Not to spark a conspiracy theory, but how much do you suppose some over-worked, under-paid, and under-appreciated Microsoft employee was paid by an agent of the Chinese government to provide this flaw from the list of yet to be addressed flaws? How much money do you think there is in selling these exploits in major software products to enemies of the state? I'm not implying that Microsoft does this intentionally, but I can see how their cavalier attitude can certainly create such an opportunity for Microsoft employees in the know. This should certainly be looked into by law enforcement officials to make sure that such leaks don't actually exist.
Still doesn't complicate matters much - some software will have to be updated, but if the option were added to refuse to resolve websites that use a particular registrar, or to ignore results from specific DNS servers, then they can be shut out of the average user's Internet experience. Granted, this would have to be done at the DNS provider level (your ISP, or OpenDNS, etc) so the individual user wouldn't have as much control (unless they host their own recursive DNS), but it presents a pretty minor speed bump over all.
Another consideration is that many websites, for "security" reasons, refuse to allow access if you originate from an IP outside their country, making an in country VPN provider an exceptionally good option.
I think you missed the memo - Europe is the new Apple and thus is above all recrimination (except for when they try to pass 3 strike laws and justify all of Britain's CCTV cameras). And Americuns is dumbestest and must submit to any and all insults about their intelligence and lack of culture, even if the post itself proves insightful and the poster has demonstrated time and again that (s)he does not fit the mold of the uneducated American.
In other words, America is universally reviled and you are expected to just shut up and accept the hatred, but don't stop writing those support checks to the rest of the world.
What is stunning, though, is the extent. I recently had a judgement from unemployment lost in processing and had to talk to a supervisor to get a new one sent out. He called me back to say that he had *personally* gone down to the typist pool to have them retype it up to be sent out. A pool of typists? In the 21st century? Really? This was for a form letter with various parts filled in, BTW, not for some completely new dictated document or something that you might need to type from scratch. They have a web site, for crying out loud, and yet they are still stuck in the 50s.
You want to know why government agencies are overwhelmed even when their isn't a crisis, this might just be one place to look, and it has little to do with budget (I strongly suspect a document management system and some printers costs less than a room full of typists).
You are absolutely right - there is a profound problem of sexism in FOSS. And the entire community implicitly supports this sexism by not having a psych screening for every potential member before they are allowed to join the community. This injustice must be righted forthwith!
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Seriously, there are sexists. They exist in all walks of life. Having found a handful of them in any given community is not evidence of a pronounced problem in that community. If it was a significant or majority behavior, you would have a point. But it isn't, and you don't.
I will admit that such behavior should not be overlooked. The INDIVIDUALS responsible should be taken to task, preferably by the community, and if warranted, even ostracized. But to blame the community for actions that it does not condone by one of its members (or even a vanishingly small percentage of its members) is absurd.
And while you are thinking about a presentation featuring scantily clad females, watch some TV and notice that SEX SELLS. If you are presenting to a room (mostly) full of men, you have three sure fire ways to maintain their attention - booze, sports, and women. Booze is expensive, considering the audience, sports perhaps isn't all that surefire, so that leaves women. Okay, perhaps a better way would have been to have an engaging presentation with interesting content, but not all geeks are professional presenters. An admonition and a slap on the wrist is an appropriate response to such insensitive behavior (for a first offense), but assigning this to sexism (rather than red-blooded maleness and a small dose of ignorance) is disingenuous at best.
He's not responsible for the low percentage of women in FOSS (or any computer science field), he's just using that fact to his advantage by tailoring his presentation to his audience. Poorly, I admit, but you don't go to Black Hat and get offended when the inevitable Microsoft bashing begins. Or any entertainment or infotech convention and not expect to see booth babes. Is it right? Perhaps not, but so long as the audience is male by a vast majority, this isn't likely to change. Men like to see sexy young women. You give your audience what they want and they come back next year, or buy your product, whatever. The logical outcome isn't very hard to predict.
Am I defending him? Absolutely not, but I can see how the mistake was made. But showing pictures of women to an audience he likely assumed would be 100% men does not earn a death sentence. None of us would ever make it to adulthood if we were held to such draconian "every injustice deserves the death sentence" justice. Even sexual harassment laws are more forgiving. The offended party should inform the offender that what they are doing is offensive as the offender may not even realize it. Then, if the behavior continues, they can be reported to a higher authority for remediation. This whole sexism in FOSS business is people immediately shouting every small infraction to the world. Do you want to know why we aren't taking it seriously? Read the fable of the boy who cried wolf. That's what's happening here. The offended need to grow a thicker skin, try to resolve the issue privately with the offender, and then, as a last resort, go to the community (which, ironically, is the same community they are besmirching unfairly, which makes me think this isn't about fairness, but about some political agenda). As evidenced here (on Slashdot - not the friendliest or most sympathetic community by any stretch), you will find sympathy for your cause, which shows that the problem is not endemic to the community as a whole, which is the whole argument I've been making from the start.
