RIPA (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (2000)) requires encryption keys to be handed over, or plaintext provided, on penalty of up to two years imprisonment.
I've always been curious how this works if you simply respond "I don't remember".
The rules state you don't have to comply if you don't have the key. However it's unlikely that any court will believe you forgot the encryption key to anything you access on a regular basis, even if that happens to be the truth.
I thought TRON was the most widely used OS on the planet.
It can't be or it would fall over every 10 minutes and form massive botnets just like windows. Oh hang on, I'm using the same flawed argument the windows fanboys use.
While, of course, saying "you have a flawed argument" and tacking on a tautology completely void of reason or proof, is a very compelling argument. Bravo.
I don't need to argue that windows is bad, the size of current and past windows botnets plus the ongoing virus problems do that for me.
It's a nice analogy but it just doesn't apply to computers which can automate attacks very well. Windows doesn't have an exploit problem because it's popular, it has an exploit problem because it's insecure.
No. I'm saying that Enterprise level features like AD do.
You didn't finish the sentence. Clearly you meant:
I'm saying that Enterprise level features like AD do cause a global failure of authentication and directory services each time they cascade fail and should not be used in any environment that cares about uptime.
That's horseshit. When someone makes a better OS than MS, I'll start believing these stories. The level of complexity between Windows and OSX is incomparable. OSX works on like 5 hardware configurations, while windows will run on pretty much any hardware.
So you believe the stories now? That's nice.
Where can I find the windows install CD for my SPARC server, my PA-RISC server, or my ALPHA workstation? Nevermind, solaris, HP-UX, and VMS are all way better and a million times more stable than any version of windows.
What a stupid statement that is complete tautology. The entire point of starting a business is to make money. Otherwise the business *ahem* goes out of business.
Making money isn't always the sole aim.
Good companies try to make a good product or provide a good service and the money just happens. Bad companies try to make money and nothing else.
When you have access to virtually unlimited budget and manpower, you have to be creative when coming up with new ways to expand your empire. I think homeland security in the U.S. and the U.K. would be much more efficient and quite possibly more effective if we cut their budget by 50%.
I suspect you are on to something there. Empire building does explain rather more than any other theory.
The laugh is terrorist organisations know about SPOT and train what is called "clean skins" to get past all this crap. Usually they use well educated young people and dress them in designer western clothes and train them to use mental triggers so they never look nervous or out of place. The only thing SPOT will find is some poor bastard who hates flying or is worried when he gets were ever he is going will he be on time.
The only thing SPOT will find is zen meditation masters who can endure any hardship without emotion and medicated people. Everyone else that goes though the current airport fake security fascism, terrorist or not, will have the same pissed off look.
These people or something like them have been at London Heathrow airport for years.
I often see 3 or so of them lined up behind the immigration desk staff expressionlessly staring into the waiting crowd. I always wondered who or what they were looking for.
Let me get this right.. I'm sitting at my desk trying to do 3 things at once all to a deadline, my phone keeps ringing, and I also have a backlog of emails I really need to answer right now. And you expect me to drop all that and use some weird gadget that will most likely tell me to take a walk. Sorry, but that gadget it getting 'accidentally' broken very soon.
"Sadly though, there are a lot more 30-100 year olds out voting for more police power based on media brainwashing than 18-29 year olds who know about the abuses of power, thus those who care about removing abuses of power always get outvoted."
Are you seriously claiming that 18-29 year olds are somehow more in tune to what's "real" in terms of abuse of power than those over 30?
That's not what he said
Oh you sad little boy.
Don't abuse the guy, you misunderstood him. He didn't post the ageist propaganda you think he posted. Age is a total red herring here ( You agree with that right? ) We should be worrying about the police state issue not the faint hint that people under 30 watch more youtube videos.
You're still taking yourself seriously? Sorry, I stopped giving you the benefit of doubt at "the unelected, abusive, thugs they really are". If you want people to start listening, you have to stop ranting like a lunatic.
You say this guy is 'ranting like a lunatic' but he is quite correct. I know of nowhere that lets people elect cops. Cops are often abusive, and they are often thugs. They love excessive force.
