I actually turned myself into a Democrat (You can easily switch parties in Oregon. There's a website. it takes just a few moments.) so I could vote AGAINST Hillary in the primary.
You can't vote for a member of party B if you are registered for party A? How... quaint!
As others said, don't force your hobby on him. But a child always mimics its parents. If you are coding at home and your son sees you and sits next to you and watches you, just don't tell him to leave you alone because he disrupts your focus. Answer his questions, try to explain what you are doing, ask what would he like to make, do a first few projects for him and with him. It may take time until he shows the initiative but it should be up to him how fast and how far he wants to go. Your role is to support him.
Law is part of the agreement between citizens and their government.
I can't really say that I don't like your comment "per se", but... when was the list time you were involved in negotiation of an "agreement between citizens and government"? Did someone come to you and asked what should be in the law?
May I kindly ask the agencies to use Evil Bit so that I can identify lawful attempts to hack my system? I don't want to accidentally hack the agency in the heat of furious self-defense efforts.
On Customs Checkpoint I usually hold my identification in my hand. It called a passport. It can be verified and tracked back to my country of origin. It likely also already contains a hash of my biometric data. It is also usually checked by US Embassy before I start my travel.
Now let's say I go to USA and get my biometrics scanned at the checkpoint. What is that good for if I'm not on a watch list? And most importantly - what is going to happen with the scanned data after it is determined that I'm not on a watch list?
May be we can't. But we surely can make it worse. And the appropriate piece of wisdom in such situation is: When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging!
A web developer should know what SSL certificate is, what CA is, what happens when the cert expires.
A database developer should know to not store plaintext passwords in the database and use hash instead. Salted hash.
The applications on Windows nowadays use assembly manifests that contain publicKeyToken - SHA1 hash of public key used for signing the assembly. I would expect a competent windows developer to know that.
When developing a game you want to prevent rogue modifications of game client that would give the player an advantage (there is probably a term for that).
If you use ssh to access the CVS you should know about public-private key cryptography. If you use git, you should know what a hash is. If you deploy to a staging server you hopefully do that with encrypted protocol.
Yes you can do without that. You can build walls around your sandbox and delegate all those pesky troubles to someone else. IMHO in IT it requires conscious effort to not know some basics of cryptography.
Can you elaborate, please? Let's say the network interface comes up and I (as a human) expect that my home-made network daemon starts up. But it does not. And by "it does not start up" I do not mean that "the daemon process is exec()-ed but exits immediately for some reason". I mean "the exec() call does not happen at all". Perhaps some stupid reason I failed to properly explain to systemd that it should be started. How does systemd know that a human expected the daemon to start?
With startupd, launchd, SMF, and SystemD you set the triggers for each event. No long scripts loaded with nested if/else statements galore or expensive proprietary software to mask this lack of functionality in init.
Okay, I'm always willing to learn, so please, give me a lesson. I set up a trigger for the event and the trigger does not fire. What do I do? In case of the "long script with nested if/else statements galore" I'm pretty sure what do I do there - put in some echo statements to verify the execution path. What do I do with systemd?
Are you qualified to say that? I use Slackware on server and desktop and it fills all my admin/office/development/multimedia needs. What makes it 1990s-era relic? Because it does not have dependency checking? Bah.
So long as Slackware, Gentoo and LFS exist I don't see how anyone has been FORCED off of Linux or onto the BSDs.
Maintaining a distro that does not use systemd when almost every project (package) expects systemd is not trivial. The danger is that the distro maintainers just throw the hands up and say "fuck that, I don't have energy to wrestle with this anymore". And then the users will be FORCED off.
I don't know about "unify them". As far as I can see, it is trying hard to hide the complexity under one umbrella. And if the complexity is hidden completely, then there is little you can do to fix a problem that happens to be complex. Without this unifying effort I can easily plug in myself somewhere in the middle, track down what's going on and fix it. Or at least work around it. Ah, yes, I'm a Slackware user. Is that relevant?
Note: while trying to connect to www.slashdot.org over https, the SSL certificate were invalid. It was issued for "*.cloudflare.com" (or something like that) rather then for "*.slashdot.org".
There was a series of robberies here some time back where the robbers stole a powerful car, put a steel cable around the ATM machine and tore it off (the ATM was attached to the floor with thick steel screws) and drive away with the whole machine. At one occasion they were caught on camera. Interestingly in this case the car was Porsche Cayene;-). They did 13 machines over the course of almost two years and manged to steal 1.7E6 euro. They got caught at #14 by accident. Another video seems to be from Poland where they used a steel cable to tear the ATM apart and take the boxes with cash.
The encryption chip prevents copying of the card. Without the chip the card can be cloned and within minutes multiple copies of the card can be used around the world to withdraw money from the account.
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They ... claimed copyright?
