Really? Because the show I saw was levelling the same accusations at *both* sides of the American political spectrum. As an outside observer, US political discussion is laughable; it's fear-mongering soundbite after soundbite. Everything is about how terrible the other side is and how they'll sneak into your house and kill your children unless you make sure they don't get into power. There's nothing intelligent about it and the news networks simply parrot the talking points they're given by the parties' PR guys, occasionally having a pair of representatives on to shout at each other for 2 minutes by way of "debate".
Honestly, if there's one thing they need right now it's some sanity.
Administrators of IT systems almost always require - or can trivially gain - access to personal data at some point in order to do their jobs and while sometimes there are signs that point to it, you often have no idea who's going to flip and start abusing their power until they've already started doing it.
The best you can do it put detection and auditing mechanisms in place and ensure that you deal with an violators swiftly, but you're never going to entirely prevent it from happening.
So the authors of Haystack say that people should stop using it until they've completed their 3rd Party security review and as a result, the EFF are taking the brave step of recommending that people stop using Haystack?
They're absolutely right, there's no proof that god doesn't exist.
Of course, there's also no proof that unicorns, pixies or demonic badgers from Neptune don't exist either - it's amazing how many things you can't prove don't exist.
Fuck it, maybe *Adobe* could ship a lightweight PDF reader that strips out all "executable" PDF functionality (javascript, launching executables, embedding flash).
At this point, Adobe Reader is so stupidly bloated that I'll frankly be disappointed if Reader 10 doesn't launch a virtualised instance of Windows inside which another copy of Reader is used to actually render the PDF.
A smart Windows desktop administrator (Running Windows 7/Server 2008 R2) can use:
ipmo activedirectory foreach($computer in $(Get-ADobject -filter 'objectclass="Computer"' -searchbase "[OU with all your computer accounts in])){ shutdown/s/f/m $computer }
The EU Parliament can still overrule the Council of Ministers with a 2/3 majority vote and history has shown that they're willing and able to do so when the COM try and go against them on big issues.
And yet it was Sony's removal of the Other OS functionality that led to this jailbreaking in the first place, so saying that the "evil pirates" have forced poor innocent Sony who love their customers *this* much to take away the capabilities" is a little disingenuous.
It's "only" taken 6 months really (since the Other OS functionality was removed and the effort began in earnest) and it's always much easier to re-break these things than it is to break them in the first place.
Their argument is that it's just so obvious that there's a god, or gods and you have to take their non-existence on faith alone; you can't prove they don't exist, so therefore it must be more likely that they do. It's basically the Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction argument; we can't find any evidence of their existence, so they must be really well hidden.
The problem with that argument being that it's not that "I believe that there isn't a god or gods", but "I don't believe that there is a god or gods".
I'm still waiting for CNN to launch their latest hard-hitting news segment; an hour long live video feed of their Twitter page, followed by half an hour of some guy browsing their Facebook wall.
As an interested foreign observer of US politics, I get the impression that right now if the president had a bill tabled that offered the Republicans full control of the House and Senate for all eternity, they'd still vote against it just because it was proposed by Obama.
You can't have a functioning political system when nearly half of the participants come out in protest against legislation before they even know what it does.
Slashdot Mirror
Really? Because the show I saw was levelling the same accusations at *both* sides of the American political spectrum. As an outside observer, US political discussion is laughable; it's fear-mongering soundbite after soundbite. Everything is about how terrible the other side is and how they'll sneak into your house and kill your children unless you make sure they don't get into power. There's nothing intelligent about it and the news networks simply parrot the talking points they're given by the parties' PR guys, occasionally having a pair of representatives on to shout at each other for 2 minutes by way of "debate".
Honestly, if there's one thing they need right now it's some sanity.
Thing is, from the trailers the forthcoming Smurfs movie looks much, much worse than Avatar.
There's little you can do.
Administrators of IT systems almost always require - or can trivially gain - access to personal data at some point in order to do their jobs and while sometimes there are signs that point to it, you often have no idea who's going to flip and start abusing their power until they've already started doing it.
The best you can do it put detection and auditing mechanisms in place and ensure that you deal with an violators swiftly, but you're never going to entirely prevent it from happening.
Even your natural disasters are boring :)
Or even "for"
So the authors of Haystack say that people should stop using it until they've completed their 3rd Party security review and as a result, the EFF are taking the brave step of recommending that people stop using Haystack?
Yeah, now we have to do things properly and document everything it takes some effort to do and we don't like that.
They're absolutely right, there's no proof that god doesn't exist.
Of course, there's also no proof that unicorns, pixies or demonic badgers from Neptune don't exist either - it's amazing how many things you can't prove don't exist.
Fuck it, maybe *Adobe* could ship a lightweight PDF reader that strips out all "executable" PDF functionality (javascript, launching executables, embedding flash).
At this point, Adobe Reader is so stupidly bloated that I'll frankly be disappointed if Reader 10 doesn't launch a virtualised instance of Windows inside which another copy of Reader is used to actually render the PDF.
A smart Windows desktop administrator (Running Windows 7/Server 2008 R2) can use:
ipmo activedirectory /s /f /m $computer
foreach($computer in $(Get-ADobject -filter 'objectclass="Computer"' -searchbase "[OU with all your computer accounts in])){
shutdown
}
Or the 50-line VBScript counterpart.
The EU Parliament can still overrule the Council of Ministers with a 2/3 majority vote and history has shown that they're willing and able to do so when the COM try and go against them on big issues.
And yet it was Sony's removal of the Other OS functionality that led to this jailbreaking in the first place, so saying that the "evil pirates" have forced poor innocent Sony who love their customers *this* much to take away the capabilities" is a little disingenuous.
It's "only" taken 6 months really (since the Other OS functionality was removed and the effort began in earnest) and it's always much easier to re-break these things than it is to break them in the first place.
Touché
You're assuming that they sent the summons to the right idiot.
Their argument is that it's just so obvious that there's a god, or gods and you have to take their non-existence on faith alone; you can't prove they don't exist, so therefore it must be more likely that they do. It's basically the Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction argument; we can't find any evidence of their existence, so they must be really well hidden.
The problem with that argument being that it's not that "I believe that there isn't a god or gods", but "I don't believe that there is a god or gods".
Yes, but their article comments are much closer to Youtube than Slashdot.
Solar powered replicators would solve that problem (for a few million years at least).
What? Question everything because if you're right about it being wrong you'll get lots of grant money?
I'm still waiting for CNN to launch their latest hard-hitting news segment; an hour long live video feed of their Twitter page, followed by half an hour of some guy browsing their Facebook wall.
As an interested foreign observer of US politics, I get the impression that right now if the president had a bill tabled that offered the Republicans full control of the House and Senate for all eternity, they'd still vote against it just because it was proposed by Obama.
You can't have a functioning political system when nearly half of the participants come out in protest against legislation before they even know what it does.
And that's why they don't let women serve in the military, right?
Maybe the bomb will go off if you drop below 50mph...
They should have stuck with their original slogan: "Using Ksplice is like updating your kernel without rebooting"
Engadget, Gizmodo, what's the difference? If I wanted properly edited stories I'd go to a decent tech news aggregator, like Slashdot.