"Change your password every 6 months" comes from the same (broken) school of thought that brought us "At least one capital letter, one number, and one special character in a password of at least length 8 but no greater than length 8; the password cannot contain any spaces, unprintable characters, nor mention any politician by name nor frank references to bodily functions."
Right, but the point of the article is to do so on sites that ARE bad and WILL drive-by software that will try to log your keystrokes, steal your passwords and account numbers, and use your computer to send out spam (concrete threats), and not "this could be something scary and microsoft doesn't approve" because you have a GUI IP scanner installed.
No you didn't. The adjective "stupid" has valid forms for both comparative and superlative.
Thank Bob, too. Could you imagine how many wasted electrons there would be in modern political discourse if we had to waste 3-7 bytes for every use? And they thought the bandwidth crunch was bad before!
I don't need a wireless radio that's going to crap out after a year to jack the cost up through the roof. I hate wireless, and I have access points already.
On the other hand, if they're going to offer a router-only version, then it might just be enough for me to overlook their past misdeeds long enough to give them another chance.
The individual may be easily trampled by either, though only government can legally take all your stuff, tell you how to live, or even kill you.
Not really. Take a look at things today: big business has little to no trouble co-opting said government to do just that at its whim.
And the simple fact is that "Free markets" are a myth, an ideal abstraction, not unlike total vacuum, absolute zero, and a perfectly spherical cow.
In practice, if there are no controls on business, the ones that get there first will put them into place to keep competition from forming. We've seen it happen before, which is why we started getting the government involved in the first place. Both cases, in reality, break down with the inclusion of the human element.
Americans do NOT generally trust corporations more than government; Americans tend to trust free markets, competition, and entrepreneurs more than government.
Careful yourself.
A noisy subset of Americans trust those in fairy tales like "free markets." Another subset trusts fairy tales like "a trustworthy government." Not nearly enough recognize both for the bullshit they are.
True, but like was said above, it still really wouldn't make a difference to those who are convinced that women are inherently weak and doomed to always be "victims." Since you can't satisfy that lot, might as well crush her, and then follow up with a slander suit just to do it some more. Seems a fitting payment for perjury.
Entirely true, but the rational are always in a better position when they can "dismiss with documentation." Plus, if you're going to lose anyway (which, like you said, they are) why not take the lying little shit down hard anyway?:)
What hypocrisy do you mean? I'm genuinely asking, since I never payed much attention to Stardock -- they talked a good game (no pun intended) about respecting their customers, but since all they seemed to make were RTS and sim games, I was never in their target market.
And that's why Stardock never should have settled. Not going to trial meant that the facts were never examined, and so there's a subset of people who will forever behave as if the allegations were, in fact, true.
Take a lesson from that, folks. You can't unring the bell, even if you do feel "vindicated", to use Wardell's word. If you're falsely accused, and you've got cause of counteraction, follow through and make sure your lawyers (metaphorically) nail her head to the wall, because even if you're "vindicated" and don't have to pay out, there's still plenty of permanent damage done.
Of course, if they are true, then you're fucked, and deservedly so.
No, I didn't miss anything. Whether the source is open, and whether the data formats are sane are two completely separate issues. There are plenty of closed-source programs which use completely recoverable data formats.
* Influenced an ever-increasing number of governments', organizations', and companies' technology implementation decisions (hardware purchasing, location, routing). * Re-ignited interest in the long neglected field of user-end encryption and security * Revealed the widespread "false sense of security" in widespread encryption, in the form of an intentionally-flawed encryption standard, which affects everything from E-Commerce to Electronic Medical Records
"Influencing" technology by creating new technology is possibly the *least* wide-spreading way of doing it. Even disruptive tech's influence is more based on how well it's marketed.
Yeah, because no FLOSS projects people can come to rely on areeverabandoned.
Open source absolutely has a lot of advantages over proprietary software, but let's not pretend that it's not subject to most of the same software engineering concerns. A five-year-old source dump isn't a whole lot of use when it relies on a long-deprecated version of a library (also open source) that's not backward compatible, and so on.
Yes, with FLOSS, you have the option to become/commission a new maintainer for an entire toolchain, but if you're being practical rather than idealistic, you'd spend so much time and money doing so, you'd never have the opportunity to use it. And gods help you if a second of your beloved applications was abandoned.
Oh, that's utter bullshit, and you know it. If the government tells you to do something, and you don't do it, and they make you pay money for not doing it, that's "punitive" by definition.
Support it or don't, but I think there's entirely enough intellectual dishonesty on both sides already without the ostensibly "intelligent" people ("News for Nerds") adding more of it.
I won't even look at the comments sections on the web site of my local metropolitan newspaper... they are a rancid stew of idiocy, bigotry, and partisan attacks.
Yeah, because that's so different from from the mass media, right?
Slashdot Mirror
No, you're really not.
"Change your password every 6 months" comes from the same (broken) school of thought that brought us "At least one capital letter, one number, and one special character in a password of at least length 8 but no greater than length 8; the password cannot contain any spaces, unprintable characters, nor mention any politician by name nor frank references to bodily functions."
Considering this is intel we're talking about, allow me to express some doubts about "cheaply."