Even more relevant is that I suspect a not insignificant portion of news results are displayed as features from the web search page. What I mean is that when I want news, I often just do a Google search for the topic on the regular Google search page (or, rather, from the Firefox Google search box), not the special Google News page. Google conveniently displays relevant news results before the search results (under the header "News results for X"). Hence, those news sources that allow Google to index them in the news repository get prime page real estate on the regular Google search page. As more people click through to these sources, their page rank goes up (i.e. more exposure = good). Asking Google to delist you from their news aggregation search page is unquestionably going to negatively impact your exposure, thus reducing your traffic. Reduced traffic = reduced relevance = lower page rank.
It's like saying "I want to eat 7 Big Macs a day, but Mac Donald's had better ensure I don't get obese and die of a heart attack". One is a natural consequence of the other, not an intentional abuse of power. The less you advertise, the less business you will garner. Delisting a news source from the world's most popular news aggregation service would be like Budweiser terminating all of its TV ads.
This is simply a "damned if you do ('we'll sue you for stealing our content') and damned if you don't ('we'll sue you for not showing our content')" scenario brought about by Google's deep pockets.
It costs you $100 to park? Wow, I hope I never have to park where you live...
And no, it is not a whoosh - I saw the title where he's saying parking is expensive where he lives. I got the joke, but I've never seen metered parking being particularly expensive, though private lots are overpriced everywhere I've seen.
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Not to spark a conspiracy theory, but how much do you suppose some over-worked, under-paid, and under-appreciated Microsoft employee was paid by an agent of the Chinese government to provide this flaw from the list of yet to be addressed flaws? How much money do you think there is in selling these exploits in major software products to enemies of the state? I'm not implying that Microsoft does this intentionally, but I can see how their cavalier attitude can certainly create such an opportunity for Microsoft employees in the know. This should certainly be looked into by law enforcement officials to make sure that such leaks don't actually exist.
Still doesn't complicate matters much - some software will have to be updated, but if the option were added to refuse to resolve websites that use a particular registrar, or to ignore results from specific DNS servers, then they can be shut out of the average user's Internet experience. Granted, this would have to be done at the DNS provider level (your ISP, or OpenDNS, etc) so the individual user wouldn't have as much control (unless they host their own recursive DNS), but it presents a pretty minor speed bump over all.
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The Procrastinator's Society called and they want their slogan back. They would have called sooner, but, well, you know, this and that...
Hence the inclusion of the word "not".
Another consideration is that many websites, for "security" reasons, refuse to allow access if you originate from an IP outside their country, making an in country VPN provider an exceptionally good option.
Hmm, that'd actually SAVE on taxes for most of them...
I think you missed the memo - Europe is the new Apple and thus is above all recrimination (except for when they try to pass 3 strike laws and justify all of Britain's CCTV cameras). And Americuns is dumbestest and must submit to any and all insults about their intelligence and lack of culture, even if the post itself proves insightful and the poster has demonstrated time and again that (s)he does not fit the mold of the uneducated American.
In other words, America is universally reviled and you are expected to just shut up and accept the hatred, but don't stop writing those support checks to the rest of the world.
At least it wasn't the Climactic Research Center.
July, August, September, October, November - so does this indicate that the study is leading up to a nuclear winter?
Strapped to their backs? Pussies.
Real men carry them in their crotch.
Can I have $.21 from you? Just once, I promise. And no-one else is going to want the same, I assure you.
This is the same reasoning that allows $x.99 to be such a successful marketing ploy. Have you ever heard the phrase nickel and dimed to death?
What is stunning, though, is the extent. I recently had a judgement from unemployment lost in processing and had to talk to a supervisor to get a new one sent out. He called me back to say that he had *personally* gone down to the typist pool to have them retype it up to be sent out. A pool of typists? In the 21st century? Really? This was for a form letter with various parts filled in, BTW, not for some completely new dictated document or something that you might need to type from scratch. They have a web site, for crying out loud, and yet they are still stuck in the 50s.
You want to know why government agencies are overwhelmed even when their isn't a crisis, this might just be one place to look, and it has little to do with budget (I strongly suspect a document management system and some printers costs less than a room full of typists).
You are absolutely right - there is a profound problem of sexism in FOSS. And the entire community implicitly supports this sexism by not having a psych screening for every potential member before they are allowed to join the community. This injustice must be righted forthwith!
[/sarcasm]
Seriously, there are sexists. They exist in all walks of life. Having found a handful of them in any given community is not evidence of a pronounced problem in that community. If it was a significant or majority behavior, you would have a point. But it isn't, and you don't.
