So from what I can tell, this entire fiasco is basically some blogger who was clearly ignorant of how enterprise management features that have been present in hardware for *years* having an "OMG YOU TRANSMIT YOUR IP ADDRESS TO THE WORLD EVERY TIME YOU GO TO A WEBSITE!!" moment.
And it wasn't even that original since the same damn hissy fit gets thrown every year or so as memory serves, since this is by no means the first time I've heard the conspiracy theory.
So, either this guy is an idiot (not discounting that at all) or he managed to troll people into generating clicky clicky ad revenue by recycling conspiracy theories. Some of the people being trolled might be willing participants to boot.
Don't worry, they have their own cloned version of the same thing.
Incidentally, most ARM smartphone chips also include similar functionality, but apparently it's only a big deal when a desktop PC has "OMG NSA" parts and not the audio/video recording device with wireless tracking capabilities that the same paranoid idiots carry around with them everywhere they go.
I preduct that MS is waging an all out war on linux+osx and will use all their pressure to increase the UEFI secure boot stuff and make it so that we can't disable it.
Yeah, that conspiracy fantasy sounded dumb 5 years ago when at least it was somewhat new. In the meantime, exactly none of that has happened and Microsoft is not only contributing to plenty of open source projects but is also porting MS SQL server to Linux and is working with Canonical to bring Linux usespace applications to Windows.
I like how your late '90s X-Files wannabe conspiracy radar is completely blind to your pal Google, who with Android has produced a gigantic hardware ecosystem where it is basically impossible to install regular Linux on 99.99% of the devices that are actually available on the market. But yeah, go ahead with your stupid conspiracy theories about what Microsoft might do and give Google a free pass on what it has actually done and continues to do right now. After all, it's still 1998 right?
When Zuckerberg is running the show and agrees with your lefty political positions, all of the sudden Corporations have rights and should be allowed to run the elections as long as they support the "correct" positions.
But the only person who "manufactured" this scandal is one Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The reason that she isn't being indicted isn't because she's some innocent little angel, but because she has the leverage over the current administration and the so-called "independent" attorney general has given her a get-out-of-indictment free card.
How to tell if your post is racist: Replace the politically correct racial target with a politically incorrect one making the exact same statement and wait for SJWs to attack.
Whoppee doo. He just said that Ubuntu won't mess with any of the Debian packages that they rebrand.
So what, it's the same thing.
Now, a real pledge would be that Ubuntu would actively audit security-critical packages from upstream providers to prevent disasters like the real-life backdoor that Debian added to OpenSSL when they screwed up the PRNG: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/...
Was it evil NSA conspiracy? No, but it was a real backdoor added to an open source project!
Yeah, mdsolar, I believe anything you say about the safety records of nuclear power plants in civilized countries about as much as I believe a birther talking about Obama's citizenship.
Interesting point for anybody about to come to MD's defense here: Ever once see him whine about all the nuclear power plants they are building in China? No? Maybe it's because his agenda really has nothing to do with "protecting" us all from the "evils" of nuclear power and maybe he's just out spreading propaganda for his masters.
Detroit has plenty of areas where 90% of the people don't work and smoke pot. They all get government guaranteed [e.g. guaranteed by the paychecks of people who do work] basic income.
So sure, if you consider Detroit to be "working" then yes, I'm sure there are plenty of politicians who wouldn't mind implementing that plan at gunpoint to guarantee themselves a slave base -- uh I mean "voter base" -- on the backs of people who work while having fascinating loopholes for their rich donors to get out of paying for it.
If you want to actually be on Mars by 2020 then you need to be in flight for 6 to 8 months before you touch down and that's not mentioning all the planning that takes place.
Where are the publicity shots of your rover prototypes if not the real rovers themselves?
Where are the publicity shots of the orbiter and deployment bus for the rover?
What rocket platform have you validated for Martian transit?
Since the summary has no specifics as to what this horrible treatment actually entailed, here you go:
Breivik, who made a Nazi salute on the opening day of the proceedings but later said he had renounced violence and compared himself to Nelson Mandela, also said isolation was having a negative impact on his health, and complained about the quality of the prison food â" including microwaved meals that he described as âoeworse than water-boardingâ â" and having to eat with plastic cutlery.
While this guy was most likely using traditional HDDs where block level recovery is a possibility, for those of you using SSDs that have TRIM properly enabled, don't expect to be able to recover deleted files from the same drive unless you are really really fast.
TRIM automatically zeros the blocks of deleted files and they are GONE aside from vague sci-fi and probably nonexistent NSA-type forensics.
Please for the love of all that's holy I hope whoever modded this up did it as a joke.
Then again, this is the "new" Slashdot where one-sided SJW propaganda* is the norm and technical knowledge is considered "white privilege".
* Any stories about how the Lambda conference overcame a fascist attack campaign because an expert Haskell coder dared to have a rational political opinion? Nope? Crickets on Slashdot? Thanks for proving my point.
If any of this stuff is true, then obviously it makes extracting oil and selling it more expensive. In turn, that makes the price of gas higher than it should be and encourages people to reduce their carbon footprints.
Consequently, only an anti-science climate denier could possibly have any problem with any of this.
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So from what I can tell, this entire fiasco is basically some blogger who was clearly ignorant of how enterprise management features that have been present in hardware for *years* having an "OMG YOU TRANSMIT YOUR IP ADDRESS TO THE WORLD EVERY TIME YOU GO TO A WEBSITE!!" moment.
And it wasn't even that original since the same damn hissy fit gets thrown every year or so as memory serves, since this is by no means the first time I've heard the conspiracy theory.
