> Are they just unaware of what advantages running a home server can offer? Or have > the benefits of a server been explained to them after which they still decline?
Linux nerd here... sorry, but I have better things to do with my time than worry about constantly patching and running smtp/web/ftp servers, and constantly monitoring logs, etc, etc, etc. Having a life gets in the way of an internet.
I have a reasonable idea of how vulnerable linux servers are on the open internet. It's mind-boggling how easily the average Joe/Jane Lunchbucket gets pwnd/social-engineered even with a client machine behind a stateful firewall. Give every one of them a server, and if you think today's botnets are something, you ain't seen nothing yet.
> If a self driving car is seeing something in front of it and launches an app to > determine what that object is, then that app needs to return an answer > before the car hits the object and in time to brake to a stop, if necessary. > It needs a time signal to understand how much time it has left.
What are you talking about? Time to impact = distance-to-object divided by your current speed. Distance is obtainable by radar/sonar/whatever, and speed comes from the same tachometer connected to your car's wheels that provides speed info to the speedometer display. It self-driving-car shouldn't care or need to know what time it is. BTW, how would a GPS system operate in an underground (and/or underwater) tunnel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
GM has a cold-weather test facility at Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada http://www.wheels.ca/news/nort... Ordinary batteries tend to lose power when cold. Cold weather doesn't just happen in Canada, but also in a lot of the US "Northern Tier" states. E.g. Minnesota, Wisconsin, the North+South Dakota, etc. And let's not forget Alaska. Is there noticable power/range loss in cold weather with GM's electric cars?
American ex-presidents are protected by the Secret Service after their terms, because there are a lot of people around the planet (including in the US), who have grievances (real or imagined) against said ex-president. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
> The original act provided for lifetime Secret Service for former presidents. > In 1997, it was reduced to 10 years for presidents taking office after 1997. > The 1997 amendment was reverted by the Former Presidents Protection > Act of 2012 (Public Law 112-257).All living former presidents and their > spouses are now entitled to receive lifetime Secret Service protection.
Snowden's info releases embarressed the USA. But it is believed that several US agents died or were captured by other countries due to Pollard's espionage. The Secret Service is part of the US "intelligence community". Do you, as a former US president really want to pardon the man who was responsible for thr death of comrades of the people charged with protecting you?
> Whoa cowboy. With net metering we have an additional source of resources for > the monopoly that controls electricity in a given region. And its generated at > the point of use, reducing distribution cost. If they're too stupid to figure out > how to use new technology and load balance, they should be obligated to > figure it out or rescind their monopoly. > > "Its well known" that you make shit up. There are many different scenarios and > some are not conducive to solar. However in my state (high coal usage), my > rooftop solar panels are currently cheaper today than coal generated > electricity. They'll generate back the power that it took to make them within > a year or two and over 20 years I'm looking at an 8-10% ROI. How is eliminating > coal power to a house for less money not cost effective?
Is that "less expensive" with or without massive subsidies? Gee it must be a nice racket;
1) produce 15% of the power you need 2) sell it to the utility for 8 times the market rate 3) buy back 100% of you power needs at market rate 4) Profit
*** By the end of 2013, Ontario household power rates will be the second-highest in North America (after PEI), and they will continue to accelerate while they level off in most other jurisdictions. Even more alarming for Ontario's economic competitiveness, businesses and industrial customers will be hit by almost $12-billion in additional costs over the same period.
Such is the legacy of the provincial government's 2009 decision to establish feed-in rates, ranging from 44.5 cents to 80.2 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for solar power, and 13.5 cents/kWh for wind power. These solar feed-in rates average 11 times the 5.6 cents/kWh paid for nuclear-generated power, and 18 times the 3.5 cents/kWh for hydro-generated power. The wind-power rates are more than twice as high as nuclear, and four times those of hydro. ***
Is the Facebook At Work app standalone or hosted by FB? If it's hosted by FB, what happens when your corporate internet connection goes down. Internal email would still work, but a "cloud-hosted app"...?
...if they ever consider "Facebook For Work". Mark Zuckerburg is backstabbing sleazebag who has no conscience. Consider how he joined the Winklevoss twins' "Harvard Connection" (aka ConnectU) project, stole their ideas, and delayed the ConnectU project whilst he set up his own project (TheFacebook.com) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... His attitude to users is one of absolute contempt, and total disregard for their personal data confidentiality. Does your management really want him having access to your internal emails? If it's not blocked by your worksite due to NSFW language, point your management to http://www.newyorker.com/magaz... Here's a relevant snippet from the article
=== Begin Snippet === The technology site Silicon Alley Insider got hold of some of the messages and, this past spring, posted the transcript of a conversation between Zuckerberg and a friend, outlining how he was planning to deal with Harvard Connect:
FRIEND: so have you decided what you are going to do about the websites?
