I've always wanted to suggest an experiment to flat earthers. Take 3 ships to the Antarctic ring. (Is that what they's call it?) Equip the ships with beacons so they can tell the distance and direction between them. Just in case there is some curvature to the earth go with short wave instead of something that requires line of sight. (The illuminati might try to block the signal that way.)
Send two of the boats in opposite directions following the shore of the Antarctic ring. Park the 3rd boat at the edge of Antarctica. Then just record the relative distances and direction of each of the ships from the others until the 2 traveling ships meet on the opposite side of the disk/world(?). The for fun have them circle back to the parked ship recording more telemetry. Maybe throw in some support aircraft to further gather more telemetry. Maybe also have listening stations elsewhere on earth also monitoring. All of this being carried out by flat earthers. (The rest of us can listen in to, but those officially involved in running the experiment must be flat earthers.)
Then let them analyze the data and explain what they find. (I'm eager to hear that part.) Am I missing anything?
And with a little bit of internet searching, you'd see that even at telemetry level "zero" windows 10 enterprise (and a few other variants of windows 10 that offer telemetry level zero) still sends telemetry data back to Microsoft. In other words, even in windows 10 enterprise, you can't completely disable telemetry.
This is a great idea, and I'm ready to contribute.
If you do a lot of reading, paragrasp is excellent for highlighting the current paragragh, list entry, etc. This is a must have! The thought of following my RSS feed without is... oh wait. Right. It doesn't work any more with firefox. *sigh*.
No matter, I got really good at organizing tabs with the tab group feature that Mozilla build into the browser. Then Mozilla removed it, but the functionally was maintained and improved as an addon. It's not for everyone, but once you start creating groups for topics (the car, open pandora software and reading, software for controlling my guitar multi-effects processor) there's no replacement. Oh wait. That's stopped working too. And there really was no replacement.
But still there are good addons to take advanage of. I've been using tabmix plus for about as long as there has been addon support in firefox. That's been one of the most popular addons I can think of. And... oh, that's still being "ported".
Well, there are still little things you can do with addons. For instance firefox has the nasty mis-feature of putting really useful key binding for things like switching tab or close the current tab right next to the "kill all my web browsers with fire and don't ask twice!" button. There used to be options to disable this or at least force a confirmation, but no more. Then comes an addon to the rescue! to disable Ctrl-Q so you never close the browser by accident. Genius!... Well if you aren't on Linux.... These kind of addons haven't worked on Linux since the addon API was "improved". But no worry! There is a bug report for it. It's been there for 2 years and the most recent comment from 9 months ago when further comments got locked because there was too much advocacy chatter in the bug report for them to be able to fix it. And they aren't sure if they want to fix it. Well, I didn't expect that. Depressing. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
Then there are the really nifty plugins that made firefox more powerful in all sorts of wonderful ways like Chatzilla, Poster, FireFTP... oh. Those kind of things are all gone too I guess.
Well. Perhaps I'm not the one to help with the curated collection of current addons. Still, firerfox is still good. They care about privacy. Well more than any of the other browser makers. And they support an open web. Well more than the others, only giving in and supporting DRM like EME when they "have no choice".
Three cheers for the power, flexibility and principles of the community browser!
Chatzilla
Disable Ctrl-Q Shortcut (No working Linux replacement)
Paragrasp
Tab Groups (Abandoned twice)
Tab Mix Plus
Task Manager (It sucked, but it was better than the current built in one.)
Self-destructing cookies (There are replacements, the one I use doesn't seem to work as nice)
Some cookie manager I used to use to to view the cookies for the current page from page info. I haven't found a replacement. It was indispensable when I had a page being served by some jetty server when I have too many large cookies for the domain. I can only search by domain now or view everything. Well, or I can open the web debugger and dig through the request. In any case, the easy answer is gone and the available option suck and aren't something I could suggest to a coworker having similar trouble.
There were better google tracking link blockers
Super stop worked better
I'm certain there are others I'm forgetting.
This can take anywhere from a handful of milliseconds to multiple entire seconds (what a nightmare!), or longer if your packets get lost in the ether.
Dunno about a nightmare, but it can suck.
User: Wiretap. How late is the hardware store open? ... User: Hello? Wiretap? User: HELLO COMPUT... Wiretap: The hardware store is open until 6pm. User:... ok. Wiretap: I'm sorry. I don't understand compute. ...
