He's welcome to try to carve out a space for civilized discourse, but it seems that he can't help alienating the Net-savvy whenever he opens his mouth to speak of it.
Maybe I'm not as 1337 as "the Net-savvy" but what on earth is wrong with requiring registration, logging IPs and banning abusers?
I appreciate the submitter's generosity in allowing him to try, though.
Blah, if people won't install your app for any of these reasons then they are important.
No Windows user is going to not use your app because C++ is out of fashion on that platform. Only the dumbest Linux users would do something like that.
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Just ask four friends (vocally) whether a name just sounds vaguely nonsensical or might be misunderstood as something else.
This bit of, errr, "wit" is deliberate, not a misunderstanding.
Anyway, it takes a back seat on my list of grievances to all those open-source CMS packages one-upping each other for the most horrible names. At least this is just Excruciating Nerd Humor.
Beyond the usual replies to complaints about the duplication of effort, I'd suggest that worrying about duplication of effort by Enlightenment is particularly unnecessary.
The White House's failure to follow records retention laws was due to deficiencies in Microsoft software?
And it was completely unnecessary as Notes will happily set emails to zero length, without warning, if you archive them to a drive with no remaining space. No Microsoft products needed!
So if you see "no reason to think the same thing couldn't be done for Linux", then you're either a shill, naive, or not thinking.
Dude, calm down.
I'm not interested in arguing whether it's easier to perform some unspecified act on Windows than on Linux under some completely random set of circumstances you just made up. The question is whether, as the submitter claims and the editor believes, that Windows has a deliberately engineered backdoor to which your local police have the key. It does not, and Windows and Linux are therefore (very roughly) back on the same playing field. That's all.
The thing cracks passwords and gives access to the content of the machine without a single reboot, so I guess it needs quite a wide security hole in the currently running operating system to do that.
I get what you're saying, but think you're reading way too much into that one sentence, particularly to draw a conclusion as dramatic as Microsoft installing backdoors and then handing out cracking devices like Halloween candy.
It basically bypasses all of the Windows security...
The article is extremely vague, but I don't see where this assertion came from. It sounds like they're distributing USB drives with a collection of cracking and monitoring tools; like what any self-respecting 1337 h4x0r carries around with him. If that's correct, there's no reason to think the same thing couldn't be done for Linux.
NSA isn't a god-like organization. They have limits like anyone else.
Sure, but the question isn't whether it's likely that they can break PGP, or whether, even if they could, they'd expend those resources on some loser jihadis in Oregon. The question is whether the bizarre "lawyers dont no how to use teh computarz!!" spin of this story is justified.
It may seem like cheating to use human error to break the crypto, but in the real world, humans make errors all the time, so you can rely on it in your investigations.
OK, but that just makes my point better than I did!!
My understanding is that there's no credible reason to believe that Sturgeon killed anybody, let alone eight people. That he's a delusional nut who claims to be a serial killer might be relevant (I'd say so) but the way it's framed here is misleading.
Basically, a well-resourced, determined attacked doesn't have to crack PGP itself.
Anyway, who says the NSA can't crack PGP? Some crypto-fanboy showing off how much smarterer he is than lawyers who make no claim of security expertise and have a professional obligation to err on the side of caution?
It's designed to plug in as easily as possible to enable you to give cash as easily as possible to Microsoft. Clever eh?
Compared to IBM's plan of investing decades in a groupware platform where the centerpiece functionality is the most horrible email application in the history of telecommunication? Yes, Microsoft's plan does seem pretty diabolically clever by comparison.
The main root cause for (1) is that it was very early if not first at quite a few things.
Agreed, but a) superior solutions have been found for all of those things and b) at a certain point you have to give in to the fact that all other software has converged on certain conventions and users aren't going to cut you slack for your old skool status.
The main problem with (2) is that since it's so easy, everyone is a Notes developer.
Yeah, the Notes apologists always say that: it's not Notes, it's just that your idiot admins didn't configure it correctly. But that's absurd. Basic functionality (like the freaking email client!) should be adequate out of the box, like it is in every other email application developed or updated in the last decade.
Everyone already does that. That's one of the reasons that Celerons used to be so popular with the overclocker crowd. When Intel didn't have enough of one kind of Celeron but had too many of another, they would mark down the faster chips or disable some cache on a P3.
That may have happened, but usually when chips are marked down it's because they didn't perform within specs in the higher slot. The fact that they don't show obvious problems in the hands of an overclocker doesn't mean they didn't meet the maker's QC cutoffs.
Derene may have some meat behind his newly-coined term: 'faceboogle.'
I literally spit out a mouthful of Diet Coke upon reading that. "Faceboogle" replaces "blogmarklet" as The Worst New Word Ever. (Although it's still less annoying than "__? Not so much.)
Let's say I have a dataset where 1000 people have each reviewed 20 movies. If I give you a set with five reviews blanked out for each person, how accurately can you predict them from the other 15?
If you're the CEO of a major corporation (or the admin who reads and prioritizes his email for him), you're crazy to be clicking on something like that even if it were guaranteed to be real. That's what you have a legion of lawyers for.
