Perhaps not, but it doesn't solve the systemic problems that javascript and/or scriptable browsers create for the majority of people who don't run blockers.
I'm paranoid and miserable, yet you respond with fallacies and your own spin of propaganda? I'm sure you'd be just as quick to blame the US for its 'outside influence' on other countries, right? It's not a unilateral situation. The US was/is not immune to outside influence, certainly not during the cold war.
Of course the US itself is partly responsible. If you actually read my post you'd see it stated there (try rereading the middle paragraph). However, outside influences cannot be denied.
Because those countries aren't exactly friendly towards americans (probably justified), even if their governments are. Plus most technology people simply cannot learn a whole new language at levels required for technical work. As it is,retraining for the jobs themselves is now getting close to a decade of expensive school, and now employers want bi and tri lingual abilities on top of that? Fuck that. People simply don't have enough time on this planet to 'educate' themselves enough to meet such crazy standards. Besides, why would anyone want to move to a country that educates their young to nth degrees when they'd just offer stiffer competition?
Set the barrier of entry high enough, and you'll have a tiny class of elites corralling a mob. I fail to see how that's beneficial for anyone.
So what? it takes another decade to get the 4 year EE, then another 4 in a 'job training' track? on top of highschool? The problem with modern western culture is that's creating more process without dealing with the flaws in existing process. Everyone has to be 'properly' 'educated' and 'licensed' before they can do anything..and they're expected to take out increasingly large loans on decreasing odds for success in the job market to do so.
They came already.. KGB infiltrated us in the 50s, pushed the communist propaganda in the universities in the 60s via the cpusa (many of its members are/were in academia), resulting in so-called social 'justice' movements in the 70s. From the 80s onward, it's a steady march to dystopia as these 'educated' individuals use their positions in the state to push these imperatives. It's showing up in public schools, now, in place of proper encouragement to learn. The soviet union did not survive this long term program, but it is one of the empire's legacies.
Today, the USA is losing ground because its leadership is too politically correct and afraid of being "against something" to actually make the critical decisions needed to defend liberty for the citizens it supposedly represents. All they do is tow the line and make bilateral deals with corporations (and even our political enemies) that screw the population over. It's sad and scary because, at this rate, the USA will be a 3rd world country by the 2050s. While the two big parties play this socialist/neoconservative catfight against the voters, the fortune 100 use it to manipulate the government, and therefore the taxpayer, to their advantage.
So while no one technically invaded, the positive aspects of USA culture have been permanently damaged by outside influences. Globalization has done little to help this. This is the big picture component as to why technical jobs are drying up in the US. It's becoming a consumer society, just like the fortune 100 want. They'd rather keep the technical workers in china where they can pay them pennies on the dollar.
The fallout though is that the internet will cease to exist as a p2p platform.. Only fortune 500s and governments will create most of the content.. Cheap workstation hardware is a necessity, so this is worrisome.
PCs will become like the super workstations of the late 80s and early 90s.. They'll be $10000 and only corporates and government will be able to afford them. The rest of us will be stuck with locked down content consumption devices..
The update histories of much modern software suggests it's never really secure. Patching only protects you from known attacks, and it's usually the new, unknown ones that wreak havoc. The known ones can be blocked before they ever touch a workstation, either at the firewall or via configuration, and it is best practice to do this, with or without patching.
The best practice is to assume the software in use has vulnerabilities and plan your system accordingly. Mindlessly running the upgrade treadmill and then claiming your systems are secure is pure idiocy. There's always a new vulnerability around the corner that hasn't been discovered or openly released yet, and those will be the ones causing your boss to demand why "we're not secure." Mainly admins patch because it covers their asses from being fired.
I never said that patching was unimportant, just that the XP doomsayers using it as their refrain are foolish.
..and instead of making assumptions, you could just explain why you think the meme is stupid, or just not comment.
It's general practice to use a firewall at least. Ask yourself why that is. If your machines are bare or just depend on the built-in firewall, they are not secure.
Of course it isn't. It's just not that much worse to justify changing it over, especially for old hardware. No version of windows is safe from the internet. I guess I'm saying that if the need for security is important enough, it's better to cut access to the net for the average workstation regardless of windows version.
Most of those infected xp machines are owned by careless/clueless users who will soon be just as infected on windows 8 as they were under xp.
For highly customized configurations (like HMIs), it's better to just use the disk image provided by the manufacturer and isolate it accordingly than it is to try to update the base OS. Let the manufacturer worry about that.
Well, I realize I'm in a minority, but I ran xp x64 for many years before moving to 7. A lot of hardware did actually work just fine with it, though sometimes the setup programs for them had to be manually extracted and installed. The only hardware that didn't work required kernel drivers and only shipped with 32bit binaries.
It was probably the most trouble free experience I've ever had with windows.