Windows 10 is pretty good, most of the "problems" seem more intentional than accidental in that they are simply part of the MS future business plan more than anything else.
That doesn't make it better. You find deliberate, unrepentant malfeasance to be preferable to accidental, incompetent negligence?
Not just professionals. But more than that, the fact that they sent out the first version of Windows 10 configured to automatically send you wireless passwords to every one in any contact list it could find is the kill. Yes they eventually disabled that, but that still made it out the door. It was default behavior.
The idea is to be like Android, ChromeOS or iOS, where the vendor is the systems administrator and you get to be fat, dumb & happy. With that move alone MS proved (like Google) that they can not be trusted to make basic security decisions. Yes, most users can't either, but I've never had anyone mass mail their passwords to everyone they knew before.
And no that's not the only problem with MS but it is enough to disqualify MS from ever putting their computer (they administer it) on my home network.
There is a good language hiding in Javascript, but there is a huge mess of bad there too. There is a reason that there is a book called "Javascript: The Good Parts". The saddest part being that there's still a chapter having to cover some of the "Bad Parts" because of the boundary cases where a "Bad Part" tramples on a "Good Part".
One of Javascript's problems,that it shares with PHP, was that it was never really designed to be much of what it has become. Several of the "Good Parts", like the MOP, was a hack that accidentally could be abused to do really cool things. It's kind of like unchained mode in a VGA adapter. (Although VGA was really engineered, they just didn't block out certain "don't cares" and wound up with some useful side effects.)
Actually, I was assuming something similar. The "I don't want any script in the browser, ever" crowd is the eventual target as the slowly add enough to be able to do the things in CSS that people hates flash & javascript for. They aren't there yet, but I wonder how far they are from it?
Can they implement CSS "Punch the monkey"? Can they embed CSS tracking IDs? Can they obscure link actual link targets with it? Can the exfiltrate information with it?
I wonder if Humble Bundle and others "donate" to anti-vaxxer just because their customers are anti-vaxxers? I know a lot of places started letting you donate a part of your price to any 501c3 of your choice. My guess is the company gets the write off instead of you.
I don't support the anti-vax crowd since an inherited allergy forces me to depend on the herd immunity for the 'R' in MMR. (So get your vaccinations! Fortunately my kids are good, but I'm counting on you!) Still, if I understand right, I suspect the right answer here is to blame Amazon's customers and not Amazon for the contributions. That or blame Amazon for taking contibutions for anything. I don't want a large company to choose who gets to be a charity and who doesn't. It's like Walmart when they were deciding who got to sell music.
More specifically, you don't have to agree to GPL. But if you copy or distribute code without some license from the authors (GPL or otherwise), then you are violating copyright, like any software pirate.
The same is true of MS, Oracle & Adobe. Copying & distributing a work is illegal without some license from the authors granting that permission. Now you have to "click to agree" for MS, Oracle & Adobe because they generally will not grant you a license unless you first agree to surrender other rights that you would otherwise have under the law. (Things like the right modify, reverse engineer, etc).
GPL does not require you to surrender rights or anything else in exchange for the license grant, so authors using GPL are not required to have any explicit agreement. They don't ask for anything of you in exchange for the license and they don't ask you to give up any rights you would otherwise have. You just get the license granting you extra permissions for free. (It seems some people are spiteful because they feel they have the right to demand even more permissions for free. That or they just don't understand the law.)
Just to be clear, you don't even have to give your modifications to the source code the original authors. You just have to give them to anyone you give your compiled code to. In the real world, if your modifications are worth anything, they will find their way back to upstream, but that's not required by GPL.
It also falls short for System's Programming, Infrastructure sorts of things due to it's "least common denominator" support for any system. You can run it in the cloud, but you're going to bend over backwards trying to use it to manage various platforms with it.
They won't know you've bought camera obscuring closes. Your neighbors won't be able to figure out who you are and that you wear the "surveillance proof" make up? It won't become a reason for police to stop you can chat on the street?
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I've always wanted to suggest an experiment to flat earthers. Take 3 ships to the Antarctic ring. (Is that what they's call it?) Equip the ships with beacons so they can tell the distance and direction between them. Just in case there is some curvature to the earth go with short wave instead of something that requires line of sight. (The illuminati might try to block the signal that way.)
