Listen, I get what you're saying. But this is DC comics for crying out loud. They make comic books. Young boys/girls read these and they live as super heroes for a few moments in their lives.
DC is selling dreams to the youngest and young at heart.
I guess there are no more dreams. Corporations have sucked all the money and anything of value from our once great country. I guess it is only right that they also destroy our dreams.
I am rarely at a loss for words. DC comics has me just shaking my head. They say that boycotts rarely work but from now on I will never buy or see anything that DC makes. Because it is the right thing.
I will stick with my original analysis. Like I said above, people depend on Truecrypt to keep their secrets and if those secrets are found, people can die! I am not crazy here. This is the world we live in.
Everything related to Truecrypt must be dissected carefully. Snowden proved to us all that we cannot be over paranoid. Think about it. Prior to Snowden, if I told you that the NSA processed all data between Google's datacenters, also Yahoo, MS... would you believe me ?
The NSA revelations have made everyone very paranoid. Maybe that's what the NSA is really after. However, the fact that Snowden trusted Truecrypt says something.
On the other hand, maybe Snowden is a double agent and he only released low level intelligence so someone out there stops trusting their Truecrypt volume and decrypt it. Then the NSA can get their hands on the real data: The plan of the Aliens and the Illuminati to take over the world.
Maybe. In view of recent NSA developments and discoveries, do you think I'm unjustified in being VERY careful about what I read and how I read it? If Snowden did nothing else, he made us aware just how deep and dark the NSA chest of secrets is.
He says: "I am sorry, but I think what you're asking for here is impossible."
As a developer, he uses the term "impossible". Nobody says "impossible" in a development framework. You could say "difficult" or "expensive" but not "impossible". He says "impossible" because he is telling us in specific terms:
It is "impossible" to use the current code base because it has been compromised. He can't talk about it. He is under court order or some fucking thing.
Since he cant tell us where the compromise is he says fuck it all and start from scratch. He is very specific.
Look, if the developer of an encryption product says the product is not secure and it is impossible to fix, I take that as:
I agree with you 100%. Here in NYC, there are countless victims of such practice. Buy a company, borrow against it, dump all employees, so it shows a profit and resell down the line. Screw the workers and screw the company name. American business at it's finest.
I cannot for the life of me fathom a company, in this age of internet and instant news, doing this. I have purchased some things from Kingston before and I was fine with the company. However, after reading this, they are on my lifetime shit list. That is also true for anyone reading the story. And you can bet that Digg, reddit and a few other popular sites will be running the story shortly.
In other words, Kingston is fucked, with a capital F. Even if the company president comes over and cleans my house for a month, the bad name will prevail. These guys are morons.
Lockett, 38, was convicted of the killing of 19-year-old, Stephanie Neiman, in 1999. She was shot and buried alive. Lockett was also convicted of raping her friend in the violent home invasion that lead to Neiman's death.
You feel bad for this POS? You are stupid motherfucker. Fuck you.
None of the stories, CNN, HuffPost, NYT mention the victims. Fuck this guy. What happenned was perfect justice. They should've kept this POS alive and keep doing this for days, weeks even. That's justice.
Apple is "not even trying" because they can't. They have: No standard release dates. No patch system worth a shit, everything runs from that stupid "System Update". No enterprise level system tools (individual patch details), on and on...
They are worse that Windows. Much worse.
And as far as being "self-righteous", well, I can be that because I am right.
Let me take a second to applaud Red Hat for doing this. This is why they own the Enterprise Linux market.
Their thinking, in a nutshell, is this: Give the software (CentOS) to small companies. Get kids right out of college using it to build their home servers. Get everyone comfortable with CentOS/RHEL. When it is time to buy, they will buy RH. Simple.
Here in NYC, Linux jobs are 99.99% RH/CentOS. Because CentOS is free, anyone can download it and test it. No disabled features, nothing. You want a job in Wall St? Download CentOS, sit down and learn the thing and then you WILL get a job! I guarantee it!
Microsoft, Oracle, Apple take note: This is how you own a market. Not by squeezing every penny out of your customers.
That's why Apple will never break into the Enterprise market. This is why Microsoft has lost the Enterprise market and this is how Oracle will fuck off and die soon (hopefully).
