Once is enough, there is no need to repeat your comments in the same thread. If you thought you'd be more convincing that way you're wrong as the opposite is true.
I'd go one step further and refrain from using any official certificate authorities. Given that security at these places seems to be lacking (as shown by several compromised CA's in recent history) I see no reason to trust them. Given the benefits of being able to launch undetected MitM attacks I'd assume them to be compromised by a TLA (of FLA for those countries which tend to use wordier acronyms).
For your own purposes you can create your own CA. If you're a business you'll have to get your customers to install your CA into their browser/phone/etc. Given the media attention around the Snowden revelations you just have to point out that the CA's which come pre-installed are most likely compromised.
In the linked BULLRUN document, in section 6 ('BULLRUN sensitivity and coverage') it clearly mentions SSH as one of the covered protocols so the answer is yes. As to whether this coverage is due to some publicly-unknown (but NSA-available) weakness in the SSH protocol, in common implementations, in the used cyphers or enacted case-by-case through man-in-the-middle attacks is of course unknown.
You don't actually need those Google services to run whatever you want on your device. It is easy and painless togo without, either by using one of the ccompeting 'app stores' or by foregoing on the app store concept altogether and installing whatever you want manually - as I've done since day 1 on android. So yes, android is open source and can be used like any other open source system.
OK, 'Terrorists' are trying to enter the TLAs. One in five has 'significant terrorist connections'.
This reminds me of something I read in the local newspaper (run it trough a translator if you don't read Swedish) here in Sweden. A newspaper which is mostly based in TrollhÃttan, a city which has locations for GKN Aerospace, Saab and similar industries. It also has a junior college where you can study several disciplines of engineering, aerospace unsurprisingly being one of them.
Enter someone by the given name of Hussein. 16 years old, comes out in top of his class and is accepted to the GKN aerospace program, his first choice. Thus far nothing out of the ordinary, a disciplined student getting good results and seemingly on a track for a career in the field he has chosen.
Enter the American connection. Not more than half a day after he started his education he was called to the principle's office and told he was not allowed to continue his education. Not because he misbehaved. Not because he was not qualified. Only because he happens to be born in Iraq, a country which is on an American export embargo list. Given that GKN seems to have to abide by American export laws - even though we're talking about a Swedish subsidiary of a British company - they 'can not allow him to access the buildings in which American technology is handled'.
Hussein moved from Iraq to Sweden when he was 3 years old. He has lived in Sweden for 13 years. He is a Swedish citizen. He is born in the wrong country.
Are those maybe the 'significant terrorist connections' the TLAs are so worried about?
Senator is not a carrier. Politician is a carrier.
Neither of them are carriers. USS Enterprise is a carrier. Politicians may have egos the size of carriers but that seems to go with their career choice.
For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in collegeâ"when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan...
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It is funny that the value of MSFT with Ballmer in it is $20 Billion less than MSFT without Ballmer in it!
Now I finally understand why so many failed suits get large sums of money to leave the companies they mismanaged. It is simply profitable to pay the 'bags to pack their bags.
Oh yes, oodles of 'm. We find 'm, we fix 'm. You can use those fixes for free, nearly no strings attached.
If Linux does not work for you I'd just go and pay someone for something that does work if I were you. Just don't come complaining about the bugs which are not fixed or those which are fixed but force you to buy a newer version. Don't complain about missing hardware support.
BTW, I don't understand what you mean by 'getting blacklisted for posting fixes which are more than ten lines long'. While the discourse on LKML can be somewhat rough I don't recognise your description as fitting.
No they should not. Network monitoring means the same as it always did. Just like hacking still means the same as it did before the term got hijacked. There'll be quite a few hackers using network monitors at this moment. Most of them are doing their job, making sure that the network does what it is supposed to do. Some of them are doing their job, attempting to snoop on the network traffic.
You don't rename a butcher knife just because it has been used in a crime, do you?
Uhhh... you seem to underestimate the hoards of the ultra-rich. Even a relatively small-time billionaire (Euro or Dollar) with only a billion or two to his name is easily richer than 1000 average people - unless you think average people have access to a million. According to Forbes the average worth of the top-400 richest in the US was $4.2 billion in 2012...
Well, it is actually pretty simple to predict their next step. Take the original logo in SVG format and run it through a complexity-reduction filter (inkscape has one). VoilÃ, you just made the first 'new' logo. Do this again and you have the next iteration. We're now at generation 4, be the first to show the next logo and impress your social network 'friends'...
