Until then, *shrug*. These vulnerabilities are coming too fast with too little context to understand how they will impact security operations. I see a flood of articles crowing about the dangers of these issues, yet honestly, I haven't seen much real world impact. Maybe it's because I don't interact with desktop users or run untrusted javascript, I dunno. However, I just wish every security advisory had a nutritional information section where they had to admit "No, we still can't figure out how to make this into a remote root vulnerability for OpenSSH." and if it actually was weaponized at all or even had the potential for that. If you watched the torrent of speculative execution and SIMD bugs come out lately, you'd think the only secure IT device was a mechanical typewriter. Also, AMD hasn't been immune, they've just had fewer issues than Intel. That's not saying a whole lot and I agree with others who speculate they just haven't all been found, yet.
I remember seeing CUseeme "reflectors" do this a very long time ago. Never mind that most of the clients were using parallel-port connected with Connectix Quickcams and other horrible quality cameras. What's old is new again!
Hehe, well, not trying to pick a fight, but I've done the exact same thing but with the opposite politics. I think you and I are "canceling each other out." *grin*
I told their recruiter that I couldn't work for them because of how they work poor people damn near to death and they end up with permanent disabilities after working there. They just sound like a sweat shop in the vein of all these corporate weasel fucks. Hopefully my response added to others and they are starting to get the point. However, I really really doubt it. If there was one statement I could attribute to corporations it's "We don't give a fuck."
Well, if you can't beat them, buy them. Kids, whatever you do don't go to work for Google. Make them buy you out, don't give them your skills for salary. Squeeze these corporate fuckers as hard as you can for the edification of the rest of us who didn't write a great algorithm that beats the Googleplex-of-assholes.
I'm white, but I like Ethiopia and Ethiopians. I'll tell you why. First, they are not Muslims, they are majority Christian and have been for so long there is a myth that their former emperor (Ras Taferi also known as Haile Salassie) claimed to have lineage going back to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. I'm Atheist, but I find stomaching xian bullshit is easier than Islamic bullshit, since there is less "cut the head off the infidel" stuff going on (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beheading_in_Islam).
Also, Ethiopia was never completely conquered by any western power. Italy made a go of it but couldn't hold the ground long and mostly just gassed a bunch of defenseless women and children. Ethiopians are the most sophisticated, civilized, and well educated of the Africans I meet (and I meet a lot, there are tons of them in my town). They also have the best food, the hottest women, and the most easy-going attitudes. Don't believe all that cracked Earth starvation shit from the 1970's famines, it's a beautiful country with lots of rainforests and different geography. Their language (Amharic) is also interesting and cool sounding. Their only real problem is an extremely fucked up government and the fact that they tried "multiculturalism" with the Salafi dickheads next door in Eritrea and Somalia (not by choice) and, like it always does, that resulted in big time civil war a few generations later.
Admit it. All these pro-flavor-of-the-month-coding-language articles on/. are red meat for python, PHP, and Java coders who wish they could learn C but couldn't hack it. Python is popular with skript-kiddies who just couldn't concentrate long enough to learn how to use a pointer. D, Swift, Go, and others are for corporate kids who'd rather talk about coding than code. Kinda like LISP. That's for academics who'd rather talk about coding than code. Stay with those languages, especially if you are from India (we don't need more crap-C-code, thank you). I'll be over here in my cave, coding in C and assembler laughing at your forced indentation and "managed" code.
Agreed. Too bad the old-school industrialists don't seem to have the same fear. The tech billionaires have their foibles, too. They lobby to let in tens of thousands H1Bs then give their arrange-married-spouses a backdoor work permit, too (and lefty-trolls don't tell me this doesn't happen. I'm a hiring manager - fucking WATCH it happen personally), and won't stop until job growth in tech is less than or equal to the H1B immigration level. I feel sorry for American kids who hear "Go into STEM" only to find out that their job is already taken by some asshole from India. However, they can't get out of the student loans even if they die (they'll come after your "estate" such as it may be and take it from your inheritors). Sounds a lot like pre-revolutionary French aristocracy to me:
Debt Bondage: Check
Fat cats bringing in foreign labor: Check.
