over certain amount, no matter if everyone knows what you did)
Facebook design exposed 1 billon users. And Facebook home country exposed 6 billon users. When you put things in perspective nothing really matters anymore.
The policy that everyone is guilty till proved innocent, everyone must pay what does a few, and that government is free to do because they know better falls badly when you have lots people that gets innocents harmed by the government. The terrorist scare is an excuse, the real target is power gathering. And with power, comes abuse of power, and believe me, you will prefer a few deaths by terrorists than what is coming, because by now is unstoppable.
Makes you feels better to be spied by 007 than by a polyhedron. But in the end, is the same people that think that you are less than human and deserve no rights.
What you call "United States"? The corporations, their puppet government, or the population? For the last option i'd say that is a hero, and others that work for NSA are the traitors. But you probably think that the ones that fought against England in 1776 or against slavery in 1860 were traitors too.
"The entire world charges US Government with espionage". Is time to UN and world organizations to show that have pants and stop being US government/corporations puppets. Or just everyone stop pretending, nothing of this have anything to do with justice, is just a wrong sign put on top of things that had nothing to do with that word.
The problem is the "small" amount of legacy code. Even with the big amount of deprecated features, a lot of unconsistent (to be generous) things is still there. And if there is not a smooth transition, will be hard that a mass migration happens. Even if the goal is to get a good, consistent language, with good object orientation for version 6, think how much time is taking for Perl 6.
Does it runs Linux? Does gets bricked if try something different from Windows 8, or even windows 8 itself?
With that resolution and battery life even Linus could love it... if can run his own system on it, of course.
Is a big point anyway. Indepent auditing. That someone, somewhere, could say that the binary that my distribution gave me had a backdoor instead of the code they published (i.e. because forced by law to do and not disclose it), and that i even could check or rebuild it. With closed source you don't have that freedom, is even against the law to try to find that. And in current US pushed cyberwar state of things (they are trying this kind of things already), to have the possibility of independent auditing of the code you are running is what makes a difference against non open source software.
Is not that i actively will recompile all the software I use, but that if something wrong is happening, i will have the opportunity to know.
Treating nations and organizations as a whole is unfair, like bombarding an entire city because an isolated terrorist is hidden in a particular building. But when those small components in big organizations or countries does massive damage, you blame the whole deal. If that is wrong, then you had been very deep in the wrong side for decades.
Why not starting at home? Someone had no tolerance for their beliefs, their way of life and their resources, and are invading them, with armies, global economy or/and factories. They just fight back the best they know, after the damage was done. But at home you have your big quota of religious extremists and people in power that see foreigners as tools with no rights, that even push their own governors on them to get easier to become even richer.
Is easier to believe in gods or devils than that complex multinationals controlling governments and international organizations to make money from them, or in intangible things like having a future or freedom.
The sytem must keep working, at all cost. If what you are doing could affect that goal, probably will take it as something bad.
As sysadmin I resent when i got ordered to do something that will hurt the systems i administer in a "wrong" way (specially if there is a right, but dismissed without knowledge, way, to do the same with no or minimal impact), is not about the power that you have as sysadmin, but the responsibility.
Ok, you are right. There are laws, and they must be followed at all cost. Now, pick your state here, select from the list the one you broke up today, and go to jail by yourself now. I.e. if you live in new york, and if you wore slippers after 10pm, then you broke the law. See? Is easy to break dumb, malicious, tricky or just unfair laws in your everyday life, realizing it or not. Slavery or english monarchy in US was law, where the ones fighting against them traitors?
The only way to win is that no one plays it. But as there is a player (i.e. the elephant/donkey on the room that is US), everyone lose. And i don't mean government or citizens of some particular nation, i mean mankind as a whole.
I'm mostly ok with the watermarking of the ebook if there is no DRM involved, as it don't limit how/when/where i will use what i bought.
But using the watermark to label criminal to someone (and WILL be used that way, knowing the trend even could put you in jail for decades) is dangerous, suddently not having perfect security or privacy becomes a liability, a stolen phone or tablet, a rooted/botnetted/shared pc, not understanding privacy on social networks or just rogue NSA agents could turn into a nightmare ever buying an ebook.
Also, a change in a GPL code don't enable you to change its licence. If you took a GPL program, and modified it, then the modified version must be GPL too. A new version of MySQL should still be GPL, unless you do a complete rewrite.
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Encrypted communication/https "should" protect some of the info sent to remote sites from NSA. But if your browser/os have a backdoor that send some info somewhere else too it could be seen. More than that, if you run a trojan, or some app that want to access your data in some way, that the passwords you use are safe from it is a difference between browsers. Here is how different browsers store your saved passwords, the bottom line: Firefox with a master password makes extremely hard to get your saved passwords without the master one, Chrome (on windows) or IE makes it easy.
Coming from the company that is listed to happily give info to the NSA, that send them skype conversation (that was there before MS bought it, but they kept sending it), that have a nice NSAKEY since last century in their main OS, and that just delays fixing vulnerabilities until NSA makes use of them, makes them at the very least dubious as a company to put your trust.
But leaving "hypotetical" company ethics beside, now that you named recent versions of IE, they worsened how they store our passwords, easing the task to retrieve them if your computer is compromised (ok, it runs windows already, so we can skip that requirement).
