Pretty much. Because such "minds" are nearly as sharp as a rubberized butter spreader (so dull you can't even call it a knife).
Basically all these modern script kiddie hacker activist-wannabes understand is "us and them".
So long as they perceive themselves as "the underclass", they're "morally" justified in doing pretty much ANYTHING. And, in their own mind, it's "okay", because they're on the side of "Right". And if they hurt innocent bystanders? Oh well, to make a omelette... Just so long as THEY are the chef and not the eggs.
In reality, they're primarily power-tripping pseudofascist assholes who would fail a basic ethics course, because they have none.
Not going to argue with you on the script kiddies. However you really need to look at Phineas Fisher and how freaking good he is. This guy is far far different than a script kiddie.
You can debate his politics all you like but his skill set is second to none.
Ok, fine, I switched to Ubuntu MATE and within 5 minutes of adding the nVidia PPA for the latest drivers the system crashed and wouldn't boot anymore due to kernel/nvidia driver issues.
Why did you need to use a PPA for that? The drivers are already in Ubuntu's repos and while I can't say about the Mate-version at least in the Unity-version you just clicky-clicky a few times through the settings-app's "Additional drivers" or whatever its name was to download and turn them on.
OLD drivers are in Ubuntu. The best you'll get out of Ubuntu is 361, you need at least 364.19 for Vulcan and nVidia is already pushing 367. Ubuntu won't see those drivers for another 2 years at best without using a PPA.
Desktop Linux is getting to a point where it is viable for day to day work tasks, and gaming is becoming not just a wish, but actually something coming around (slowly but surely).
Sorry but this is BS. I've used Linux since 1995 and the only time it was ever remotely viable as a desktop was during the really bad days of Windows XP. Every Linux DE looks dated, is buggy as fuck, has really horrible config settings, missing options people have had for decades........ the list goes on. The closest to a viable desktop I found was MATE but even that had massive issues.
I love Linux and FreeBSD but they will never be main stream desktops for the sole reason that the people who are developing the "desktop" part of it are morons. KDE is so buggy its laughable. GNOME has stripped so much stuff out it's not usable and you have to use beta extensions that break on every update just to regain basic functionality.
The kernel developers war against graphic drivers has destroyed any hope whatsoever of Linux as a gaming OS. Not even Vulcan can save it now. It is so god damned hard to get nVidia drivers let alone NEW drivers that its fucking pointless to try.
I spent the last week trying to get Fedora into a usable state as a desktop OS only to have it fucking puke on the floor and shit itself before running off into a corner to cry like a little baby. One "dnf remove application" was all it took for dnf to literally uninstall its own fucking dependencies (sqlite3) and render the entire system unusable. Ok, fine, I switched to Ubuntu MATE and within 5 minutes of adding the nVidia PPA for the latest drivers the system crashed and wouldn't boot anymore due to kernel/nvidia driver issues.
Seriously, just fuck right off with this Linux as a desktop OS bullshit. It's tired and not going to happen. Give Linux one thing to do as a server and it will likely be ok. Give it more than that and it's a pathetic, unstable and barely usable system developed by grown men acting like babies and fighting on mailing lists to show each other how manly they are.
That now famous picture of Linus flipping off nVidia is me in reverse flipping him off.
Well that's a bloody condescending headline. Tell me why you think I shouldn't, or tell me that someone notable like Snowden has said not to use it, but don't tell me what to do.
I'll use Google Allo if I want to*, end-to-end encryption or not.
*I don't want to, but that's beside the point!
What I am hearing is someone triggered you and you now need a safe space where people won't tell you what to do.
A friend of mine posted something on Facebook today. I rarely look at Facebook and when I do I just glance but this caught my eye.
The average wedding in Europe is around 6,000 euros. The average wedding in the US is around 36,000$. The blurb was accompanied by a little video showing a British woman talk about how its a family event and about the commitment, all the important stuff. Then it cut to a spoiled American girl screaming "ITS MY FUCKING WEDDING" while holding onto her dress and throwing shit.
My response to her was "Too many princesses in the US and not enough women". Sex in the City embodied that to me. It was such a horrendous show that to this day when I hear a woman talk about how great it was I gag and throw up in my mouth a little. The women on that show were so shallow and lifeless I have a hard time understanding how it existed at all. Then I talk to some of the princesses this countries pumped out over the last 30 years and it all becomes clear.