Right, but the point of the article is to do so on sites that ARE bad and WILL drive-by software that will try to log your keystrokes, steal your passwords and account numbers, and use your computer to send out spam (concrete threats), and not "this could be something scary and microsoft doesn't approve" because you have a GUI IP scanner installed.
They, unfortunately, do not.
FTFY
No you didn't. The adjective "stupid" has valid forms for both comparative and superlative.
Thank Bob, too. Could you imagine how many wasted electrons there would be in modern political discourse if we had to waste 3-7 bytes for every use? And they thought the bandwidth crunch was bad before!
I don't need a wireless radio that's going to crap out after a year to jack the cost up through the roof. I hate wireless, and I have access points already.
On the other hand, if they're going to offer a router-only version, then it might just be enough for me to overlook their past misdeeds long enough to give them another chance.
The individual may be easily trampled by either, though only government can legally take all your stuff, tell you how to live, or even kill you.
Not really. Take a look at things today: big business has little to no trouble co-opting said government to do just that at its whim.
And the simple fact is that "Free markets" are a myth, an ideal abstraction, not unlike total vacuum, absolute zero, and a perfectly spherical cow.
In practice, if there are no controls on business, the ones that get there first will put them into place to keep competition from forming. We've seen it happen before, which is why we started getting the government involved in the first place. Both cases, in reality, break down with the inclusion of the human element.
Americans do NOT generally trust corporations more than government; Americans tend to trust free markets, competition, and entrepreneurs more than government.
Careful yourself.
A noisy subset of Americans trust those in fairy tales like "free markets." Another subset trusts fairy tales like "a trustworthy government." Not nearly enough recognize both for the bullshit they are.
Prove it.
True, but like was said above, it still really wouldn't make a difference to those who are convinced that women are inherently weak and doomed to always be "victims." Since you can't satisfy that lot, might as well crush her, and then follow up with a slander suit just to do it some more. Seems a fitting payment for perjury.
Entirely true, but the rational are always in a better position when they can "dismiss with documentation." Plus, if you're going to lose anyway (which, like you said, they are) why not take the lying little shit down hard anyway? :)
What hypocrisy do you mean? I'm genuinely asking, since I never payed much attention to Stardock -- they talked a good game (no pun intended) about respecting their customers, but since all they seemed to make were RTS and sim games, I was never in their target market.
And that's why Stardock never should have settled. Not going to trial meant that the facts were never examined, and so there's a subset of people who will forever behave as if the allegations were, in fact, true.
Take a lesson from that, folks. You can't unring the bell, even if you do feel "vindicated", to use Wardell's word. If you're falsely accused, and you've got cause of counteraction, follow through and make sure your lawyers (metaphorically) nail her head to the wall, because even if you're "vindicated" and don't have to pay out, there's still plenty of permanent damage done.
Of course, if they are true, then you're fucked, and deservedly so.
Okay, maybe I should have read the summary. Allow me to fix my statement.
Accolade still owned the name "Star Control", so the open source release was rebranded "The Ur-Quan Masters"
Sure it is. Accolade still owns the name "Star Control 2", so the open source release was rebranded "The Ur-Quan Masters"
apt-get install uqm
Did you really miss the point, even after sibling post explained it?
No, I didn't miss anything. Whether the source is open, and whether the data formats are sane are two completely separate issues. There are plenty of closed-source programs which use completely recoverable data formats.
Not that I disagree with you, but why should a US Federal Court have any sway over an ethical society?
His actions have:
* Influenced an ever-increasing number of governments', organizations', and companies' technology implementation decisions (hardware purchasing, location, routing).
* Re-ignited interest in the long neglected field of user-end encryption and security
* Revealed the widespread "false sense of security" in widespread encryption, in the form of an intentionally-flawed encryption standard, which affects everything from E-Commerce to Electronic Medical Records
"Influencing" technology by creating new technology is possibly the *least* wide-spreading way of doing it. Even disruptive tech's influence is more based on how well it's marketed.
Yeah, because no FLOSS projects people can come to rely on are ever abandoned.
Open source absolutely has a lot of advantages over proprietary software, but let's not pretend that it's not subject to most of the same software engineering concerns. A five-year-old source dump isn't a whole lot of use when it relies on a long-deprecated version of a library (also open source) that's not backward compatible, and so on.
Yes, with FLOSS, you have the option to become/commission a new maintainer for an entire toolchain, but if you're being practical rather than idealistic, you'd spend so much time and money doing so, you'd never have the opportunity to use it. And gods help you if a second of your beloved applications was abandoned.
As stated by a 14-year-old whose concept of "technology" obviously ends at the edge of his computer desk.
Looks like we've got a counterexample case to Betteridge's Law of Headlines!
Oh, that's utter bullshit, and you know it. If the government tells you to do something, and you don't do it, and they make you pay money for not doing it, that's "punitive" by definition.
Support it or don't, but I think there's entirely enough intellectual dishonesty on both sides already without the ostensibly "intelligent" people ("News for Nerds") adding more of it.
I won't even look at the comments sections on the web site of my local metropolitan newspaper... they are a rancid stew of idiocy, bigotry, and partisan attacks.
Yeah, because that's so different from from the mass media, right?
Plenty. There are several dozen in our colo cage, for example. It's *available* on most distros, but not installed by default on all of them.