Uh, working is something that the US is reserving for few to none at the rate unemployment is currently going.
However, something that is valued in hiring a worker is experience. If anything we need to be giving students MORE exposure to practical jobs and not less. Now, I would argue that they should be working on a wide variety of jobs and not just working on one job for 10 years.
Does Fedora actually support passwordless full-disk encryption (ie the key is in the TPM)?
This can certainly be done on Linux, but the only "distro" I've seen that uses it is ChromeOS. Actually, I'm not completely certain that it even uses it (profiles might just be encrypted with the Google password - which isn't nearly as good).
Most distros just use LUKS, and that isn't nearly as good as full-disk encryption. If the user forgets the password (or refuses to give it to the computer owner) the drive is lost, and so on.
Uh, two olive gardens within 30 minutes? I can't imagine you'd find that anywhere in the US - they tend to space them pretty far apart. They aren't bad though. I wasn't counting the 14 different Applebees in that radius though.
Yeah - Cheltenham isn't in that great of a location - even the other side of the border would be North Philly, which can't have too many options until you get to center city. You'd probably find more in the NE if you head due East. Granted, the NE is nearly a suburb already.
Can't say I'm too familiar with the options out that far. About the only time I go to Cheltenham is on the way someplace else - like when I used to live in NE Philly and commuted to close to where I live now. I hear there is a decent Brazilian Steakhouse out in Horsham, but I've never been to it - that's a bit of a drive for me...
Well, the stock market offers no protection if you believe hype and pay a lot more than something is worth. If I offer to sell you my 2000 corolla for $50k, and you say yes, then fraud laws will only protect you if I fail to deliver the car, not if you realize that you overpaid.
Facebook is also a bad example in that a controlling interest in the stock was not sold. That should probably be illegal for publicly traded stocks, but the stock market is fairly corrupt.
However, those who did buy Facebook stock do have an ownership stake in the company, and if they ever have a fire sale they'll at least get some portion of the proceeds from the office furniture.
For more traditional companies, stock is a real ownership stake in the company, with some degree of actual control over what happens.
All that said, the stock market is incredibly corrupt, so I can't really hold it up as some example of true capitalism.
Ironically I'm not far from you - Montgomeryville area. Sure, have all those chains, and they aren't actually that bad. However, there are also some gems. If you like sushi there is Minado in East Norriton (has declined a little, but is still really good and wonderful to bring anybody not into sushi since the buffet offers opportunities to try it but with hot food as a backup), and Ooka in Montgomeryville. There are some small gems in the surrounding suburbs - you can usually find them on Google local and such (one tip is Maize in Perkasie - worth a drive actually, but have reservations as it is REALLY small, and plan on spending 2-3 hours as it is just the owner and his assistant doing all the cooking - VERY fine food though and if they have the raw honey with the rolls be sure to try it). I tend to be more into taste than decor and service, so I don't need a full five-star experience. Not sure which side of the city you're on - if you're down in Delaware county I can't vouch so much for what is around there. Fridays are fairly ubiquitous on the north side of the city so I suspect that is where you're at.
Yup, but the latter bit is only due to having a standard package management system (aka app store). My original point was that this was one of the things lacking on Windows.
It is all about defense in depth. Are jails good - yes! Do they make package managers obsolete - no!:)
Android supports all kinds of binary drivers, and this is why I can buy 37 different new phones from any of 10 vendors, but I can't upgrade any of them after I buy them.
Yup, I'd love to work at Google or one of the big tech companies, but they're all in lousy locations. I want to live/work somewhere that I can get a decent detached home for $200k, drive to work in 15-20min of light traffic, and have a nice selection of places to eat/shop within 20 min of home. That means a moderately-distant suburb of a moderate city, not somewhere within 75 miles of NYC, and certainly not downtown NYC or Southern California, or even inside the limits of a smaller city.
So, I work at a smaller company that isn't as promising, but where I can be near family and generally live a peaceful life. I could care less if the place I eat has a Michelin Star, and chains are just fine by me as long as they're reasonably good.
The traffic jams are only a problem if you work in the city, or in some outskirts of a few huge cities like NYC. If you work in the suburbs, and live near where your work, then it isn't a big deal. Coworkers who work at a facility near NYC look at me funny when I tell them it takes me 20 mins to drive to work in traffic - they all spend an hour on the road.
I don't really consider anywhere in North Jersey a "Suburb."
I live in a suburb. I can drive 5 minutes for fast food and one or two small sit-down places. If I drive 15 minutes I have a choice of about 8 different restaurants.
If you're driving 30 minutes for a short meal, then it isn't a suburb, but a rural area.
