I would. It would be fun if the public gets access to the video recordings. I'd set up a website offering a £1000 prize for the first beating caught on video.
The public never get access to police technology. Any evidence that the police have committed a crime magically disappears. The so called 'independent police complaints commission' perform whitewashes on anything that can't be made to disappear.
Police routinely search citizens without even the suspicion of a crime taking place. The UK is now a police state.
What useful firewall are you referring to that isn't implemented in software? Or by "(i.e. not software)" were you referring to anything implemented on an appliance?
Ok, they are all implemented in software on some device or other. I was using the naive definition of a 'software firewall' which I take to mean one running on the user system it's meant to protect.
A better firewall would be one running on a device between the two user system and the internet like a Cisco device or a OpenBSD or Linux machine.
So you are saying that any windows machine that doesn't run IE is safe-ish? Because it's not, there are countless flaws in other Microsoft code any one of which could cause a major security problem. If you don't start with a good design you have NOTHING.
You don't really trust a software firewall written by Microsoft do you? If you want a firewall use a proper ( i.e. not software ) one.
I have increasingly come to the conclusion that we are putting our state's operations at risk and compromising the trust of the people of our state by outsourcing core government functions.
Well, my interaction with my state's operations have made me increasingly come to the conclusion that I would trust a rowdy herd of poorly trained chimpanzees over the state's employees. So bring on the contractors, I say.
Contractors are not the problem. Third world software maintenance is the problem. A messed up government in control is far better than your tax records being adjusted by someone on third world wages.
Guess what, this is exactly how the military has been run for decades. What makes a contractor any better or worse at managing information than the government itself?
It's not contractors you want to worry about. It's large amounts of your data ended up in India being worked on by people paid pennies. It's easy to bribe people if their monthly pay is about what you spent on lunch today.
I use DNS blocklists, greylisting, and a bayes filter. I rarely see spam, maybe 1 or 2 stupid marketing mails from companies I have dealt with a week. My work has more or less the same setup and doesn't get much spam either.
This report must be counting mail blocked at the SMTP level as spam. That seems the only way to get upto 95%.
This has been covered ad nauseum here. Do we really need an update every 10 hours?
Yes. Micro$oft bad!
Well, they are.
A bug was exploited, it is now patched. Anyone who falls victim to it now deserves to do.
Windows users dumb.
That doesn't follow. Fooled because they don't know better or don't get the choice maybe, but dumb isn't the right word.
Stay tuned as Slashdot milks this story for another week!
Stories like this are raw meat for the Linux Hammer Legion members.
Stories like this clearly show Microsoft for what they are - A company that doesn't care about the online safety of their customers data. They are a monopoly with the normal monopoly mentality that customers are there to serve them.
This has been covered ad nauseum here. Do we really need an update every 10 hours? A bug was exploited, it is now patched. Anyone who falls victim to it now deserves to do.
Thats not entirely fair. It's not practical for many people to update all systems within a day or two. Most organizations don't move that fast.
I just laugh. I haven't had to reformat the drive even once since I obscured IE.
If you use windows without IE you are still very much at risk from the many other windows holes. You will cracked sooner or later and you may not even notice.
So for 190 Euro more, you get OS X, a much faster, 64-bit, virtualisation-capable CPU, and a real GPU with dual display support, but lose 1GB RAM. I see no mention of I/O on the OpenPC, either - the Mac Mini has USB ports for days and FireWire 800.
Great. But not everyone wants virtualisation, lots of USB connections, or Firewire on every computer they own. Some people want at least one computer just for surfing the web, email, and maybe reading the odd PDF.
Apple hardware is great and all but why spend extra money for extras you don't want?
We should rule out chemical poisoning first though. It's possible these people were made ill by something other than electricity and other than their own minds.
A public phone on the side of the street that you put coins in to make a call. They were quite popular before mobile phones and are still useful when mobile phones don't work.
For individuals, I think a number would be a cleaner approach. The overhead of DNS shouldn't be wasted on something like this when you can already associate phone numbers with contact lists on your cell phone or PDA. When I call someone, I just go to their name in my address book; I barely know the cell phone numbers of anyone in my family.
If you were at a payphone after the battery on your gadgets runs out what would you be more likely to remember, a phone number, or a dns name?
Doing the name to number mapping on your cellphone only fixes the problem from that one phone. DNS for phone numbers fixes it everywhere.
If I have plenty of memory, can I easily disable KSM?
