A capitalist democracy works if control isn't (strongly) bound to money. The more control certain companies have over your life, the less its a democracy, the more its feudalism, as companies are owned by few people, which isn't a bad thing by itself, this is how capitalism works.
Technology enables everybody who controls it to do more things. You can 3D print guns, you can build spyware into your lightbulbs. At the end of the day, our society has to answer the question: who should control all this new technology? Those who invent it (making patents never expire) and their children, and crime syndicates on the other side (they will always exist)? All who want to learn how technology works? All who want to modify technology for their needs?
In a world without patents or copyright, there would be only curiosity left to drive innovation. But curiosity isn't the force behind capitalism, behind the economy, greed is. Try to build a society out of curiosity, you'll fail. It might be possible with future technological advancements, when we don't need humans to work anymore because all work is done by machines, but not now.
I agree that change itself is neutral, and that species extinction is a natural process just like the creation of new species. The earth has a history of change in its ecosystems. However, as we currently spend our time on this planet, and our lives depend on the hospitability of those ecosystems towards humans, our view isn't neutral. Science and the general thinking process is and should be neutral yes. But the motivation for which we do science has to be biased. This isn't a secluded cave where we study its completely independent ecosystem, here its about our lives.
It might have a very slow internet connection, but it still will be an unwired connection. Wires are much faster and reliable than any satellite, balloon or laser.
These technologies might give us fast internet across the globe, at locations we need it, like after an earthquake. But I doubt whether in the long term they are cheaper than just digging in the earth a bit. The only advantage you get is that this infrastructure is controlled fully by you, as the company sending those balloons into the sky. On the ground you'd have to argue about land ownership, and a government overthrow could assign your precious cable investments to a company owned by the state or the nephew of the self-elected leader of the country.
and thousands of people die the same moment because some terrorist pressed a button. Of course, well informed, as the big data terrorist is, they will find out whether you are a muslim and your wife wears a burqua with even their ankle being covered all day, they will spare your car if you are one.
We only see risks where we've seen the risk actually causing harm. This is also a reason why its so hard to find motivation to fight against climate change.
There are a number of very safe and practical designs for nuclear power today, it's just impossible to get a permit to actually build one because the environmentalists won't let that happen..
The energy corporations don't want to builld new reactor plants, they want to keep old ones in useage, this costs less money. The environmentalists fear that new reactors will be built to insecure standards to spare money.
This problem is a political one. It hardly is a technical one.
Slashdotted even before it comes to slashdot. Lets hope it raises this site's value, I'm sure DHI would get quite a nice price on the black market. You know, sourceforge for the malware distribution (They even did tests already in that direction!), slashdot for the DDOS.
We've read in the news about how prominently mozilla has integrated pocket into its web browser. This isn't the only change into the "closed service" direction they've made. On the other hand, they keep fighting at many fronts for the open web. What is your opinion on what mozilla stood for once, what it is today, and what it is becoming?
He has done this kind of "diashow" for some time now. The first time I saw it it was awesome, now I just ignore the whole story. But very much enjoyed his post on the last "new planet discovered thats even more like earth" news wave: https://medium.com/starts-with...
That former employee that knows the root password or has the keys can't get to it.
Make a good policy, no passwords, only keys, and every employee has one. Then you only have to delete the keys from all boxes, if an employee leaves, done. You will however have to use custom tools for logging, because ssh does only log the key if at VERBOSE loglevel, which you usually don't want.
The current employee that fat fingers a command to the wrong host can't do much damage.
That is, I agree, more likely possible. However if an employee has to do "sudo" all the time, they just start turning their brain off while doing it. Too much "are you sure" harms too.
That thief with a stolen laptop can't use a key to get full access remotely.
If you require your employees to encrypt their keys with a passphrase, which you should do, then this isn't an issue.
disabling root logins has no security benefit at all. Keep the keys secure, everything is fine. In some cases there is a small benefit, but in most there is none.
From your website, I see that "make install" only installs two files, the executable and the manpage, but I prefer keeping my $PATH mostly filled with applications I can update with my package manager.
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These smartwatches are toys. What happens when we put machines in our bodies, giving them control over body functions? Do I have to change implants when I change my employer, because the new one has stricter security guidelines?
What they did is getting a basic overview of which projects need most attention. This is the first stage in improving the situation the most effective way. Now people/companies which have an interest in linux security as a whole (e.g. redhat) have a list of projects they can contribute to, even sorted by which to contribute first. I think the list is incredibly useful. Before heartbleed nobody did this kind of research, or it didn't get any attention.
This is the result if news media take science publications as truth. Of course, most of them are well researched, but even if, every result can be questioned.
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A capitalist democracy works if control isn't (strongly) bound to money. The more control certain companies have over your life, the less its a democracy, the more its feudalism, as companies are owned by few people, which isn't a bad thing by itself, this is how capitalism works.