ZUCK: yea I'm going to fuck them
ZUCK: probably in the year
ZUCK: *ear
In another exchange leaked to Silicon Alley Insider, Zuckerberg explained to a friend that his control of Facebook gave him access to any information he wanted on any Harvard student:
ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard
ZUCK: just ask
ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns
FRIEND: what!? how'd you manage that one?
ZUCK: people just submitted it
ZUCK: i don't know why
ZUCK: they "trust me"
ZUCK: dumb fucks
> Why do you care how other people build their Linux systems?
I don't. If Poettering and company had simply forked GNOME Lenna-X off of GNU Linu-X, there wouldn't be all this complaining. The problem is that Poettering and company have hijacked mainstream linux that almost all linux users use and changed it into something unrecognizable. udev is now built into systemd. The "udev install process" on Gentoo consists of building systemd, but only installing the udev portion. That's why the eudev fork. And some people are running with busybox/mdev in place of udev.
Then there's also dbus, which is being rammed into the kernel. Gnumeric was a great spreadsheet a couple of years ago. But now it's picking up GNOME dependancies all over the place, including dbus. And Skype now requires PulseAudio, another piece of crud from Lennart.
> a) don't catch the disease, we don't know if that was genetic or > luck, likely no influence on 'breeding'
> The plague is under control because of much much better > sanitation, not because humans suddenly became 'immune' to it.
European Jewish communities had lower infection rates for Black Death, Bubonic Plague, etc. Back then, society knew nothing about bacteria, viruses, or sanitation. Jews followed their religious laws regard washing of dishes before meals, and washing their hands before meals. Non-Jews didn't. The resulting lower Jewish death rate contributed to anti-semitism, claims of Jews being in league with the devil, and pogroms. Nowadays it's considered standard to wash your dishes and your hands.
> a) not have the right to be "disgruntled" unless
Note that the part of the post you quoted talks about posting "angry statements". E.g. don't publically claim you're gonna make them sorry. Stay off social media.
BTW, this is not exclusive to cyberspace. In meatspace, if you go around badmouthing someone, talking about how you're "gonna make him pay", and that someone is soon found murdered, you're a potential suspect.
The judge turned down a motion to throw out the lawsuit, rather than letting it proceed. This is not a final ruling on the case. You need extremely strong evidence in your favour to throw out a lawsuit at this early stage. The judge merely ruled that the lawsuit was not entirely without merit. The judge (and jury) that hears the actual case will decide who did what to whom, and if compensation is called for.
> No, don't tell him that - I'd like to see how he thinks a species can > evolve against an external threat within one generation and without > exposing more than a significant minority of its population to that threat.
You are mis-understanding Darwinism. The premise behind Darwinism is that... * random shit happens during the reproductive process, resulting in random mutations within a species (e.g. Homo Sapiens) * random shit happens when the environment throws different survival problems at the species (e.g. AIDS) * the individuals with beneficial differences (i.e. stronger immune systems against AIDS) are more likely to survive, and procreate, passing their AIDS-resistance mutation to their children
This, in a nutshell is "survival of the fittest". The problem quantifying "fittest" is that it depends on the external environment. E.g. Sickle Cell anemia gene carriers (usually African origin) have higher resistance to malaria, which is a net survival plus in African jungles, notwithstanding some anemia. In the African jungles that meant they survived better, and had more children.
Then some were taken as slaves to the US. 200+ years later, the superior malaria-resistance is not helpful, but the anemia side-effects remain, so it's a net minus.
> (We wound up taking down our trees for unrelated reasons - one was > dead and the second dropped berries all over our lawn rendering our > back yard unusable and attracting flies.)
Just be thankful you don't live in Toronto. See http://www.toronto.ca/311/know... Even removing a *DEAD* tree will cost you several hundred dollars for the paperwork+approval alone...
> Private tree permit exemptions > > A tree that is dead, terminally diseased or imminently hazardous does > not require a permit, however the applicant must send a detailed Arborist report > and receive approval from Urban Forestry before proceeding with any tree work.
The cost of a contractor to cut down+remove the tree+stump is additional. An "Arborist" is a licenced professional "tree doctor" with an applicable university degree. Their reports are equivalant to an MD's "medical opinion", and their fees are equivalant to having a medical specialist examine you without medical insurance. And in case you're wondering...