Google jumped the shark a couple years ago. They are at peak Google right now but its fading as people are realizing just how intrusive and crappy their stuff is. Gmail and search are their two standout products, everything else is "meh" and often done better by others. Plus Google as a company seems to have ADHD as they simply can't focus on anything at all. It's so childish watching them flail around like they do playing with "cool" stuff and never marketing any of it, promoting any of it, selling any of it. As a company they just suck on so many levels its frightening.
The politician, Salim Mehajer, is really something. Sort of an Australian Donald Trump. He runs people over with his super car, threatens people, violates election laws and then gets himself acquitted or wrist-slapped for all of it in court.
Trumps never done anything remotely like that. People like you are literally a cancer to the internet with your bullshit.
Certainly. What you posted is fantasy though so I'll try to reply without sounding like a prick.
Similar to web cookies, the aggregation of multiple sightings of you in public will construct an "identity" of you far more detailed than currently exists in the public record today. The sum total of where you live, where you shop, where you work, where (and who!!!) you visit will result in a profile fingerprint that's just as useful, simply lacking your name. It's enough.
This is not an identity. Its meta data at best. Knowing where you went is easy to get now and has been for decades. Detectives have been doing this for a very long time to establish things like timelines. Just because you went to a library however does not mean you read a book. It is by no means or any stretch of the imagination "just as useful". That is, strictly put, fantasy.
I would add that with all the friends and acquaintances I have who participate in social media, the name to go along with that profile won't be long in coming.
Names are public record. Stored on birth certificates and death certificates. I've known 4 people in my lifetime with my exact same name, including middle name. One even shared the same birthday, seperated by about 3 hours (I was the elder). They know your name already. That they can correlate it with where you went at a particular time of day is irrelevent. Maybe you don't like people knowing where you went, thats fine. I'm not sure I do either. However, if where you went is a public place then you've already abandoned privacy.
So with pictures on FindFace and the like, and the inevitable geolocation data attached to them, at some point my interests, food preferences, entertainment preferences, friendships, family associations, daily habits outside my home, fashion preferences, driving style, and probably many other things, become public knowledge available at almost anyone's fingertips.
You'll have to provide a citation here as nothing int he article even begins to imply this. In fact anyone whos worked in big data of any kind as I do could tell you that these correlations are very hard to do. Data collection at that scale is impossible. We're back in fantasyland here with tin foil hats and an unhealthy dose of paranoid delusion. Simply put, you aren't that interesting.
Wkipedia defines 'privacy' as "...the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves, or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively." I'd be interested to hear your take on how the situation I described above is even remotely compatible with the concept of privacy.
Where you went is not information about you. Neither is how you drive on a public road. Information about you would be medical data, information/communication you do with others (which I would hope you would be encrypting). You've fallen into a trap that many people do. You've started off with the premise that people are looking for you. They aren't. You then proceed to list ways they "could" be looking at you, which they aren't. You then proceed to go on about how offensive this looking at you is, which it isn't because it isn't happening. You also go on to list ways in which this violates some made up idea of privacy (you have no privacy in public), which it doesn't.
I don't say these things to be mean. This is common because you don't understand it, yet you're intelligent and struggle to understand it using filters you already possess, ignorant of the fact those filters are not adequate to this particular task. You must first understand where privacy applies (not in public), you can then decide when something is violating your privacy.
It seems that a lot of people in the comments don't know who she is, but she is one of my favorite musicians, and certainly one of the greatest living jazz composers.
The irony here is that Jazz isn't supposed to be composed........................
I don't follow you. I'm very private, keeping most of my life to myself. I have coworkers who see me all day every day and in some ways see me more than my own family. They know almost nothing about my private life though. I'm not anonymous but I am quite private.
I've never followed this logic that you have to be anonymous to be private. It just logically fails on every level. Why bother with encryption if you're anonymous? If you're not anonymous encryption keeps you private (when done correctly). Frankly anonymity appears to be a myth. It just does not seem to exist in reality.
With the ability of technology to do these kinds of things, society is going to be changing. But which direction will it go?
Will we become a more repressed society, afraid to engage in activity that other people don't approve of? A society where we share as little as possible with others out of fear?
Or will society become "anything goes," where people accept that everyone has a past that may not be pretty, and people may engage in activities that we may not appreciate? After all, that camera could be pointed towards us - who are we to judge?
