> so just don't connect a regular TV to the network.
Until such time as "a regular TV" won't work without an internet connection. At that point a computer monitor and a separate ATSC tuner are what I buy.
> The 1997 deal came within weeks of Apple facing bankruptcy and was announced > as part of a broad patent cross-licensing agreement and a promise from > Microsoft to provide its Office software to Macs in exchange for Internet Explorer > being the default browser on Apple's machines. In reality, it was a move to make > Microsoft look competitive and not be penalised for monopolising the market.
Like the article said, the only reason MS saved Apple in 1997 was to avoid officially being pronounced a monopoly.
> This. They're only doing it because D-Link is a Taiwanese company. > We're seeing racist Trump in action. If he wasn't racist he'd go after > Microsoft because of their security problems that they refuse to fix.
Errr, uhhhm, Trump is still 2 weeks away from being sworn in as president. A year ago, they were blaming everything on global warming. Now they're blaming everything on Trump.
> OTOH having foreign governments spreading propaganda and misinformation in your country > is enough of a national security question that you can't just throw up your hands and do nothing.
They're pissed off because their near-monopoly of the lib-left newspapers, CNN (Clinton News Network), MSNBC (Most Socialist Network on Basic Cable), etc was easily bypassed. That's what cost Hillary the election.
> Three years before Matt Drudge changed the world and how news would be > consumed, President Bill Clinton's White House feared that the Internet was allowing > average citizens, especially conservatives, to bypass legacy gatekeepers and > access information that had previously been denied to them by the mainstream press.
http://www.freerepublic.com/fo... 3 years later, it happened. One of the "legacy gatekeepers", Newsweek was considering doing a story breaking the Clinton-Lewinski scandal. But management killed the story. Instead a lowly store clerk with a modem broke the story... you've heard of Matt Drudge http://www.drudgereport.com/ Hillary clinton's reaction was to whine about the lack of "gatekeepers".
http://dailycaller.com/2016/08... What would've happened if Hillary had won? > Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign has sent out a fundraising > email arguing the website Breitbart News has no "right to exist," > and suggests that if elected, the website will be shut down entirely.
On Jan 19th, Obama says... Because we wuz hacked, the election results cannot be allowed to stand. And since Russia has shown that it can hack our elections, we can't trust any future American elections. Therefore I am suspending the electoral process, and proclaiming myself president-for-life
> As usual the idiots haven't even bothered to read the summary.
>> According to the Czech interior ministry, its new unit won't be interrogating anyone, censoring >> online content or bringing legal proceedings, nor will it "have a button for 'switching off the internet.'"
>> These things all have the same solution: restore from your daily backup, which should not be >> pushed from the machine in question
> If the backup is not "pushed" from the machine in question, then > how is the backup created?
The Windows machine grants read access to a remote backup machine (linux/bsd/whatever) on the network. The remote machine reads the current file version and backs it up. Note that *THE WINDOWS MACHINE MUST NOT HAVE WRITE ACCESS TO THE BACKUP MACHINE*. An infected Windows machine can encrypt anything it has write access to. It's not just the local hard drive or a USB key in a USB port. A samba or nfs ahare on a linux or bsd machine is designed to emulate a local hard drive. That includes writing to it, if given the necessary permission.
> Or do you mean don't backup the infected/ransomed machine AFTER it has been infected?
That's what *VERSIONING BACKUPS* are for. It's not a new idea. Ask any software developer about git, subversion, mercurial, etc. They can go back to a snapshot at a specific point in time. E.g. if a developer updates a program, and discovers... oh bleep; the update makes it crash on startup on other peoples' machines... then they can "revert" the update and go back to the previous working version. Similarly, if the latest backup of your important spreadsheet is encrypted, the versioning backup can step back to the latest non-encrypted version.
> Anytime someone asks questions about my concern for privacy online and why > I find data collection so dangerous ("But I am doing nothing wrong and > have nothing to hide, so why should I care?"), I point to McCarthyism > and the anti-communism mania from the 1940's and 1950's. In the late 1940's, > the House Committee on Un-American Activities (Yes, that's really the > name of a U.S. House of Representatives investigative committee) began to > subpoena Hollywood types (screenwriters, directors, actors, etc.) and ask > them to testify about known or suspected membership in the Communist > Party, association with its members, or support of its beliefs.
In 2008, Brendan Eich donated $1,000 to the campaign for California Proposition 8 (2008) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... to ban same-sex marriage. This was not an extremist niche idea. Proposition 8 won the support of a majority of voters, and passed into law.