Good luck with that in 95% of the cities in the USA. Sure, there are about 3-4 you can almost get away with it. However, most cities are not NYC. There might be a subway line or two and if you venture more than about 3 blocks away from it you're either hiking a mile or you're sitting on busses for hours.
Uh, I for one prefer the suburbs. I don't want to live in the middle of nowhere - I want to be able to drive less than 10 minutes to do shopping/etc. I don't want to have to park on the street when I get back home, and fight over might parking spot when it snows. I can easily drive to any number of places that serve good food, whether for lunch or whatever. I can also turn up the volume on my TV and not bother the neighbors, and likewise have quiet when I go to sleep.
Oh, and I pay way less in taxes.
Why would I want to live in some city, with nightmarish traffic? Most don't have great public transit in the US either - a few are decent, but not most. You end up needing to drive for a lot of stuff, and that is a pain in the city.
I don't get what it is that I'm supposed to be missing. I sleep at night - I don't hang out in clubs or whatever.
My understanding is that in the not-so-distant future Gnome won't run without systemd. If that happens, they'll need a much more divergent distro unless Canonical abandons Upstart.
How are you going to keep the sharepoint reader from never becoming an arbitrary TCP hole? It is just an application, and applications can contain vulnerabilities/etc.
My point isn't that added security doesn't make things harder, or that running applications in jails isn't a good idea. My point is that none of this will completely eliminate software vulnerabilities/viruses/etc.
Your original point was "Why should I have to pay somebody to install my own software on my own computer?" And the answer is you don't.
Sure you do. Your whole argument is that most people don't need to install their own software on their own computer, and are perfectly fine only installing Apple-certified software. I'm not arguing with that at all. However, the fact is that they still can't install their OWN software on their devices. That is software they didn't receive from Apple, or somebody given permission to distribute software by Apple.
In general iOS devices don't let you install any software at all. The only time you can install software is if you add about 50 other conditions, like the software being signed by Apple and distributed via the App Store, or Apple having given you an enterprise key, or so on.
Things get unnecessarily messy when you have to do them all in one line. However, if I were doing this as a one-time operation, I'd start with something like what you suggest, dumping the results into file1.
Then I'd cat the whole thing through awk '{ print $1 }' | uniq -d > file2 to get a list of all the hashes that are not unique (that way you can focus on the duplicates and not have to scan that huge file).
Then I'd grep the original file with grep -f file2 file1 > file3 to get the full output of the original search for each of the duplicated files.
Chances are that you're going to want to semi-manually deal with the duplicates, but if you pare the file down to a list of stuff where you just want to keep the first instance of each duplicate then I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to remove the first one and then pass the rest into an rm command. You'd want to be careful, since there could be numerous duplicates that the system expects to be there.
All the steps above would be very fast, aside from the original md5sum. And yes, I'd probably use xargs so that you don't have 40 bazillion arguments to md5sum. Or you can just use the find option that executes a command against each one. find / | xargs -n 1 md5sum is probably what you're looking for.
Lovely. My whole point about 14 replies ago - I want to run the software I want to run on my phone, and I don't want to get permission or pay a fee to have to do it...
Think about what you're saying. Word already can open files via WebDAV, or from sharepoint sites. So, you'd have to strip out this functionality to get rid of the need for network access.
If somebody is trying to do corporate espionage then only being able to open files normally opened by Word/Excel/etc is more than enough - what do you think was used to create those documents in the first place?
And as far as bitcoin goes - it is just a program executing instructions. It wouldn't need extensive background processes, though it would likely consume a lot of CPU-time. A CPU quota would do it, but it seems unlikely that this will be implemented.
Don't get me wrong, I think that the kind of security improvements you mention are a good idea, and I've been wanting to see them take off on Linux for a while as well. (SELinux can do some of this, but nobody really uses it.) However, I don't think that they really address all the issues with malware.
But that is far far different than the claim that Apple doesn't allow you to install your own software.
Let's be clear - I have a tarball full of source code. I have some compiler that will create a binary that is compatible with iOS. I want to run that software on my phone. I AM NOT a registered Apple developer. How do I get that binary to run on my phone, following only Apple-endorsed methods?
Apple is moving most of their ecosystem's applications to a sandboxing model. So by default applications have very low system permissions outside their own data.
No doubt that will help. Still, if MS Word can open TCP connections to arbitrary hosts and read word documents, then somebody who sends you a word document containing an exploit can get a copy of every word document on your system, send spam, use you as a proxy to attack other systems, and mine for bitcoins on your CPU.
That is just about everything the typical attack does these days anyway. I guess they won't be able to keylog your browser session - they'll need a browser exploit to do that.
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Uh, working is something that the US is reserving for few to none at the rate unemployment is currently going.