Personally, I was a Slackware guy, for my home machines, but CentOS has won me over. Now, it is the only thing I use.
One more thing: I work in Wall St. and I use RH/CentOS every single day.
Mr. Arthur Chu is too polite to say it but I'm not.
Gee, I'm sorry that he plays to win and in a new and smart way. I'm sorry you are all a bunch of dumb motherfuckers. I'm sorry that he interrupted your sorry-ass motherfucking lives. I'm sorry that he didn't play by your imaginary rules. I'm sorry for your sad existence where a game is all you live for.
Why don't you go eat your microwave dinner and drink for your miserable excuse for a life. Then cry yourself to sleep over the universe's cruelty.
I currently work for a major New York based media outfit with a huge Datacener. Naturally, I have created a duplicate setup in my bedroom/lab. Hint: VMWARE
Kidding, just kidding... Seriously, only a few hundred boxes:P
Even more seriously, old machines are perfect for tasks like that. In my real lab at home, a have a few Sun boxes (poor, poor Sun). and about a dozen machines that run whatever I want them to.
Everybody has at least 16GB RAM, ~2.5-2.8GHz multicore CPU's and plenty of disk space.
Each box is worth less than $100.00 on eBay. Sometimes I get them when they reached end of life at work and we throw them out.
If you are a real SA, then you use slack. This is my quick, 1 line, summary of most distributions today:
1. Fedora -- Fuck no. I want my video to work. 2. Centos -- Not too bad actually. The only thing I would run other than Slack. 3 RH - No! I dont have $10,000.00 a month for support. 4. Debian -- De-what ? Die motherfucker! 5. Ubuntu -- Ubu-suck-my-dick -- another African word that means suck-my-dick 6. BSD -- Hey, listen to me: Fuck off. Go play with OSX... bitch! 7... Whatever...
Yeah, I run Slack, I compile my own kernel, I build my packages from source. I kill and eat my food. I live in the woods. Grrrrr.... Now leave me alone people. I have a Word document I need to finish, for management:P
As others have pointed out, if you are going to do serious research, you dont want to mess around with the latest and greatest. Stick with something that has been around and works. COBOL is that language!
Ha! Made you smile:P
Seriously tho, use C or FORTRAN. Nothing beats them for optimization and speed. Cheers!
OK, I have to be truthful here. I did purchase a single Apple Cinema HD 30" monitor and the damn thing cost me $1,500++ So, I checked out Newegg and the HP LP3065 was a dream come true: 3 Dual-link-DVI inputs and $1,100.00 price tag.
So, I had 1 single Apple 30" display and 5 HP ones.
About 5 months ago, I read somewhere a review of the eBay 2650x1600 30" Korean monitors and the review was all praise. Which is a good thing for me because my Apple Cinema HD just bit the dust 2 weeks ago.
So, I tried to see if I can fix the damn thing but there is little info on the web about replacement parts. I still cant find a Maintenance Manual. Not to mention that the whole unit is like glued together and difficult to fix. No wonder it blew up. There are no holes for hot air to escape. Stupid shit....
Back to my post. No, I would not spend a premium on an Apple display, but if I wanted to get a 30" I no longer can. Not because nobody makes them but because Apple thinks that "most of it's customers do not want a monitor that big".
What really REALLY, bugs me is that I have a friend who had a 30" display and he had to settle for a second 27" (because he only buys Apple) and when I asked him about it he was: "Yeah, I think Apple is right. 27" is the way to go."
I told him that he was a dipshit that drank the cool aid. We had a major fight. Still not talking.
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In the case of Donald Rumsfeld, it should say: "Evil, alien lizard who eats Mexican babies and puppies."
You are even more cynical than I am. Good job!
So true!
Listen, I get what you're saying. But this is DC comics for crying out loud.
They make comic books. Young boys/girls read these and they live as super heroes
for a few moments in their lives.
DC is selling dreams to the youngest and young at heart.
I guess there are no more dreams. Corporations have sucked all the money
and anything of value from our once great country. I guess it is only right that
they also destroy our dreams.
Let me take a moment to mourn for our nation.
I am rarely at a loss for words. DC comics has me just shaking my head.
