I have to ask myself; why else did MS make it possible to add trusted root certs at the OS level and why do all the browsers (I've so far tested) totally trust and respect the OS level trusted root cert list? Isn't it possible to get, say, Chrome to use its own trusted root certs instead?
In the environment where I'm doing this, totally the users require that sort of control otherwise its going to bring the business down. No kidding.
Mind you I do have to explain to the CEO/VP who asked for this, how someone with access to the proxy could mess with their online bank pages to make it look like they had no money, or endless amounts of money. And I'm not sure that THEY understand this risk properly...
How would you like to filter out SSL traffic on a intermediate device? Do you have access to fake CA certificates recognized by the majority of web browsers?
No problem if you use active directory group policies and a squid proxy with ssl-bump and dynamic generated certificates.
Simply use a group policy to push the proxies cert out to the workstations as a trusted root certificate. Problem solved.
Now you can filter out naughty HTTPS sites. Also anyone with root access to the squid proxy can extract all kinds of interesting info from the users HTTPS sessions and manipulate them in interesting ways. And the only way the users would know is by manually checking the certificate. "Whats this Google certificate doing being signed by '*'?"
When you do this using Microsoft TMG theres a big red warning "You may want to check the legal implications of what you are about to do".
Since the cost of bearing a child falls mostly onto the woman, the father could then basically "freeload" by walking away: the child is there, the woman is now responsible for the cost of raising the child. The father has reproduced and can go on. To prevent such a freeloading scenario and undesired consequences for society, the father has an obligation to support the child after birth.
Given that I'm not walking away, how am I supposed to bear an equal burden in raising my child if I have to work 40 hours a week and unable to work from home?
I come home from work and my wife is exhausted so she needs me to now take over some of the burden of looking after the child instead of just relaxing after a hard days work. Oh btw I'm also exhausted because I didn't sleep well at night (btw wifey gets to catch up on some sleep during the day).
Actually, my favorite ending in Planescape: Torment was where I killed myself, in the castle built of regrets and sorrows, beyond the planes, where when I cut myself with the very special blade and I could finally die and join Deonarra as I promised her I would. That was the greatest ending of any game I ever played.
I played it through several times, to the various endings but that was the one that really got to me.
But yeah, Irenicus' voice actor was truly an inspired choice "Ahhh, the child of Bhaal has awoken. Time for more... experiments".
My personal favorite discovery in Torment was the micro-story:
A man finds himself in a swamp, a hag standing over him cackling. He has no memory of how he got there, he has no memory of who he is.
The hag says "And what will your third wish be?" Bewildered he asks "How can I have a third wish when I haven't had a first or second wish yet??" The hag replies: "You have already had your first and second wishes and by their conditions I am not permitted to tell you what they were..." The man thinks to himself, "Well it can't hurt to play along..." "Very well," he says to the hag, "I should wish to know who I am." The hag laughs saying "That was your first wish!" Then, granting the wish, vanishes forever".
This story is so compact, so compressed and carries so much implication...
You think some armchair-pilot cares, that's cute. It's not like he/she is sitting in the cockpit. The reason why these are cheap is beacause the human element has been taken out (to train a pilot is around $2M last time I checked, and it's been a decade.) So yeah, they're gonna crash more than manned flights. Who cares? You want the pilot to care? Sitting his/her ass in a manned jet is the only sure way to make that happen, and yes, that's expensive.
It's easier/cheaper to train a mechanic to unbox another drone and screw the wings on...
I can think of two solutions;
Electric shock feedback for the drone jockies, maybe some heating elements wired to the soles of their feet stuff like that. So they feel pain when the drone 'feels pain'.
Alternatively program the drones so that they fear death and don't want to crash.
The first will probably end better than the second...
There's your problem, right there. Flying a desk is not the same thing as flying a computer.
I remember in a game, 'Civilisation: Call to Power' there was a corporation unit the animation of which was basically a guy in a suit sitting at a desk. When it move yes it was very much like a flying desk. I always found that quite hilarious.
Also, since it's remote, and not where the 'pilot' is, they have a level of psychological disconnection much greater than that of the pilot of a manned vehicle. No matter what they do, it will always be a kind of video game.
This also makes it easier to kill people.
The militaries (especially in Western nations) are always looking for ways to make it easier for people to 'override' their instinct to not take lives. A lot of military training goes into removing the delay between seeing an enemy human being and pulling the trigger; for infantry its a matter of sheer psychological conditioning and drilling. For drone jockeys, maybe too easy...
Spend real money to buy things to wave your dick around on the forums. Complete with full public profiles so others can see how much money you actually spent.