I will admit that such behavior should not be overlooked. The INDIVIDUALS responsible should be taken to task, preferably by the community, and if warranted, even ostracized. But to blame the community for actions that it does not condone by one of its members (or even a vanishingly small percentage of its members) is absurd.
And while you are thinking about a presentation featuring scantily clad females, watch some TV and notice that SEX SELLS. If you are presenting to a room (mostly) full of men, you have three sure fire ways to maintain their attention - booze, sports, and women. Booze is expensive, considering the audience, sports perhaps isn't all that surefire, so that leaves women. Okay, perhaps a better way would have been to have an engaging presentation with interesting content, but not all geeks are professional presenters. An admonition and a slap on the wrist is an appropriate response to such insensitive behavior (for a first offense), but assigning this to sexism (rather than red-blooded maleness and a small dose of ignorance) is disingenuous at best.
He's not responsible for the low percentage of women in FOSS (or any computer science field), he's just using that fact to his advantage by tailoring his presentation to his audience. Poorly, I admit, but you don't go to Black Hat and get offended when the inevitable Microsoft bashing begins. Or any entertainment or infotech convention and not expect to see booth babes. Is it right? Perhaps not, but so long as the audience is male by a vast majority, this isn't likely to change. Men like to see sexy young women. You give your audience what they want and they come back next year, or buy your product, whatever. The logical outcome isn't very hard to predict.
Am I defending him? Absolutely not, but I can see how the mistake was made. But showing pictures of women to an audience he likely assumed would be 100% men does not earn a death sentence. None of us would ever make it to adulthood if we were held to such draconian "every injustice deserves the death sentence" justice. Even sexual harassment laws are more forgiving. The offended party should inform the offender that what they are doing is offensive as the offender may not even realize it. Then, if the behavior continues, they can be reported to a higher authority for remediation. This whole sexism in FOSS business is people immediately shouting every small infraction to the world. Do you want to know why we aren't taking it seriously? Read the fable of the boy who cried wolf. That's what's happening here. The offended need to grow a thicker skin, try to resolve the issue privately with the offender, and then, as a last resort, go to the community (which, ironically, is the same community they are besmirching unfairly, which makes me think this isn't about fairness, but about some political agenda). As evidenced here (on Slashdot - not the friendliest or most sympathetic community by any stretch), you will find sympathy for your cause, which shows that the problem is not endemic to the community as a whole, which is the whole argument I've been making from the start.
They forgot one of the best:
ftp://warez.waldo.net
Yes and yes
However, what I think you were getting at is that you cannot do so anonymously - you will have to provide ID to complete the transaction.
I guess we're about to find out how corruptible SCOTUS is...
I for one welcome our new zombie salmon psychotherapist overlords.
I can't believe I'm going to say this, but:
Fixed that for you.
Yes, but if you need TWO SSDs, then it becomes a tougher decision.
Unless it's FRESH ORGANIC celery, of course.
I was disappointed to find that this video had noting to do with informational content bellows, or even regular old air bellows.
In fact, I'm posting to slashdot with all of that disabled right now
And sadly this doesn't support your stance that the pages you are viewing are not devoid of meaningful content...
Even more relevant is that I suspect a not insignificant portion of news results are displayed as features from the web search page. What I mean is that when I want news, I often just do a Google search for the topic on the regular Google search page (or, rather, from the Firefox Google search box), not the special Google News page. Google conveniently displays relevant news results before the search results (under the header "News results for X"). Hence, those news sources that allow Google to index them in the news repository get prime page real estate on the regular Google search page. As more people click through to these sources, their page rank goes up (i.e. more exposure = good). Asking Google to delist you from their news aggregation search page is unquestionably going to negatively impact your exposure, thus reducing your traffic. Reduced traffic = reduced relevance = lower page rank.
It's like saying "I want to eat 7 Big Macs a day, but Mac Donald's had better ensure I don't get obese and die of a heart attack". One is a natural consequence of the other, not an intentional abuse of power. The less you advertise, the less business you will garner. Delisting a news source from the world's most popular news aggregation service would be like Budweiser terminating all of its TV ads.
This is simply a "damned if you do ('we'll sue you for stealing our content') and damned if you don't ('we'll sue you for not showing our content')" scenario brought about by Google's deep pockets.
Sauron: When I said that I wanted all of the rings to be linked to mine, this wasn't what I had in mind...
Or poor public transit - a 3 hour bus ride with 2 exchanges to go 30 miles is bollocks.
It costs you $100 to park? Wow, I hope I never have to park where you live...
And no, it is not a whoosh - I saw the title where he's saying parking is expensive where he lives. I got the joke, but I've never seen metered parking being particularly expensive, though private lots are overpriced everywhere I've seen.