Send two of the boats in opposite directions following the shore of the Antarctic ring. Park the 3rd boat at the edge of Antarctica. Then just record the relative distances and direction of each of the ships from the others until the 2 traveling ships meet on the opposite side of the disk/world(?). The for fun have them circle back to the parked ship recording more telemetry. Maybe throw in some support aircraft to further gather more telemetry. Maybe also have listening stations elsewhere on earth also monitoring. All of this being carried out by flat earthers. (The rest of us can listen in to, but those officially involved in running the experiment must be flat earthers.)
Then let them analyze the data and explain what they find. (I'm eager to hear that part.) Am I missing anything?
Your buffer overflows appear to be part of an exploit to replace "Public" with "Proprietary". Better scratch and restore from backups.
And with a little bit of internet searching, you'd see that even at telemetry level "zero" windows 10 enterprise (and a few other variants of windows 10 that offer telemetry level zero) still sends telemetry data back to Microsoft. In other words, even in windows 10 enterprise, you can't completely disable telemetry.
That makes you gleeful? You Windows users really are sadists.
This is a great idea, and I'm ready to contribute.
If you do a lot of reading, paragrasp is excellent for highlighting the current paragragh, list entry, etc. This is a must have! The thought of following my RSS feed without is ... oh wait. Right. It doesn't work any more with firefox. *sigh*.
No matter, I got really good at organizing tabs with the tab group feature that Mozilla build into the browser. Then Mozilla removed it, but the functionally was maintained and improved as an addon. It's not for everyone, but once you start creating groups for topics (the car, open pandora software and reading, software for controlling my guitar multi-effects processor) there's no replacement. Oh wait. That's stopped working too. And there really was no replacement.
But still there are good addons to take advanage of. I've been using tabmix plus for about as long as there has been addon support in firefox. That's been one of the most popular addons I can think of. And ... oh, that's still being "ported".
Well, there are still little things you can do with addons. For instance firefox has the nasty mis-feature of putting really useful key binding for things like switching tab or close the current tab right next to the "kill all my web browsers with fire and don't ask twice!" button. There used to be options to disable this or at least force a confirmation, but no more. Then comes an addon to the rescue! to disable Ctrl-Q so you never close the browser by accident. Genius! ... Well if you aren't on Linux. ... These kind of addons haven't worked on Linux since the addon API was "improved". But no worry! There is a bug report for it. It's been there for 2 years and the most recent comment from 9 months ago when further comments got locked because there was too much advocacy chatter in the bug report for them to be able to fix it. And they aren't sure if they want to fix it. Well, I didn't expect that. Depressing. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
Then there are the really nifty plugins that made firefox more powerful in all sorts of wonderful ways like Chatzilla, Poster, FireFTP ... oh. Those kind of things are all gone too I guess.
Well. Perhaps I'm not the one to help with the curated collection of current addons. Still, firerfox is still good. They care about privacy. Well more than any of the other browser makers. And they support an open web. Well more than the others, only giving in and supporting DRM like EME when they "have no choice".
Three cheers for the power, flexibility and principles of the community browser!
You sound like a giant ass.
Bingo!. That's how the right did it in the 80's. Go after advertiser and sponsors.
Don't let it go to your head. We were all n00bs once.
You can't disable it on Linux. The addons haven't worked on Linux since they crippled addons.
Oh! Challenge accepted.
Chatzilla
Disable Ctrl-Q Shortcut (No working Linux replacement)
Paragrasp
Tab Groups (Abandoned twice)
Tab Mix Plus
Task Manager (It sucked, but it was better than the current built in one.)
Self-destructing cookies (There are replacements, the one I use doesn't seem to work as nice)
Some cookie manager I used to use to to view the cookies for the current page from page info. I haven't found a replacement. It was indispensable when I had a page being served by some jetty server when I have too many large cookies for the domain. I can only search by domain now or view everything. Well, or I can open the web debugger and dig through the request. In any case, the easy answer is gone and the available option suck and aren't something I could suggest to a coworker having similar trouble.
There were better google tracking link blockers
Super stop worked better
I'm certain there are others I'm forgetting.
I still remember when the list of companies who would use GPLv2 code was just as long.
Well, if the budget is 164 billion, and if this mystery fine that's coming is at least 1 billion, then Google single handedly covers for 5% of that.
This can take anywhere from a handful of milliseconds to multiple entire seconds (what a nightmare!), or longer if your packets get lost in the ether.
Dunno about a nightmare, but it can suck.
User: Wiretap. How late is the hardware store open?
... ... ok.
...
User: Hello? Wiretap?
User: HELLO COMPUT...