Wages stagnating and falling: Check
Fat cats in control of the government and using power to fund idiotic wars: Check
Guilds taking over trades and locking out newcomers: Check
Bankrupt zombie finances at the government level: Check
Fake news and rumors spreading on all political sides: Check
About the only non-parallel was the fact that bad crop yields had caused a lot of hunger in France at the time. As a student of history, I believe that's one of the most potent triggers. If people can't feed their kids they will do just about anything, including killing anyone who might be to blame.
Hopefully you are the first one to contract the designer viruses created by some mad scientist in his mom's basement with CRiSPR. Could it help treat some diseases, sure. However, you have the mentality of a six-year old in a candy store: it can only be all-good right? No such thing as a double-edged sword? Go back to sleep, idiot.
Maybe we should break out the guillotines. Why? It sure as hell seemed to work for the French. Wages for laborers, artisans, and tradespeople went up dramatically after they scared the living shit out of the rich folks. Start with the billionaires and see if the millionaires feel like un-assing a bit more wages. I bet it wouldn't take many heads in a basket to convince them wages need to rise and the H1B assholes need to go home.
Nah, Mister Coward. I'll keep doing all the fun outdoor activities we have in abundance (you know, the things you come for vacation to do?) while you wallow in your filthy cities, breathing pollution, drinking lead, shaking your finger at each other while dodging traffic and running your rat races. However, I can tell you one thing I plan to do consistently and fervently: Vote. You fuckers got all teary and pissed in 2016, and I'll be laughing at you just as hard in the next election as you are dying your hair purple and screaming about your rights to each other's crowded faces. Oh and when you need to buy some real estate in "the desert" we'll all be here to sell it to you at 10x the price. kthnxbye.
I can't say I'm going to be all teary-eyed watching the coastal assholes paddle around in their own waste. The only downside is they are going to come RUNNING inland and make real estate in "flyover country" a lot more expensive. Couldn't they just stay there and drown or at the very least, stay there and paddle around like polar bears or Venetians?
Otherwise, we are going to have designer babies, cosmetic gene editing, and super-brain edits before anyone lifts a finger to cure cancer or fix Parkinson's etc.. Oh and not to mention designer viruses. Combo AIDS + Smallbox + Ebola that only kills black/white/asian people anyone?
Because after one bored asshole in his mom's basement decides to elect himself president, they will be rubbing their assholes and wondering what happened.
Nobody is going to win in Somalia, that's for sure, but it still takes tech-know how, not just $$$ and timing. HPC is NOT like building a gaming PC, man.
Anyone who thinks the USA is down and out and can't win at tech needs to refactor their bullshit. The Chinese should stick to making cheap flip flops and Christmas lights for Wal-Mart. Ha-fucking-Ha!
It's all some folks can get a hold of. When you are a kid, you just take whatever your parents give you. If that's a tablet or a Timex Sinclair 1000, then that's what it is. If someone wants to use a computing device (or any object) to be productive, then they can find a way (load a better OS, get a keyboard, etc..). It's not the kind of device you own, it's how much drive you have to learn and make the thing sing. I've met many Russians who grew up computing on the worst kind of Apple-II or PC clone, but learned a ton about computing and went on to do it "for real".
Yep. The whole Peak Oil thing seems like a complete fantasy at this point. Both the "we are running out of oil" and the "it will cause the apocalypse" parts of it seem to be a total canard.
I've been hearing garbage like this for years. The Peak Oil Apocalypse is a similar doomer line of thought by people who don't seem to understand the energy density of liquid fossil fuels. Since we are talking about someone's bullshit cockamamie theories how about we throw this one into the ring? Fossil fuels keep selling until significant amounts of vehicles and equipment becomes electric. At that point, the fossil fuels get cheaper, and as folks transition away jobs open up on the electric side (nowhere did I say we'd stop transporting people & goods). It could very well be a seamless transition based purely on supply, demand, and price dynamics. As tech makes electric cheaper, the shift occurs and no big dislocation occurs at all. Why is it that anytime someone sees a change coming, they say "This is going to result in massive joblessness and blood in the streets!"
