It's not a terrible idea in theory. But if it catches on, then almost immediately news sites will start using it to filter out thoughtcrime (i.e. wrong opinions instead of wrong facts).
Every article on immigration will require you to agree on the unqualified benefits of mass immigration (and a gauntlet of other talking points), or an article will require you to say you believe in the wage gap, for example.
I'm not sure which wage gap you mean. It's a fact that wages in the US have remained relatively stagnant while the productivity of the average worker has increased steadily since about the 1950s or so. I don't know how much more obvious it needs to be: average Americans are getting screwed over, royally, and have been for a long time now.
It's what you would expect, given a situation where the employers have most of the power. They have every incentive not to raise wages unless absolutely necessary. It's unsurprising to see corporations pursuing their own economic interests.
Were you talking about some kind of group-identity wage gap, like a perceived one between men and women? Right now there are about twice as many female college graduates in the US. Not to mention that women generally take many more days off from work than men, usually for their children.
So when you say "wage gap" it's an ambiguous term.
Having PHP on a server means it will get owned. Having wordpress means it will be owned tomorrow, but definitely by next week.
This isn't news. Insecure software with poor track record and incompetent developers is insecure and has incompetent developers.
Shhhh! You're supposed to tell them what special snowflakes they are, and how the long history of others who tried the same thing, miraculously won't apply to them. Blame the evil hackers, but give Shining Angel Status to those who set up such tempting targets for them. Anything else would be Blaming The Victim, widely held to be heretical for it detracts from the Holy Status of Victimhood, even when the "victim" made choices with a predictable outcome and was able (and likely advised) to make better choices.
It's so secure written in the professional engineered PHP...
If I could down-vote you I would. I suppose you write all your code in C (not that C++ shit) when you don't have the time to pound it out in machine (with vi, only nubes use anything else). Or are you one of those trendy Ruby On Rails guys - oh, wait, that's old news. But never mind, I assume all your code is revolutionary and bug free...
I took the GP to mean: most other systems expect the admin to be knowledgable about such things and are rather up-front about that. As in, an admin who is ignorant of such things would be considered to have failed basic due diligence.
Much PHP code is put into convenient little packages to be readily deployed by people who don't understand what it really does and does not do. Security matters are the major Achilles heel of this kind of concept.
Because WP is the product of a lousy team with the lowest possible standard of practices, their tradition since 2004. Those attitudes permeate throughout the WP "development" landscape. If the core presented best practices and enforced using them, so many vulnerabilities would have been mitigated. Not only is WP shitty code, it begets shitty code.
Well of course it does. Just like Sendmail back in the day, or Adobe Flash, or many current Internet of Things devices, or several other projects, it doesn't take too many examples to conclude that security was not a high priority for the development team. As many others have previously observed, security isn't something you can just "bolt on" later. It must be a fundamental design goal if it is to be truly effective when deployed on a hostile network.
The only mystery involved: how so many people can observe a clear pattern in the history of a project, and then act surprised when that pattern repeats in the absence of any serious credible effort to change it. People do this with governments also, acting surprised when they tend towards tyranny after operating unchecked. These are the same people who cannot fathom why rare events like mass shootings overwhelmingly tend to happen in "gun-free zones".
It's simple human nature: organizations won't care about security until/unless they personally suffer from insecurity or it brings swift and certain legal (product) liability. Transparency and accountability are the best checks against the power-hungry megalomaniacs who tend to achieve positions of authority. Criminals want helpless unarmed victims, not to mention anyone willing to commit mass murder isn't afraid of a weapons charge for violating a "gun-free zone".
What we have now, unfortunately, is a large number of otherwise adult people who wish to deny basic observable realities because reality is not what they hoped it would be. Basically, in my opinion, anyone running WordPress is either ignorant or has made a conscious decision not to care about security. Given how easily a quick Google search will enlighten someone, ignorance is difficult to excuse when someone is setting up a server and making these decisions.
The is crap written in EVERY language, and variations of C are certainly not immune to this. I can write code that accepts unsanitized input in any language you choose.
While this is true, it fails to refute a single claim I made. You seem to be responding to a discussion about programming languages in general. That's not what I said. "Sounds sorta like it might be similar to" does not mean "definitely the same thing", you know.
I said that the creators of PHP in particular seem to have given little thought to security. I stand by that statement. The primary purpose of PHP appears to be: get relatively inexperienced programmers to be productive, quickly. This is of course diameterically opposed to the goals of secure programming, which requires more experience and generally won't so quickly yield production systems.