If history repeats itself it will be both. It will start off more repressed until a series of "deviants" come out and start making it more mainstream. I'm speaking broadly here but if you follow historical movements the trend is surprisingly similar.
Depends on what you're using it for. The only reason my Media Center machine has a password is to enable media shares on it. It auto logins. The only things on it are recorded TV shows and movies, so no big deal if it gets stolen/p0wned.
Nice job, you just opened a passwordless network share as an attack vector on your internal network. I swear, the security literacy of you idiots is mind boggling.
What kind of fucking idiot doesn't put a password on their system? That alone tells me you don't have a fucking clue what you're doing and anything you say is going to be pure and utter bullshit.
I love ZFS on FreeBSD. Its works amazingly well. I tried it on Linux (Antergos lets you use ZFS on root if you're interested). My experience with Linux was less satisfying. It is an absolute memory hog. I was using 8 gigs of RAM at all times. Ordinarily I don't mind this, RAM is there to be used afterall. But on the same box with FreeBSD I rarely broke 2 gigs of RAM used and the same goes with any Linux distro and BTRFS.
The features of ZFS are great and you can't beat the speed and stability but I really hope BTRFS gets caught up as it seems to be a better filesystem ideologically.
CrowdStrike has been all over my local ISSA the last year pimping their crapware. This is pretty ironic considering VirusTotal is a Google service and CrowdStrike has been selling themselves on the fact Google gave them 100 million in capital.
Oh cool, 4 whole interviews in the last 16 years. Should I point out the thousands of interviews Conservative leaders have given other networks in the same time frame? Wow man, 4 whole interviews...... thats just HUGE. I mean what in the world was I thinking?
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Pretty much. Because such "minds" are nearly as sharp as a rubberized butter spreader (so dull you can't even call it a knife).
Basically all these modern script kiddie hacker activist-wannabes understand is "us and them".
So long as they perceive themselves as "the underclass", they're "morally" justified in doing pretty much ANYTHING. And, in their own mind, it's "okay", because they're on the side of "Right".
And if they hurt innocent bystanders? Oh well, to make a omelette... Just so long as THEY are the chef and not the eggs.
In reality, they're primarily power-tripping pseudofascist assholes who would fail a basic ethics course, because they have none.
Not going to argue with you on the script kiddies. However you really need to look at Phineas Fisher and how freaking good he is. This guy is far far different than a script kiddie.
You can debate his politics all you like but his skill set is second to none.
Only because we weren't allowed to use more. Artificial limitations and all
Ok, fine, I switched to Ubuntu MATE and within 5 minutes of adding the nVidia PPA for the latest drivers the system crashed and wouldn't boot anymore due to kernel/nvidia driver issues.
Why did you need to use a PPA for that? The drivers are already in Ubuntu's repos and while I can't say about the Mate-version at least in the Unity-version you just clicky-clicky a few times through the settings-app's "Additional drivers" or whatever its name was to download and turn them on.
OLD drivers are in Ubuntu. The best you'll get out of Ubuntu is 361, you need at least 364.19 for Vulcan and nVidia is already pushing 367. Ubuntu won't see those drivers for another 2 years at best without using a PPA.
Desktop Linux is getting to a point where it is viable for day to day work tasks, and gaming is becoming not just a wish, but actually something coming around (slowly but surely).
Sorry but this is BS. I've used Linux since 1995 and the only time it was ever remotely viable as a desktop was during the really bad days of Windows XP. Every Linux DE looks dated, is buggy as fuck, has really horrible config settings, missing options people have had for decades........ the list goes on. The closest to a viable desktop I found was MATE but even that had massive issues.
I love Linux and FreeBSD but they will never be main stream desktops for the sole reason that the people who are developing the "desktop" part of it are morons. KDE is so buggy its laughable. GNOME has stripped so much stuff out it's not usable and you have to use beta extensions that break on every update just to regain basic functionality.
The kernel developers war against graphic drivers has destroyed any hope whatsoever of Linux as a gaming OS. Not even Vulcan can save it now. It is so god damned hard to get nVidia drivers let alone NEW drivers that its fucking pointless to try.