Cool man, you are one of the few "good ones" then. I also read books from Project Gutenberg. Old or new, almost all book readers support epub, too. So, I agree that it's a fantastic format. However, in general, most folks who use e-readers are buying books from the built-in store and nearly all of those are DRM'd and they are rarely epub format. So, not to refute anything you've said, Terry, but my challenge to the "books are shit" troll fucker before you was "how are you going to not-lose your DRM'd books when the reader-vendor goes bust?" Answer: You're fucked. So, stop squirming and lying. You lost.
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Until then, *shrug*. These vulnerabilities are coming too fast with too little context to understand how they will impact security operations. I see a flood of articles crowing about the dangers of these issues, yet honestly, I haven't seen much real world impact. Maybe it's because I don't interact with desktop users or run untrusted javascript, I dunno. However, I just wish every security advisory had a nutritional information section where they had to admit "No, we still can't figure out how to make this into a remote root vulnerability for OpenSSH." and if it actually was weaponized at all or even had the potential for that. If you watched the torrent of speculative execution and SIMD bugs come out lately, you'd think the only secure IT device was a mechanical typewriter. Also, AMD hasn't been immune, they've just had fewer issues than Intel. That's not saying a whole lot and I agree with others who speculate they just haven't all been found, yet.
I remember seeing CUseeme "reflectors" do this a very long time ago. Never mind that most of the clients were using parallel-port connected with Connectix Quickcams and other horrible quality cameras. What's old is new again!
At least you know what the Morris Worm actually was!
Hehe, good one. I guess I kinda asked for that. :-)
Hehe, well, not trying to pick a fight, but I've done the exact same thing but with the opposite politics. I think you and I are "canceling each other out." *grin*
I told their recruiter that I couldn't work for them because of how they work poor people damn near to death and they end up with permanent disabilities after working there. They just sound like a sweat shop in the vein of all these corporate weasel fucks. Hopefully my response added to others and they are starting to get the point. However, I really really doubt it. If there was one statement I could attribute to corporations it's "We don't give a fuck."
Well, if you can't beat them, buy them. Kids, whatever you do don't go to work for Google. Make them buy you out, don't give them your skills for salary. Squeeze these corporate fuckers as hard as you can for the edification of the rest of us who didn't write a great algorithm that beats the Googleplex-of-assholes.
For trying to bastardize Unix. You go to hell for that, too. :-)
I'm white, but I like Ethiopia and Ethiopians. I'll tell you why. First, they are not Muslims, they are majority Christian and have been for so long there is a myth that their former emperor (Ras Taferi also known as Haile Salassie) claimed to have lineage going back to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. I'm Atheist, but I find stomaching xian bullshit is easier than Islamic bullshit, since there is less "cut the head off the infidel" stuff going on (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beheading_in_Islam).
Also, Ethiopia was never completely conquered by any western power. Italy made a go of it but couldn't hold the ground long and mostly just gassed a bunch of defenseless women and children. Ethiopians are the most sophisticated, civilized, and well educated of the Africans I meet (and I meet a lot, there are tons of them in my town). They also have the best food, the hottest women, and the most easy-going attitudes. Don't believe all that cracked Earth starvation shit from the 1970's famines, it's a beautiful country with lots of rainforests and different geography. Their language (Amharic) is also interesting and cool sounding. Their only real problem is an extremely fucked up government and the fact that they tried "multiculturalism" with the Salafi dickheads next door in Eritrea and Somalia (not by choice) and, like it always does, that resulted in big time civil war a few generations later.
Negative. Most C programmers avoid web-coding and phone-coding like the plague. Those are shitty low-rent jobs for teenagers and Indians.
Admit it. All these pro-flavor-of-the-month-coding-language articles on /. are red meat for python, PHP, and Java coders who wish they could learn C but couldn't hack it. Python is popular with skript-kiddies who just couldn't concentrate long enough to learn how to use a pointer. D, Swift, Go, and others are for corporate kids who'd rather talk about coding than code. Kinda like LISP. That's for academics who'd rather talk about coding than code. Stay with those languages, especially if you are from India (we don't need more crap-C-code, thank you). I'll be over here in my cave, coding in C and assembler laughing at your forced indentation and "managed" code.
About the only non-parallel was the fact that bad crop yields had caused a lot of hunger in France at the time. As a student of history, I believe that's one of the most potent triggers. If people can't feed their kids they will do just about anything, including killing anyone who might be to blame.