Friends don't let friends use wordpress. Give your friends cocaine, it's better for them.
I find marijuana to be quite agreeable. Though if you can afford a coke habit then you're doing well for yourself - financially anyway. I bet the withdrawals are a bitch. Happy with my non physically addictive weed.
Sanitizing untrusted input: it just can't be that hard. It's not that hard when I do it. So why so many iterations of the same (relatively simple) theme from WordPress and similar platforms? Really it's pitiful. At least make the attackers come up with something new.
Had you explained life in 2017 to someone from 1840, it would be unbelievable.
You'd have to start by explaining a lot of new words that did not exist then. Like "unemployment".
The real big difference: in 1840 many, many more people were self-employed and owned their own business, practiced their own trade. If they thought you were an asshole, they didn't have to do business with you.
Now, only a very few are financially independent, possessing an independent livelihood that doesn't depend on something akin to office politics, where knowing the right people (not merit) determine advancement. Capitalism was initially founded on the model of a willing buyer and a willing seller. Now the seller is always willing, like any other whore, and you are their representative of faceless people whom you've never met. Now most people are tiny cogs in a huge corporate machine, with a mandate to kiss your ass in order to get your business no matter how unreasonable and inconsiderate you may be. Their job and livelihood depends on never causing offense, no matter how well deserved it may be, no matter how unreasonable the expectations. This is decidedly a step backward. Sure, we have bigger pools of resources and can do larger things now, but most day-to-day business transactions don't require such vast pools of wealth. Most daily business is quite mundane. History has told a story of increasingly decentralized governments, only to have them replaced by increasingly centralized corporate empires.
It really makes no material difference whether you are censored by a government using its police power, or a corporation using its economic bargaining power to deny you a livelihood. Yet we talk a good game about how things like free speech are "inalienable human rights". They appear to be quite alienable, you just have to alienate them using a socially approved mechanism. So much for natural human rights.
So, our corporations and their tiny minority of major shareholders prosper, while our social fabric continues to decline. We now have a society in which basic manners and courtesy are regarded as weakness, akin to subservience. "Winners" are sociopaths who dominate, not real human beings who cooperatively consider the needs of others. It's *your job* to be the adult in a situation, always. Being "well adjusted" means being satisfied with the most shallow of interactions, with people who either do not realize or do not care how transparent they are.
I sincerely believe that future historians will consider this a second Dark Age dominated by economic power, just one with much better tech toys than the first one dominated by religious authority. Just because the masters profess a different doctrine and the priesthood wears tailored suits instead of collars doesn't make it much different, in the end.
I really do believe that if these UFOs really are alien spacecraft, it's no mystery they don't openly land. They'd monitor our telecommunications and observe us, and they would all agree on one thing: "They're clearly not ready - all they care about is controlling each other. How primitive they are."
>Sounds fine. The robot's salary is $0. 25% tax of $0 is $0. : Wrong. The robot will get health care at any cost.
Those fuckers where I work not only post my salary publicly because I called them out for being what they are, but they decided to give me a public title that I never heard of before just to piss off my co-workers because I make more than them. To the point, they post my take-home salary, but they post what I make if I actually wanted any of the extra benefits like medical. I don't go to the doctor in the last 5 years, because I have too much work to do. I can't wait until robots relive me from my job and I can just sit at home and drink while the system pays me for being a worthless human./s
So... you want to be just like the Bender robots of the distant future?
I appreciate your taking the time to reply. Thank you. I say that because disagreeing with you does not make you some sort of "enemy". I get tired of that mentality and its over-representation on this site.
The cubbyhole is because you did not merely mention a use-case. You implied a common and nearly universal divide. You intended to state that because exceptions are not common, they are irrelevant. You should take responsibility for doing that and either defend it, or abandon it.
Windows is a indeed not a black box. It's a translucent box. It will never be a fully transparent box until I can dive through its source code. That has not happened, thus far. That will not happen in the foreseeable future. Thus, *when compared to* to other systems such as Linux and the various BSD flavors, it is a relatively opaque system. Microsoft releases selectively limited internal details to facilitate the writing of software for its platform to make it more appealing, not for the sake of openness so others can study its work and directly build on it. That's the difference. You can pretend like that difference doesn't matter, but the evidence against you is strong.