I spent the last week trying to get Fedora into a usable state as a desktop OS only to have it fucking puke on the floor and shit itself before running off into a corner to cry like a little baby. One "dnf remove application" was all it took for dnf to literally uninstall its own fucking dependencies (sqlite3) and render the entire system unusable. Ok, fine, I switched to Ubuntu MATE and within 5 minutes of adding the nVidia PPA for the latest drivers the system crashed and wouldn't boot anymore due to kernel/nvidia driver issues.
Seriously, just fuck right off with this Linux as a desktop OS bullshit. It's tired and not going to happen. Give Linux one thing to do as a server and it will likely be ok. Give it more than that and it's a pathetic, unstable and barely usable system developed by grown men acting like babies and fighting on mailing lists to show each other how manly they are.
That now famous picture of Linus flipping off nVidia is me in reverse flipping him off.
It's hot here, but not as hot as the hell that those who want to adopt closed-source
software on Linux will burn in.
This is a religion for you............ I think you need to step away and get a glimpse of reality for a while.
The flight from AUS to the UK would be shorter than the line at the TSA?
Don't Use Google Allo
Well that's a bloody condescending headline. Tell me why you think I shouldn't, or tell me that someone notable like Snowden has said not to use it, but don't tell me what to do.
I'll use Google Allo if I want to*, end-to-end encryption or not.
*I don't want to, but that's beside the point!
What I am hearing is someone triggered you and you now need a safe space where people won't tell you what to do.
A friend of mine posted something on Facebook today. I rarely look at Facebook and when I do I just glance but this caught my eye.
The average wedding in Europe is around 6,000 euros. The average wedding in the US is around 36,000$. The blurb was accompanied by a little video showing a British woman talk about how its a family event and about the commitment, all the important stuff. Then it cut to a spoiled American girl screaming "ITS MY FUCKING WEDDING" while holding onto her dress and throwing shit.
My response to her was "Too many princesses in the US and not enough women". Sex in the City embodied that to me. It was such a horrendous show that to this day when I hear a woman talk about how great it was I gag and throw up in my mouth a little. The women on that show were so shallow and lifeless I have a hard time understanding how it existed at all. Then I talk to some of the princesses this countries pumped out over the last 30 years and it all becomes clear.
Are men supposed to simply sit down and keep their opinions to themselves?
That is exactly what the radical feminists are demanding.
Its the victim mentality.
And their results cannot be used as evidence in court.
Criminal court. This is a civil case not a criminal one. It's very admissible.
This is the generation of "perpetually offended"..............
Google jumped the shark a couple years ago. They are at peak Google right now but its fading as people are realizing just how intrusive and crappy their stuff is. Gmail and search are their two standout products, everything else is "meh" and often done better by others. Plus Google as a company seems to have ADHD as they simply can't focus on anything at all. It's so childish watching them flail around like they do playing with "cool" stuff and never marketing any of it, promoting any of it, selling any of it. As a company they just suck on so many levels its frightening.
The politician, Salim Mehajer, is really something. Sort of an Australian Donald Trump. He runs people over with his super car, threatens people, violates election laws and then gets himself acquitted or wrist-slapped for all of it in court.
Trumps never done anything remotely like that. People like you are literally a cancer to the internet with your bullshit.
Certainly. What you posted is fantasy though so I'll try to reply without sounding like a prick.
Similar to web cookies, the aggregation of multiple sightings of you in public will construct an "identity" of you far more detailed than currently exists in the public record today. The sum total of where you live, where you shop, where you work, where (and who!!!) you visit will result in a profile fingerprint that's just as useful, simply lacking your name. It's enough.
This is not an identity. Its meta data at best. Knowing where you went is easy to get now and has been for decades. Detectives have been doing this for a very long time to establish things like timelines. Just because you went to a library however does not mean you read a book. It is by no means or any stretch of the imagination "just as useful". That is, strictly put, fantasy.
I would add that with all the friends and acquaintances I have who participate in social media, the name to go along with that profile won't be long in coming.
Names are public record. Stored on birth certificates and death certificates. I've known 4 people in my lifetime with my exact same name, including middle name. One even shared the same birthday, seperated by about 3 hours (I was the elder). They know your name already. That they can correlate it with where you went at a particular time of day is irrelevent. Maybe you don't like people knowing where you went, thats fine. I'm not sure I do either. However, if where you went is a public place then you've already abandoned privacy.
So with pictures on FindFace and the like, and the inevitable geolocation data attached to them, at some point my interests, food preferences, entertainment preferences, friendships, family associations, daily habits outside my home, fashion preferences, driving style, and probably many other things, become public knowledge available at almost anyone's fingertips.