Wiretap: The hardware store is open until 6pm.
User:
Wiretap: I'm sorry. I don't understand compute.
You said it. You can always recognize new money when you see it.
Windows 10 is pretty good, most of the "problems" seem more intentional than accidental in that they are simply part of the MS future business plan more than anything else.
That doesn't make it better. You find deliberate, unrepentant malfeasance to be preferable to accidental, incompetent negligence?
Not just professionals. But more than that, the fact that they sent out the first version of Windows 10 configured to automatically send you wireless passwords to every one in any contact list it could find is the kill. Yes they eventually disabled that, but that still made it out the door. It was default behavior.
The idea is to be like Android, ChromeOS or iOS, where the vendor is the systems administrator and you get to be fat, dumb & happy. With that move alone MS proved (like Google) that they can not be trusted to make basic security decisions. Yes, most users can't either, but I've never had anyone mass mail their passwords to everyone they knew before.
And no that's not the only problem with MS but it is enough to disqualify MS from ever putting their computer (they administer it) on my home network.
The point is that I am not allowed to choose what updates to install and when
But if the choice were left to people like you, things wouldn't get tested for the enterprise users.
I made the same mistake as you originally. But I had South Park on and realized it was an accent. He's saying "CITY".
There is a good language hiding in Javascript, but there is a huge mess of bad there too. There is a reason that there is a book called "Javascript: The Good Parts". The saddest part being that there's still a chapter having to cover some of the "Bad Parts" because of the boundary cases where a "Bad Part" tramples on a "Good Part".
One of Javascript's problems ,that it shares with PHP, was that it was never really designed to be much of what it has become. Several of the "Good Parts", like the MOP, was a hack that accidentally could be abused to do really cool things. It's kind of like unchained mode in a VGA adapter. (Although VGA was really engineered, they just didn't block out certain "don't cares" and wound up with some useful side effects.)
Actually, I was assuming something similar. The "I don't want any script in the browser, ever" crowd is the eventual target as the slowly add enough to be able to do the things in CSS that people hates flash & javascript for. They aren't there yet, but I wonder how far they are from it?
Can they implement CSS "Punch the monkey"? Can they embed CSS tracking IDs? Can they obscure link actual link targets with it? Can the exfiltrate information with it?
I wonder if Humble Bundle and others "donate" to anti-vaxxer just because their customers are anti-vaxxers? I know a lot of places started letting you donate a part of your price to any 501c3 of your choice. My guess is the company gets the write off instead of you.
I don't support the anti-vax crowd since an inherited allergy forces me to depend on the herd immunity for the 'R' in MMR. (So get your vaccinations! Fortunately my kids are good, but I'm counting on you!) Still, if I understand right, I suspect the right answer here is to blame Amazon's customers and not Amazon for the contributions. That or blame Amazon for taking contibutions for anything. I don't want a large company to choose who gets to be a charity and who doesn't. It's like Walmart when they were deciding who got to sell music.
Wow! ISIS got a 501c3? Who's watch was that under?
More specifically, you don't have to agree to GPL. But if you copy or distribute code without some license from the authors (GPL or otherwise), then you are violating copyright, like any software pirate.
The same is true of MS, Oracle & Adobe. Copying & distributing a work is illegal without some license from the authors granting that permission. Now you have to "click to agree" for MS, Oracle & Adobe because they generally will not grant you a license unless you first agree to surrender other rights that you would otherwise have under the law. (Things like the right modify, reverse engineer, etc).
GPL does not require you to surrender rights or anything else in exchange for the license grant, so authors using GPL are not required to have any explicit agreement. They don't ask for anything of you in exchange for the license and they don't ask you to give up any rights you would otherwise have. You just get the license granting you extra permissions for free. (It seems some people are spiteful because they feel they have the right to demand even more permissions for free. That or they just don't understand the law.)
Just to be clear, you don't even have to give your modifications to the source code the original authors. You just have to give them to anyone you give your compiled code to. In the real world, if your modifications are worth anything, they will find their way back to upstream, but that's not required by GPL.
It also falls short for System's Programming, Infrastructure sorts of things due to it's "least common denominator" support for any system. You can run it in the cloud, but you're going to bend over backwards trying to use it to manage various platforms with it.
They won't know you've bought camera obscuring closes. Your neighbors won't be able to figure out who you are and that you wear the "surveillance proof" make up? It won't become a reason for police to stop you can chat on the street?