Are you aware that current versions of windows are not much better off? Most of the attack vectors come from browser holes and bad user choices. No OS will save you from that. Windows Vista/7/8 are not magic fix-alls. If you are 'that' concerned about security and you need windows software, disconnect the machine from the net, at which point it doesn't matter what OS you use.
We know that you like Windows XP. We like it too, and Windows 7 is alright. OS churn bothers us as well, but the last thing the rest of us want is software as a service that turns our computers into cable boxes.
..or maybe xp is good enough for them and the newer versions of windows don't offer enough incentive to upgrade. Considering how bad current microsoft contracts are, it might actually make more sense to wall those machines off from the net and keep using them instead of staying on that one-more-patch-tuesday-til-I'm-secure treadmill.
Well the whole point of FISA was 'confidentiality,' but I think it's counterproductive to the interests of transparent government, which is a requirement for a free society.
If there are foreign agents on US soil causing such harm that officials feel the need to compromise our justice system, maybe it's time for them to grow a pair again and actually declare war on some of these countries.
That's right. So, it's useless, and the FISA court is useless. Sane justice includes representation by all parties involved being present and publicly accountable. Without that, it's just one part of the government rubberstamping approval for another part.
You are correct, but when the majority of the population is apathetic, there isn't much one person can do. One person can appear to make a difference when things have gotten bad enough that the general population is on a hair trigger.
So an advocate would not benefit the process? Then the process is broken. In the interests of protecting innocents from government overreach, dissolve the FISA court.
I'd like my rights, freedoms, and liberties back please. I don't need or want you or your 'protection.'
1. employers expect too many hours/day 2. they're not even paying market rates for the skillsets 3. they're loaded with shitty, passive aggressive, office politics 4. they won't hire anyone with any sort of employment or social blemish whatsoever. This is a big one.
They want to pay pennies on the dollar, so they come up with any excuse imaginable to say local talent is 'unemployable', and then demand more H1B's..
While I agree that getting degrees in bullshit doesn't help, the reasons I've listed are a big part of the problem today. Whoever's training the HR drones should be shot.
Because congress hasn't gotten there yet. Don't you worry, though, they will eventually. Of course, by then, no one but the wealthy will have the money to own cars anyway..
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Perhaps not, but it doesn't solve the systemic problems that javascript and/or scriptable browsers create for the majority of people who don't run blockers.
I'm paranoid and miserable, yet you respond with fallacies and your own spin of propaganda? I'm sure you'd be just as quick to blame the US for its 'outside influence' on other countries, right? It's not a unilateral situation. The US was/is not immune to outside influence, certainly not during the cold war.
Of course the US itself is partly responsible. If you actually read my post you'd see it stated there (try rereading the middle paragraph). However, outside influences cannot be denied.
Because those countries aren't exactly friendly towards americans (probably justified), even if their governments are. Plus most technology people simply cannot learn a whole new language at levels required for technical work. As it is,retraining for the jobs themselves is now getting close to a decade of expensive school, and now employers want bi and tri lingual abilities on top of that? Fuck that. People simply don't have enough time on this planet to 'educate' themselves enough to meet such crazy standards. Besides, why would anyone want to move to a country that educates their young to nth degrees when they'd just offer stiffer competition?
Set the barrier of entry high enough, and you'll have a tiny class of elites corralling a mob. I fail to see how that's beneficial for anyone.
So what? it takes another decade to get the 4 year EE, then another 4 in a 'job training' track? on top of highschool? The problem with modern western culture is that's creating more process without dealing with the flaws in existing process. Everyone has to be 'properly' 'educated' and 'licensed' before they can do anything..and they're expected to take out increasingly large loans on decreasing odds for success in the job market to do so.
Why bother?
They came already.. KGB infiltrated us in the 50s, pushed the communist propaganda in the universities in the 60s via the cpusa (many of its members are/were in academia), resulting in so-called social 'justice' movements in the 70s. From the 80s onward, it's a steady march to dystopia as these 'educated' individuals use their positions in the state to push these imperatives. It's showing up in public schools, now, in place of proper encouragement to learn. The soviet union did not survive this long term program, but it is one of the empire's legacies.
Today, the USA is losing ground because its leadership is too politically correct and afraid of being "against something" to actually make the critical decisions needed to defend liberty for the citizens it supposedly represents. All they do is tow the line and make bilateral deals with corporations (and even our political enemies) that screw the population over. It's sad and scary because, at this rate, the USA will be a 3rd world country by the 2050s. While the two big parties play this socialist/neoconservative catfight against the voters, the fortune 100 use it to manipulate the government, and therefore the taxpayer, to their advantage.
So while no one technically invaded, the positive aspects of USA culture have been permanently damaged by outside influences. Globalization has done little to help this. This is the big picture component as to why technical jobs are drying up in the US. It's becoming a consumer society, just like the fortune 100 want. They'd rather keep the technical workers in china where they can pay them pennies on the dollar.