Cool features like: - Call people noobs for not spending as much money as you have - Spend money instead of actually playing the game - Spend money to acquire virtual currency that Blizzard owns - Spend money to super-inflate the in-game economy so if you want something later, you have to spend more money
It will be microtransaction based MMO and, in order to get a good initial population, the will offer existing WoW players an opportunity to SELL their WoW accounts for a head start in the microtransaction economy of the new game. The net worth of your WoW account will be based on things like how many achievements, what item level, how many alts and what level they are. Thus 'end game' players in WoW will be able to effectively start playing the new game at 'end game'.
I'm sure the CIA would love them to be developing bombs that have no net energy release. It makes givng them cupcake recipes look positively hazardous.
In the UK its illegal for anyone to possess information that might be useful in commiting an act of terror. So that pretty much bans all knowledge
But the Feed is closely monitored for exactly this kind of thing. By the time your matter compiler is half way through you'd be splattered. Its when someone figures out how to make the Seed that we are all in deep shit.
There's always ways around the feed-sourced compilers; backwater compilers and such off the grid, for those who wish to print nuclear weapons, or pirate the latest hyper-interactive AI-enhanced children's story for their daughter.
Someone would print a nuclear weapon AND a motorcycle and sidecar...
Soon, with the whole periodic table available in one giant print cartridge, people will be able to 3D print nuclear weapons. If someone manages to download plans for the Tsar Bomba, we're cooked.
But the Feed is closely monitored for exactly this kind of thing. By the time your matter compiler is half way through you'd be splattered. Its when someone figures out how to make the Seed that we are all in deep shit.
In the EU and especially in Germany it is allowed to resell used copies of licenses of software and games. You are explicitly allowed to buy high volume licenses and resell them individually (e.g., oracle and windows licenses).
It's like MS bundling IE and Media Player with Windows in the EU. Either they pay high fines (900 millions or more) or they comply with the law in the EU.
But this is a little different; you aren't even buying a copy of a game or a license. You are buying a 'service'. The 'service' is the streaming of the game to your console.
My dad developed a vertical hairline crack in his front left tooth in his mid 40's, my own front left tooth did exactly the same thing. As for diet my 80yo dad was a war baby, a UK war baby's diet was peculiar, for example he still loves lard* sandwiches if anyone will let him have lard (Yuck!!).
In Poland they call it smalec and its absolutely delicious on bread with some sour gherkins. The best smalec has crunchy bits of pork scratchings too. Fat with embedded fat. Totally delicious.
Nevertheless, Aaron is pretty critical of Ubuntu Phone, and frankly, he has a point.
So he does. It doesn't necessarily mean Ubuntu Phone is a total crock of shit, it's just that it's not really the platform they imply it is. (Now what would be really cool would be a Slackware phone...)
What's worse, is that these same states that are sparsely populated also tend to be welfare states where they're contributing far less to the federal tax receipts than they're receiving in tax dollars. All while fighting to eliminate programs that are necessary to keep the urban decay to a minimum.
You're making an error by assuming that the states exist only as administrative subdivisions of the United States. They aren't. While much of their independence has atrophied over the centuries, the 50 States are all (semi-) sovereign bodies. Why should say, Hawai'i, Montana, or Alaska remain in the union, if they're not going to get equal representation at any level of government because "they don't have enough people"? They could certainly find a market for their innate resources without needing to be part of the United States.
Alaska and Montana could become part of Canada eh!
I bet California would love to leave as well.
OMG it would be a dream come true, the fragmentation of the United States... maybe they could go the whole way into franchises like in Snowcrash?!?!?
Oh yeah there are some, I remember a group called 'Everything but the girl", I think they were named this because some music exec said "We like everything but the girl" LOL.
We've all heard stories of professional athletes (making far more money than strippers) that have blown through all of their money and are dead broke. I'm sure there are plenty of strippers that do the same.
If a woman has the discipline to save and invest money it can work out alright. If they don't they can find themselves like many athletes, broke without the physical traits needed to make that kind of money anymore.
And their mistakes should concern anyone else because...?
There's a huge difference between having sex (or even just appearing naked in front of people) and cleaning a toilet, to a lot of FUCKING PRUDISH ANGLOSAXONS
FTFY
FTFY
I seriously never want to live in an anglosaxon culture ever again. The prudery and squeamishness is just unbearable. OMG HORSE MEAT!!!! OMG WILLIES!!!! OMG NIPPLES!!!
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I have to ask myself; why else did MS make it possible to add trusted root certs at the OS level and why do all the browsers (I've so far tested) totally trust and respect the OS level trusted root cert list? Isn't it possible to get, say, Chrome to use its own trusted root certs instead?
In the environment where I'm doing this, totally the users require that sort of control otherwise its going to bring the business down. No kidding.