OK, thanks for the reply and I'll file that bug (or code up an OpenID authenticator for that Django app and file that instead). Silly how it explicitly requires you to configure Facebook, I started by spoofing Twitter but that was not satisfactory...
I gave it a try, installed the source, followed the instructions, opened the page in a browser and... was greeted by an error message telling me it needed a 'Facebook app' or some other social drivel.
Facebook? Are they serious? I opened a bug report:
I thought to give Fidus a try by installing the source and following the directions. When I tried to log in to my freshly minted server it told me I couldn't because I had not configured a 'Facebook app'. Looking through the Django config page I noticed it only gives the options of using Facebook, Twitter and Google. Neither of these are acceptable in any environment which has even the slightest respect for an author's privacy and confidentiality.
Please make it possible to use Fidus using either a 'private' 'social' 'app' (lots of quotes there, for different reasons) or by foregoing on the social fad entirely. Since Fidus seems to be about getting work done I don't see the need for more 'social' distraction anyway.
That is a silly response to a sensible answer. If you don't understand why, please think about it for a moment or two. Think about the open software development model in relation to closed, proprietary hardware.
Still don't understand why your answer does not make sense?
Here is a black box. The box can be made to produce sound. I'm not going to tell you how to prod it to make sound because that is my very own secret. Now you make it produce sound.
What? No sound? Why not?
What do you mean 'no idea how to make it produce sound'? Why do you people always give the same response? I ask you to do a simple thing and this is what I get.
While it would be nice if Android updates were available to all who wanted them regardless of which phone they happened to be using, I'll gladly take the current situation over any 'benevolent dictator' type of forced software distribution. For those who like their 'experience' to be managed by a commercial entity there is Apple. For those who prefer to do things their own way, Android is so far ahead of the closed Apple world that they might as well be from another planet.
The comparison with the Dell running Windows fails since the user is free to install Linux on said Dell without voiding the warranty or breaking one of those silly DMCA-type laws. Try that on an iProduct...
The simple solution to this problem is to only use lighting when it is really needed, ie. when there is a human within range who wants to have some extra light. As soon as the human is gone, switch of the light. Use a motion sensor adjusted to human-sized objects so it does not trigger every time the neighbour's cat comes wandering by. Aim it so it does not get triggered by passers-by who have no intention of entering the designated area.
Night time is supposed to be dark. Make it so. Turn it off!
I think you'd be better off getting some training in warding off aggressive persons in as quick and effective a way as possible (eg. Krav Maga, etc) than some bone-headed 'until his blood spurted out all over my shirt' action. The former would probably be seen as rightful self defence while the latter sounds more like a punishable offence.
...but I have not been able to put a finger on what is was.
'To question not be or to be, the question that is'... 'The needs of the one outweigh the needs of the few, or the many' 'Ask not what you can do for your country but ask what your country can do for you' 'To each according by their means, by each according to their needs' 'It was a giant step for man, a small step for mankind'
The license bit is covered by several free software licenses. Just keep to using free software and you stay clear from that part of the New World Order. You don't need to read the EULA because there is no EULA, only a distribution LA. You can even use some of that free software to thwart those ThreeLetterAgencies who are so interested in your computing habits.
To me this whole coming-out of the spies only provides yet another means to show my less-aware friends and family that just because they're not concerned it does not mean someone is not out to get them, even if all they're after for now is records of all their communications. Now the alternatives offered by free software are not only cheaper and less obnoxious (yes, Windows 8.x, I'm looking at you), they're also less susceptible to prying eyes.
Methinks someone should rewrite the lyrics to that Coldplay song about spies coming out of the water. This time, they're coming out of the router.
With all these small, smaller and smaller yet again modules popping up left and right for often lower and lower prices - or at least higher performance/price ratios - it gets more and more interesting to decide upon a standard small-size docking connector. This connector should offer access to a display interface, fast external storage, USB, power, etc. Everythin needed to interface it to a 'slab' containing a screen, UI actuators, camera(s), sensors, a power supply and the like.
Using these two components you can 'build' or 'upgrade' those mobile internet devices which currently get left on the shelves because their processing capacity is deemed to anaemic by modern standards. Done right it would not add much to the total price of the device but it would expand the capabilities markedly.