So, either this guy is an idiot (not discounting that at all) or he managed to troll people into generating clicky clicky ad revenue by recycling conspiracy theories. Some of the people being trolled might be willing participants to boot.
Don't worry, they have their own cloned version of the same thing.
Incidentally, most ARM smartphone chips also include similar functionality, but apparently it's only a big deal when a desktop PC has "OMG NSA" parts and not the audio/video recording device with wireless tracking capabilities that the same paranoid idiots carry around with them everywhere they go.
Because IIRC, there damn well better be an Android if it's truly the Next Generation. I'm not sure how that jibes with Apple corporate policy.
How about a guy who's named in the Panama Papers as being a major investor in an international weapons manufacturing outfit.
You know, George Soros.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2...
Yeah, that conspiracy fantasy sounded dumb 5 years ago when at least it was somewhat new. In the meantime, exactly none of that has happened and Microsoft is not only contributing to plenty of open source projects but is also porting MS SQL server to Linux and is working with Canonical to bring Linux usespace applications to Windows.
I like how your late '90s X-Files wannabe conspiracy radar is completely blind to your pal Google, who with Android has produced a gigantic hardware ecosystem where it is basically impossible to install regular Linux on 99.99% of the devices that are actually available on the market. But yeah, go ahead with your stupid conspiracy theories about what Microsoft might do and give Google a free pass on what it has actually done and continues to do right now. After all, it's still 1998 right?
When Zuckerberg is running the show and agrees with your lefty political positions, all of the sudden Corporations have rights and should be allowed to run the elections as long as they support the "correct" positions.
I agree with don't count on it.
But the only person who "manufactured" this scandal is one Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The reason that she isn't being indicted isn't because she's some innocent little angel, but because she has the leverage over the current administration and the so-called "independent" attorney general has given her a get-out-of-indictment free card.
How to tell if your post is racist: Replace the politically correct racial target with a politically incorrect one making the exact same statement and wait for SJWs to attack.
Racist much?
Whoppee doo. He just said that Ubuntu won't mess with any of the Debian packages that they rebrand.
So what, it's the same thing.
Now, a real pledge would be that Ubuntu would actively audit security-critical packages from upstream providers to prevent disasters like the real-life backdoor that Debian added to OpenSSL when they screwed up the PRNG: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/...
Was it evil NSA conspiracy? No, but it was a real backdoor added to an open source project!
Considering Ubuntu basically contributes little or nothing to the underpinnings of Linux, it's pretty easy to say they won't throw in a backdoor.
In a related story, I hereby heroically pledge to add no backdoors to... lessee here... iOS. Yes, iOS! GIVE ME A COOKIE!
Yeah, mdsolar, I believe anything you say about the safety records of nuclear power plants in civilized countries about as much as I believe a birther talking about Obama's citizenship.
Interesting point for anybody about to come to MD's defense here: Ever once see him whine about all the nuclear power plants they are building in China? No? Maybe it's because his agenda really has nothing to do with "protecting" us all from the "evils" of nuclear power and maybe he's just out spreading propaganda for his masters.
I see your sig is taken from the official Bernie Sanders campaign manifesto. Too bad he doesn't understand the meaning of the word irony.
It's not science unless it proves that global warming was solely responsible for Prince's death.
The science is settled bitches!
It's not Hillary's fault that Gwyneth Paltrow needs to eat a damn sandwich!
Detroit has plenty of areas where 90% of the people don't work and smoke pot. They all get government guaranteed [e.g. guaranteed by the paychecks of people who do work] basic income.
So sure, if you consider Detroit to be "working" then yes, I'm sure there are plenty of politicians who wouldn't mind implementing that plan at gunpoint to guarantee themselves a slave base -- uh I mean "voter base" -- on the backs of people who work while having fascinating loopholes for their rich donors to get out of paying for it.
If you want to actually be on Mars by 2020 then you need to be in flight for 6 to 8 months before you touch down and that's not mentioning all the planning that takes place.
Where are the publicity shots of your rover prototypes if not the real rovers themselves?
Where are the publicity shots of the orbiter and deployment bus for the rover?
What rocket platform have you validated for Martian transit?
Since the summary has no specifics as to what this horrible treatment actually entailed, here you go:
Yeah, go ahead and commit suicide Europe.
While this guy was most likely using traditional HDDs where block level recovery is a possibility, for those of you using SSDs that have TRIM properly enabled, don't expect to be able to recover deleted files from the same drive unless you are really really fast.
TRIM automatically zeros the blocks of deleted files and they are GONE aside from vague sci-fi and probably nonexistent NSA-type forensics.
Bitch I run Linux on my laptop!
If the NSA can get the camera to work in the first place, then more power to them!
Please for the love of all that's holy I hope whoever modded this up did it as a joke.
Then again, this is the "new" Slashdot where one-sided SJW propaganda* is the norm and technical knowledge is considered "white privilege".
* Any stories about how the Lambda conference overcame a fascist attack campaign because an expert Haskell coder dared to have a rational political opinion? Nope? Crickets on Slashdot? Thanks for proving my point.
The story about the backlash is the meta-April Fools about the Mic Drop feature.
If any of this stuff is true, then obviously it makes extracting oil and selling it more expensive. In turn, that makes the price of gas higher than it should be and encourages people to reduce their carbon footprints.
Consequently, only an anti-science climate denier could possibly have any problem with any of this.
So in addition to being a paid shill you're:
1. A climate change denialist since you don't support nuclear.
2. A fucking truther whackjob.
Foosball tables now bitches!
If MDSolar wasn't a climate denier then he'd happily endorse the use and major expansion of clean, reliable, safe nuclear energy.
Denialist scum.