The odds of being in a car accident don't reduce the odds of a meteorite hitting you tomorrow in the head. But probably we should worry only about the car accident. And the odds that some "misuse" smart AIs against us is far far higher than the odds of developing AIs with free will, human way of thinking, deciding that wiping us all worth the effort, and having the medium to do it. If internet serves as a hint, it didn't became aware yet, but went from a place for freedom for us all to, well, ask the NSA what it became.
If Addeco is between those donors, i know who will be in jail for terrorism after putting that complaint.
"Should" is overrated. Justice is just a meme that have no meaning in the real universe. No matter how much people believe in it, in the end is money what counts (over certain amount, no matter if everyone knows what you did)
Don't assume than malign supercomputers will wipe us all if that can be adequately done by human's stupidity
Facebook design exposed 1 billon users. And Facebook home country exposed 6 billon users. When you put things in perspective nothing really matters anymore.
The policy that everyone is guilty till proved innocent, everyone must pay what does a few, and that government is free to do because they know better falls badly when you have lots people that gets innocents harmed by the government. The terrorist scare is an excuse, the real target is power gathering. And with power, comes abuse of power, and believe me, you will prefer a few deaths by terrorists than what is coming, because by now is unstoppable.
Makes you feels better to be spied by 007 than by a polyhedron. But in the end, is the same people that think that you are less than human and deserve no rights.
What you call "United States"? The corporations, their puppet government, or the population? For the last option i'd say that is a hero, and others that work for NSA are the traitors. But you probably think that the ones that fought against England in 1776 or against slavery in 1860 were traitors too.
"The entire world charges US Government with espionage". Is time to UN and world organizations to show that have pants and stop being US government/corporations puppets. Or just everyone stop pretending, nothing of this have anything to do with justice, is just a wrong sign put on top of things that had nothing to do with that word.
The problem is the "small" amount of legacy code. Even with the big amount of deprecated features, a lot of unconsistent (to be generous) things is still there. And if there is not a smooth transition, will be hard that a mass migration happens. Even if the goal is to get a good, consistent language, with good object orientation for version 6, think how much time is taking for Perl 6.
Does it runs Linux? Does gets bricked if try something different from Windows 8, or even windows 8 itself? With that resolution and battery life even Linus could love it... if can run his own system on it, of course.
Is a big point anyway. Indepent auditing. That someone, somewhere, could say that the binary that my distribution gave me had a backdoor instead of the code they published (i.e. because forced by law to do and not disclose it), and that i even could check or rebuild it. With closed source you don't have that freedom, is even against the law to try to find that. And in current US pushed cyberwar state of things (they are trying this kind of things already), to have the possibility of independent auditing of the code you are running is what makes a difference against non open source software.
Is not that i actively will recompile all the software I use, but that if something wrong is happening, i will have the opportunity to know.
Unless NSA avoids it. Too bad for the UN or other contries, by the way, if they detected it, decided not to warn (or even promoted it).
Treating nations and organizations as a whole is unfair, like bombarding an entire city because an isolated terrorist is hidden in a particular building. But when those small components in big organizations or countries does massive damage, you blame the whole deal. If that is wrong, then you had been very deep in the wrong side for decades.
Why not starting at home? Someone had no tolerance for their beliefs, their way of life and their resources, and are invading them, with armies, global economy or/and factories. They just fight back the best they know, after the damage was done. But at home you have your big quota of religious extremists and people in power that see foreigners as tools with no rights, that even push their own governors on them to get easier to become even richer.
Is easier to believe in gods or devils than that complex multinationals controlling governments and international organizations to make money from them, or in intangible things like having a future or freedom.
The sytem must keep working, at all cost. If what you are doing could affect that goal, probably will take it as something bad.
As sysadmin I resent when i got ordered to do something that will hurt the systems i administer in a "wrong" way (specially if there is a right, but dismissed without knowledge, way, to do the same with no or minimal impact), is not about the power that you have as sysadmin, but the responsibility.
Ok, you are right. There are laws, and they must be followed at all cost. Now, pick your state here, select from the list the one you broke up today, and go to jail by yourself now. I.e. if you live in new york, and if you wore slippers after 10pm, then you broke the law. See? Is easy to break dumb, malicious, tricky or just unfair laws in your everyday life, realizing it or not. Slavery or english monarchy in US was law, where the ones fighting against them traitors?
So, how long till the adn of crabs is put into some microbes to industrially make those materials? 25+ years?
The only way to win is that no one plays it. But as there is a player (i.e. the elephant/donkey on the room that is US), everyone lose. And i don't mean government or citizens of some particular nation, i mean mankind as a whole.
I'm mostly ok with the watermarking of the ebook if there is no DRM involved, as it don't limit how/when/where i will use what i bought. But using the watermark to label criminal to someone (and WILL be used that way, knowing the trend even could put you in jail for decades) is dangerous, suddently not having perfect security or privacy becomes a liability, a stolen phone or tablet, a rooted/botnetted/shared pc, not understanding privacy on social networks or just rogue NSA agents could turn into a nightmare ever buying an ebook.
Also, a change in a GPL code don't enable you to change its licence. If you took a GPL program, and modified it, then the modified version must be GPL too. A new version of MySQL should still be GPL, unless you do a complete rewrite.
American have even more urgent matters like this, but as everyone pretend that nothing is happening, better focus in new periodic tables.