Something like this would not be launched by any big brand as they like the buy-use-retire cycle as it is more profitable - for them. If the standard existed and their was demand in the market that demand *would* be fulfilled from suppliers in China - just look at the amount of Arduino-compatible hardware which is produced there. Since nearly all hardware is produced in China anyway the existence of such a standard would only make it easier for the designers of those low-price mobile internet devices which are currently on offer. It would make those devices more interesting as well. Since there is as good as no brand loyalty to these suppliers they will not care about any reduced profits stemming from the replacement of buy-use-retire by buy-use-upgrade-use-retire - they'd just supply materials for the upgrade cycle.
Slashdot is soliciting readers to ask questions, the answers to which will be delivered by you through a web server, to be consumed by readers on their media browsing devices.
Does not this very process violate one of your 'patents'? I'm sure a creative patent lawyer can interpret your 'patents' in a way that covers this process.
Do I owe you money now? Not that I intend to pay, just out of interest.
It is rather fashionable to dislike Google. Google is supposed to be tearing down the fabric of society, stone by stone. Even though several other companies are busily chipping away at the same stones - Facebook, Microsoft, the Social-hype-du-jour, etc - they don't get the type of special attention Google gets.
And now Google presents the penultimate society destroyer, creating a distributed panopticon of world-wide proportions. It is not relevant whether Glass actually will do all the bad stuff the detractors claim. What matters is that Glass is 'proof' of Google's bad intentions.
In a few years, other companies will create their own augmented reality devices. Microsoft will adapt their Kinect 3D-scanner to fit in a pair of spectacles, Apple will do the iGlasses, etc. Microsoft's product will be met with ridicule because it makes you look like those dorks from Weird Science. It will map your environment, helping Microsoft to expand their own mapping efforts to all 'public' areas, inside and out. It won't map your private quarters, unless told to do so by the relevant authorities. Apple's iGlasses will be hailed as the next coming of your favourite prophet, finally it is done right, opening up new markets, just working seamlessly together with the other iTools, how do they do it. Some people might grumble over Apple doing all those bad things which Google Glass was supposed to do but hey, it is their product, they can do with it what they want, if you don't like it, don't buy it - the same argument used to meet criticism on other parts of their walled garden. For some reason the iGlasses don't make you look like a dork, even though they look quite similar to Microsoft's product.
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Once is enough, there is no need to repeat your comments in the same thread. If you thought you'd be more convincing that way you're wrong as the opposite is true.
I'd go one step further and refrain from using any official certificate authorities. Given that security at these places seems to be lacking (as shown by several compromised CA's in recent history) I see no reason to trust them. Given the benefits of being able to launch undetected MitM attacks I'd assume them to be compromised by a TLA (of FLA for those countries which tend to use wordier acronyms).
For your own purposes you can create your own CA. If you're a business you'll have to get your customers to install your CA into their browser/phone/etc. Given the media attention around the Snowden revelations you just have to point out that the CA's which come pre-installed are most likely compromised.
In the linked BULLRUN document, in section 6 ('BULLRUN sensitivity and coverage') it clearly mentions SSH as one of the covered protocols so the answer is yes. As to whether this coverage is due to some publicly-unknown (but NSA-available) weakness in the SSH protocol, in common implementations, in the used cyphers or enacted case-by-case through man-in-the-middle attacks is of course unknown.
You don't actually need those Google services to run whatever you want on your device. It is easy and painless togo without, either by using one of the ccompeting 'app stores' or by foregoing on the app store concept altogether and installing whatever you want manually - as I've done since day 1 on android. So yes, android is open source and can be used like any other open source system.
OK, 'Terrorists' are trying to enter the TLAs. One in five has 'significant terrorist connections'.
This reminds me of something I read in the local newspaper (run it trough a translator if you don't read Swedish) here in Sweden. A newspaper which is mostly based in TrollhÃttan, a city which has locations for GKN Aerospace, Saab and similar industries. It also has a junior college where you can study several disciplines of engineering, aerospace unsurprisingly being one of them.
Enter someone by the given name of Hussein. 16 years old, comes out in top of his class and is accepted to the GKN aerospace program, his first choice. Thus far nothing out of the ordinary, a disciplined student getting good results and seemingly on a track for a career in the field he has chosen.
Enter the American connection. Not more than half a day after he started his education he was called to the principle's office and told he was not allowed to continue his education. Not because he misbehaved. Not because he was not qualified. Only because he happens to be born in Iraq, a country which is on an American export embargo list. Given that GKN seems to have to abide by American export laws - even though we're talking about a Swedish subsidiary of a British company - they 'can not allow him to access the buildings in which American technology is handled'.