Less than 6 years later, he became CEO of Mozilla Corporation. Gay activists found out about his contribution, and had him run out of office. Of course, if he had fired an employee for supporting gay rights, the lib-left and the courts would've been all over him.
The take-away is that just because you support the majority opinion today, don't expect to be immune tomorrow.
I don't like tele-evengelists like Jim Bakker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... But if he went to prison for fraud for overbooking his theme park time-share hotel, why aren't airline execs getting the same treatment?
Agreed, the cost of food, shelter, clothing, and transportation is going up like crazy, while electronics go down.
* Summer of 2007, I bought a 50 inch TV (1366x768 resolution) for $3500 Canadian. Today, 48-to-50 inch TVs (1920x1080 resolution) can be had for $350. That's a 90% drop in price.
* Stuff you really need, like food, shelter, clothing, and transportation has been constatnly increasing. I remember my first car, a new 1974 Ford Maverick 4-door. It cost $4,070 including taxes. Nowadays a compact 4-seater is at least $20,000
TTC Fare Structure, July 1, 1954: > Adult day fares: 15cents cash; 5 tickets for 50cents 20 tickets for $2. > Children: 5cents cash; 6 tickets for 25cents > Scholars: 10 tickets for 55cents
As of January, the fare structure will be > Adult (cash) $3.5 > Adult (token or Presto-card) $3.00 > "S" fare (Senior or Student) (cash) $2.10 > "S" fare (Senior or Student) (ticket or Presto-card) $2.05
Food, clothing, and housing (own or rent) have also skyrocketed. See http://www.thepeoplehistory.co... for some scarey numbers. To summarize... the current "2%" number is an an outright lie. The real number is a lot worse for people in the working class.
Facebook collects info on everybody, members and non-members alike. https://yro.slashdot.org/story... Police love this. They legally can't maintain large databases on people "just in case". However, Facebook does it legally, and the police can always subpeona them for that info, members and non-members alike.
UPS, DHL, and Purolator use the following routine...
* attempt to deliver to residence * if an adult is not present to sign a delivery receipt, take package back to warehouse
Some of them try 2 or 3 days. Then you have to go to their warehouse, with 2 pieces of ID, and pick up the parcel. Leaving stuff outside is stupid. In addition to theft, it can get rained/snowed on, and leaving a PC outdoors in -20 weather is not exactly healthy for electronics. Before I retired, I'd sometimes specify that they not try delivering at all, but that I'd come to their warehouse and pick up myself. One nice thing about living in a condo is that I can authorize security to accept the parcel for me, then I'd pick it up when I get home.
Wrong. I do use Gentoo. Yes, you can create a stripped-down text-console-only install that allows you to
echo "Hello World"
from the bash prompt. And if you're only running a scientific number-cruncher program that reads a text data file and spits out calculations as text, it's great.
But try an app like Gnumeric, which is/was a great spreadsheet. I use Gentoo, and I carefully watch what gets pulled in. Over the years, Gnumeric has picked up *HARD-CODED* direct and/or indirect dependancies on dbus, goffice, harbuzz, ghostscript, etc, etc. It used to work fine without them a few years ago. Why does it need them now? Gnumeric is the major source of GNOME-related crap on my machine. If I had several million dollars, I'd hire some programmers to fork Gnumeric off of GTK and onto FLTK (Fast Light Tool Kit).
> Unfortunately many Australian users' quota free > content will break if they change to a non isp dns.
WTF are you talking about? DNS consists mostly of UDP traffic, under 512 bytes per request. And what happens if you tweak your system to forward port 53 traffic through a dialup connection, and use the numeric answer to access the site via your broadband connection? The dialup ISP sees a few kbytes of traffic per hour, and the broadband ISP sees someone accessing, and downloading from a site by its numeric address.
A less sophisticated method is to manually
nslookup bad.example.com
and then access the site via the numeric address. DNS won't do the blocking. They'd have to blackhole the site at their end by IP address.
> 5 - easier for governments to crush dissent. Simply freeze the trouble > makers accounts, and they wont even be able to afford a lawyer to challenge it.
Banks received orders from the US government to stop doing business with individuals and businesses "believed to be at higher risk for fraud and money laundering". Note; the victims may have all their taxes paid, and never been charged, let alone convicted, of a crime, but they go broke because they can't access banks.
> Bringing up 538 is pretty random. But since you did. He was the one pollster > who consistently said that Trump had at least a 30% chance of winning.