Mind you I do have to explain to the CEO/VP who asked for this, how someone with access to the proxy could mess with their online bank pages to make it look like they had no money, or endless amounts of money. And I'm not sure that THEY understand this risk properly...
How would you like to filter out SSL traffic on a intermediate device? Do you have access to fake CA certificates recognized by the majority of web browsers?
No problem if you use active directory group policies and a squid proxy with ssl-bump and dynamic generated certificates.
Simply use a group policy to push the proxies cert out to the workstations as a trusted root certificate. Problem solved.
Now you can filter out naughty HTTPS sites. Also anyone with root access to the squid proxy can extract all kinds of interesting info from the users HTTPS sessions and manipulate them in interesting ways. And the only way the users would know is by manually checking the certificate. "Whats this Google certificate doing being signed by '*'?"
When you do this using Microsoft TMG theres a big red warning "You may want to check the legal implications of what you are about to do".
Since the cost of bearing a child falls mostly onto the woman, the father could then basically "freeload" by walking away: the child is there, the woman is now responsible for the cost of raising the child. The father has reproduced and can go on. To prevent such a freeloading scenario and undesired consequences for society, the father has an obligation to support the child after birth.
Given that I'm not walking away, how am I supposed to bear an equal burden in raising my child if I have to work 40 hours a week and unable to work from home?
I come home from work and my wife is exhausted so she needs me to now take over some of the burden of looking after the child instead of just relaxing after a hard days work. Oh btw I'm also exhausted because I didn't sleep well at night (btw wifey gets to catch up on some sleep during the day).
And I don't bear an equal burden eh?
Actually, my favorite ending in Planescape: Torment was where I killed myself, in the castle built of regrets and sorrows, beyond the planes, where when I cut myself with the very special blade and I could finally die and join Deonarra as I promised her I would. That was the greatest ending of any game I ever played.
I played it through several times, to the various endings but that was the one that really got to me.
But yeah, Irenicus' voice actor was truly an inspired choice "Ahhh, the child of Bhaal has awoken. Time for more... experiments".
My personal favorite discovery in Torment was the micro-story:
A man finds himself in a swamp, a hag standing over him cackling. He has no memory of how he got there, he has no memory of who he is.
The hag says "And what will your third wish be?"
Bewildered he asks "How can I have a third wish when I haven't had a first or second wish yet??"
The hag replies: "You have already had your first and second wishes and by their conditions I am not permitted to tell you what they were..."
The man thinks to himself, "Well it can't hurt to play along..."
"Very well," he says to the hag, "I should wish to know who I am."
The hag laughs saying "That was your first wish!" Then, granting the wish, vanishes forever".
This story is so compact, so compressed and carries so much implication...
The problem isn't overpopulation, its overconcentration. The human race is basically getting itself bottled up into 'concentration camps'.
You think some armchair-pilot cares, that's cute. It's not like he/she is sitting in the cockpit. The reason why these are cheap is beacause the human element has been taken out (to train a pilot is around $2M last time I checked, and it's been a decade.) So yeah, they're gonna crash more than manned flights. Who cares? You want the pilot to care? Sitting his/her ass in a manned jet is the only sure way to make that happen, and yes, that's expensive.
It's easier/cheaper to train a mechanic to unbox another drone and screw the wings on...
I can think of two solutions;
Electric shock feedback for the drone jockies, maybe some heating elements wired to the soles of their feet stuff like that. So they feel pain when the drone 'feels pain'.
Alternatively program the drones so that they fear death and don't want to crash.
The first will probably end better than the second...
There's your problem, right there. Flying a desk is not the same thing as flying a computer.
I remember in a game, 'Civilisation: Call to Power' there was a corporation unit the animation of which was basically a guy in a suit sitting at a desk. When it move yes it was very much like a flying desk. I always found that quite hilarious.
Also, since it's remote, and not where the 'pilot' is, they have a level of psychological disconnection much greater than that of the pilot of a manned vehicle.
No matter what they do, it will always be a kind of video game.
This also makes it easier to kill people.
The militaries (especially in Western nations) are always looking for ways to make it easier for people to 'override' their instinct to not take lives. A lot of military training goes into removing the delay between seeing an enemy human being and pulling the trigger; for infantry its a matter of sheer psychological conditioning and drilling. For drone jockeys, maybe too easy...
Microtransaction Hero!
Spend real money to buy things to wave your dick around on the forums. Complete with full public profiles so others can see how much money you actually spent.
