Throughout history, the unjust jail and jail until the masses get tired of it and kill the jailers. It's not something you are going to hear in the media, it's just a fact. If you doubt me, look into the history of the Bastille and the Tower of London. Both have been the impetus of revolution. That's just a taste, too, since history is rife with such stories.
PGP is broken now? It's only had fairly infrequent and minor issues over time. If this is broken now, then it's the final sign that anyone who thinks computers can be secured is wrong. If you want something secure, write it down in a notebook. It'll be about 100x more secure than putting it on a computer simply by not being networked. Even if someone steals and reads your notebook it's better than someone having it on their phone (or PGP, now I guess) for the ENTIRE WORLD to come along and steal. Computers are great for games, everything else is debatable.
The minimize negative feedback and give all the corporate sponsors a chance to maximize their positive image. The point was supposed to be finding out that your new potential employer is actually a hellhole with a crazy boss, insane hours, and populated by your wonderful new no-deodorant H1B co-workers. The only reason that's helpful to Glassdoor is that they can then blackmail the company in to paying to improve their image on Glassdoor.
Craaazy talk! Yeah, I'm thinking if it takes more more than 10 minutes to code, it's *not* going into the App Store where big brother is going to take a 50% cut.
Will Chinese researchers will produce research results that can't be replicated by others? Funny thing is, we seem to have done just fine staying ahead of the Chinese for quite some time now. Just about everything of technical value got invented elsewhere first before China, and a significant portion of modern discoveries and technical advancements of the last 200 years have happened in the USA. Like many conformist countries, they are good a copying, but not so good at inventing. Tough to argue against recent history unless you want to go back a couple thousand years when China was at the leading edge of technical innovation. So, yeah, let them go. They aren't irreplaceable.
No buttons, no directional controller, no rumble packs, crappy framebuffers with low-rent API's. I love games and I love game devices. I collect consoles and micros from the 1990's mostly. So, I'm definitely biased. I just don't "get" the appeal of gaming on a phone. I guess that it's because a parent will buy a phone for their kid so they can use it as a leash to track them. The kid gets unlimited gaming access, albeit on a shit-platform.
What I really wonder is what these kids will do when they get old. You won't be able to find that old phone with a sealed battery. It'll be way way way gone to the landfill. The games will also still be squirreled away into an "app store" etc... I have cartridges. They don't have DRM etc...
Also big fans of XML, dbus, Wayland, and a whole truckload of stupid shit. These are the people who Henry Spencer was talking about when he said "those who do not understand Unix are doomed to re-invent it - poorly." They have nearly completed that project.;-)
Counterexample. I worked with a team of Chinese nationals who were storage engineers. If they were just idiots that'd be one thing, but they were idiots and *dicks*. I had to fire the whole subcontractor. They seemed to have an especially hard time working with Indians. I was constantly breaking up arguments and spats. It got old and that was it for those folks. I remember one complaining to me about all his expenses in the US like I gave a fuck. Fortunately, it was the same day I finished the paperwork to basically fire them en' masse. Plus, what does it matter if the Chinese are good researches if they use their skills to steal as much as they can before returning to the fatherland?
Great. Let them go elsewhere. Bye! Cya! *waves* They can steal from them instead of us. Sounds excellent. It doesn't matter if they are "brains" if they are using that brain to rip off the country that's nice enough to host them.
Either the press has turned against them, they are the new Microsoft Evil Empire, or they are just real assholes, but there is a new "Facebook is Evil as Fuck - New Assrape Code" story every day!
Stiff the power company's creditors. Allow them to declare bankruptcy. Then re-capitalize the whole thing without debt and move on with what you can actually pay for. If that's impossible or they are too corrupt/incompetent to get that done, then as an individual you should factor in whole-house power generation before getting a house or moving to PR. I'm not saying this with a shaking finger or judgment, I'm just saying it seems like common sense, now.
It does pass traffic in the clear if you are dumb enough not to use TLS, yes. However, there is also the fact that many many applications don't have big security concerns and they operate in an environment where not every client may have an effective SFTP workalike to solve the problems a switch would create. It's fine to hand-wave away someone else's concern when it's not your rig to re-create the "secure" way. There is also the fact that until ProFTPd got an SFTP module there were shittons of missing features from sftpd-server compared to many FTP servers and especially ProFTPd. You can get on/. and be all imperious about it, but if you were one of those folks using one of those features I doubt you'd be so flippant with your "ancient and should be abandoned" comment. Unix is old too, so is TCP/IP should we throw those babies out with the other "old" stuff bathwater just because for some people in some use cases might be better off with SFTP? Stop proffering logical fallacies. Being old doesn't make it bad, neither does the fact that it doesn't use encryption. What makes it bad is when you *use* it in a situation where you are putting the credentials at risk. I know lots of folks using FTP on their local LAN. Should they take a 5x performance hit for the encryption? That'd be dumb in my opinion. Use the right tool for the job, not "the most secure" tool when security isn't even a concern in some cases.