You're the new TimeCube guy - totally OCD and unwilling to answer YES OR NO to whether you've ever been diagnosed with any sort of mental disorder. I notice you do not deny it.
Hosts files are okay. I use them. I use a good firewall and good browser add-ons too. I like overlapping layers. I am satisfied with the performance. I am not running old hardware so I consider the trade-offs worthwhile. Can you accept that?
Comparing a desktop operating system. especially one for home use, to a server operating system, is not useful.
Not everyone fits into your neat little boxy cubbyhole categories.
My desktop system is Gentoo. I use it at home. I do everything from serious work to gaming on it. I can do that because I bothered to learn. I assume I do not have any special genius, therefore, if I can choose to do that, then barring any organic brain damage, someone else can make similar choices and reap similar rewards. Everything else is an excuse for why they cannot be bothered, excuses designed to justify their decision to leave important things in the hands of corporations that don't care about them.
That the latter is a common ("popular" isn't the right word - there is no enthusiasm behind it) choice is beyond my control. If average users really believe that learning is so horrible and painful, that gaining knowledge and experience over time is somehow not normal, that broadening their horizons is an unworthy use of effort, that computers are not already important and becoming ever more so as time passes, that unnecessary dependency is somehow not weakness, or that anyone values their security quite so much as they do... well, that's their option, isn't it?
As for me, I think it's foolish (to put it mildly) to expect corporations like Microsoft to look after my best interests. I still have my natural curiosity that says, "how does this thing work, and what can it do?". My schooling failed to remove it from me and I find myself in a world where literacy is the only skill I require to access free high-quality information necessary to learn new skills.
In case you are wondering, my day job is not in IT or compsci. I learn about computers and networks because they're only becoming more important over time, and because it's fascinating ever since I learned to appreciate it. Anyone else could do the same. If they have more aptitude for it, they will do it more quickly than I did - if not, less quickly, but the path is available to them. They just have to take the first few steps. Or they can be at the mercy of Microsoft on the one hand, malware authors on the other, both playing them in the middle (not that Apple is much better, but they do deliver a smoother experience - if you like a prefabricated, prescribed, managed walled garden).
If you aren't running Insider builds you really aren't looking after your own interests. That's what I do. I also handle things for my Mom, but she mostly uses it to play Facebook games and other Facebooky things. She does what in her world amounts to "serious stuff" on an Android phone I picked out for her. I also picked out her "Facebook computer".
Maybe I "enable" my mom too much.
If your mother isn't a "power user" and just wants to browse Facebook and the like, why not set her up with something like Linux Mint? The remote administration capability alone will make your job (as her sysadmin) much easier. The value of no longer having to worry about things like viruses/malware is also not to be underestimated.
This is what I come to slashdot for. The intelligent and well articulated discussions about news for Nerds and Stuff that Matters.
I prefer the calm, objective, well-reasoned debate in which all valid viewpoints are welcome and represented, and there is no prevailing group-think, ad hominems, or fanboyism. That's why *I* come to Slashdot.
Thank you for taking the time to give a real answer. Especially considering that some people may have been put off by my chosen username. In that way it's a filter of sorts.
How all the positive stories about Tesla and SpaceX make reference to Elon but all the negative stories don't even mention him in the summary and often (as in this case) in the article.
It could just be that you've become a cynical bastard.
The positive stories tend to be based on press releases during which Elon is choosing to point something out. It's no big surprise he isn't running to the media to give them quotes highlighting the latest setbacks. That's more of a damage control deal, not a press release deal. All companies behave this way. It's likely all organizations behave this way.
Asking for letters in your password is the opposite of security. Cuts down the search space by ~98% by each letter/position thus leaked. An 8-char password effectively becomes a 5-char password if they have the 3rd, 5th, and 7th letters.
Regarding your sig... isn't it reasonable to conclude that a man in drag (for purposes other than a gag like I once saw at a Halloween party) is someplace on the "transsexual spectrum", or at least is thinking about becoming a transsexual? After all men who identify as masculine and heterosexual generally don't dress in drag. Is "woman trapped in a man's body" the only criteria you recognize? How much commitment do you require before you grant the recognition: must the man take estrogen and grow breasts, or go all the way and modify the genitals with reassignment surgery?
From my eBay and paypal experience as a seller: buyer contests transaction, they loose on eBay side, but paypal sides with the buyer, you loose product and money. Google for issues people have with paypal/check consumeraffairs.com. Add this them as a payment to Amazon and I am gone from that market place.