Disabling or enabling this should be no harder than one command line option to qemu.
Disabling it is the right thing to do if you don't need the memory saving benefit. It will waste CPU and throw your stuff out of data caches. I think most people will be more concerned with saving memory though, I know I am.
I'm not perfectly happy with the term "virtualization memory de-duplication".
The term is a little nonspecific. However KSM is truly wonderful and I look forward to saving a ton of physical memory over my KVM machines when the kvm/qemu userland tools catch up.
I don't intend to troll but to get a response. Seriously, I don't believe in aliens beyond movies, and I don't understand the interest about this program. I'd like to know why would someone install this, can some users tell me about it? (But please no conspiracies)
Because humanity is fucked. Competitive evolution means the most violent, destructive, and manipulative species dominates. Currently political manipulators cause wide scale death for no particular reason whist most of the population blindly believe some god will save them after death.
Proof that some other lifeforms have got past this cruel and brutal stage of their development would mean humanity could do it to. It would mean there is something to hope for other than our own violent destruction by our own hands.
I think we can safely write the rest of the claims of "accelerated hardware depreciation" off as complete BS
Not entirely. Although this might not reduce the lifespan of anything solid state by any measurable amount maxing out the CPUs will heat the machines. This may cause fans to run faster and wear out sooner as well as to suck more dust into the machines. This is going to be dwarfed by the electricity costs though.
A single well known 'stock exchange' for this kind of activity gives the world a neat target that could be taken out quickly and efficiently with a single bomb.
It's a principle of most legal systems that anyone knowingly assisting in crime is also a criminal.
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I think it's disgusting and yet another sad example of the sheepification of the people that gave us most of our civil liberties.
People are either fooled into believing that it's for their own good or they know they can't fight back in any meaningful way.
The mass civil unrest it would take to fix the UK isn't likely anytime soon.
I don't have a problem with a drone recording it.
I would. It would be fun if the public gets access to the video recordings.
I'd set up a website offering a £1000 prize for the first beating caught on video.
The public never get access to police technology. Any evidence that the police have committed a crime magically disappears. The so called 'independent police complaints commission' perform whitewashes on anything that can't be made to disappear.
Police routinely search citizens without even the suspicion of a crime taking place. The UK is now a police state.
Personally I left and I'm very happy I did.
What useful firewall are you referring to that isn't implemented in software? Or by "(i.e. not software)" were you referring to anything implemented on an appliance?
Ok, they are all implemented in software on some device or other. I was using the naive definition of a 'software firewall' which I take to mean one running on the user system it's meant to protect.
A better firewall would be one running on a device between the two user system and the internet like a Cisco device or a OpenBSD or Linux machine.
So you are saying that any windows machine that doesn't run IE is safe-ish? Because it's not, there are countless flaws in other Microsoft code any one of which could cause a major security problem. If you don't start with a good design you have NOTHING.
You don't really trust a software firewall written by Microsoft do you? If you want a firewall use a proper ( i.e. not software ) one.
Well, my interaction with my state's operations have made me increasingly come to the conclusion that I would trust a rowdy herd of poorly trained chimpanzees over the state's employees. So bring on the contractors, I say.
Contractors are not the problem. Third world software maintenance is the problem. A messed up government in control is far better than your tax records being adjusted by someone on third world wages.
Guess what, this is exactly how the military has been run for decades. What makes a contractor any better or worse at managing information than the government itself?
It's not contractors you want to worry about. It's large amounts of your data ended up in India being worked on by people paid pennies. It's easy to bribe people if their monthly pay is about what you spent on lunch today.
98% of what we get is not delivered to mailboxes.
If you block it at SMTP time do you still count that as mail you got?
Bill Gates appears to know little about technology. Why else would be make such a stupid statement?
He reminds me of the support guy that just makes stuff up because most users will believe anything.
I use DNS blocklists, greylisting, and a bayes filter. I rarely see spam, maybe 1 or 2 stupid marketing mails from companies I have dealt with a week. My work has more or less the same setup and doesn't get much spam either.
This report must be counting mail blocked at the SMTP level as spam. That seems the only way to get upto 95%.
This has been covered ad nauseum here. Do we really need an update every 10 hours?
Yes. Micro$oft bad!
Well, they are.
A bug was exploited, it is now patched. Anyone who falls victim to it now deserves to do.
Windows users dumb.