Hussein moved from Iraq to Sweden when he was 3 years old. He has lived in Sweden for 13 years. He is a Swedish citizen. He is born in the wrong country.
Are those maybe the 'significant terrorist connections' the TLAs are so worried about?
I think that needs just a little more cowbell:
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There. Done. Ship it.
Neither of them are carriers. USS Enterprise is a carrier. Politicians may have egos the size of carriers but that seems to go with their career choice.
For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in collegeâ"when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan...
Now I finally understand why so many failed suits get large sums of money to leave the companies they mismanaged. It is simply profitable to pay the 'bags to pack their bags.
Oh yes, oodles of 'm. We find 'm, we fix 'm. You can use those fixes for free, nearly no strings attached.
If Linux does not work for you I'd just go and pay someone for something that does work if I were you. Just don't come complaining about the bugs which are not fixed or those which are fixed but force you to buy a newer version. Don't complain about missing hardware support.
BTW, I don't understand what you mean by 'getting blacklisted for posting fixes which are more than ten lines long'. While the discourse on LKML can be somewhat rough I don't recognise your description as fitting.
No they should not. Network monitoring means the same as it always did. Just like hacking still means the same as it did before the term got hijacked. There'll be quite a few hackers using network monitors at this moment. Most of them are doing their job, making sure that the network does what it is supposed to do. Some of them are doing their job, attempting to snoop on the network traffic.
You don't rename a butcher knife just because it has been used in a crime, do you?
Uhhh... you seem to underestimate the hoards of the ultra-rich. Even a relatively small-time billionaire (Euro or Dollar) with only a billion or two to his name is easily richer than 1000 average people - unless you think average people have access to a million. According to Forbes the average worth of the top-400 richest in the US was $4.2 billion in 2012...
Well, it is actually pretty simple to predict their next step. Take the original logo in SVG format and run it through a complexity-reduction filter (inkscape has one). VoilÃ, you just made the first 'new' logo. Do this again and you have the next iteration. We're now at generation 4, be the first to show the next logo and impress your social network 'friends'...
OK, thanks for the reply and I'll file that bug (or code up an OpenID authenticator for that Django app and file that instead). Silly how it explicitly requires you to configure Facebook, I started by spoofing Twitter but that was not satisfactory...
I gave it a try, installed the source, followed the instructions, opened the page in a browser and... was greeted by an error message telling me it needed a 'Facebook app' or some other social drivel.
Facebook? Are they serious? I opened a bug report:
I thought to give Fidus a try by installing the source and following the directions. When I tried to log in to my freshly minted server it told me I couldn't because I had not configured a 'Facebook app'. Looking through the Django config page I noticed it only gives the options of using Facebook, Twitter and Google. Neither of these are acceptable in any environment which has even the slightest respect for an author's privacy and confidentiality.
Please make it possible to use Fidus using either a 'private' 'social' 'app' (lots of quotes there, for different reasons) or by foregoing on the social fad entirely. Since Fidus seems to be about getting work done I don't see the need for more 'social' distraction anyway.
That is a silly response to a sensible answer. If you don't understand why, please think about it for a moment or two. Think about the open software development model in relation to closed, proprietary hardware.
Still don't understand why your answer does not make sense?
Here is a black box. The box can be made to produce sound. I'm not going to tell you how to prod it to make sound because that is my very own secret. Now you make it produce sound.
What? No sound? Why not?
What do you mean 'no idea how to make it produce sound'? Why do you people always give the same response? I ask you to do a simple thing and this is what I get.
Now you understand?
While it would be nice if Android updates were available to all who wanted them regardless of which phone they happened to be using, I'll gladly take the current situation over any 'benevolent dictator' type of forced software distribution. For those who like their 'experience' to be managed by a commercial entity there is Apple. For those who prefer to do things their own way, Android is so far ahead of the closed Apple world that they might as well be from another planet.
The comparison with the Dell running Windows fails since the user is free to install Linux on said Dell without voiding the warranty or breaking one of those silly DMCA-type laws. Try that on an iProduct...
The simple solution to this problem is to only use lighting when it is really needed, ie. when there is a human within range who wants to have some extra light. As soon as the human is gone, switch of the light. Use a motion sensor adjusted to human-sized objects so it does not trigger every time the neighbour's cat comes wandering by. Aim it so it does not get triggered by passers-by who have no intention of entering the designated area.