However, something that is valued in hiring a worker is experience. If anything we need to be giving students MORE exposure to practical jobs and not less. Now, I would argue that they should be working on a wide variety of jobs and not just working on one job for 10 years.
Does Fedora actually support passwordless full-disk encryption (ie the key is in the TPM)?
This can certainly be done on Linux, but the only "distro" I've seen that uses it is ChromeOS. Actually, I'm not completely certain that it even uses it (profiles might just be encrypted with the Google password - which isn't nearly as good).
Most distros just use LUKS, and that isn't nearly as good as full-disk encryption. If the user forgets the password (or refuses to give it to the computer owner) the drive is lost, and so on.
Uh, two olive gardens within 30 minutes? I can't imagine you'd find that anywhere in the US - they tend to space them pretty far apart. They aren't bad though. I wasn't counting the 14 different Applebees in that radius though.
Yeah - Cheltenham isn't in that great of a location - even the other side of the border would be North Philly, which can't have too many options until you get to center city. You'd probably find more in the NE if you head due East. Granted, the NE is nearly a suburb already.
Can't say I'm too familiar with the options out that far. About the only time I go to Cheltenham is on the way someplace else - like when I used to live in NE Philly and commuted to close to where I live now. I hear there is a decent Brazilian Steakhouse out in Horsham, but I've never been to it - that's a bit of a drive for me...
Well, the stock market offers no protection if you believe hype and pay a lot more than something is worth. If I offer to sell you my 2000 corolla for $50k, and you say yes, then fraud laws will only protect you if I fail to deliver the car, not if you realize that you overpaid.
Facebook is also a bad example in that a controlling interest in the stock was not sold. That should probably be illegal for publicly traded stocks, but the stock market is fairly corrupt.
However, those who did buy Facebook stock do have an ownership stake in the company, and if they ever have a fire sale they'll at least get some portion of the proceeds from the office furniture.
For more traditional companies, stock is a real ownership stake in the company, with some degree of actual control over what happens.
All that said, the stock market is incredibly corrupt, so I can't really hold it up as some example of true capitalism.
And can anybody be a signing authority without permission from Apple? Read my whole statement.
Ironically I'm not far from you - Montgomeryville area. Sure, have all those chains, and they aren't actually that bad. However, there are also some gems. If you like sushi there is Minado in East Norriton (has declined a little, but is still really good and wonderful to bring anybody not into sushi since the buffet offers opportunities to try it but with hot food as a backup), and Ooka in Montgomeryville. There are some small gems in the surrounding suburbs - you can usually find them on Google local and such (one tip is Maize in Perkasie - worth a drive actually, but have reservations as it is REALLY small, and plan on spending 2-3 hours as it is just the owner and his assistant doing all the cooking - VERY fine food though and if they have the raw honey with the rolls be sure to try it). I tend to be more into taste than decor and service, so I don't need a full five-star experience. Not sure which side of the city you're on - if you're down in Delaware county I can't vouch so much for what is around there. Fridays are fairly ubiquitous on the north side of the city so I suspect that is where you're at.
You could also use the xargs substitution feature and quote the parameter.
Yup, but the latter bit is only due to having a standard package management system (aka app store). My original point was that this was one of the things lacking on Windows.
It is all about defense in depth. Are jails good - yes! Do they make package managers obsolete - no! :)
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that Apple won't approve an alternative operating system for the iPhone.
How about a nice text editor instead?
Android supports all kinds of binary drivers, and this is why I can buy 37 different new phones from any of 10 vendors, but I can't upgrade any of them after I buy them.
I'll take the open source drivers, thanks.
Yup, I'd love to work at Google or one of the big tech companies, but they're all in lousy locations. I want to live/work somewhere that I can get a decent detached home for $200k, drive to work in 15-20min of light traffic, and have a nice selection of places to eat/shop within 20 min of home. That means a moderately-distant suburb of a moderate city, not somewhere within 75 miles of NYC, and certainly not downtown NYC or Southern California, or even inside the limits of a smaller city.
So, I work at a smaller company that isn't as promising, but where I can be near family and generally live a peaceful life. I could care less if the place I eat has a Michelin Star, and chains are just fine by me as long as they're reasonably good.
The traffic jams are only a problem if you work in the city, or in some outskirts of a few huge cities like NYC. If you work in the suburbs, and live near where your work, then it isn't a big deal. Coworkers who work at a facility near NYC look at me funny when I tell them it takes me 20 mins to drive to work in traffic - they all spend an hour on the road.
I don't really consider anywhere in North Jersey a "Suburb."
I live in a suburb. I can drive 5 minutes for fast food and one or two small sit-down places. If I drive 15 minutes I have a choice of about 8 different restaurants.
If you're driving 30 minutes for a short meal, then it isn't a suburb, but a rural area.