Serious answer: Because before you had something like ProFTPd supporting SFTP, the features in the sftpd-server that comes with OpenSSH were a joke compared with the competition (again, ProFTP is the best example). I mean SFTP was missing many many features that some folks can't go without. So, up until that point, which was somewhat recent, FTP was your best option for supporting the dozens of features missing from SFTP that were present in FTP servers. Nowadays thanks to ProFTPD, the answer is "you can now switch to SFTP without having a completely different experience." Of course, that doesn't mean all the nice FTP clients out there have workalikes on the SFTP side, but since folks already have some fairly decent SFTP clients, that shouldn't be a huge issue. There are only two other issues to fight about. The first is the reproducible fact that SFTP is like 5x slower than FTP in most cases over a fast LAN due to the encryption overhead. For Internet users that's no big deal, they aren't going to be moving files at 100MB/s anyway. The last is the fact that older systems which integrate FTP client or server protocols will be shut out, and not all of those use-cases require the high security; so it's just a kick in the shins for no reason for those folks if ISPs or others get aggressive about blocking FTP (hasn't happened yet, I know).
Why buy from a bunch of annoying bearded hipsters ? I can get faster hardware cheaper elsewhere if I want to roll the OS myself. I guess you forgot about that part.
The Chinese, Russians, and Indians are constantly beating on my FTP server. Well, they would be if I hadn't GeoIP blocked them (proftpd module feature). Hopefully, not being able to use FTP sites as a pivot, their interest will wane (but I'm not counting on it). I dislike FTP's mult-port design, but it's got far more full-featured servers versus something like a web server will give you (compare ProFTPd with Apache - no contest for file service, not even at all close). I hope the newschool Internet folks will just stay on their smart phones and fuck off and forget FTP exists. The problem is that when masses of idiots decide something is "the new way" they will try crap on "the old way" despite it still being useful or even required. So, I expect ISPs will think they need to block it or whatever. If it won't load up with lynx/elinks then I'm not interested anyway, HTML stopped serving normal people and started serving corporations and graphic designers after HTML 1.1.
You need to get on board. Come in for the big win. Once all the stakeholders come to the table, we'll be properly able to leverage our synergies (as soon as our strategy is tee'd-up). This will be impactful and allow us to pivot to innovation.
Oh, okay, I'll just live in San Jose on Bangalore wages. Great idea, Mr. Coward. BTW, I am definitely a nationalist and patriotic and I don't have to apologize for loving my country. I don't hate India or Indians, my real problem is against the bottom feeding fatcats who want to exploit their political ties to screw up the immigration system for their benefit and my loss.
Well, Mr. Coward, I'd assert that it's an IT news site and it's probably okay to look at the story from an IT perspective. However, do I hate the H1B program? Absolutely! Am I supposed to be in love with a program designed to lower my wages?
If wages are stagnating or dropping, then the H1B program is doing exactly what it was designed to: keep IT wages low. After all we can't expect our poor corporate overlords to simply pay us more because they have been reaping record profits. Everyone knows that the investor class and C-suite are the only ones that deserve any of the pie. If you want a raise, pull yourself up by your bootstraps and start your own multi-billion-dollar international corporation!
I stay with my same old doctor because he refuses to put patient records down on anything but paper. Doesn't take insurance. Voting and health care need to go back-to-the-future and use paper! They should damn sure not be networked. That's how the Iranians hid their nuclear reactor for two years before Israel blew it up. They used paper. When they stopped and a scientist traveled through Europe with a laptop, they snagged it and found out. Networked computers are one of the least secure places to put any information.
I've thought about that scenario, too. It'd just be way too easy for the gubment to ban Wifi, WiMax (already licensed anyway), and packet radio for purposes of building your own network. That way only the politician's handlers can decide who gets access to the-one-and-only-Internet. Don't you think they'd just cut off the DIY avenue pretty quick? I mean, that's almost as dangerous as pirate radio. We simply can't have people just, you know, saying whatever they want. You think there is some kind of universal law protecting free speech? What? What is this burst dependent you speak of? Oh...... first amendment?.. Yeah, we don't do that anymore.
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Throughout history, the unjust jail and jail until the masses get tired of it and kill the jailers. It's not something you are going to hear in the media, it's just a fact. If you doubt me, look into the history of the Bastille and the Tower of London. Both have been the impetus of revolution. That's just a taste, too, since history is rife with such stories.