Lovely invention, the guillotine.
Hopefully you are the first one to contract the designer viruses created by some mad scientist in his mom's basement with CRiSPR. Could it help treat some diseases, sure. However, you have the mentality of a six-year old in a candy store: it can only be all-good right? No such thing as a double-edged sword? Go back to sleep, idiot.
Maybe we should break out the guillotines. Why? It sure as hell seemed to work for the French. Wages for laborers, artisans, and tradespeople went up dramatically after they scared the living shit out of the rich folks. Start with the billionaires and see if the millionaires feel like un-assing a bit more wages. I bet it wouldn't take many heads in a basket to convince them wages need to rise and the H1B assholes need to go home.
Nah, Mister Coward. I'll keep doing all the fun outdoor activities we have in abundance (you know, the things you come for vacation to do?) while you wallow in your filthy cities, breathing pollution, drinking lead, shaking your finger at each other while dodging traffic and running your rat races. However, I can tell you one thing I plan to do consistently and fervently: Vote. You fuckers got all teary and pissed in 2016, and I'll be laughing at you just as hard in the next election as you are dying your hair purple and screaming about your rights to each other's crowded faces. Oh and when you need to buy some real estate in "the desert" we'll all be here to sell it to you at 10x the price. kthnxbye.
I can't say I'm going to be all teary-eyed watching the coastal assholes paddle around in their own waste. The only downside is they are going to come RUNNING inland and make real estate in "flyover country" a lot more expensive. Couldn't they just stay there and drown or at the very least, stay there and paddle around like polar bears or Venetians?
Otherwise, we are going to have designer babies, cosmetic gene editing, and super-brain edits before anyone lifts a finger to cure cancer or fix Parkinson's etc.. Oh and not to mention designer viruses. Combo AIDS + Smallbox + Ebola that only kills black/white/asian people anyone?
News flash. All electronic devices a pretty much hackable.
Because after one bored asshole in his mom's basement decides to elect himself president, they will be rubbing their assholes and wondering what happened.
Nobody is going to win in Somalia, that's for sure, but it still takes tech-know how, not just $$$ and timing. HPC is NOT like building a gaming PC, man.
Anyone who thinks the USA is down and out and can't win at tech needs to refactor their bullshit. The Chinese should stick to making cheap flip flops and Christmas lights for Wal-Mart. Ha-fucking-Ha!
It's all some folks can get a hold of. When you are a kid, you just take whatever your parents give you. If that's a tablet or a Timex Sinclair 1000, then that's what it is. If someone wants to use a computing device (or any object) to be productive, then they can find a way (load a better OS, get a keyboard, etc..). It's not the kind of device you own, it's how much drive you have to learn and make the thing sing. I've met many Russians who grew up computing on the worst kind of Apple-II or PC clone, but learned a ton about computing and went on to do it "for real".
Yep. The whole Peak Oil thing seems like a complete fantasy at this point. Both the "we are running out of oil" and the "it will cause the apocalypse" parts of it seem to be a total canard.
I've been hearing garbage like this for years. The Peak Oil Apocalypse is a similar doomer line of thought by people who don't seem to understand the energy density of liquid fossil fuels. Since we are talking about someone's bullshit cockamamie theories how about we throw this one into the ring? Fossil fuels keep selling until significant amounts of vehicles and equipment becomes electric. At that point, the fossil fuels get cheaper, and as folks transition away jobs open up on the electric side (nowhere did I say we'd stop transporting people & goods). It could very well be a seamless transition based purely on supply, demand, and price dynamics. As tech makes electric cheaper, the shift occurs and no big dislocation occurs at all. Why is it that anytime someone sees a change coming, they say "This is going to result in massive joblessness and blood in the streets!"
Cool man, you are one of the few "good ones" then. I also read books from Project Gutenberg. Old or new, almost all book readers support epub, too. So, I agree that it's a fantastic format. However, in general, most folks who use e-readers are buying books from the built-in store and nearly all of those are DRM'd and they are rarely epub format. So, not to refute anything you've said, Terry, but my challenge to the "books are shit" troll fucker before you was "how are you going to not-lose your DRM'd books when the reader-vendor goes bust?" Answer: You're fucked. So, stop squirming and lying. You lost.