They say that boycotts rarely work but from now on I will never buy or see
anything that DC makes. Because it is the right thing.
Fuck these motherfuckers.
Man, I gotta hand it to TrueCrypt for that BitKeeper bit as well.
Pure genius! Maybe one day in the future we will get the answers
to this whole mess.
I will stick with my original analysis. Like I said above, people depend on Truecrypt to keep their secrets and if those secrets are found, people can die! I am not crazy here. This is the world we live in.
Everything related to Truecrypt must be dissected carefully. Snowden proved to us all that we cannot be over paranoid. ...
Think about it. Prior to Snowden, if I told you that the NSA processed all data between Google's datacenters, also Yahoo, MS
would you believe me ?
Fuck! I replied as "Anonymous Coward" by mistake. The above comment was mine.
Sorry...
Dude, you hit the nail on the head!
The NSA revelations have made everyone very paranoid.
Maybe that's what the NSA is really after.
However, the fact that Snowden trusted Truecrypt says something.
On the other hand, maybe Snowden is a double agent and he only released
low level intelligence so someone out there stops trusting their Truecrypt
volume and decrypt it. Then the NSA can get their hands on the real
data: The plan of the Aliens and the Illuminati to take over the world.
Only joking... I hope
Maybe. In view of recent NSA developments and discoveries, do you think I'm unjustified in being VERY careful about what I read and how I read it? If Snowden did nothing else, he made us aware just how deep and dark the NSA chest of secrets is.
Just sayin'
He says:
"I am sorry, but I think what you're asking for here is impossible."
As a developer, he uses the term "impossible". Nobody says
"impossible" in a development framework. You could
say "difficult" or "expensive" but not "impossible".
He says "impossible" because he is telling us in
specific terms:
It is "impossible" to use the current code base because
it has been compromised. He can't talk about it. He is
under court order or some fucking thing.
Since he cant tell us where the compromise is
he says fuck it all and start from scratch.
He is very specific.
Look, if the developer of an encryption product
says the product is not secure and it is impossible
to fix, I take that as:
"Stay the fuck away from this thing".
To be forewarned...
I agree with you 100%. Here in NYC, there are countless victims of such practice.
Buy a company, borrow against it, dump all employees, so it shows a profit
and resell down the line.
Screw the workers and screw the company name. American business at it's finest.
I cannot for the life of me fathom a company, in this age of internet and instant news, doing this. I have purchased some things from Kingston before and I was fine with the company. However, after reading this, they are on my lifetime shit list. That is also true for anyone reading the story. And you can bet that Digg, reddit and a few other popular sites will be running the story shortly.
In other words, Kingston is fucked, with a capital F.
Even if the company president comes over and cleans my house for a month, the bad name will prevail.
These guys are morons.
Fuck you asshole.
From The Guardian:
Lockett, 38, was convicted of the killing of 19-year-old, Stephanie Neiman, in 1999. She was shot and buried alive. Lockett was also convicted of raping her friend in the violent home invasion that lead to Neiman's death.
You feel bad for this POS? You are stupid motherfucker. Fuck you.
And fuck you again.
None of the stories, CNN, HuffPost, NYT mention the victims.
Fuck this guy. What happenned was perfect justice.
They should've kept this POS alive and keep doing this for
days, weeks even. That's justice.
Again: Fuck this guy.
Whaaaat? Are you for real?
Apple is "not even trying" because they can't. They have:
No standard release dates.
No patch system worth a shit, everything runs from that stupid "System Update".
No enterprise level system tools (individual patch details), on and on...
They are worse that Windows. Much worse.
And as far as being "self-righteous", well, I can be that because I am right.
Let me take a second to applaud Red Hat for doing this.
This is why they own the Enterprise Linux market.
Their thinking, in a nutshell, is this:
Give the software (CentOS) to small companies.
Get kids right out of college using it to build their home servers.
Get everyone comfortable with CentOS/RHEL.
When it is time to buy, they will buy RH. Simple.
Here in NYC, Linux jobs are 99.99% RH/CentOS.
Because CentOS is free, anyone can download it and test
it. No disabled features, nothing. You want a job in Wall St?
Download CentOS, sit down and learn the thing and then
you WILL get a job! I guarantee it!