This is not a troll. It is an opinion.
The fallout though is that the internet will cease to exist as a p2p platform.. Only fortune 500s and governments will create most of the content.. Cheap workstation hardware is a necessity, so this is worrisome.
PCs will become like the super workstations of the late 80s and early 90s.. They'll be $10000 and only corporates and government will be able to afford them. The rest of us will be stuck with locked down content consumption devices..
The update histories of much modern software suggests it's never really secure. Patching only protects you from known attacks, and it's usually the new, unknown ones that wreak havoc. The known ones can be blocked before they ever touch a workstation, either at the firewall or via configuration, and it is best practice to do this, with or without patching.
The best practice is to assume the software in use has vulnerabilities and plan your system accordingly. Mindlessly running the upgrade treadmill and then claiming your systems are secure is pure idiocy. There's always a new vulnerability around the corner that hasn't been discovered or openly released yet, and those will be the ones causing your boss to demand why "we're not secure." Mainly admins patch because it covers their asses from being fired.
I never said that patching was unimportant, just that the XP doomsayers using it as their refrain are foolish.
..and instead of making assumptions, you could just explain why you think the meme is stupid, or just not comment.
It's general practice to use a firewall at least. Ask yourself why that is. If your machines are bare or just depend on the built-in firewall, they are not secure.
This is company dependent too. Some companies workflows rely on these one-of middleware packages because the big vendors don't offer what is needed.
Of course it isn't. It's just not that much worse to justify changing it over, especially for old hardware. No version of windows is safe from the internet. I guess I'm saying that if the need for security is important enough, it's better to cut access to the net for the average workstation regardless of windows version.
Most of those infected xp machines are owned by careless/clueless users who will soon be just as infected on windows 8 as they were under xp.
For highly customized configurations (like HMIs), it's better to just use the disk image provided by the manufacturer and isolate it accordingly than it is to try to update the base OS. Let the manufacturer worry about that.
Well, I realize I'm in a minority, but I ran xp x64 for many years before moving to 7. A lot of hardware did actually work just fine with it, though sometimes the setup programs for them had to be manually extracted and installed. The only hardware that didn't work required kernel drivers and only shipped with 32bit binaries.
It was probably the most trouble free experience I've ever had with windows.
Are you aware that current versions of windows are not much better off? Most of the attack vectors come from browser holes and bad user choices. No OS will save you from that. Windows Vista/7/8 are not magic fix-alls. If you are 'that' concerned about security and you need windows software, disconnect the machine from the net, at which point it doesn't matter what OS you use.
Dear Microsoft Customer,
We know that you like Windows XP. We like it too, and Windows 7 is alright. OS churn bothers us as well, but the last thing the rest of us want is software as a service that turns our computers into cable boxes.
Signed,
Many Smart Customers
..or maybe xp is good enough for them and the newer versions of windows don't offer enough incentive to upgrade. Considering how bad current microsoft contracts are, it might actually make more sense to wall those machines off from the net and keep using them instead of staying on that one-more-patch-tuesday-til-I'm-secure treadmill.
I understand that. Unlike conventional courts, this one is not subject to sufficient oversight since the records are not made public after the fact.
Well the whole point of FISA was 'confidentiality,' but I think it's counterproductive to the interests of transparent government, which is a requirement for a free society.
If there are foreign agents on US soil causing such harm that officials feel the need to compromise our justice system, maybe it's time for them to grow a pair again and actually declare war on some of these countries.
That's right. So, it's useless, and the FISA court is useless. Sane justice includes representation by all parties involved being present and publicly accountable. Without that, it's just one part of the government rubberstamping approval for another part.
You are correct, but when the majority of the population is apathetic, there isn't much one person can do. One person can appear to make a difference when things have gotten bad enough that the general population is on a hair trigger.
So an advocate would not benefit the process? Then the process is broken. In the interests of protecting innocents from government overreach, dissolve the FISA court.
I'd like my rights, freedoms, and liberties back please. I don't need or want you or your 'protection.'
No they make for free the things that people know aren't worth any money.
What would you do? Tax his expenditures and earnings accordingly whenever a new welfare baby is born?
well lets see, because
1. employers expect too many hours/day
2. they're not even paying market rates for the skillsets
3. they're loaded with shitty, passive aggressive, office politics
4. they won't hire anyone with any sort of employment or social blemish whatsoever. This is a big one.
They want to pay pennies on the dollar, so they come up with any excuse imaginable to say local talent is 'unemployable', and then demand more H1B's..
While I agree that getting degrees in bullshit doesn't help, the reasons I've listed are a big part of the problem today. Whoever's training the HR drones should be shot.
Because congress hasn't gotten there yet. Don't you worry, though, they will eventually. Of course, by then, no one but the wealthy will have the money to own cars anyway..