...would Google develop its walled garden if not to control it? Of course they have, do, and will abuse their position of power over developers and users to maximise their own profits and market share.
...but yes, not encrypting login credentials is a major concern for me too. Also, I prefer to use keys rather than passwords wherever possible but more often than not, Filezilla throws up a bunch of bugs that haven't been patched in a long time when I try to use them.
So yes, the Filezilla devs really need to get their acts together on security.
BTW, no Filezilla Secure available for Linux yet. Since Linux pretty well has encryption for all things web built in, it's tempting to give up on GUIs and simply do it all from the command line.
In cases like this, "they" always come up with simple, persuasive scenario; crime, terrorism, will nobody think of the children?!!, etc.; to push through this kind of legislation. When the law's enacted, we then find out that it mostly gets used for something entirely different and may actually turn out to be useless for the stated purpose. So... what do you think "they" are really after? What do they want to achieve with having hard-wired and probably secret lists of locations/areas that drones are unable to enter?
I've been using LibreOffice for years and do some statistical analyses on it. I've never had a wrong answer or anything out of the ordinary where the problem didn't originate between the keyboard and the chair.
Governments are by far the biggest procurers of operating systems. There's an EU draft directive that says that member states must favour free and open source IT solutions. So far, the various flavours of Ubuntu have been the favoured option. My bet is that EU governments switching to Ubuntu is mostly responsible for pushing the usage stats up recently.
By the time Excel is out for Linux, Wayland will be in common use, and Wayland only supporst 32-bit color. 16-color apps like modern Excel won't run on Wayland.
Or perhaps they'll realise that they can do everything they need in LibreOffice.
...after my Surface Pro finishes installing updates......waiting... waitiiiiiiing......your Surface Pro has to restart to install updates. Restart now?
It's easier to understand the allegations of flight risk if we picture that the statements were concocted in a scene much like this one: http://www.popoptiq.com/wp-con...
Supporting Trump's election campaign is entirely in line with hedge fund managers' and billionaires' lack of moral compass. Don't forget that Google and Microsoft have enthusiastically supported the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) which are responsible for actual laws and policies that are just as abhorrent as Trump's on- and off-screen behaviour. We shouldn't pretend that there are any "ethical billionaires." They'll all murder your grandmother if the price is right.
One obvious take away is that too many people who can write big checks are too easily swayed by the media reporting rare and special coincidences as if they were predicted by algorithms in so called "big data." We only ever hear about the hits because, well, who's going to report on all those misses? (Remember the one about parents finding out that their teenage daughter was pregnant?) It's simply statistical noise that happens to coincide into what appears to be a pattern. It happens whenever a dataset is big enough.
Yes, these mechanical Turks are getting more sophisticated every year. They're still just machines spouting canned responses however impressive the illusion might be.
"Machines will exceed human intelligence." -- Ray Kurtzweil
Shhh... don't tell the consumers!...or they'll stop spending money on consumer electronics and pulp media at ever higher resolutions. You don't want the US economy to collapse, do you?;)
Agreed, Rick:) Also, I don't think it's addressing the cause of the problem, i.e. that so much people's personal data is available on the web. We can't do anything online, with credit/debit cards, or with mobile phones without tonnes of data about us being captured and stored online. And as soon as anything's online, it's not secure; we only hear about the massive, impossible to hide data breaches but nothing about the constant leakage through poor security and employees selling their companies' data illegally to 3rd parties, including criminals. We can't opt out of the kinds of surveillance we're under and we have no control over what happens to our personal data. We simply have to stop those organisations from collecting that data and make sure that anyone offering online data storage as a service, e.g. online docs, photos, etc., uses practical and reasonable security measures such as strong end-to-end encryption and the user is responsible for holding their own keys. Somehow, I don't think Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, et al. are going to let that happen - Their business models depend on weak privacy and security.
Yes, it's called WebRTC and is a cross-platform standard. The article itself refers to Skype for Linux being a WebRTC version. There are plenty of WebRTC browser and desktop clients and free services available. Skype has 2 advantages over most other internet telephony services: #1 - A lot of people use Skype so the chances that people you know are on it are higher, #2 - You can make (cheap) calls to regular land-line and mobile telephone services.
The biggest issue with any internet communications service is compatibility: In practical terms, none of the services I've seen are compatible with each other. They're all walled gardens. This is why regular phones are still king; despite the much higher cost, everyone uses them because they can call everyone else on the same service, no matter which service provider they're with.
...movies per month. That's assuming that each 4K movie is compressed to around 100GB each on average. So on top of paying for your movies, you'll also have to pay a $50 per month surcharge.
...we're much better than them. We've developed our own proprietary systems to streamline and automate the surveillance process and increase our productivity in keeping the American public, and their children, safe... blah... blah... blah...
Isn't it also Google (Alphabet?) that are vigorously promoting and selling their surveillance systems as a service to repressive regimes around the world?
Why did FB pay $19 billion for? Some personal messaging software? Encryption algorithms? Somehow, that doesn't sound likely to me. How much would that cost to code, and do it better from scratch? Dear Indian govt and WhatsApp users, what do you think is worth $19 billion to FB? And how likely do you think it is that they'll give that up?
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...would Google develop its walled garden if not to control it? Of course they have, do, and will abuse their position of power over developers and users to maximise their own profits and market share.
...but yes, not encrypting login credentials is a major concern for me too. Also, I prefer to use keys rather than passwords wherever possible but more often than not, Filezilla throws up a bunch of bugs that haven't been patched in a long time when I try to use them.