Technology enables everybody who controls it to do more things. You can 3D print guns, you can build spyware into your lightbulbs. At the end of the day, our society has to answer the question: who should control all this new technology? Those who invent it (making patents never expire) and their children, and crime syndicates on the other side (they will always exist)? All who want to learn how technology works? All who want to modify technology for their needs?
In a world without patents or copyright, there would be only curiosity left to drive innovation. But curiosity isn't the force behind capitalism, behind the economy, greed is. Try to build a society out of curiosity, you'll fail. It might be possible with future technological advancements, when we don't need humans to work anymore because all work is done by machines, but not now.
Is your username an IPFS peer id?
I agree that change itself is neutral, and that species extinction is a natural process just like the creation of new species. The earth has a history of change in its ecosystems. However, as we currently spend our time on this planet, and our lives depend on the hospitability of those ecosystems towards humans, our view isn't neutral. Science and the general thinking process is and should be neutral yes. But the motivation for which we do science has to be biased. This isn't a secluded cave where we study its completely independent ecosystem, here its about our lives.
It might have a very slow internet connection, but it still will be an unwired connection. Wires are much faster and reliable than any satellite, balloon or laser.
These technologies might give us fast internet across the globe, at locations we need it, like after an earthquake. But I doubt whether in the long term they are cheaper than just digging in the earth a bit. The only advantage you get is that this infrastructure is controlled fully by you, as the company sending those balloons into the sky. On the ground you'd have to argue about land ownership, and a government overthrow could assign your precious cable investments to a company owned by the state or the nephew of the self-elected leader of the country.
and thousands of people die the same moment because some terrorist pressed a button. Of course, well informed, as the big data terrorist is, they will find out whether you are a muslim and your wife wears a burqua with even their ankle being covered all day, they will spare your car if you are one.
We only see risks where we've seen the risk actually causing harm. This is also a reason why its so hard to find motivation to fight against climate change.
There are a number of very safe and practical designs for nuclear power today, it's just impossible to get a permit to actually build one because the environmentalists won't let that happen..
The energy corporations don't want to builld new reactor plants, they want to keep old ones in useage, this costs less money. The environmentalists fear that new reactors will be built to insecure standards to spare money.
This problem is a political one. It hardly is a technical one.
My first thought, too.
Slashdotted even before it comes to slashdot. Lets hope it raises this site's value, I'm sure DHI would get quite a nice price on the black market. You know, sourceforge for the malware distribution (They even did tests already in that direction!), slashdot for the DDOS.
We've read in the news about how prominently mozilla has integrated pocket into its web browser. This isn't the only change into the "closed service" direction they've made. On the other hand, they keep fighting at many fronts for the open web. What is your opinion on what mozilla stood for once, what it is today, and what it is becoming?
Star wars movie!
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Where is my nobel prize, I can predict the future by reading the website of DHI, and drawing clues.
He has done this kind of "diashow" for some time now. The first time I saw it it was awesome, now I just ignore the whole story.
But very much enjoyed his post on the last "new planet discovered thats even more like earth" news wave:
https://medium.com/starts-with...
That former employee that knows the root password or has the keys can't get to it.
Make a good policy, no passwords, only keys, and every employee has one. Then you only have to delete the keys from all boxes, if an employee leaves, done. You will however have to use custom tools for logging, because ssh does only log the key if at VERBOSE loglevel, which you usually don't want.
The current employee that fat fingers a command to the wrong host can't do much damage.
That is, I agree, more likely possible. However if an employee has to do "sudo" all the time, they just start turning their brain off while doing it. Too much "are you sure" harms too.
That thief with a stolen laptop can't use a key to get full access remotely.
If you require your employees to encrypt their keys with a passphrase, which you should do, then this isn't an issue.
disabling root logins has no security benefit at all. Keep the keys secure, everything is fine. In some cases there is a small benefit, but in most there is none.
Do you call the first version of your software "2.1"?
From your website, I see that "make install" only installs two files, the executable and the manpage, but I prefer keeping my $PATH mostly filled with applications I can update with my package manager.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/in...
These smartwatches are toys. What happens when we put machines in our bodies, giving them control over body functions? Do I have to change implants when I change my employer, because the new one has stricter security guidelines?
wikivarsity
Just make sure you get the name right on the check.
H and L only differ on the 6th bit. You can't expect from everybody to have all bits right!
... but this time, its with windows 10!
What they did is getting a basic overview of which projects need most attention. This is the first stage in improving the situation the most effective way. Now people/companies which have an interest in linux security as a whole (e.g. redhat) have a list of projects they can contribute to, even sorted by which to contribute first. I think the list is incredibly useful. Before heartbleed nobody did this kind of research, or it didn't get any attention.
This is the result if news media take science publications as truth. Of course, most of them are well researched, but even if, every result can be questioned.
You can tax online gambling too, if you want. Its more direct, and you can keep more of the money as gambling organisation. No kiosk middleman.