Have you never seen them turn up 3 hours late and threaten the victims? It happens all the time. At best they will turn up, file a report, and you will never hear from them again.
Someone saw all the dumb, violent school bullies and invented a profession for them. They became cops.
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Can someone enlighten me as to what awards KDE has won since it started with version 4?
As far as I can tell KDE 4 is still an overcomplicated mess and a long, long way behind the simple elegance of KDE 3.
Yes, the military can (and probably does already) have their own network. However, damage will be done to our country via the regular internet. Imagine if, one day, all the bank accounts in the country went to millions of dollars or to zero? The military is, hopefully, going to take care of those kinds of scenarios. We need a central command to handle such attacks.
Take care of that how? By random napalm attacks against anyone who looks a bit shifty? What country will you attack when an independent group screws with a bank?
A security guy at the bank should take care of their security, if he fails the guy that wrote and tested the backup tapes should take care of it. There is no need for warmongering.
The Internet is a network of networks of computers. It's not a military playground, and just because DARPA were involved in the creation of it doesn't make it American property.
Anything of critical importance such as military kit, medical kit, power, gas, and water infrastructure should not be on the Internet at all.
The best OS for learning is a simple white board operated by a good teacher. You should back that up with some good books on the subjects. For best results you will need dedicated students as well.
What, can't be. According to slashdot all Linux administrators are born as black belt Linux experts and Windows administrators are all people that got lucky bumbling through their MSCE exam.
Noone is born a black belt at anything. You have to work at it. There are inexperienced Linux admins just like there are inexperienced windows admins. The ones who can't or don't want to learn end up on windows eventually.
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RIPA (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (2000)) requires encryption keys to be handed over, or plaintext provided, on penalty of up to two years imprisonment.
I've always been curious how this works if you simply respond "I don't remember".
The rules state you don't have to comply if you don't have the key. However it's unlikely that any court will believe you forgot the encryption key to anything you access on a regular basis, even if that happens to be the truth.
I thought TRON was the most widely used OS on the planet.
It can't be or it would fall over every 10 minutes and form massive botnets just like windows. Oh hang on, I'm using the same flawed argument the windows fanboys use.
While, of course, saying "you have a flawed argument" and tacking on a tautology completely void of reason or proof, is a very compelling argument. Bravo.
I don't need to argue that windows is bad, the size of current and past windows botnets plus the ongoing virus problems do that for me.
It's a nice analogy but it just doesn't apply to computers which can automate attacks very well. Windows doesn't have an exploit problem because it's popular, it has an exploit problem because it's insecure.
No. I'm saying that Enterprise level features like AD do.
You didn't finish the sentence. Clearly you meant:
I'm saying that Enterprise level features like AD do cause a global failure of authentication and directory services each time they cascade fail and should not be used in any environment that cares about uptime.
That's horseshit. When someone makes a better OS than MS, I'll start believing these stories. The level of complexity between Windows and OSX is incomparable. OSX works on like 5 hardware configurations, while windows will run on pretty much any hardware.
So you believe the stories now? That's nice.
Where can I find the windows install CD for my SPARC server, my PA-RISC server, or my ALPHA workstation? Nevermind, solaris, HP-UX, and VMS are all way better and a million times more stable than any version of windows.
What a stupid statement that is complete tautology. The entire point of starting a business is to make money. Otherwise the business *ahem* goes out of business.
Making money isn't always the sole aim.
Good companies try to make a good product or provide a good service and the money just happens. Bad companies try to make money and nothing else.
Film at 11.
I mean, seriously, it's the most widely used OS on the planet. It's also the most likely target.
That's a flawed argument. It isn't bad because lots of people use it, it's bad because it's bad.
When you have access to virtually unlimited budget and manpower, you have to be creative when coming up with new ways to expand your empire. I think homeland security in the U.S. and the U.K. would be much more efficient and quite possibly more effective if we cut their budget by 50%.
I suspect you are on to something there. Empire building does explain rather more than any other theory.
The laugh is terrorist organisations know about SPOT and train what is called "clean skins" to get past all this crap. Usually they use well educated young people and dress them in designer western clothes and train them to use mental triggers so they never look nervous or out of place. The only thing SPOT will find is some poor bastard who hates flying or is worried when he gets were ever he is going will he be on time.
