Your vehicle was damaged in the course of committing criminal trespass and vehicular assault? Count your blessings that you aren't being charged with attempted murder.
I dunno, depends on circumstance. If the employee broke the driver side window and tried to wrestle the driver out by cutting the seat belt, then a reasonable driver might fear for his life.
I'm going to wait a day or two and see if more facts come to light, before I make any judgements.
(Of course, *you* are welcome to make judgements any time.)
Is this one of those states where if you are in a place where you are lawfully entitled to be and you fear for your life you can use deadly force and get away with it with no questions asked? Like in Florida.
Imagine if, as you walk along a street in downtown the small shops, which depend on advertising (right?) have these little boards outside their shops with some advertising. Actually this is pretty normal in most places.
That is a bad analogy. You are comparing apples and oranges. The website publishes content you consume for "free" (paid for by ads) where as a store front is trying to get you to buy a product (you pay for what you consume).
Now image that you go into a bookstore and read an entire book while there and then you walk out. How long before that book store closes?
I don't think your analogy is adequate either.
How about a shop with a magazine rack which they let people peruse for free. Some third party stands outside and charges you to go into the bookstore and a portion of this goes to the bookstore. However this person is infected with something nasty and coughs at you as you go through the door.
The analogy is a bit wrong. The people serving up these ads are not the shop owners usually. Web sites are more like radio stations, they'll broadcast someone else's advertisements in return for a kickback. Except that on the internet there is a massive third party advertising industry; the shop owners don't know how/when/where these ads will show up, and the web sites know or care don't care which products they promote.
Right, so the sandwich boards on the sidewalk are operated by a 3rd party who has fitted them with little wheels and programmed them to bump into pedestrians who walk past. And some unscrupulous employee at the advertising company has infected them with interesting diseases.
And the pedestrians have to pay to view the advertising. But the shop owners don't get that money, it goes into the pocket of the local government who maintain the street itself.
The analogy is: imagine that you can walk into any bakery on the street and eat their goods for free as long as they can put up ads. Now imagine that you can still eat their goods but you can take down their ads as well.
Basic rule of life - money makes the world go 'round. Everyone needs it to buy food, pay for housing, etc. When websites sell content - and you have to pay for that content either directly (subscription) or indirectly (allow them to deliver ads so that they get paid by the advertisers).
It is perfectly reasonable for any website to say "allow ads or pay us directly". No sane person would expect people to give away content and get nothing in return.
This doesn't work because in the bakery you don't pay to view the ads and they (the ads, not the food) can't make you sick.
It's why I don't use ad blocking software or disable ads on Slashdot.
Imagine if, as you walk along a street in downtown the small shops, which depend on advertising (right?) have these little boards outside their shops with some advertising. Actually this is pretty normal in most places.
Now imagine you have to pay to walk down the street in downtown, a small fee which goes toward maintaining these advertising boards. Now imagine if you accidentally touch one of these advertising boards theres a chance you'll get infected with the flu. Now imagine instead of flu sometimes its zombie plague.
But that has nothing to do with America, but how every two party system ends up, when all is said and done. It's the natural result of how representatives are selected.
This is even easier to see in some European systems that allow for more than 2 parties, but are heavily biased towards having two parties and a bunch of also rans. We get to see how the major parties, who pretend to be in opposition with each other, find themselves in agreement when it comes to electoral reform.
Major changes occur only when the people's discontent is so strong, not even the two sides if this establishment party together can hold a majority. That takes a lot of suffering in the country: Just look at Greece, or Spain.
In the US now we are seeing people that are further away of the establishment becoming loud enough to make primaries go in ways that are no good for the establishment. But chances of real change are still a bit away.
The US politicians probably think back to what happened in the UK when the Labor party arose and doomed the nice cosy arrangement between the Whigs and the Tories.
He should use those talents to try to educate people that the "Two Party" system is a cabal of political oligarchs who fleece the people by convincing them they have a choice when in reality there is only "fork over your money or something bad might happen".
That is exactly what he is trying to do, but he needs to get in front of the cameras on the debate stage to do it.
Even if he does he'll be discredited that same evening. The NSA et.al, whose job it is to ensure the status quo and maintain the political stasis in the USA in favor of the single-party state, WILL have dirt on him that will hang him when the moment comes.
Yes, this is important. The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are not public entities, they are private groups formed and populated by people with agendas. If I'm a registered Socialist, the Democratic party has no obligation to let me run on their ticket or participate in their debates. The interests don't necessarily align.