I think the word you are looking for there is LOSE, not LOOSE....
;)
It's inevitable. Someone must do that -- cosmic forces compel it. The next time there's a story about cars, someone will confuse "brake"/"break" as well. Shades of illiteracy seem to be contagious among average people.
Remember when the talking heads on the TV suddenly couldn't correctly pronounce "nuclear"? It was during George W. Bush's first term (and he was an example of it). Seemingly overnight, lots of average Americans also started saying "new-kew-ler". Maybe they think it relates to the atomic new-kew-lus? Anyway, that's not an accent, nor is it a regional dialect. Monkey see, monkey do. That's what it is.
The study of mimetics might be interesting if it weren't so pitiful and sad. Apparently, a great many people simply cannot say "no" to every stray influence.
You loaded liberal bullshit question, can be answered by someone stupid enough to believe they owe you an explanation of something anyone with access to google and 2 seconds can determine. But since you are having to ask me what it means, I'll just go ahead and make the educated guess that you are simply too stupid to look it up for your self.:-D (FYI, you are the FAILEST troll ever:-) just terrible!:-D
If A.P.K. registered a username, he would produce posts very much like yours. At least you don't sound as much like a TimeCube-guy raving lunatic like he does. No, you just sound like a little bitch. It's not much of an improvement but it is one.
That was funny, particularly in that stand-up comic kind of way. This is what actually deserves a +5 Funny mod. But apparently the crowd here prides themselves on being more... delicate. They'd rather mod up repetitive memes because that's nice and safe.
Please attend the meeting to discuss the next meeting then after that meeting we will have a meeting to discuss the previous meeting. After that there will be a pre-planning meeting for the next meeting to discuss the meeting right after that meeting.
Sad thing is I have actually had meetings like that before to discuss other meetings before and after the meetings.
Nice, captcha is weeps.
That's what happens when you pinch the ass of the woman giving a sexual harassment presentation.
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It's not a terrible idea in theory. But if it catches on, then almost immediately news sites will start using it to filter out thoughtcrime (i.e. wrong opinions instead of wrong facts). Every article on immigration will require you to agree on the unqualified benefits of mass immigration (and a gauntlet of other talking points), or an article will require you to say you believe in the wage gap, for example.
I'm not sure which wage gap you mean. It's a fact that wages in the US have remained relatively stagnant while the productivity of the average worker has increased steadily since about the 1950s or so. I don't know how much more obvious it needs to be: average Americans are getting screwed over, royally, and have been for a long time now.
It's what you would expect, given a situation where the employers have most of the power. They have every incentive not to raise wages unless absolutely necessary. It's unsurprising to see corporations pursuing their own economic interests.
Were you talking about some kind of group-identity wage gap, like a perceived one between men and women? Right now there are about twice as many female college graduates in the US. Not to mention that women generally take many more days off from work than men, usually for their children.
So when you say "wage gap" it's an ambiguous term.
And shit like wordpress? For anything?
Having PHP on a server means it will get owned. Having wordpress means it will be owned tomorrow, but definitely by next week.
This isn't news. Insecure software with poor track record and incompetent developers is insecure and has incompetent developers.
Shhhh! You're supposed to tell them what special snowflakes they are, and how the long history of others who tried the same thing, miraculously won't apply to them. Blame the evil hackers, but give Shining Angel Status to those who set up such tempting targets for them. Anything else would be Blaming The Victim, widely held to be heretical for it detracts from the Holy Status of Victimhood, even when the "victim" made choices with a predictable outcome and was able (and likely advised) to make better choices.
It's so secure written in the professional engineered PHP...
If I could down-vote you I would. I suppose you write all your code in C (not that C++ shit) when you don't have the time to pound it out in machine (with vi, only nubes use anything else). Or are you one of those trendy Ruby On Rails guys - oh, wait, that's old news. But never mind, I assume all your code is revolutionary and bug free...
I took the GP to mean: most other systems expect the admin to be knowledgable about such things and are rather up-front about that. As in, an admin who is ignorant of such things would be considered to have failed basic due diligence.
Much PHP code is put into convenient little packages to be readily deployed by people who don't understand what it really does and does not do. Security matters are the major Achilles heel of this kind of concept.
You sound bitter.