* you have a phone number that is either published in a phone book or a private database that bad guys can buy
* any 3rd party hole-in-the-wall outfit can come along and send billing tapes to the telco
* you get billed, and have to dispute the bill to get your money back
What's required is an option allowing the phone customer to pre-emptively disable 3rd party billing. The telcos get a cut of the bill, and have every incentive to continue. It would require action by regulators to enforce a prohibition against 3rd party billing.
> Why did you need to be physically in the office?
There's this thing called "paperwork". And much of the stuff is confidential, and cannot be copied and handed out to a dozen workers. And try to keep them all synced with up-to-date copies, versus merely replacing the master copy in the main office. And before you mention doing everything remote...
1) Sometimes there is physical equipment to fix/set. Not everybody is a paper-pusher.
2) Unlike most Slashdotters, the average person knows zilch about security, and any confidential stuff on their home computers will be slurped up by the bad guys in a few minutes.
3) If it's possible for Bill in the boonies to do the work remote, then it's possible for Madheev in Mumbai to do the same job... for a fraction of the pay.
> I often used the NEWS link in Google search to filter out the results I got back on > a search to current item of interest. For example, if I'm concerned about a > particular recent earthquake I use the NEWS link to focus my search result to just > recent news rather than encyclopedia like entries about earthquakes in general.
1) On the upper-left side of the search-result screen you get the following list...
Any time
Past hour
Past 24 hours
Past week
Past month
Past year
The default is "Any time", which is why you get a gazillion hits. Click on "Past week" or "Past 24 hours" and you'll get the recent hits.
2) If you want info about a quake in the Solomom Islands, make your search term...
Slashdot Mirror
Fox News: Trump can walk on water, cure the sick, and raise the dead.
Washington Post: Trump doesn't know how to swim. He also takes away jobs from honest doctors and gravediggers.
> so just don't connect a regular TV to the network.
Until such time as "a regular TV" won't work without an internet connection. At that point a computer monitor and a separate ATSC tuner are what I buy.
> The trick is not BEING in business. The trick is STAYING in business.
It also helps to have Microsoft bail you out when you're facing bankruptcy...
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/micro...
> The 1997 deal came within weeks of Apple facing bankruptcy and was announced
> as part of a broad patent cross-licensing agreement and a promise from
> Microsoft to provide its Office software to Macs in exchange for Internet Explorer
> being the default browser on Apple's machines. In reality, it was a move to make
> Microsoft look competitive and not be penalised for monopolising the market.
Like the article said, the only reason MS saved Apple in 1997 was to avoid officially being pronounced a monopoly.
> This. They're only doing it because D-Link is a Taiwanese company.
> We're seeing racist Trump in action. If he wasn't racist he'd go after
> Microsoft because of their security problems that they refuse to fix.
Errr, uhhhm, Trump is still 2 weeks away from being sworn in as president. A year ago, they were blaming everything on global warming. Now they're blaming everything on Trump.
> OTOH having foreign governments spreading propaganda and misinformation in your country
> is enough of a national security question that you can't just throw up your hands and do nothing.
So you're saying that the USSR should've nuked the USA because of Voice of America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and Radio Free Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... shortwave broadcasts?
They're pissed off because their near-monopoly of the lib-left newspapers, CNN (Clinton News Network), MSNBC (Most Socialist Network on Basic Cable), etc was easily bypassed. That's what cost Hillary the election.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-j...
> Three years before Matt Drudge changed the world and how news would be
> consumed, President Bill Clinton's White House feared that the Internet was allowing
> average citizens, especially conservatives, to bypass legacy gatekeepers and
> access information that had previously been denied to them by the mainstream press.
http://www.freerepublic.com/fo...
3 years later, it happened. One of the "legacy gatekeepers", Newsweek was considering doing a story breaking the Clinton-Lewinski scandal. But management killed the story. Instead a lowly store clerk with a modem broke the story... you've heard of Matt Drudge http://www.drudgereport.com/ Hillary clinton's reaction was to whine about the lack of "gatekeepers".
http://dailycaller.com/2016/08...
What would've happened if Hillary had won?
> Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign has sent out a fundraising
> email arguing the website Breitbart News has no "right to exist,"
> and suggests that if elected, the website will be shut down entirely.
On Jan 19th, Obama says... Because we wuz hacked, the election results cannot be allowed to stand. And since Russia has shown that it can hack our elections, we can't trust any future American elections. Therefore I am suspending the electoral process, and proclaiming myself president-for-life
> As usual the idiots haven't even bothered to read the summary.
>> According to the Czech interior ministry, its new unit won't be interrogating anyone, censoring
>> online content or bringing legal proceedings, nor will it "have a button for 'switching off the internet.'"
yet... Wait till stage 2 or 3.