Lessig isn't a Socialist, but is running on a platform of blowing up the system. Why on Earth would an establishment player want to support that platform?
He'd get farther by using the cash to start blowing holes in the notion that the US must only have two parties. Granted, he wouldn't get very far that way, either, but until voters give up the idea that we always have to choose between the lesser of two evils, that's all we'll ever end up with.
Except there aren't two parties; there are two factions of what is essentially one party. The USA is effectively a single-party state.
Like you said, the two 'parties' are not public entities, they are private groups. Those private groups play out a charade of opposition but they are run by the same forces behind the scene. If they were public entities there might be some transparency in this and it'd be really obvious that its a single party. But there isn't and there won't be.
Pron doesn't break the system, it drives the technological advances in the system. As in it would pretty much be the driving force towards improving the haptic feedback technology in the holodeck, as well as the technology for cleaning the holodeck afterwards...
I was mainly referring to the money and the Feds need for *actual* money to buy things that their nice civilisation might not want them to have.
The Ferengi still used it... and the Federation used it to trade with the Ferengi.
I was going to say! If those Federation officers want to book some time in the holosuite with some dodgy program they aren't allowed to use on their Federation holosuite they better find some way of 'earning' gold pressed latinum! See, porno breaks the system every time!:D
Why support Flash at all? Flash is dying and these days it doesn't offer anything over HTML5.
There are a ton of appliances out there that require flash. Its sad but true. A lot of hardware and virtual appliances require Java and Flash. Rip out Java and Flash from the browsers and there is going to be a lot of unmanageable shit out there.
You need to be realistic. Those servers you depend on for your porno sites? They probably have IPMI consoles that require Java. The company hosting them might be using something like Quantum VMPro to do the backups, so if their systems have a brainfart they can restore your beloved porno. This requires Flash. Do away with flash and you risk losing your high value porn sites!
The problem is that low-level "bootstrapping" software like the BIOS is still closed source, and—worse—becoming so complex that it's basically an entire operating system unto itself.
On the other hand, systemd is close to becoming an entire operating system unto itself and its open source! What could possibly go wrong??
The biggest safety issue was using a manned flight for something that didn't need people. All other things being equal, you will have 10 times the death rate if you launch 100 manned missions rather than 10 manned missions and 90 unmanned rockets. When the Challenger exploded, killing 7 astronauts, it was on a "stick a satellite in orbit" mission, that did not need to be manned.
The thing is that the Russians had developed their own space shuttle (the Buran), which they abandoned. The interesting thing in this context is that the Buran was fully automated; in its test flight it had no crew (the Russians thought it was too dangerous!) it took off and landed all controlled by automated systems or from the ground.
Now if the US space shuttle had this capability perhaps these Centaur launches would have been possible.
Question is, why didn't the USA develop the automated/remotely controlled capabilities that the Russians had??
It's not even as if Java is a huge security problem today. It's effectively been click-to-play by default in all major browsers for a long time, and the plug-in itself then has a bunch more security safeguards before it will trust remote code to do just about anything.
As I seem to have to point out every time this subject gets raised, this is a horrible move in terms of preserving useful content on the web. A lot of things that have been done with plug-ins like Java or Silverlight are small and in-house, like the math lecturer's interactive visualisation of something in their course, or the applet some guy in sales wrote a few years ago for the intranet so the group managers could see a quick overview of how everything is going and copy the data straight into their Excel spreadsheet. Of course they have also been used for a lot of GUIs for networked devices, where things like drawing interactive charts wasn't possible using native web technologies until relatively recently.
Many of these useful tools won't have dedicated maintainers and they aren't magically going to get rewritten to use the new blessed technologies. Closing them off in Firefox as well just means anyone who actually relies on them is now left on IE forever. Again.
Internet explorer won't keep up with this forever. Does anyone have experience of the new Windows 10 browser (Edge) and Java?
Where I work we have to deal with many sites where we are absolutely forced to use Java browser based apps. We have no option. Theres been talk that we might just have to write our own application to do this as browsers just can't be trusted not to lock us out of these systems.
Some people I work with keep an old XP VM around with an old version of Java and an old browser just to be able to use the IPMI console on (fairly new) servers. I don't see any sign that the server manufacturers are going to stop using Java for their IPMI consoles.
Except, in Debian 8, if the commands you run via sudo call anything in/sbin or/usr/sbin (unless they specify the explicit path) they will fail. Apparently this is for security; apparently it would be dangerous if the root shell you get from sudo had a $PATH that included/sbin or/usr/sbin.