> Fines for illegal tree removal > > A person convicted of an offence under City of Toronto Municipal > Code Chapter 813, Article III is subject to a minimum fine of $500.00 > and a maximum fine of $100,000.00 per tree involved in an offense; > a special supplementary fine of $100,000.00 is also possible.
> Exactly. Caller ID should not be allowed to be spoofed, ever. Make it > really illegal and start to crack down on any provider that allows it to happen.
Caller ID is too simple. You really need to use ANI (Automatic Number Identification), which is a much more robust protocol. It is accurate because it's used for billing on telephone landlines. Only problem is that it costs money, and I don't know if you can get it on a residential account. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
Note that I said it's used for telephone landlines. It can be defeated by using an outbound-only VOIP line.
Only dumb criminals/terrorists would use social networks to plan crimes. Remember how Osama Bin Laden dropped out of sight after 9/11? No cellphones, no landlines, no email, etc. Just communicating via messangers. It took the best intelligence services on the planet years to find him. After the first few splashy cases hit the news, criminals/terrorists will go back to "sneakernet", and the social-network monitoring infrastructure will go to waste.
> Will the journal file format be standardized? Where can I find an explanation > of the on-disk data structures?
> At this point we have no intention to standardize the format and we take the > liberty to alter it as we see fit. We might document the on-disk format > eventually, but at this point we donÂ't want any other software to read, write > or manipulate our journal files directly. The access is granted by a shared > library and a command line tool. (But then again, itÂ's Free Software, so > you can always read the source code!)
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> Are they just unaware of what advantages running a home server can offer? Or have
> the benefits of a server been explained to them after which they still decline?
Linux nerd here... sorry, but I have better things to do with my time than worry about constantly patching and running smtp/web/ftp servers, and constantly monitoring logs, etc, etc, etc. Having a life gets in the way of an internet.
I have a reasonable idea of how vulnerable linux servers are on the open internet. It's mind-boggling how easily the average Joe/Jane Lunchbucket gets pwnd/social-engineered even with a client machine behind a stateful firewall. Give every one of them a server, and if you think today's botnets are something, you ain't seen nothing yet.
> If a self driving car is seeing something in front of it and launches an app to
> determine what that object is, then that app needs to return an answer
> before the car hits the object and in time to brake to a stop, if necessary.
> It needs a time signal to understand how much time it has left.
What are you talking about? Time to impact = distance-to-object divided by your current speed. Distance is obtainable by radar/sonar/whatever, and speed comes from the same tachometer connected to your car's wheels that provides speed info to the speedometer display. It self-driving-car shouldn't care or need to know what time it is. BTW, how would a GPS system operate in an underground (and/or underwater) tunnel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
GM has a cold-weather test facility at Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada http://www.wheels.ca/news/nort... Ordinary batteries tend to lose power when cold. Cold weather doesn't just happen in Canada, but also in a lot of the US "Northern Tier" states. E.g. Minnesota, Wisconsin, the North+South Dakota, etc. And let's not forget Alaska. Is there noticable power/range loss in cold weather with GM's electric cars?
And sometimes the "dumb mortars" are really dumb... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
> But what if POTUS was a lame duck?
American ex-presidents are protected by the Secret Service after their terms, because there are a lot of people around the planet (including in the US), who have grievances (real or imagined) against said ex-president. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
> The original act provided for lifetime Secret Service for former presidents.
> In 1997, it was reduced to 10 years for presidents taking office after 1997.
> The 1997 amendment was reverted by the Former Presidents Protection
> Act of 2012 (Public Law 112-257).All living former presidents and their
> spouses are now entitled to receive lifetime Secret Service protection.
Snowden's info releases embarressed the USA. But it is believed that several US agents died or were captured by other countries due to Pollard's espionage. The Secret Service is part of the US "intelligence community". Do you, as a former US president really want to pardon the man who was responsible for thr death of comrades of the people charged with protecting you?
> Whoa cowboy. With net metering we have an additional source of resources for
> the monopoly that controls electricity in a given region. And its generated at
> the point of use, reducing distribution cost. If they're too stupid to figure out
> how to use new technology and load balance, they should be obligated to
> figure it out or rescind their monopoly.
>
> "Its well known" that you make shit up. There are many different scenarios and
> some are not conducive to solar. However in my state (high coal usage), my
> rooftop solar panels are currently cheaper today than coal generated
> electricity. They'll generate back the power that it took to make them within
> a year or two and over 20 years I'm looking at an 8-10% ROI. How is eliminating
> coal power to a house for less money not cost effective?