So yes, the Filezilla devs really need to get their acts together on security.
BTW, no Filezilla Secure available for Linux yet. Since Linux pretty well has encryption for all things web built in, it's tempting to give up on GUIs and simply do it all from the command line.
...about my anxiety about my health.
Are you including desktops of mobile devices, TV set-top boxes, and SmartTVs in that 2%?
In cases like this, "they" always come up with simple, persuasive scenario; crime, terrorism, will nobody think of the children?!!, etc.; to push through this kind of legislation. When the law's enacted, we then find out that it mostly gets used for something entirely different and may actually turn out to be useless for the stated purpose. So... what do you think "they" are really after? What do they want to achieve with having hard-wired and probably secret lists of locations/areas that drones are unable to enter?
BTW, the Zotero https://www.zotero.org/ plugin for LibreOffice works much better in LibreOffice Writer than in MS Word.
I've been using LibreOffice for years and do some statistical analyses on it. I've never had a wrong answer or anything out of the ordinary where the problem didn't originate between the keyboard and the chair.
Governments are by far the biggest procurers of operating systems. There's an EU draft directive that says that member states must favour free and open source IT solutions. So far, the various flavours of Ubuntu have been the favoured option. My bet is that EU governments switching to Ubuntu is mostly responsible for pushing the usage stats up recently.
By the time Excel is out for Linux, Wayland will be in common use, and Wayland only supporst 32-bit color. 16-color apps like modern Excel won't run on Wayland.
Or perhaps they'll realise that they can do everything they need in LibreOffice.
...after my Surface Pro finishes installing updates... ...waiting... waitiiiiiiing... ...your Surface Pro has to restart to install updates. Restart now?
It's easier to understand the allegations of flight risk if we picture that the statements were concocted in a scene much like this one: http://www.popoptiq.com/wp-con...
Supporting Trump's election campaign is entirely in line with hedge fund managers' and billionaires' lack of moral compass. Don't forget that Google and Microsoft have enthusiastically supported the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) which are responsible for actual laws and policies that are just as abhorrent as Trump's on- and off-screen behaviour. We shouldn't pretend that there are any "ethical billionaires." They'll all murder your grandmother if the price is right.
One obvious take away is that too many people who can write big checks are too easily swayed by the media reporting rare and special coincidences as if they were predicted by algorithms in so called "big data." We only ever hear about the hits because, well, who's going to report on all those misses? (Remember the one about parents finding out that their teenage daughter was pregnant?) It's simply statistical noise that happens to coincide into what appears to be a pattern. It happens whenever a dataset is big enough.
Godwin's law in 20.
Yes, these mechanical Turks are getting more sophisticated every year. They're still just machines spouting canned responses however impressive the illusion might be.
"Machines will exceed human intelligence." -- Ray Kurtzweil
"Only if we meet them half-way." -- Dave Snowden
Do you mean East Anglia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... :P
Let me translate that for you:
CIA/Police black site = gulag
In 2011, 16.7 million children were living in food insecure households in the USA = bread lines
Shhh... don't tell the consumers! ...or they'll stop spending money on consumer electronics and pulp media at ever higher resolutions. You don't want the US economy to collapse, do you? ;)
Agreed, Rick :) Also, I don't think it's addressing the cause of the problem, i.e. that so much people's personal data is available on the web. We can't do anything online, with credit/debit cards, or with mobile phones without tonnes of data about us being captured and stored online. And as soon as anything's online, it's not secure; we only hear about the massive, impossible to hide data breaches but nothing about the constant leakage through poor security and employees selling their companies' data illegally to 3rd parties, including criminals. We can't opt out of the kinds of surveillance we're under and we have no control over what happens to our personal data. We simply have to stop those organisations from collecting that data and make sure that anyone offering online data storage as a service, e.g. online docs, photos, etc., uses practical and reasonable security measures such as strong end-to-end encryption and the user is responsible for holding their own keys. Somehow, I don't think Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, et al. are going to let that happen - Their business models depend on weak privacy and security.
Yes, it's called WebRTC and is a cross-platform standard. The article itself refers to Skype for Linux being a WebRTC version. There are plenty of WebRTC browser and desktop clients and free services available. Skype has 2 advantages over most other internet telephony services: #1 - A lot of people use Skype so the chances that people you know are on it are higher, #2 - You can make (cheap) calls to regular land-line and mobile telephone services.
The biggest issue with any internet communications service is compatibility: In practical terms, none of the services I've seen are compatible with each other. They're all walled gardens. This is why regular phones are still king; despite the much higher cost, everyone uses them because they can call everyone else on the same service, no matter which service provider they're with.
...movies per month. That's assuming that each 4K movie is compressed to around 100GB each on average. So on top of paying for your movies, you'll also have to pay a $50 per month surcharge.
...we're much better than them. We've developed our own proprietary systems to streamline and automate the surveillance process and increase our productivity in keeping the American public, and their children, safe... blah... blah... blah...
Isn't it also Google (Alphabet?) that are vigorously promoting and selling their surveillance systems as a service to repressive regimes around the world?
Are the makers of the case going to post it on http://failblog.cheezburger.co... ?
Ah, but it's clean coal ;)
Why did FB pay $19 billion for? Some personal messaging software? Encryption algorithms? Somehow, that doesn't sound likely to me. How much would that cost to code, and do it better from scratch? Dear Indian govt and WhatsApp users, what do you think is worth $19 billion to FB? And how likely do you think it is that they'll give that up?