Because WP is the product of a lousy team with the lowest possible standard of practices, their tradition since 2004. Those attitudes permeate throughout the WP "development" landscape. If the core presented best practices and enforced using them, so many vulnerabilities would have been mitigated. Not only is WP shitty code, it begets shitty code.
Well of course it does. Just like Sendmail back in the day, or Adobe Flash, or many current Internet of Things devices, or several other projects, it doesn't take too many examples to conclude that security was not a high priority for the development team. As many others have previously observed, security isn't something you can just "bolt on" later. It must be a fundamental design goal if it is to be truly effective when deployed on a hostile network.
The only mystery involved: how so many people can observe a clear pattern in the history of a project, and then act surprised when that pattern repeats in the absence of any serious credible effort to change it. People do this with governments also, acting surprised when they tend towards tyranny after operating unchecked. These are the same people who cannot fathom why rare events like mass shootings overwhelmingly tend to happen in "gun-free zones".
It's simple human nature: organizations won't care about security until/unless they personally suffer from insecurity or it brings swift and certain legal (product) liability. Transparency and accountability are the best checks against the power-hungry megalomaniacs who tend to achieve positions of authority. Criminals want helpless unarmed victims, not to mention anyone willing to commit mass murder isn't afraid of a weapons charge for violating a "gun-free zone".
What we have now, unfortunately, is a large number of otherwise adult people who wish to deny basic observable realities because reality is not what they hoped it would be. Basically, in my opinion, anyone running WordPress is either ignorant or has made a conscious decision not to care about security. Given how easily a quick Google search will enlighten someone, ignorance is difficult to excuse when someone is setting up a server and making these decisions.
I'm also glad I don't use PHP
The is crap written in EVERY language, and variations of C are certainly not immune to this. I can write code that accepts unsanitized input in any language you choose.
While this is true, it fails to refute a single claim I made. You seem to be responding to a discussion about programming languages in general. That's not what I said. "Sounds sorta like it might be similar to" does not mean "definitely the same thing", you know.
I said that the creators of PHP in particular seem to have given little thought to security. I stand by that statement. The primary purpose of PHP appears to be: get relatively inexperienced programmers to be productive, quickly. This is of course diameterically opposed to the goals of secure programming, which requires more experience and generally won't so quickly yield production systems.
wordpress_really_sanitize
Or use one of the many freely available libraries designed expressly for this purpose.
I'm glad I don't use WP. I'm also glad I don't use PHP. The designers of each seem to care nothing about security.
Friends don't let friends use wordpress. Give your friends cocaine, it's better for them.
I find marijuana to be quite agreeable. Though if you can afford a coke habit then you're doing well for yourself - financially anyway. I bet the withdrawals are a bitch. Happy with my non physically addictive weed.
Sanitizing untrusted input: it just can't be that hard. It's not that hard when I do it. So why so many iterations of the same (relatively simple) theme from WordPress and similar platforms? Really it's pitiful. At least make the attackers come up with something new.
Had you explained life in 2017 to someone from 1840, it would be unbelievable.
You'd have to start by explaining a lot of new words that did not exist then. Like "unemployment".
The real big difference: in 1840 many, many more people were self-employed and owned their own business, practiced their own trade. If they thought you were an asshole, they didn't have to do business with you.
Now, only a very few are financially independent, possessing an independent livelihood that doesn't depend on something akin to office politics, where knowing the right people (not merit) determine advancement. Capitalism was initially founded on the model of a willing buyer and a willing seller. Now the seller is always willing, like any other whore, and you are their representative of faceless people whom you've never met. Now most people are tiny cogs in a huge corporate machine, with a mandate to kiss your ass in order to get your business no matter how unreasonable and inconsiderate you may be. Their job and livelihood depends on never causing offense, no matter how well deserved it may be, no matter how unreasonable the expectations. This is decidedly a step backward. Sure, we have bigger pools of resources and can do larger things now, but most day-to-day business transactions don't require such vast pools of wealth. Most daily business is quite mundane. History has told a story of increasingly decentralized governments, only to have them replaced by increasingly centralized corporate empires.
It really makes no material difference whether you are censored by a government using its police power, or a corporation using its economic bargaining power to deny you a livelihood. Yet we talk a good game about how things like free speech are "inalienable human rights". They appear to be quite alienable, you just have to alienate them using a socially approved mechanism. So much for natural human rights.