Cool features like:
- Call people noobs for not spending as much money as you have
- Spend money instead of actually playing the game
- Spend money to acquire virtual currency that Blizzard owns
- Spend money to super-inflate the in-game economy so if you want something later, you have to spend more money
It will be microtransaction based MMO and, in order to get a good initial population, the will offer existing WoW players an opportunity to SELL their WoW accounts for a head start in the microtransaction economy of the new game. The net worth of your WoW account will be based on things like how many achievements, what item level, how many alts and what level they are. Thus 'end game' players in WoW will be able to effectively start playing the new game at 'end game'.
we can crash someones brain with a QR code.
"But what about the terrorists?"
I'm sure the CIA would love them to be developing bombs that have no net energy release. It makes givng them cupcake recipes look positively hazardous.
In the UK its illegal for anyone to possess information that might be useful in commiting an act of terror. So that pretty much bans all knowledge
But the Feed is closely monitored for exactly this kind of thing. By the time your matter compiler is half way through you'd be splattered. Its when someone figures out how to make the Seed that we are all in deep shit.
There's always ways around the feed-sourced compilers; backwater compilers and such off the grid, for those who wish to print nuclear weapons, or pirate the latest hyper-interactive AI-enhanced children's story for their daughter.
Someone would print a nuclear weapon AND a motorcycle and sidecar...
Soon, with the whole periodic table available in one giant print cartridge, people will be able to 3D print nuclear weapons. If someone manages to download plans for the Tsar Bomba, we're cooked.
But the Feed is closely monitored for exactly this kind of thing. By the time your matter compiler is half way through you'd be splattered. Its when someone figures out how to make the Seed that we are all in deep shit.
Or maybe not...
http://orwell.ru/library/articles/ABomb/english/e_abomb
So what you say is worthless? So why post it?
Sometimes the worth in something is the piss it takes...
"What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end."
In the EU and especially in Germany it is allowed to resell used copies of licenses of software and games.
You are explicitly allowed to buy high volume licenses and resell them individually (e.g., oracle and windows licenses).
It's like MS bundling IE and Media Player with Windows in the EU. Either they pay high fines (900 millions or more) or they
comply with the law in the EU.
But this is a little different; you aren't even buying a copy of a game or a license. You are buying a 'service'. The 'service' is the streaming of the game to your console.
My dad developed a vertical hairline crack in his front left tooth in his mid 40's, my own front left tooth did exactly the same thing. As for diet my 80yo dad was a war baby, a UK war baby's diet was peculiar, for example he still loves lard* sandwiches if anyone will let him have lard (Yuck!!).
In Poland they call it smalec and its absolutely delicious on bread with some sour gherkins. The best smalec has crunchy bits of pork scratchings too. Fat with embedded fat. Totally delicious.
Nevertheless, Aaron is pretty critical of Ubuntu Phone, and frankly, he has a point.
So he does. It doesn't necessarily mean Ubuntu Phone is a total crock of shit, it's just that it's not really the platform they imply it is. (Now what would be really cool would be a Slackware phone...)
Gentoo phone. That you compile ON the phone.
What's worse, is that these same states that are sparsely populated also tend to be welfare states where they're contributing far less to the federal tax receipts than they're receiving in tax dollars. All while fighting to eliminate programs that are necessary to keep the urban decay to a minimum.
You're making an error by assuming that the states exist only as administrative subdivisions of the United States. They aren't. While much of their independence has atrophied over the centuries, the 50 States are all (semi-) sovereign bodies. Why should say, Hawai'i, Montana, or Alaska remain in the union, if they're not going to get equal representation at any level of government because "they don't have enough people"? They could certainly find a market for their innate resources without needing to be part of the United States.
Alaska and Montana could become part of Canada eh!
I bet California would love to leave as well.
OMG it would be a dream come true, the fragmentation of the United States... maybe they could go the whole way into franchises like in Snowcrash?!?!?
And then again...
Oh yeah there are some, I remember a group called 'Everything but the girl", I think they were named this because some music exec said "We like everything but the girl" LOL.
We've all heard stories of professional athletes (making far more money than strippers) that have blown through all of their money and are dead broke. I'm sure there are plenty of strippers that do the same.
If a woman has the discipline to save and invest money it can work out alright. If they don't they can find themselves like many athletes, broke without the physical traits needed to make that kind of money anymore.
And their mistakes should concern anyone else because...?
I've often wondered how many women there are with wonderful voices who never make it in the music industry because they aren't drop dead gorgeous...
There's a huge difference between having sex (or even just appearing naked in front of people) and cleaning a toilet, to a lot of FUCKING PRUDISH ANGLOSAXONS
FTFY
FTFY
I seriously never want to live in an anglosaxon culture ever again. The prudery and squeamishness is just unbearable. OMG HORSE MEAT!!!! OMG WILLIES!!!! OMG NIPPLES!!!
Fuck that.