> Until you discover that your backups are also infected.
That's what *VERSIONING BACKUP SOFTWARE* is for.
>> These things all have the same solution: restore from your daily backup, which should not be
>> pushed from the machine in question
> If the backup is not "pushed" from the machine in question, then
> how is the backup created?
The Windows machine grants read access to a remote backup machine (linux/bsd/whatever) on the network. The remote machine reads the current file version and backs it up. Note that *THE WINDOWS MACHINE MUST NOT HAVE WRITE ACCESS TO THE BACKUP MACHINE*. An infected Windows machine can encrypt anything it has write access to. It's not just the local hard drive or a USB key in a USB port. A samba or nfs ahare on a linux or bsd machine is designed to emulate a local hard drive. That includes writing to it, if given the necessary permission.
> Or do you mean don't backup the infected/ransomed machine AFTER it has been infected?
That's what *VERSIONING BACKUPS* are for. It's not a new idea. Ask any software developer about git, subversion, mercurial, etc. They can go back to a snapshot at a specific point in time. E.g. if a developer updates a program, and discovers... oh bleep; the update makes it crash on startup on other peoples' machines... then they can "revert" the update and go back to the previous working version. Similarly, if the latest backup of your important spreadsheet is encrypted, the versioning backup can step back to the latest non-encrypted version.
> Anytime someone asks questions about my concern for privacy online and why
> I find data collection so dangerous ("But I am doing nothing wrong and
> have nothing to hide, so why should I care?"), I point to McCarthyism
> and the anti-communism mania from the 1940's and 1950's. In the late 1940's,
> the House Committee on Un-American Activities (Yes, that's really the
> name of a U.S. House of Representatives investigative committee) began to
> subpoena Hollywood types (screenwriters, directors, actors, etc.) and ask
> them to testify about known or suspected membership in the Communist
> Party, association with its members, or support of its beliefs.
In 2008, Brendan Eich donated $1,000 to the campaign for California Proposition 8 (2008) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... to ban same-sex marriage. This was not an extremist niche idea. Proposition 8 won the support of a majority of voters, and passed into law.
Less than 6 years later, he became CEO of Mozilla Corporation. Gay activists found out about his contribution, and had him run out of office. Of course, if he had fired an employee for supporting gay rights, the lib-left and the courts would've been all over him.
The take-away is that just because you support the majority opinion today, don't expect to be immune tomorrow.
I don't like tele-evengelists like Jim Bakker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... But if he went to prison for fraud for overbooking his theme park time-share hotel, why aren't airline execs getting the same treatment?
100% agreed. You *CANNOT* keep secrets. Consider...
* Aldrich Ames https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
* Jonathan Pollard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
* Edward Snowden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Agreed, the cost of food, shelter, clothing, and transportation is going up like crazy, while electronics go down.
* Summer of 2007, I bought a 50 inch TV (1366x768 resolution) for $3500 Canadian. Today, 48-to-50 inch TVs (1920x1080 resolution) can be had for $350. That's a 90% drop in price.
* Stuff you really need, like food, shelter, clothing, and transportation has been constatnly increasing. I remember my first car, a new 1974 Ford Maverick 4-door. It cost $4,070 including taxes. Nowadays a compact 4-seater is at least $20,000
http://transit.toronto.on.ca/s...
TTC Fare Structure, July 1, 1954:
> Adult day fares: 15cents cash; 5 tickets for 50cents 20 tickets for $2.
> Children: 5cents cash; 6 tickets for 25cents
> Scholars: 10 tickets for 55cents
http://ttc.ca/Fares_and_passes...
As of January, the fare structure will be
> Adult (cash) $3.5
> Adult (token or Presto-card) $3.00
> "S" fare (Senior or Student) (cash) $2.10
> "S" fare (Senior or Student) (ticket or Presto-card) $2.05
Food, clothing, and housing (own or rent) have also skyrocketed. See http://www.thepeoplehistory.co... for some scarey numbers. To summarize... the current "2%" number is an an outright lie. The real number is a lot worse for people in the working class.
Facebook collects info on everybody, members and non-members alike. https://yro.slashdot.org/story... Police love this. They legally can't maintain large databases on people "just in case". However, Facebook does it legally, and the police can always subpeona them for that info, members and non-members alike.
UPS, DHL, and Purolator use the following routine...