Except, in Debian 8, that's completely fabricated bullshit.
Here's the shipped default/etc/sudoers for 8.0:
# # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. # # Please consider adding local content in/etc/sudoers.d/ instead of # directly modifying this file. # # See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file. # Defaults env_reset Defaults mail_badpass Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
# Host alias specification
# User alias specification
# Cmnd alias specification
# User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
# See sudoers(5) for more information on "#include" directives:
#includedir/etc/sudoers.d
Right, must be because this is on a dist-upgrade from wheezy and it didn't update/etc/sudoers. The problem is that the binary has a change and the config file hasn't been updated with this. There was no option to replace the installed config file during the upgrade.
The Debian sudo maintainer has had a history of making changes behind the scenes; there was a 'security update' (he *decided* it was a security update) that broke many peoples sudo config. Thats not supposed to happen in Debian stable.
Its worth respecting those guys though. Or one day the cities will have grown so much that literally everyone will be full-time engaged in bringing food and water into the city and removing waste from the city. At that point 'Crazy Eddie' will stand up on top of a garbage truck and get all the garbage collectors to go on strike for better pay and conditions.
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The one problem with that is the RGJ employees were not lawfully entitled to be there. They would not get any SYG defense.
No, I mean the other way around. The Tesla guys appear to be being accused of throwing rocks at them etc.
Your vehicle was damaged in the course of committing criminal trespass and vehicular assault? Count your blessings that you aren't being charged with attempted murder.
I dunno, depends on circumstance. If the employee broke the driver side window and tried to wrestle the driver out by cutting the seat belt, then a reasonable driver might fear for his life.
I'm going to wait a day or two and see if more facts come to light, before I make any judgements.
(Of course, *you* are welcome to make judgements any time.)
Is this one of those states where if you are in a place where you are lawfully entitled to be and you fear for your life you can use deadly force and get away with it with no questions asked? Like in Florida.
Imagine if, as you walk along a street in downtown the small shops, which depend on advertising (right?) have these little boards outside their shops with some advertising. Actually this is pretty normal in most places.
That is a bad analogy. You are comparing apples and oranges. The website publishes content you consume for "free" (paid for by ads) where as a store front is trying to get you to buy a product (you pay for what you consume).
Now image that you go into a bookstore and read an entire book while there and then you walk out. How long before that book store closes?
I don't think your analogy is adequate either.
How about a shop with a magazine rack which they let people peruse for free. Some third party stands outside and charges you to go into the bookstore and a portion of this goes to the bookstore. However this person is infected with something nasty and coughs at you as you go through the door.
The analogy is a bit wrong. The people serving up these ads are not the shop owners usually. Web sites are more like radio stations, they'll broadcast someone else's advertisements in return for a kickback. Except that on the internet there is a massive third party advertising industry; the shop owners don't know how/when/where these ads will show up, and the web sites know or care don't care which products they promote.
Right, so the sandwich boards on the sidewalk are operated by a 3rd party who has fitted them with little wheels and programmed them to bump into pedestrians who walk past. And some unscrupulous employee at the advertising company has infected them with interesting diseases.
And the pedestrians have to pay to view the advertising. But the shop owners don't get that money, it goes into the pocket of the local government who maintain the street itself.
Closer to the truth now?
So after 60+ years Playboy is going to make themselves completely irrelevant? I mean, who is actually going to buy it now?
Sure, the internet is full of smut, but Playboy was always a little classier.
Now they're, what exactly? I just don't see people wanting to buy Playboy with no nudity. At that point, get a Victoria's Secret catalog.
Well its PG-13 so presumably highschool kids...
This is a completely specious analogy.
The analogy is: imagine that you can walk into any bakery on the street and eat their goods for free as long as they can put up ads. Now imagine that you can still eat their goods but you can take down their ads as well.
Basic rule of life - money makes the world go 'round. Everyone needs it to buy food, pay for housing, etc. When websites sell content - and you have to pay for that content either directly (subscription) or indirectly (allow them to deliver ads so that they get paid by the advertisers).
It is perfectly reasonable for any website to say "allow ads or pay us directly". No sane person would expect people to give away content and get nothing in return.
This doesn't work because in the bakery you don't pay to view the ads and they (the ads, not the food) can't make you sick.
The bandwidth costs of getting the ads to the viewer, all the way from their server to my phone, should be part of their expenses.
Then they charge the advertisers enough to cover that expense.
That certainly would reduce the heavy ads.