PGP is broken now? It's only had fairly infrequent and minor issues over time. If this is broken now, then it's the final sign that anyone who thinks computers can be secured is wrong. If you want something secure, write it down in a notebook. It'll be about 100x more secure than putting it on a computer simply by not being networked. Even if someone steals and reads your notebook it's better than someone having it on their phone (or PGP, now I guess) for the ENTIRE WORLD to come along and steal. Computers are great for games, everything else is debatable.
The minimize negative feedback and give all the corporate sponsors a chance to maximize their positive image. The point was supposed to be finding out that your new potential employer is actually a hellhole with a crazy boss, insane hours, and populated by your wonderful new no-deodorant H1B co-workers. The only reason that's helpful to Glassdoor is that they can then blackmail the company in to paying to improve their image on Glassdoor.
Craaazy talk! Yeah, I'm thinking if it takes more more than 10 minutes to code, it's *not* going into the App Store where big brother is going to take a 50% cut.
Will Chinese researchers will produce research results that can't be replicated by others? Funny thing is, we seem to have done just fine staying ahead of the Chinese for quite some time now. Just about everything of technical value got invented elsewhere first before China, and a significant portion of modern discoveries and technical advancements of the last 200 years have happened in the USA. Like many conformist countries, they are good a copying, but not so good at inventing. Tough to argue against recent history unless you want to go back a couple thousand years when China was at the leading edge of technical innovation. So, yeah, let them go. They aren't irreplaceable.
No buttons, no directional controller, no rumble packs, crappy framebuffers with low-rent API's. I love games and I love game devices. I collect consoles and micros from the 1990's mostly. So, I'm definitely biased. I just don't "get" the appeal of gaming on a phone. I guess that it's because a parent will buy a phone for their kid so they can use it as a leash to track them. The kid gets unlimited gaming access, albeit on a shit-platform.
What I really wonder is what these kids will do when they get old. You won't be able to find that old phone with a sealed battery. It'll be way way way gone to the landfill. The games will also still be squirreled away into an "app store" etc... I have cartridges. They don't have DRM etc...
Also big fans of XML, dbus, Wayland, and a whole truckload of stupid shit. These are the people who Henry Spencer was talking about when he said "those who do not understand Unix are doomed to re-invent it - poorly." They have nearly completed that project. ;-)
Counterexample. I worked with a team of Chinese nationals who were storage engineers. If they were just idiots that'd be one thing, but they were idiots and *dicks*. I had to fire the whole subcontractor. They seemed to have an especially hard time working with Indians. I was constantly breaking up arguments and spats. It got old and that was it for those folks. I remember one complaining to me about all his expenses in the US like I gave a fuck. Fortunately, it was the same day I finished the paperwork to basically fire them en' masse. Plus, what does it matter if the Chinese are good researches if they use their skills to steal as much as they can before returning to the fatherland?
Great. Let them go elsewhere. Bye! Cya! *waves* They can steal from them instead of us. Sounds excellent. It doesn't matter if they are "brains" if they are using that brain to rip off the country that's nice enough to host them.
Like the fucking cops pensions. My dad wasn't stupid enough to fall for that one. Neither am I.
You are right! Not to mention anywhere they had access to a live mic.
Either the press has turned against them, they are the new Microsoft Evil Empire, or they are just real assholes, but there is a new "Facebook is Evil as Fuck - New Assrape Code" story every day!
Stiff the power company's creditors. Allow them to declare bankruptcy. Then re-capitalize the whole thing without debt and move on with what you can actually pay for. If that's impossible or they are too corrupt/incompetent to get that done, then as an individual you should factor in whole-house power generation before getting a house or moving to PR. I'm not saying this with a shaking finger or judgment, I'm just saying it seems like common sense, now.
It does pass traffic in the clear if you are dumb enough not to use TLS, yes. However, there is also the fact that many many applications don't have big security concerns and they operate in an environment where not every client may have an effective SFTP workalike to solve the problems a switch would create. It's fine to hand-wave away someone else's concern when it's not your rig to re-create the "secure" way. There is also the fact that until ProFTPd got an SFTP module there were shittons of missing features from sftpd-server compared to many FTP servers and especially ProFTPd. You can get on /. and be all imperious about it, but if you were one of those folks using one of those features I doubt you'd be so flippant with your "ancient and should be abandoned" comment. Unix is old too, so is TCP/IP should we throw those babies out with the other "old" stuff bathwater just because for some people in some use cases might be better off with SFTP? Stop proffering logical fallacies. Being old doesn't make it bad, neither does the fact that it doesn't use encryption. What makes it bad is when you *use* it in a situation where you are putting the credentials at risk. I know lots of folks using FTP on their local LAN. Should they take a 5x performance hit for the encryption? That'd be dumb in my opinion. Use the right tool for the job, not "the most secure" tool when security isn't even a concern in some cases.