You can't vote for a member of party B if you are registered for party A? How ... quaint!
As others said, don't force your hobby on him. But a child always mimics its parents. If you are coding at home and your son sees you and sits next to you and watches you, just don't tell him to leave you alone because he disrupts your focus. Answer his questions, try to explain what you are doing, ask what would he like to make, do a first few projects for him and with him. It may take time until he shows the initiative but it should be up to him how fast and how far he wants to go. Your role is to support him.
It will reduce number of suicidal pilots by one half !
I'm not sure if we want to make it more boring. But I'll take "more boring" over "adrenaline rush" any day when I just want to drive a car.
You voted for a politician. That is miles away from voting on a law.
I can't really say that I don't like your comment "per se", but ... when was the list time you were involved in negotiation of an "agreement between citizens and government"? Did someone come to you and asked what should be in the law?
May I kindly ask the agencies to use Evil Bit so that I can identify lawful attempts to hack my system? I don't want to accidentally hack the agency in the heat of furious self-defense efforts.
On Customs Checkpoint I usually hold my identification in my hand. It called a passport. It can be verified and tracked back to my country of origin. It likely also already contains a hash of my biometric data. It is also usually checked by US Embassy before I start my travel.
Now let's say I go to USA and get my biometrics scanned at the checkpoint. What is that good for if I'm not on a watch list? And most importantly - what is going to happen with the scanned data after it is determined that I'm not on a watch list?
I like bashing MS just like anybody else but ... you think that a web browser is simple? How funny ...
Excuse me. Is GIMP good enough for that functionality?
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On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle
May be we can't. But we surely can make it worse. And the appropriate piece of wisdom in such situation is: When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging!
A web developer should know what SSL certificate is, what CA is, what happens when the cert expires.
A database developer should know to not store plaintext passwords in the database and use hash instead. Salted hash.
The applications on Windows nowadays use assembly manifests that contain publicKeyToken - SHA1 hash of public key used for signing the assembly. I would expect a competent windows developer to know that.
When developing a game you want to prevent rogue modifications of game client that would give the player an advantage (there is probably a term for that).
If you use ssh to access the CVS you should know about public-private key cryptography. If you use git, you should know what a hash is. If you deploy to a staging server you hopefully do that with encrypted protocol.
Yes you can do without that. You can build walls around your sandbox and delegate all those pesky troubles to someone else. IMHO in IT it requires conscious effort to not know some basics of cryptography.
Your odds or winning are 1:1. Either you win or you don't.
Ditto.
Can you elaborate, please? Let's say the network interface comes up and I (as a human) expect that my home-made network daemon starts up. But it does not. And by "it does not start up" I do not mean that "the daemon process is exec()-ed but exits immediately for some reason". I mean "the exec() call does not happen at all". Perhaps some stupid reason I failed to properly explain to systemd that it should be started. How does systemd know that a human expected the daemon to start?
Okay, I'm always willing to learn, so please, give me a lesson. I set up a trigger for the event and the trigger does not fire. What do I do? In case of the "long script with nested if/else statements galore" I'm pretty sure what do I do there - put in some echo statements to verify the execution path. What do I do with systemd?
Are you qualified to say that? I use Slackware on server and desktop and it fills all my admin/office/development/multimedia needs. What makes it 1990s-era relic? Because it does not have dependency checking? Bah.
Maintaining a distro that does not use systemd when almost every project (package) expects systemd is not trivial. The danger is that the distro maintainers just throw the hands up and say "fuck that, I don't have energy to wrestle with this anymore". And then the users will be FORCED off.
I don't know about "unify them". As far as I can see, it is trying hard to hide the complexity under one umbrella. And if the complexity is hidden completely, then there is little you can do to fix a problem that happens to be complex. Without this unifying effort I can easily plug in myself somewhere in the middle, track down what's going on and fix it. Or at least work around it. Ah, yes, I'm a Slackware user. Is that relevant?
Note: while trying to connect to www.slashdot.org over https, the SSL certificate were invalid. It was issued for "*.cloudflare.com" (or something like that) rather then for "*.slashdot.org".
Yeah, the free market would work so well - only if most players were rational.
Quantity has a quality of its own. Scale matters.
There was a series of robberies here some time back where the robbers stole a powerful car, put a steel cable around the ATM machine and tore it off (the ATM was attached to the floor with thick steel screws) and drive away with the whole machine. At one occasion they were caught on camera. Interestingly in this case the car was Porsche Cayene ;-). They did 13 machines over the course of almost two years and manged to steal 1.7E6 euro. They got caught at #14 by accident. Another video seems to be from Poland where they used a steel cable to tear the ATM apart and take the boxes with cash.
The encryption chip prevents copying of the card. Without the chip the card can be cloned and within minutes multiple copies of the card can be used around the world to withdraw money from the account.