* attempt to deliver to residence
* if an adult is not present to sign a delivery receipt, take package back to warehouse
Some of them try 2 or 3 days. Then you have to go to their warehouse, with 2 pieces of ID, and pick up the parcel. Leaving stuff outside is stupid. In addition to theft, it can get rained/snowed on, and leaving a PC outdoors in -20 weather is not exactly healthy for electronics. Before I retired, I'd sometimes specify that they not try delivering at all, but that I'd come to their warehouse and pick up myself. One nice thing about living in a condo is that I can authorize security to accept the parcel for me, then I'd pick it up when I get home.
> If you used Gentoo, this wouldn't be a problem.
Wrong. I do use Gentoo. Yes, you can create a stripped-down text-console-only install that allows you to
echo "Hello World"
from the bash prompt. And if you're only running a scientific number-cruncher program that reads a text data file and spits out calculations as text, it's great.
But try an app like Gnumeric, which is/was a great spreadsheet. I use Gentoo, and I carefully watch what gets pulled in. Over the years, Gnumeric has picked up *HARD-CODED* direct and/or indirect dependancies on dbus, goffice, harbuzz, ghostscript, etc, etc. It used to work fine without them a few years ago. Why does it need them now? Gnumeric is the major source of GNOME-related crap on my machine. If I had several million dollars, I'd hire some programmers to fork Gnumeric off of GTK and onto FLTK (Fast Light Tool Kit).
> I'm sure they'd be amenable to mixing in conservatiive-leaning
> fact-checking operations as well. Know of any?
Mark Dice? He has a Youtube channel with regular debunkings of the MSM. E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
> Unfortunately many Australian users' quota free
> content will break if they change to a non isp dns.
WTF are you talking about? DNS consists mostly of UDP traffic, under 512 bytes per request. And what happens if you tweak your system to forward port 53 traffic through a dialup connection, and use the numeric answer to access the site via your broadband connection? The dialup ISP sees a few kbytes of traffic per hour, and the broadband ISP sees someone accessing, and downloading from a site by its numeric address.
A less sophisticated method is to manually
nslookup bad.example.com
and then access the site via the numeric address. DNS won't do the blocking. They'd have to blackhole the site at their end by IP address.
> 5 - easier for governments to crush dissent. Simply freeze the trouble
> makers accounts, and they wont even be able to afford a lawyer to challenge it.
Read up on "Operation Chokepoint" some time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Banks received orders from the US government to stop doing business with individuals and businesses "believed to be at higher risk for fraud and money laundering". Note; the victims may have all their taxes paid, and never been charged, let alone convicted, of a crime, but they go broke because they can't access banks.
> I blame that incredibly annoying song by (I think) Dean Martin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore
> Bringing up 538 is pretty random. But since you did. He was the one pollster
> who consistently said that Trump had at least a 30% chance of winning.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver...
> Reminder: Cubs will win the World Series and, in
> exchange, President Trump will be elected 8 days later.
That was posted May 10th, 2016. I like the response from "That Royals Guy"...
> I think this is all covered in Revelations.
The real problem...
* you have a phone number that is either published in a phone book or a private database that bad guys can buy
* any 3rd party hole-in-the-wall outfit can come along and send billing tapes to the telco
* you get billed, and have to dispute the bill to get your money back
What's required is an option allowing the phone customer to pre-emptively disable 3rd party billing. The telcos get a cut of the bill, and have every incentive to continue. It would require action by regulators to enforce a prohibition against 3rd party billing.
> Why did you need to be physically in the office?
There's this thing called "paperwork". And much of the stuff is confidential, and cannot be copied and handed out to a dozen workers. And try to keep them all synced with up-to-date copies, versus merely replacing the master copy in the main office. And before you mention doing everything remote...
1) Sometimes there is physical equipment to fix/set. Not everybody is a paper-pusher.
2) Unlike most Slashdotters, the average person knows zilch about security, and any confidential stuff on their home computers will be slurped up by the bad guys in a few minutes.
3) If it's possible for Bill in the boonies to do the work remote, then it's possible for Madheev in Mumbai to do the same job... for a fraction of the pay.
> I often used the NEWS link in Google search to filter out the results I got back on
> a search to current item of interest. For example, if I'm concerned about a
> particular recent earthquake I use the NEWS link to focus my search result to just
> recent news rather than encyclopedia like entries about earthquakes in general.
1) On the upper-left side of the search-result screen you get the following list...
Any time
Past hour
Past 24 hours
Past week
Past month
Past year
The default is "Any time", which is why you get a gazillion hits. Click on "Past week" or "Past 24 hours" and you'll get the recent hits.
2) If you want info about a quake in the Solomom Islands, make your search term...
earthquake solomon islands
and you'll get relevant hits.