You'll have to provide a citation here as nothing int he article even begins to imply this. In fact anyone whos worked in big data of any kind as I do could tell you that these correlations are very hard to do. Data collection at that scale is impossible. We're back in fantasyland here with tin foil hats and an unhealthy dose of paranoid delusion. Simply put, you aren't that interesting.
Wkipedia defines 'privacy' as "...the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves, or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively." I'd be interested to hear your take on how the situation I described above is even remotely compatible with the concept of privacy.
Where you went is not information about you. Neither is how you drive on a public road. Information about you would be medical data, information/communication you do with others (which I would hope you would be encrypting). You've fallen into a trap that many people do. You've started off with the premise that people are looking for you. They aren't. You then proceed to list ways they "could" be looking at you, which they aren't. You then proceed to go on about how offensive this looking at you is, which it isn't because it isn't happening. You also go on to list ways in which this violates some made up idea of privacy (you have no privacy in public), which it doesn't.
I don't say these things to be mean. This is common because you don't understand it, yet you're intelligent and struggle to understand it using filters you already possess, ignorant of the fact those filters are not adequate to this particular task. You must first understand where privacy applies (not in public), you can then decide when something is violating your privacy.
It seems that a lot of people in the comments don't know who she is, but she is one of my favorite musicians, and certainly one of the greatest living jazz composers.
The irony here is that Jazz isn't supposed to be composed........................
I don't follow you. I'm very private, keeping most of my life to myself. I have coworkers who see me all day every day and in some ways see me more than my own family. They know almost nothing about my private life though. I'm not anonymous but I am quite private.
I've never followed this logic that you have to be anonymous to be private. It just logically fails on every level. Why bother with encryption if you're anonymous? If you're not anonymous encryption keeps you private (when done correctly). Frankly anonymity appears to be a myth. It just does not seem to exist in reality.
With the ability of technology to do these kinds of things, society is going to be changing. But which direction will it go?
Will we become a more repressed society, afraid to engage in activity that other people don't approve of? A society where we share as little as possible with others out of fear?
Or will society become "anything goes," where people accept that everyone has a past that may not be pretty, and people may engage in activities that we may not appreciate? After all, that camera could be pointed towards us - who are we to judge?
If history repeats itself it will be both. It will start off more repressed until a series of "deviants" come out and start making it more mainstream. I'm speaking broadly here but if you follow historical movements the trend is surprisingly similar.
Depends on what you're using it for. The only reason my Media Center machine has a password is to enable media shares on it. It auto logins. The only things on it are recorded TV shows and movies, so no big deal if it gets stolen/p0wned.
Nice job, you just opened a passwordless network share as an attack vector on your internal network. I swear, the security literacy of you idiots is mind boggling.
What kind of fucking idiot doesn't put a password on their system? That alone tells me you don't have a fucking clue what you're doing and anything you say is going to be pure and utter bullshit.
I love ZFS on FreeBSD. Its works amazingly well. I tried it on Linux (Antergos lets you use ZFS on root if you're interested). My experience with Linux was less satisfying. It is an absolute memory hog. I was using 8 gigs of RAM at all times. Ordinarily I don't mind this, RAM is there to be used afterall. But on the same box with FreeBSD I rarely broke 2 gigs of RAM used and the same goes with any Linux distro and BTRFS.
The features of ZFS are great and you can't beat the speed and stability but I really hope BTRFS gets caught up as it seems to be a better filesystem ideologically.
Re-education camps. These always work out great.
You know? As clever as people can be, we're still amazingly bad at "thinking outside the box" at times.
There's this entire universe out there, yet we're all assuming we have no way to ever go anyplace but this one planet we're on.
Its not an assumption. This is exactly what physics tells us.
His claims were utterly decimated before, .
They were reduced by 1/10th?
CrowdStrike has been all over my local ISSA the last year pimping their crapware. This is pretty ironic considering VirusTotal is a Google service and CrowdStrike has been selling themselves on the fact Google gave them 100 million in capital.
Oh cool, 4 whole interviews in the last 16 years. Should I point out the thousands of interviews Conservative leaders have given other networks in the same time frame? Wow man, 4 whole interviews...... thats just HUGE. I mean what in the world was I thinking?