One who can not reach the youth is not qualified to lead a country.
The people affected by this aren't running to lead Malaysia (and eventually be assaulted by Derek Zoolander). It's roughly equivalent to the Young Republicans or College Democrats adopting such a policy.
Secondly he, and his staff did follow proper support procedures. Its right there that they can go directly to the engineers for a major issue if the managers are notified, which they were.
My impression is that the procedure assumed a good faith by the support people to clear the problem, and that Eric, instead of digging in his heels on the deployment and lack of training or coming up with an alternative training plan, decided to play it as "OK, if you're not gonna let us train, then there's nothing we can do but take everything directly to you."
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Maybe I'm not as 1337 as "the Net-savvy" but what on earth is wrong with requiring registration, logging IPs and banning abusers?
I appreciate the submitter's generosity in allowing him to try, though.
No Windows user is going to not use your app because C++ is out of fashion on that platform. Only the dumbest Linux users would do something like that.
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This bit of, errr, "wit" is deliberate, not a misunderstanding.
Anyway, it takes a back seat on my list of grievances to all those open-source CMS packages one-upping each other for the most horrible names. At least this is just Excruciating Nerd Humor.
Beyond the usual replies to complaints about the duplication of effort, I'd suggest that worrying about duplication of effort by Enlightenment is particularly unnecessary.
The bizarre characterization of this as a discovery instead of an invention originates in the paper itself.
And while I can see some random journalist not understanding that, surely CmdrTaco, of all people, does...?
And it was completely unnecessary as Notes will happily set emails to zero length, without warning, if you archive them to a drive with no remaining space. No Microsoft products needed!
Dude, calm down.
I'm not interested in arguing whether it's easier to perform some unspecified act on Windows than on Linux under some completely random set of circumstances you just made up. The question is whether, as the submitter claims and the editor believes, that Windows has a deliberately engineered backdoor to which your local police have the key. It does not, and Windows and Linux are therefore (very roughly) back on the same playing field. That's all.
I get what you're saying, but think you're reading way too much into that one sentence, particularly to draw a conclusion as dramatic as Microsoft installing backdoors and then handing out cracking devices like Halloween candy.
Could you please point out the part of the story where you and the submitter are getting this "bypassing security" thing from?
The article is extremely vague, but I don't see where this assertion came from. It sounds like they're distributing USB drives with a collection of cracking and monitoring tools; like what any self-respecting 1337 h4x0r carries around with him. If that's correct, there's no reason to think the same thing couldn't be done for Linux.
Sure, but the question isn't whether it's likely that they can break PGP, or whether, even if they could, they'd expend those resources on some loser jihadis in Oregon. The question is whether the bizarre "lawyers dont no how to use teh computarz!!" spin of this story is justified.
It may seem like cheating to use human error to break the crypto, but in the real world, humans make errors all the time, so you can rely on it in your investigations.
OK, but that just makes my point better than I did!!
My understanding is that there's no credible reason to believe that Sturgeon killed anybody, let alone eight people. That he's a delusional nut who claims to be a serial killer might be relevant (I'd say so) but the way it's framed here is misleading.
Anyway, who says the NSA can't crack PGP? Some crypto-fanboy showing off how much smarterer he is than lawyers who make no claim of security expertise and have a professional obligation to err on the side of caution?
Compared to IBM's plan of investing decades in a groupware platform where the centerpiece functionality is the most horrible email application in the history of telecommunication? Yes, Microsoft's plan does seem pretty diabolically clever by comparison.
Agreed, but a) superior solutions have been found for all of those things and b) at a certain point you have to give in to the fact that all other software has converged on certain conventions and users aren't going to cut you slack for your old skool status.
The main problem with (2) is that since it's so easy, everyone is a Notes developer.
Yeah, the Notes apologists always say that: it's not Notes, it's just that your idiot admins didn't configure it correctly. But that's absurd. Basic functionality (like the freaking email client!) should be adequate out of the box, like it is in every other email application developed or updated in the last decade.
That may have happened, but usually when chips are marked down it's because they didn't perform within specs in the higher slot. The fact that they don't show obvious problems in the hands of an overclocker doesn't mean they didn't meet the maker's QC cutoffs.
I literally spit out a mouthful of Diet Coke upon reading that. "Faceboogle" replaces "blogmarklet" as The Worst New Word Ever. (Although it's still less annoying than "__? Not so much.)
How does one get to become "high geek", anyway?
Let's say I have a dataset where 1000 people have each reviewed 20 movies. If I give you a set with five reviews blanked out for each person, how accurately can you predict them from the other 15?
Clever scheme, though.
Is this a case of Wikipedia vandalism, or does his insatiable attention-whoring extend to ruining his poor daughter's life?
The people affected by this aren't running to lead Malaysia (and eventually be assaulted by Derek Zoolander). It's roughly equivalent to the Young Republicans or College Democrats adopting such a policy.
My impression is that the procedure assumed a good faith by the support people to clear the problem, and that Eric, instead of digging in his heels on the deployment and lack of training or coming up with an alternative training plan, decided to play it as "OK, if you're not gonna let us train, then there's nothing we can do but take everything directly to you."