Night time is supposed to be dark. Make it so. Turn it off!
Where did that happen? It is perfectly legal for me to gain root on any device I own, never mind what any EULA might state.
I think you'd be better off getting some training in warding off aggressive persons in as quick and effective a way as possible (eg. Krav Maga, etc) than some bone-headed 'until his blood spurted out all over my shirt' action. The former would probably be seen as rightful self defence while the latter sounds more like a punishable offence.
...but I have not been able to put a finger on what is was.
'To question not be or to be, the question that is'...
'The needs of the one outweigh the needs of the few, or the many'
'Ask not what you can do for your country but ask what your country can do for you'
'To each according by their means, by each according to their needs'
'It was a giant step for man, a small step for mankind'
Something just did not seem right... now I know.
The license bit is covered by several free software licenses. Just keep to using free software and you stay clear from that part of the New World Order. You don't need to read the EULA because there is no EULA, only a distribution LA. You can even use some of that free software to thwart those ThreeLetterAgencies who are so interested in your computing habits.
To me this whole coming-out of the spies only provides yet another means to show my less-aware friends and family that just because they're not concerned it does not mean someone is not out to get them, even if all they're after for now is records of all their communications. Now the alternatives offered by free software are not only cheaper and less obnoxious (yes, Windows 8.x, I'm looking at you), they're also less susceptible to prying eyes.
Methinks someone should rewrite the lyrics to that Coldplay song about spies coming out of the water. This time, they're coming out of the router.
With all these small, smaller and smaller yet again modules popping up left and right for often lower and lower prices - or at least higher performance/price ratios - it gets more and more interesting to decide upon a standard small-size docking connector. This connector should offer access to a display interface, fast external storage, USB, power, etc. Everythin needed to interface it to a 'slab' containing a screen, UI actuators, camera(s), sensors, a power supply and the like.
Using these two components you can 'build' or 'upgrade' those mobile internet devices which currently get left on the shelves because their processing capacity is deemed to anaemic by modern standards. Done right it would not add much to the total price of the device but it would expand the capabilities markedly.
Something like this would not be launched by any big brand as they like the buy-use-retire cycle as it is more profitable - for them. If the standard existed and their was demand in the market that demand *would* be fulfilled from suppliers in China - just look at the amount of Arduino-compatible hardware which is produced there. Since nearly all hardware is produced in China anyway the existence of such a standard would only make it easier for the designers of those low-price mobile internet devices which are currently on offer. It would make those devices more interesting as well. Since there is as good as no brand loyalty to these suppliers they will not care about any reduced profits stemming from the replacement of buy-use-retire by buy-use-upgrade-use-retire - they'd just supply materials for the upgrade cycle.
Time for YetAnotherKickStarterProject...?
Slashdot is soliciting readers to ask questions, the answers to which will be delivered by you through a web server, to be consumed by readers on their media browsing devices.
Does not this very process violate one of your 'patents'? I'm sure a creative patent lawyer can interpret your 'patents' in a way that covers this process.
Do I owe you money now? Not that I intend to pay, just out of interest.
It is rather fashionable to dislike Google. Google is supposed to be tearing down the fabric of society, stone by stone. Even though several other companies are busily chipping away at the same stones - Facebook, Microsoft, the Social-hype-du-jour, etc - they don't get the type of special attention Google gets.
And now Google presents the penultimate society destroyer, creating a distributed panopticon of world-wide proportions. It is not relevant whether Glass actually will do all the bad stuff the detractors claim. What matters is that Glass is 'proof' of Google's bad intentions.
In a few years, other companies will create their own augmented reality devices. Microsoft will adapt their Kinect 3D-scanner to fit in a pair of spectacles, Apple will do the iGlasses, etc. Microsoft's product will be met with ridicule because it makes you look like those dorks from Weird Science. It will map your environment, helping Microsoft to expand their own mapping efforts to all 'public' areas, inside and out. It won't map your private quarters, unless told to do so by the relevant authorities. Apple's iGlasses will be hailed as the next coming of your favourite prophet, finally it is done right, opening up new markets, just working seamlessly together with the other iTools, how do they do it. Some people might grumble over Apple doing all those bad things which Google Glass was supposed to do but hey, it is their product, they can do with it what they want, if you don't like it, don't buy it - the same argument used to meet criticism on other parts of their walled garden. For some reason the iGlasses don't make you look like a dork, even though they look quite similar to Microsoft's product.