Is that "less expensive" with or without massive subsidies? Gee it must be a nice racket;
1) produce 15% of the power you need
2) sell it to the utility for 8 times the market rate
3) buy back 100% of you power needs at market rate
4) Profit
In Ontario... http://www.theglobeandmail.com...
***
By the end of 2013, Ontario household power rates will be the second-highest in North America (after PEI), and they will continue to accelerate while they level off in most other jurisdictions. Even more alarming for Ontario's economic competitiveness, businesses and industrial customers will be hit by almost $12-billion in additional costs over the same period.
Such is the legacy of the provincial government's 2009 decision to establish feed-in rates, ranging from 44.5 cents to 80.2 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for solar power, and 13.5 cents/kWh for wind power. These solar feed-in rates average 11 times the 5.6 cents/kWh paid for nuclear-generated power, and 18 times the 3.5 cents/kWh for hydro-generated power. The wind-power rates are more than twice as high as nuclear, and four times those of hydro.
***
> I started complaining about symptoms of coins falling
> out of my ass and got audited the next day.
That's a new type of currency. Maybe we should call it butt-coin.
Is the Facebook At Work app standalone or hosted by FB? If it's hosted by FB, what happens when your corporate internet connection goes down. Internal email would still work, but a "cloud-hosted app"...?
...if they ever consider "Facebook For Work". Mark Zuckerburg is backstabbing sleazebag who has no conscience. Consider how he joined the Winklevoss twins' "Harvard Connection" (aka ConnectU) project, stole their ideas, and delayed the ConnectU project whilst he set up his own project (TheFacebook.com) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... His attitude to users is one of absolute contempt, and total disregard for their personal data confidentiality. Does your management really want him having access to your internal emails? If it's not blocked by your worksite due to NSFW language, point your management to http://www.newyorker.com/magaz... Here's a relevant snippet from the article
=== Begin Snippet ===
The technology site Silicon Alley Insider got hold of some of the messages and, this past spring, posted the transcript of a conversation between Zuckerberg and a friend, outlining how he was planning to deal with Harvard Connect:
FRIEND: so have you decided what you are going to do about the websites?
ZUCK: yea I'm going to fuck them
ZUCK: probably in the year
ZUCK: *ear
In another exchange leaked to Silicon Alley Insider, Zuckerberg explained to a friend that his control of Facebook gave him access to any information he wanted on any Harvard student:
ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard
ZUCK: just ask
ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns
FRIEND: what!? how'd you manage that one?
ZUCK: people just submitted it
ZUCK: i don't know why
ZUCK: they "trust me"
ZUCK: dumb fucks
=== End Snippet ===
> Why do you care how other people build their Linux systems?
I don't. If Poettering and company had simply forked GNOME Lenna-X off of GNU Linu-X, there wouldn't be all this complaining. The problem is that Poettering and company have hijacked mainstream linux that almost all linux users use and changed it into something unrecognizable. udev is now built into systemd. The "udev install process" on Gentoo consists of building systemd, but only installing the udev portion. That's why the eudev fork. And some people are running with busybox/mdev in place of udev.
Then there's also dbus, which is being rammed into the kernel. Gnumeric was a great spreadsheet a couple of years ago. But now it's picking up GNOME dependancies all over the place, including dbus. And Skype now requires PulseAudio, another piece of crud from Lennart.
> a) don't catch the disease, we don't know if that was genetic or
> luck, likely no influence on 'breeding'
> The plague is under control because of much much better
> sanitation, not because humans suddenly became 'immune' to it.
European Jewish communities had lower infection rates for Black Death, Bubonic Plague, etc. Back then, society knew nothing about bacteria, viruses, or sanitation. Jews followed their religious laws regard washing of dishes before meals, and washing their hands before meals. Non-Jews didn't. The resulting lower Jewish death rate contributed to anti-semitism, claims of Jews being in league with the devil, and pogroms. Nowadays it's considered standard to wash your dishes and your hands.
> Your ass
Paying with your ass... would that be "butt-coin"?
> a) not have the right to be "disgruntled" unless
Note that the part of the post you quoted talks about posting "angry statements". E.g. don't publically claim you're gonna make them sorry. Stay off social media.
BTW, this is not exclusive to cyberspace. In meatspace, if you go around badmouthing someone, talking about how you're "gonna make him pay", and that someone is soon found murdered, you're a potential suspect.
> According to this judge,
The judge turned down a motion to throw out the lawsuit, rather than letting it proceed. This is not a final ruling on the case. You need extremely strong evidence in your favour to throw out a lawsuit at this early stage. The judge merely ruled that the lawsuit was not entirely without merit. The judge (and jury) that hears the actual case will decide who did what to whom, and if compensation is called for.