Good luck with that in 95% of the cities in the USA. Sure, there are about 3-4 you can almost get away with it. However, most cities are not NYC. There might be a subway line or two and if you venture more than about 3 blocks away from it you're either hiking a mile or you're sitting on busses for hours.
Uh, I for one prefer the suburbs. I don't want to live in the middle of nowhere - I want to be able to drive less than 10 minutes to do shopping/etc. I don't want to have to park on the street when I get back home, and fight over might parking spot when it snows. I can easily drive to any number of places that serve good food, whether for lunch or whatever. I can also turn up the volume on my TV and not bother the neighbors, and likewise have quiet when I go to sleep.
Oh, and I pay way less in taxes.
Why would I want to live in some city, with nightmarish traffic? Most don't have great public transit in the US either - a few are decent, but not most. You end up needing to drive for a lot of stuff, and that is a pain in the city.
I don't get what it is that I'm supposed to be missing. I sleep at night - I don't hang out in clubs or whatever.
My understanding is that in the not-so-distant future Gnome won't run without systemd. If that happens, they'll need a much more divergent distro unless Canonical abandons Upstart.
How are you going to keep the sharepoint reader from never becoming an arbitrary TCP hole? It is just an application, and applications can contain vulnerabilities/etc.
My point isn't that added security doesn't make things harder, or that running applications in jails isn't a good idea. My point is that none of this will completely eliminate software vulnerabilities/viruses/etc.
Your original point was "Why should I have to pay somebody to install my own software on my own computer?" And the answer is you don't.
Sure you do. Your whole argument is that most people don't need to install their own software on their own computer, and are perfectly fine only installing Apple-certified software. I'm not arguing with that at all. However, the fact is that they still can't install their OWN software on their devices. That is software they didn't receive from Apple, or somebody given permission to distribute software by Apple.
In general iOS devices don't let you install any software at all. The only time you can install software is if you add about 50 other conditions, like the software being signed by Apple and distributed via the App Store, or Apple having given you an enterprise key, or so on.
Things get unnecessarily messy when you have to do them all in one line. However, if I were doing this as a one-time operation, I'd start with something like what you suggest, dumping the results into file1.
Then I'd cat the whole thing through awk '{ print $1 }' | uniq -d > file2 to get a list of all the hashes that are not unique (that way you can focus on the duplicates and not have to scan that huge file).
Then I'd grep the original file with grep -f file2 file1 > file3 to get the full output of the original search for each of the duplicated files.
Chances are that you're going to want to semi-manually deal with the duplicates, but if you pare the file down to a list of stuff where you just want to keep the first instance of each duplicate then I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to remove the first one and then pass the rest into an rm command. You'd want to be careful, since there could be numerous duplicates that the system expects to be there.
All the steps above would be very fast, aside from the original md5sum. And yes, I'd probably use xargs so that you don't have 40 bazillion arguments to md5sum. Or you can just use the find option that executes a command against each one. find / | xargs -n 1 md5sum is probably what you're looking for.
Lovely. My whole point about 14 replies ago - I want to run the software I want to run on my phone, and I don't want to get permission or pay a fee to have to do it...
Think about what you're saying. Word already can open files via WebDAV, or from sharepoint sites. So, you'd have to strip out this functionality to get rid of the need for network access.
If somebody is trying to do corporate espionage then only being able to open files normally opened by Word/Excel/etc is more than enough - what do you think was used to create those documents in the first place?
And as far as bitcoin goes - it is just a program executing instructions. It wouldn't need extensive background processes, though it would likely consume a lot of CPU-time. A CPU quota would do it, but it seems unlikely that this will be implemented.
Don't get me wrong, I think that the kind of security improvements you mention are a good idea, and I've been wanting to see them take off on Linux for a while as well. (SELinux can do some of this, but nobody really uses it.) However, I don't think that they really address all the issues with malware.
You mean the encryption system that the army invented for EVERYBODY ELSE to use?
But that is far far different than the claim that Apple doesn't allow you to install your own software.
Let's be clear - I have a tarball full of source code. I have some compiler that will create a binary that is compatible with iOS. I want to run that software on my phone. I AM NOT a registered Apple developer. How do I get that binary to run on my phone, following only Apple-endorsed methods?
Apple is moving most of their ecosystem's applications to a sandboxing model. So by default applications have very low system permissions outside their own data.
No doubt that will help. Still, if MS Word can open TCP connections to arbitrary hosts and read word documents, then somebody who sends you a word document containing an exploit can get a copy of every word document on your system, send spam, use you as a proxy to attack other systems, and mine for bitcoins on your CPU.
That is just about everything the typical attack does these days anyway. I guess they won't be able to keylog your browser session - they'll need a browser exploit to do that.