The only thing SPOT will find is zen meditation masters who can endure any hardship without emotion and medicated people. Everyone else that goes though the current airport fake security fascism, terrorist or not, will have the same pissed off look.
These people or something like them have been at London Heathrow airport for years.
I often see 3 or so of them lined up behind the immigration desk staff expressionlessly staring into the waiting crowd. I always wondered who or what they were looking for.
Let me get this right.. I'm sitting at my desk trying to do 3 things at once all to a deadline, my phone keeps ringing, and I also have a backlog of emails I really need to answer right now. And you expect me to drop all that and use some weird gadget that will most likely tell me to take a walk. Sorry, but that gadget it getting 'accidentally' broken very soon.
"Sadly though, there are a lot more 30-100 year olds out voting for more police power based on media brainwashing than 18-29 year olds who know about the abuses of power, thus those who care about removing abuses of power always get outvoted."
Are you seriously claiming that 18-29 year olds are somehow more in tune to what's "real" in terms of abuse of power than those over 30?
That's not what he said
Oh you sad little boy.
Don't abuse the guy, you misunderstood him. He didn't post the ageist propaganda you think he posted. Age is a total red herring here ( You agree with that right? ) We should be worrying about the police state issue not the faint hint that people under 30 watch more youtube videos.
You're still taking yourself seriously? Sorry, I stopped giving you the benefit of doubt at "the unelected, abusive, thugs they really are". If you want people to start listening, you have to stop ranting like a lunatic.
You say this guy is 'ranting like a lunatic' but he is quite correct. I know of nowhere that lets people elect cops. Cops are often abusive, and they are often thugs. They love excessive force.
Have you never seen them turn up 3 hours late and threaten the victims? It happens all the time. At best they will turn up, file a report, and you will never hear from them again.
Someone saw all the dumb, violent school bullies and invented a profession for them. They became cops.
Can someone enlighten me as to what awards KDE has won since it started with version 4?
As far as I can tell KDE 4 is still an overcomplicated mess and a long, long way behind the simple elegance of KDE 3.
That's nothing when you consider who developed the technology in the first place, it has been militarized from the very start!
It's not a military project any more. There is no reason to go backwards.
Yes, the military can (and probably does already) have their own network. However, damage will be done to our country via the regular internet. Imagine if, one day, all the bank accounts in the country went to millions of dollars or to zero? The military is, hopefully, going to take care of those kinds of scenarios. We need a central command to handle such attacks.
Take care of that how? By random napalm attacks against anyone who looks a bit shifty? What country will you attack when an independent group screws with a bank?
A security guy at the bank should take care of their security, if he fails the guy that wrote and tested the backup tapes should take care of it. There is no need for warmongering.
The Internet is a network of networks of computers. It's not a military playground, and just because DARPA were involved in the creation of it doesn't make it American property.
Anything of critical importance such as military kit, medical kit, power, gas, and water infrastructure should not be on the Internet at all.
Maybe it's me, but 5,000 Dell computers all running XP suggests Microsoft Certified Systems Engineering.
Just what the world needs, another 5000 node botnet.
The best OS for learning is a simple white board operated by a good teacher. You should back that up with some good books on the subjects. For best results you will need dedicated students as well.
The problem isn't people seeing your bell-end, it's the unknown and non-zero risk of these scanners giving you cancer.
inexperienced != dumb.
We all start inexperienced and gain experience over time. Dumbness doesn't change much over time.
Look up words you are unsure of at dictionary.com.
There is no truth whatsoever in what you say.
The most likely explanation is that you were a very bad Linux administrator.
(c) there are idiots like that out there. But they generally don't change their posting prefs to AC when bragging about their latest folly...
The real idiots never figured out how to log in.
What, can't be. According to slashdot all Linux administrators are born as black belt Linux experts and Windows administrators are all people that got lucky bumbling through their MSCE exam.
Noone is born a black belt at anything. You have to work at it. There are inexperienced Linux admins just like there are inexperienced windows admins. The ones who can't or don't want to learn end up on windows eventually.