> On the other hand faraday cages tend to block more frequencies
> than you'd like, ex. you probably also would block cell reception.
So? Put up a cell low power cell tower inside the building... and charge users roaming fees while you're at it. Get em coming and going.
...which is what they should be called.
Definition of "conflicted"... trying to figure out which side to support when the French ad agencies sue APK.
Get somebody's SSN, birthdate, name, sex, employer, home address, etc, and identity theft becomes much easier.
> It's a separate app. If you don't like it, don't use it...
That's what Lennart said about systemd.
> No, don't tell him that - I'd like to see how he thinks a species can
> evolve against an external threat within one generation and without
> exposing more than a significant minority of its population to that threat.
You are mis-understanding Darwinism. The premise behind Darwinism is that...
* random shit happens during the reproductive process, resulting in random mutations within a species (e.g. Homo Sapiens)
* random shit happens when the environment throws different survival problems at the species (e.g. AIDS)
* the individuals with beneficial differences (i.e. stronger immune systems against AIDS) are more likely to survive, and procreate, passing their AIDS-resistance mutation to their children
This, in a nutshell is "survival of the fittest". The problem quantifying "fittest" is that it depends on the external environment. E.g. Sickle Cell anemia gene carriers (usually African origin) have higher resistance to malaria, which is a net survival plus in African jungles, notwithstanding some anemia. In the African jungles that meant they survived better, and had more children.
Then some were taken as slaves to the US. 200+ years later, the superior malaria-resistance is not helpful, but the anemia side-effects remain, so it's a net minus.
> WTF, overwrites the MBR? What half assed OS does this attack? Windows?
I'm a linux user, not a Microsoft fanboi, but... have you ever heard of fdisk? Or for that matter...
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1
to wipe the MBR. If you want to take out the entire hard drive, it's
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M
Any OS that can be installed from USB key or a CD can do the equivalant of this.
> (We wound up taking down our trees for unrelated reasons - one was
> dead and the second dropped berries all over our lawn rendering our
> back yard unusable and attracting flies.)
Just be thankful you don't live in Toronto. See http://www.toronto.ca/311/know... Even removing a *DEAD* tree will cost you several hundred dollars for the paperwork+approval alone...
> Private tree permit exemptions
>
> A tree that is dead, terminally diseased or imminently hazardous does
> not require a permit, however the applicant must send a detailed Arborist report
> and receive approval from Urban Forestry before proceeding with any tree work.
The cost of a contractor to cut down+remove the tree+stump is additional. An "Arborist" is a licenced professional "tree doctor" with an applicable university degree. Their reports are equivalant to an MD's "medical opinion", and their fees are equivalant to having a medical specialist examine you without medical insurance. And in case you're wondering...
> Fines for illegal tree removal
>
> A person convicted of an offence under City of Toronto Municipal
> Code Chapter 813, Article III is subject to a minimum fine of $500.00
> and a maximum fine of $100,000.00 per tree involved in an offense;
> a special supplementary fine of $100,000.00 is also possible.
> Exactly. Caller ID should not be allowed to be spoofed, ever. Make it
> really illegal and start to crack down on any provider that allows it to happen.
Caller ID is too simple. You really need to use ANI (Automatic Number Identification), which is a much more robust protocol. It is accurate because it's used for billing on telephone landlines. Only problem is that it costs money, and I don't know if you can get it on a residential account. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
Note that I said it's used for telephone landlines. It can be defeated by using an outbound-only VOIP line.
Only dumb criminals/terrorists would use social networks to plan crimes. Remember how Osama Bin Laden dropped out of sight after 9/11? No cellphones, no landlines, no email, etc. Just communicating via messangers. It took the best intelligence services on the planet years to find him. After the first few splashy cases hit the news, criminals/terrorists will go back to "sneakernet", and the social-network monitoring infrastructure will go to waste.
> It's not like the journal format is some state secret. It's documented
> and there are already several journal parsers to choose from.
Please explain http://lwn.net/Articles/468049...
> From the FAQ:
> Will the journal file format be standardized? Where can I find an explanation
> of the on-disk data structures?
> At this point we have no intention to standardize the format and we take the
> liberty to alter it as we see fit. We might document the on-disk format
> eventually, but at this point we donÂ't want any other software to read, write
> or manipulate our journal files directly. The access is granted by a shared
> library and a command line tool. (But then again, itÂ's Free Software, so
> you can always read the source code!)