So, our corporations and their tiny minority of major shareholders prosper, while our social fabric continues to decline. We now have a society in which basic manners and courtesy are regarded as weakness, akin to subservience. "Winners" are sociopaths who dominate, not real human beings who cooperatively consider the needs of others. It's *your job* to be the adult in a situation, always. Being "well adjusted" means being satisfied with the most shallow of interactions, with people who either do not realize or do not care how transparent they are.
I sincerely believe that future historians will consider this a second Dark Age dominated by economic power, just one with much better tech toys than the first one dominated by religious authority. Just because the masters profess a different doctrine and the priesthood wears tailored suits instead of collars doesn't make it much different, in the end.
I really do believe that if these UFOs really are alien spacecraft, it's no mystery they don't openly land. They'd monitor our telecommunications and observe us, and they would all agree on one thing: "They're clearly not ready - all they care about is controlling each other. How primitive they are."
>Sounds fine. The robot's salary is $0. 25% tax of $0 is $0. : Wrong. The robot will get health care at any cost.
Those fuckers where I work not only post my salary publicly because I called them out for being what they are, but they decided to give me a public title that I never heard of before just to piss off my co-workers because I make more than them. To the point, they post my take-home salary, but they post what I make if I actually wanted any of the extra benefits like medical. I don't go to the doctor in the last 5 years, because I have too much work to do. I can't wait until robots relive me from my job and I can just sit at home and drink while the system pays me for being a worthless human. /s
So ... you want to be just like the Bender robots of the distant future?
I appreciate your taking the time to reply. Thank you. I say that because disagreeing with you does not make you some sort of "enemy". I get tired of that mentality and its over-representation on this site.
The cubbyhole is because you did not merely mention a use-case. You implied a common and nearly universal divide. You intended to state that because exceptions are not common, they are irrelevant. You should take responsibility for doing that and either defend it, or abandon it.
Windows is a indeed not a black box. It's a translucent box. It will never be a fully transparent box until I can dive through its source code. That has not happened, thus far. That will not happen in the foreseeable future. Thus, *when compared to* to other systems such as Linux and the various BSD flavors, it is a relatively opaque system. Microsoft releases selectively limited internal details to facilitate the writing of software for its platform to make it more appealing, not for the sake of openness so others can study its work and directly build on it. That's the difference. You can pretend like that difference doesn't matter, but the evidence against you is strong.
You're the new TimeCube guy - totally OCD and unwilling to answer YES OR NO to whether you've ever been diagnosed with any sort of mental disorder. I notice you do not deny it.
Hosts files are okay. I use them. I use a good firewall and good browser add-ons too. I like overlapping layers. I am satisfied with the performance. I am not running old hardware so I consider the trade-offs worthwhile. Can you accept that?
Comparing a desktop operating system. especially one for home use, to a server operating system, is not useful.
Not everyone fits into your neat little boxy cubbyhole categories.
... well, that's their option, isn't it?
My desktop system is Gentoo. I use it at home. I do everything from serious work to gaming on it. I can do that because I bothered to learn. I assume I do not have any special genius, therefore, if I can choose to do that, then barring any organic brain damage, someone else can make similar choices and reap similar rewards. Everything else is an excuse for why they cannot be bothered, excuses designed to justify their decision to leave important things in the hands of corporations that don't care about them.
That the latter is a common ("popular" isn't the right word - there is no enthusiasm behind it) choice is beyond my control. If average users really believe that learning is so horrible and painful, that gaining knowledge and experience over time is somehow not normal, that broadening their horizons is an unworthy use of effort, that computers are not already important and becoming ever more so as time passes, that unnecessary dependency is somehow not weakness, or that anyone values their security quite so much as they do
As for me, I think it's foolish (to put it mildly) to expect corporations like Microsoft to look after my best interests. I still have my natural curiosity that says, "how does this thing work, and what can it do?". My schooling failed to remove it from me and I find myself in a world where literacy is the only skill I require to access free high-quality information necessary to learn new skills.
In case you are wondering, my day job is not in IT or compsci. I learn about computers and networks because they're only becoming more important over time, and because it's fascinating ever since I learned to appreciate it. Anyone else could do the same. If they have more aptitude for it, they will do it more quickly than I did - if not, less quickly, but the path is available to them. They just have to take the first few steps. Or they can be at the mercy of Microsoft on the one hand, malware authors on the other, both playing them in the middle (not that Apple is much better, but they do deliver a smoother experience - if you like a prefabricated, prescribed, managed walled garden).