Microsoft, Oracle, Apple take note: This is how you own
a market. Not by squeezing every penny out of your
customers.
That's why Apple will never break into the Enterprise
market. This is why Microsoft has lost the Enterprise
market and this is how Oracle will fuck off and die soon
(hopefully).
Personally, I was a Slackware guy, for my home machines,
but CentOS has won me over. Now, it is the only thing I use.
One more thing: I work in Wall St. and I use RH/CentOS
every single day.
Red Hat, you guys rule. I salute you! Rock on!
Hehehe, Bugs Bunny FTW!
Thank You!
Did I hurt your little feelings?
Mr. Arthur Chu is too polite to say it but I'm not.
Gee, I'm sorry that he plays to win and in a new and smart way.
I'm sorry you are all a bunch of dumb motherfuckers.
I'm sorry that he interrupted your sorry-ass motherfucking lives.
I'm sorry that he didn't play by your imaginary rules.
I'm sorry for your sad existence where a game is all you
live for.
Why don't you go eat your microwave dinner and drink for your
miserable excuse for a life. Then cry yourself to sleep
over the universe's cruelty.
Boo-fucking-hoo!!!!
Fucking losers...
Weirdo!
I currently work for a major New York based media outfit
with a huge Datacener. Naturally, I have created
a duplicate setup in my bedroom/lab.
Hint: VMWARE
Kidding, just kidding... :P
Seriously, only a few hundred boxes
Even more seriously, old machines are perfect for
tasks like that. In my real lab at home, a have a few Sun boxes
(poor, poor Sun). and about a dozen machines that run
whatever I want them to.
Everybody has at least 16GB RAM, ~2.5-2.8GHz multicore
CPU's and plenty of disk space.
Each box is worth less than $100.00 on eBay.
Sometimes I get them when they reached end
of life at work and we throw them out.
Noise is no problem. Everybody is nice
and quiet.
If you are a real SA, then you use slack.
This is my quick, 1 line, summary of most
distributions today:
1. Fedora -- Fuck no. I want my video to work.
2. Centos -- Not too bad actually. The only thing I would run other than Slack.
3 RH - No! I dont have $10,000.00 a month for support.
4. Debian -- De-what ? Die motherfucker!
5. Ubuntu -- Ubu-suck-my-dick -- another African word that means suck-my-dick
6. BSD -- Hey, listen to me: Fuck off. Go play with OSX... bitch!
7... Whatever...
Yeah, I run Slack, I compile my own kernel, I build my packages from source. :P
I kill and eat my food. I live in the woods. Grrrrr....
Now leave me alone people. I have a Word document I need to finish,
for management
As others have pointed out, if you are going to do serious research,
you dont want to mess around with the latest and greatest.
Stick with something that has been around and works.
COBOL is that language!
Ha! Made you smile :P
Seriously tho, use C or FORTRAN. Nothing beats them for optimization and speed.
Cheers!
OK, I have to be truthful here. I did purchase a single Apple Cinema HD 30" monitor and the damn thing cost me $1,500++
So, I checked out Newegg and the HP LP3065 was a dream come true: 3 Dual-link-DVI inputs and $1,100.00 price tag.
So, I had 1 single Apple 30" display and 5 HP ones.
About 5 months ago, I read somewhere a review of the eBay 2650x1600 30" Korean
monitors and the review was all praise. Which is a good thing for me because
my Apple Cinema HD just bit the dust 2 weeks ago.
So, I tried to see if I can fix the damn thing but there is little info on the web about replacement parts.
I still cant find a Maintenance Manual. Not to mention that the whole unit is like glued together
and difficult to fix. No wonder it blew up. There are no holes for hot air to escape. Stupid shit....
Back to my post. No, I would not spend a premium on an Apple display, but if I wanted to
get a 30" I no longer can. Not because nobody makes them but because Apple thinks
that "most of it's customers do not want a monitor that big".
What really REALLY, bugs me is that I have a friend who had a 30" display and he had to settle
for a second 27" (because he only buys Apple) and when I asked him about it
he was: "Yeah, I think Apple is right. 27" is the way to go."
I told him that he was a dipshit that drank the cool aid. We had a major fight. Still not talking.
Life, you gotta love it...