Serious answer: Because before you had something like ProFTPd supporting SFTP, the features in the sftpd-server that comes with OpenSSH were a joke compared with the competition (again, ProFTP is the best example). I mean SFTP was missing many many features that some folks can't go without. So, up until that point, which was somewhat recent, FTP was your best option for supporting the dozens of features missing from SFTP that were present in FTP servers. Nowadays thanks to ProFTPD, the answer is "you can now switch to SFTP without having a completely different experience." Of course, that doesn't mean all the nice FTP clients out there have workalikes on the SFTP side, but since folks already have some fairly decent SFTP clients, that shouldn't be a huge issue. There are only two other issues to fight about. The first is the reproducible fact that SFTP is like 5x slower than FTP in most cases over a fast LAN due to the encryption overhead. For Internet users that's no big deal, they aren't going to be moving files at 100MB/s anyway. The last is the fact that older systems which integrate FTP client or server protocols will be shut out, and not all of those use-cases require the high security; so it's just a kick in the shins for no reason for those folks if ISPs or others get aggressive about blocking FTP (hasn't happened yet, I know).
Why buy from a bunch of annoying bearded hipsters ? I can get faster hardware cheaper elsewhere if I want to roll the OS myself. I guess you forgot about that part.
So, are all the Islamic ghettos outside Paris going to go from cinderblock-grey to a nice yellow & green Lego style?
The Chinese, Russians, and Indians are constantly beating on my FTP server. Well, they would be if I hadn't GeoIP blocked them (proftpd module feature). Hopefully, not being able to use FTP sites as a pivot, their interest will wane (but I'm not counting on it). I dislike FTP's mult-port design, but it's got far more full-featured servers versus something like a web server will give you (compare ProFTPd with Apache - no contest for file service, not even at all close). I hope the newschool Internet folks will just stay on their smart phones and fuck off and forget FTP exists. The problem is that when masses of idiots decide something is "the new way" they will try crap on "the old way" despite it still being useful or even required. So, I expect ISPs will think they need to block it or whatever. If it won't load up with lynx/elinks then I'm not interested anyway, HTML stopped serving normal people and started serving corporations and graphic designers after HTML 1.1.
Oh and they push Ubuntu. No thanks.
You need to get on board. Come in for the big win. Once all the stakeholders come to the table, we'll be properly able to leverage our synergies (as soon as our strategy is tee'd-up). This will be impactful and allow us to pivot to innovation.
Oh, okay, I'll just live in San Jose on Bangalore wages. Great idea, Mr. Coward. BTW, I am definitely a nationalist and patriotic and I don't have to apologize for loving my country. I don't hate India or Indians, my real problem is against the bottom feeding fatcats who want to exploit their political ties to screw up the immigration system for their benefit and my loss.
Well, Mr. Coward, I'd assert that it's an IT news site and it's probably okay to look at the story from an IT perspective. However, do I hate the H1B program? Absolutely! Am I supposed to be in love with a program designed to lower my wages?
If wages are stagnating or dropping, then the H1B program is doing exactly what it was designed to: keep IT wages low. After all we can't expect our poor corporate overlords to simply pay us more because they have been reaping record profits. Everyone knows that the investor class and C-suite are the only ones that deserve any of the pie. If you want a raise, pull yourself up by your bootstraps and start your own multi-billion-dollar international corporation!
I stay with my same old doctor because he refuses to put patient records down on anything but paper. Doesn't take insurance. Voting and health care need to go back-to-the-future and use paper! They should damn sure not be networked. That's how the Iranians hid their nuclear reactor for two years before Israel blew it up. They used paper. When they stopped and a scientist traveled through Europe with a laptop, they snagged it and found out. Networked computers are one of the least secure places to put any information.
I've thought about that scenario, too. It'd just be way too easy for the gubment to ban Wifi, WiMax (already licensed anyway), and packet radio for purposes of building your own network. That way only the politician's handlers can decide who gets access to the-one-and-only-Internet. Don't you think they'd just cut off the DIY avenue pretty quick? I mean, that's almost as dangerous as pirate radio. We simply can't have people just, you know, saying whatever they want. You think there is some kind of universal law protecting free speech? What? What is this burst dependent you speak of? Oh...... first amendment?.. Yeah, we don't do that anymore.