If you aren't running Insider builds you really aren't looking after your own interests. That's what I do. I also handle things for my Mom, but she mostly uses it to play Facebook games and other Facebooky things. She does what in her world amounts to "serious stuff" on an Android phone I picked out for her. I also picked out her "Facebook computer". Maybe I "enable" my mom too much.
If your mother isn't a "power user" and just wants to browse Facebook and the like, why not set her up with something like Linux Mint? The remote administration capability alone will make your job (as her sysadmin) much easier. The value of no longer having to worry about things like viruses/malware is also not to be underestimated.
I hate n1ggers but I love njggers.
Well, then. That's completely different.
This is what I come to slashdot for. The intelligent and well articulated discussions about news for Nerds and Stuff that Matters.
I prefer the calm, objective, well-reasoned debate in which all valid viewpoints are welcome and represented, and there is no prevailing group-think, ad hominems, or fanboyism. That's why *I* come to Slashdot.
Thank you for taking the time to give a real answer. Especially considering that some people may have been put off by my chosen username. In that way it's a filter of sorts.
How all the positive stories about Tesla and SpaceX make reference to Elon but all the negative stories don't even mention him in the summary and often (as in this case) in the article.
It could just be that you've become a cynical bastard.
The positive stories tend to be based on press releases during which Elon is choosing to point something out. It's no big surprise he isn't running to the media to give them quotes highlighting the latest setbacks. That's more of a damage control deal, not a press release deal. All companies behave this way. It's likely all organizations behave this way.
Asking for letters in your password is the opposite of security. Cuts down the search space by ~98% by each letter/position thus leaked. An 8-char password effectively becomes a 5-char password if they have the 3rd, 5th, and 7th letters.
Regarding your sig ... isn't it reasonable to conclude that a man in drag (for purposes other than a gag like I once saw at a Halloween party) is someplace on the "transsexual spectrum", or at least is thinking about becoming a transsexual? After all men who identify as masculine and heterosexual generally don't dress in drag. Is "woman trapped in a man's body" the only criteria you recognize? How much commitment do you require before you grant the recognition: must the man take estrogen and grow breasts, or go all the way and modify the genitals with reassignment surgery?
I think the word you are looking for there is LOSE, not LOOSE....
It's inevitable. Someone must do that -- cosmic forces compel it. The next time there's a story about cars, someone will confuse "brake"/"break" as well. Shades of illiteracy seem to be contagious among average people.
Remember when the talking heads on the TV suddenly couldn't correctly pronounce "nuclear"? It was during George W. Bush's first term (and he was an example of it). Seemingly overnight, lots of average Americans also started saying "new-kew-ler". Maybe they think it relates to the atomic new-kew-lus? Anyway, that's not an accent, nor is it a regional dialect. Monkey see, monkey do. That's what it is.
The study of mimetics might be interesting if it weren't so pitiful and sad. Apparently, a great many people simply cannot say "no" to every stray influence.
You loaded liberal bullshit question, can be answered by someone stupid enough to believe they owe you an explanation of something anyone with access to google and 2 seconds can determine. But since you are having to ask me what it means, I'll just go ahead and make the educated guess that you are simply too stupid to look it up for your self. :-D (FYI, you are the FAILEST troll ever :-) just terrible! :-D
If A.P.K. registered a username, he would produce posts very much like yours. At least you don't sound as much like a TimeCube-guy raving lunatic like he does. No, you just sound like a little bitch. It's not much of an improvement but it is one.
The hell? Did you have a dick in your mouth?
That was funny, particularly in that stand-up comic kind of way. This is what actually deserves a +5 Funny mod. But apparently the crowd here prides themselves on being more ... delicate. They'd rather mod up repetitive memes because that's nice and safe.
No guy wants his wife to know he's searching for pussy grabbing porn.
Depends on the wife. Some will be glad to enjoy it with you!
Please attend the meeting to discuss the next meeting then after that meeting we will have a meeting to discuss the previous meeting. After that there will be a pre-planning meeting for the next meeting to discuss the meeting right after that meeting.
Sad thing is I have actually had meetings like that before to discuss other meetings before and after the meetings.
Nice, captcha is weeps.
That's what happens when you pinch the ass of the woman giving a sexual harassment presentation.
Or Fedora, or Debian, or or or or or or
Many a Linux distros feature opaque proprietary binaries. Kali [Debian] is one of them. So, yeah.
You're not likely to run Kali Linux on your office workstation...