Yeah, really the sites that use ads for revenue generation are customers of the ad providers. We are customers of the sites not the advertisers.
Therefore any expenses associated with getting the ads to my eyeballs should be entirely covered by the advertisers, not me and not by the sites.
It's why I don't use ad blocking software or disable ads on Slashdot.
Imagine if, as you walk along a street in downtown the small shops, which depend on advertising (right?) have these little boards outside their shops with some advertising. Actually this is pretty normal in most places.
Now imagine you have to pay to walk down the street in downtown, a small fee which goes toward maintaining these advertising boards.
Now imagine if you accidentally touch one of these advertising boards theres a chance you'll get infected with the flu.
Now imagine instead of flu sometimes its zombie plague.
Thats what Internet advertising is like.
If Bild doesn't find a way to pay for its expenses it will shut down anyway. So will other sites. Ads or sales or shut down.
The bandwidth costs of getting the ads to the viewer, all the way from their server to my phone, should be part of their expenses.
Then they charge the advertisers enough to cover that expense.
Advertiser pays.
But that has nothing to do with America, but how every two party system ends up, when all is said and done. It's the natural result of how representatives are selected.
This is even easier to see in some European systems that allow for more than 2 parties, but are heavily biased towards having two parties and a bunch of also rans. We get to see how the major parties, who pretend to be in opposition with each other, find themselves in agreement when it comes to electoral reform.
Major changes occur only when the people's discontent is so strong, not even the two sides if this establishment party together can hold a majority. That takes a lot of suffering in the country: Just look at Greece, or Spain.
In the US now we are seeing people that are further away of the establishment becoming loud enough to make primaries go in ways that are no good for the establishment. But chances of real change are still a bit away.
The US politicians probably think back to what happened in the UK when the Labor party arose and doomed the nice cosy arrangement between the Whigs and the Tories.
He should use those talents to try to educate people that the "Two Party" system is a cabal of political oligarchs who fleece the people by convincing them they have a choice when in reality there is only "fork over your money or something bad might happen".
That is exactly what he is trying to do, but he needs to get in front of the cameras on the debate stage to do it.
Even if he does he'll be discredited that same evening. The NSA et.al, whose job it is to ensure the status quo and maintain the political stasis in the USA in favor of the single-party state, WILL have dirt on him that will hang him when the moment comes.
Before the current shakeup, as far as how leadership affects governance, there is no discernible difference between a Republican and a Democrat.
They do a pretty good job of the charade, most Americans don't believe that they live in a single-party state.
Yes, this is important. The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are not public entities, they are private groups formed and populated by people with agendas. If I'm a registered Socialist, the Democratic party has no obligation to let me run on their ticket or participate in their debates. The interests don't necessarily align.
Lessig isn't a Socialist, but is running on a platform of blowing up the system. Why on Earth would an establishment player want to support that platform?
He'd get farther by using the cash to start blowing holes in the notion that the US must only have two parties. Granted, he wouldn't get very far that way, either, but until voters give up the idea that we always have to choose between the lesser of two evils, that's all we'll ever end up with.
Except there aren't two parties; there are two factions of what is essentially one party. The USA is effectively a single-party state.
Like you said, the two 'parties' are not public entities, they are private groups. Those private groups play out a charade of opposition but they are run by the same forces behind the scene. If they were public entities there might be some transparency in this and it'd be really obvious that its a single party. But there isn't and there won't be.
Pron doesn't break the system, it drives the technological advances in the system. As in it would pretty much be the driving force towards improving the haptic feedback technology in the holodeck, as well as the technology for cleaning the holodeck afterwards...
I was mainly referring to the money and the Feds need for *actual* money to buy things that their nice civilisation might not want them to have.
The Ferengi still used it... and the Federation used it to trade with the Ferengi.
I was going to say! If those Federation officers want to book some time in the holosuite with some dodgy program they aren't allowed to use on their Federation holosuite they better find some way of 'earning' gold pressed latinum! See, porno breaks the system every time! :D
This kind of thing is why, in Mongolia, you can't buy alcohol on election day; anyone walking around with a bottle of vodka probably sold their vote!
No way! Cloud Flare assured me that they could hand 520 Unknown error
I don't think that means they can handle 520 different unknown errors...
Flash will now be fully supported again?
Why support Flash at all? Flash is dying and these days it doesn't offer anything over HTML5.
There are a ton of appliances out there that require flash. Its sad but true. A lot of hardware and virtual appliances require Java and Flash. Rip out Java and Flash from the browsers and there is going to be a lot of unmanageable shit out there.