That doesn't follow. Fooled because they don't know better or don't get the choice maybe, but dumb isn't the right word.
Stay tuned as Slashdot milks this story for another week!
Stories like this are raw meat for the Linux Hammer Legion members.
Stories like this clearly show Microsoft for what they are - A company that doesn't care about the online safety of their customers data. They are a monopoly with the normal monopoly mentality that customers are there to serve them.
This has been covered ad nauseum here. Do we really need an update every 10 hours? A bug was exploited, it is now patched. Anyone who falls victim to it now deserves to do.
Thats not entirely fair. It's not practical for many people to update all systems within a day or two. Most organizations don't move that fast.
I just laugh. I haven't had to reformat the drive even once since I obscured IE.
If you use windows without IE you are still very much at risk from the many other windows holes. You will cracked sooner or later and you may not even notice.
So for 190 Euro more, you get OS X, a much faster, 64-bit, virtualisation-capable CPU, and a real GPU with dual display support, but lose 1GB RAM. I see no mention of I/O on the OpenPC, either - the Mac Mini has USB ports for days and FireWire 800.
Great. But not everyone wants virtualisation, lots of USB connections, or Firewire on every computer they own. Some people want at least one computer just for surfing the web, email, and maybe reading the odd PDF.
Apple hardware is great and all but why spend extra money for extras you don't want?
Could it also be hysteria?
It could be.
We should rule out chemical poisoning first though. It's possible these people were made ill by something other than electricity and other than their own minds.
What's a "payphone"?
A public phone on the side of the street that you put coins in to make a call. They were quite popular before mobile phones and are still useful when mobile phones don't work.
For individuals, I think a number would be a cleaner approach. The overhead of DNS shouldn't be wasted on something like this when you can already associate phone numbers with contact lists on your cell phone or PDA. When I call someone, I just go to their name in my address book; I barely know the cell phone numbers of anyone in my family.
If you were at a payphone after the battery on your gadgets runs out what would you be more likely to remember, a phone number, or a dns name?
Doing the name to number mapping on your cellphone only fixes the problem from that one phone. DNS for phone numbers fixes it everywhere.
KSM saves memory but hurts performance.
If I have plenty of memory, can I easily disable KSM?
Disabling or enabling this should be no harder than one command line option to qemu.
Disabling it is the right thing to do if you don't need the memory saving benefit. It will waste CPU and throw your stuff out of data caches. I think most people will be more concerned with saving memory though, I know I am.
What if he/she used Tor?
Try editing wikipedia though TOR. They block every exit node they know about.
If KSM puts the KVM module on par with Xen in terms of performance then I think the writing is on the wall for Xen's demise.
No. Not at all. KSM saves memory but hurts performance. It shares memory across virtual machines to save memory.
Xen can't share memory across virtual machines, it's just not put together like that.
Performance is about identical for KVM and XEN.
I'm not perfectly happy with the term "virtualization memory de-duplication".
The term is a little nonspecific. However KSM is truly wonderful and I look forward to saving a ton of physical memory over my KVM machines when the kvm/qemu userland tools catch up.
This is already in redhat's virtualization stuff.
I don't intend to troll but to get a response.
Seriously, I don't believe in aliens beyond movies, and I don't understand the interest about this program. I'd like to know why would someone install this, can some users tell me about it?
(But please no conspiracies)
Because humanity is fucked. Competitive evolution means the most violent, destructive, and manipulative species dominates. Currently political manipulators cause wide scale death for no particular reason whist most of the population blindly believe some god will save them after death.
Proof that some other lifeforms have got past this cruel and brutal stage of their development would mean humanity could do it to. It would mean there is something to hope for other than our own violent destruction by our own hands.
I think we can safely write the rest of the claims of "accelerated hardware depreciation" off as complete BS
Not entirely. Although this might not reduce the lifespan of anything solid state by any measurable amount maxing out the CPUs will heat the machines. This may cause fans to run faster and wear out sooner as well as to suck more dust into the machines. This is going to be dwarfed by the electricity costs though.
It is also a principle of international law that you don;t kill civilians indiscriminately, a point you are clearly glossing over.
You are right. Sorry, I was thinking in terms of the American version of international law there.
A single well known 'stock exchange' for this kind of activity gives the world a neat target that could be taken out quickly and efficiently with a single bomb.
It's a principle of most legal systems that anyone knowingly assisting in crime is also a criminal.
Discuss.
Banana's, fried with honey.
Delicious.