You need to be realistic. Those servers you depend on for your porno sites? They probably have IPMI consoles that require Java. The company hosting them might be using something like Quantum VMPro to do the backups, so if their systems have a brainfart they can restore your beloved porno. This requires Flash. Do away with flash and you risk losing your high value porn sites!
Of course, they're also killing support for NoScript
Odd. Giorgio Maone, the author of NoScript, says Mozilla isn't doing that. It's almost as if you don't know what you're talking about.
This is the Internet, and Slashdot! How dare you accuse someone of not knowing what they are talking about!
The problem is that low-level "bootstrapping" software like the BIOS is still closed source, and—worse—becoming so complex that it's basically an entire operating system unto itself.
On the other hand, systemd is close to becoming an entire operating system unto itself and its open source! What could possibly go wrong??
I knew there were safety issues with it
The biggest safety issue was using a manned flight for something that didn't need people. All other things being equal, you will have 10 times the death rate if you launch 100 manned missions rather than 10 manned missions and 90 unmanned rockets. When the Challenger exploded, killing 7 astronauts, it was on a "stick a satellite in orbit" mission, that did not need to be manned.
The thing is that the Russians had developed their own space shuttle (the Buran), which they abandoned. The interesting thing in this context is that the Buran was fully automated; in its test flight it had no crew (the Russians thought it was too dangerous!) it took off and landed all controlled by automated systems or from the ground.
Now if the US space shuttle had this capability perhaps these Centaur launches would have been possible.
Question is, why didn't the USA develop the automated/remotely controlled capabilities that the Russians had??
It's not even as if Java is a huge security problem today. It's effectively been click-to-play by default in all major browsers for a long time, and the plug-in itself then has a bunch more security safeguards before it will trust remote code to do just about anything.
As I seem to have to point out every time this subject gets raised, this is a horrible move in terms of preserving useful content on the web. A lot of things that have been done with plug-ins like Java or Silverlight are small and in-house, like the math lecturer's interactive visualisation of something in their course, or the applet some guy in sales wrote a few years ago for the intranet so the group managers could see a quick overview of how everything is going and copy the data straight into their Excel spreadsheet. Of course they have also been used for a lot of GUIs for networked devices, where things like drawing interactive charts wasn't possible using native web technologies until relatively recently.
Many of these useful tools won't have dedicated maintainers and they aren't magically going to get rewritten to use the new blessed technologies. Closing them off in Firefox as well just means anyone who actually relies on them is now left on IE forever. Again.
Internet explorer won't keep up with this forever. Does anyone have experience of the new Windows 10 browser (Edge) and Java?
Where I work we have to deal with many sites where we are absolutely forced to use Java browser based apps. We have no option. Theres been talk that we might just have to write our own application to do this as browsers just can't be trusted not to lock us out of these systems.
Some people I work with keep an old XP VM around with an old version of Java and an old browser just to be able to use the IPMI console on (fairly new) servers. I don't see any sign that the server manufacturers are going to stop using Java for their IPMI consoles.
This is ridiculous.
Except, in Debian 8, if the commands you run via sudo call anything in /sbin or /usr/sbin (unless they specify the explicit path) they will fail. Apparently this is for security; apparently it would be dangerous if the root shell you get from sudo had a $PATH that included /sbin or /usr/sbin.
Except, in Debian 8, that's completely fabricated bullshit.
Here's the shipped default /etc/sudoers for 8.0:
# /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# Please consider adding local content in
# directly modifying this file.
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
#
Defaults env_reset
Defaults mail_badpass
Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
# Host alias specification
# User alias specification
# Cmnd alias specification
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
# See sudoers(5) for more information on "#include" directives:
#includedir /etc/sudoers.d
Right, must be because this is on a dist-upgrade from wheezy and it didn't update /etc/sudoers. The problem is that the binary has a change and the config file hasn't been updated with this. There was no option to replace the installed config file during the upgrade.
The Debian sudo maintainer has had a history of making changes behind the scenes; there was a 'security update' (he *decided* it was a security update) that broke many peoples sudo config. Thats not supposed to happen in Debian stable.
Important != hardtoreplace
Its worth respecting those guys though. Or one day the cities will have grown so much that literally everyone will be full-time engaged in bringing food and water into the city and removing waste from the city. At that point 'Crazy Eddie' will stand up on top of a garbage truck and get all the garbage collectors to go on strike for better pay and conditions.
(thats from Mote in Gods eye btw)
http://without-systemd.org/wik...
sadly the problems are not just systemd.