I know in aviation one of the Wright brothers died during a test flight.
On September 17, 1008, Army lieutenant Thomas Selfridge rode along as Orville's passenger, serving as an official observer. A few minutes into the flight at an altitude of about 100 feet (30 m), a propeller split and shattered, sending the Flyer out of control. Selfridge suffered a fractured skull in the crash and died that evening in the nearby Army hospital, becoming the first airplane crash fatality. Orville was badly injured, suffering a broken left leg and four broken ribs. Twelve years later, after he suffered increasingly severe pains, X-rays revealed the accident had also caused three hip bone fractures and a dislocated hip.
Seriously? Anyone still masochist enough for that "authentic experience"?
Frozen grossed $1.3 billion as a first-run theatrical feature. Late in its run, Frozen sing-alongs were very successful.
Guardians of the Galaxy just might slip past an $800 million gross in global release. Guardians was considered as unlikely a box office hit as the first Star Wars film --- and targets essentially the same audience.
... to the masses of sarcastic "I though Open Source was more secure!" crowd: in an Open Source forum, when vulnerabilities are found, they are patched.
The key words here being "when they are found."
Shellshock makes a perfect farce of the Open Source mantra "With many eyes all bugs are shallow."
Analysis of the source code history of Bash shows the [Shellshock] vulnerabilities had existed since version 1.03 of Bash released in September 1989.
The name itself is an acronym, a pun, and a description. As an acronym, it stands for Bourne-again shell, referring to its objective as a free replacement for the Bourne shell. As a pun, it expressed that objective in a phrase that sounds similar to born again, a term for spiritual rebirth. The name is also descriptive of what it did, bashing together the features of sh, csh, and ksh.
Stallman and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) considered a free shell that could run existing sh scripts so strategic to a completely free system built from BSD and GNU code that this was one of the few projects they funded themselves.
it has been distributed widely as the shell for the GNU operating system and as a default shell on Linux and Mac OS X. It has been ported to Microsoft Windows and distributed with Cygwin and MinGW, to DOS by the DJGPP project, to Novell NetWare and to Android via various terminal emulation applications.
Mr Warg argued that although the computer used to commit the offence was owned by him, the hacks were carried out by another individual who he declined to name.
Every bittorrent user has tried that excuse when they were caught and I don't think it has ever worked. Try to be a little more original next time Mr. Wang.
But this is something new!
He admits that the hacking was criminal, that the hacker was using one of his computers, and that he knows who the hacker is, but won't name him --- even after being found guilty on the felony charge.
When was the last time you heard tell of a geek throwing away three perfectly serviceable "Get Out Of Jail Free Cards?"
Truly, public housing solved poverty to exactly the same degree that free broadband will "solve" the digital divide. I'm sure that the upstanding U.S. citizens who live in public housing will take it upon themselves to learn how to code and contribute Open Source software to the world in complete gratitude for this benevolent entitlement.
The geek's own sense of upper middle class entitlement, his being part a privileged class, is the first thing you discover when reading Slashdot. It doesn't matter whether he is really making that kind of money or would know how to manage it properly if he did.
Alexa offers a reminder that the Slashdot reader is most likely still in school. Who visits slashdot.org? The prospect of facing long-term unemployment, crushing debt, aging and ill health are not quite real to him yet.
I don't need their gratitude --- and I don't give a damn whether the poor learn to code or have any desire to contribute to Open Source. What I do give a damn about is breaking through the social and physical isolation which has been the lot of the poor in every generation.
BTW, people who use spaces in filenames are imbeciles. They don't have a clue how command lines operate. Point and click is about the limit of their brainpower.
If the use of spaces make file names and associated meta data more readable, they are doing their job.
The GUI frees the user from the arcane and unforgiving command line argument --- permitting him to focus on tasks that more relevant to his own skill sets and the work at hand. That doesn't make him stupid. It makes him productive.
The revolutionary Alto would have been an expensive personal computer if put on sale commercially. Lead engineer Charles Thacker noted that the first one cost Xerox $12,000. As a product, the price tag might have been $40,000.
Linux is free. Hell, even OSX is free. Yet MS wants to keep gouging customers $100
We have been down this road countless times before.
In the general consumer market what people buy is the OEM Windows system install. Which tends to be a one time purchase for the life of their PC - with maybe one $15 to $20 upgrade to the next-generation OS.
When shopping for a new or refurbished PC or laptop, hardware with more or less the same specs will sell for more or less the same price, no matter what mass market OS comes installed.
Outlook.com and OneDrive have also been updated to use perfect forward security (PFS). In PFS, the keys used for each connection are randomly generated on a per-session basis. This is important because it protects against bulk data collection. Without PFS, if a law enforcement agency or hacker can demand or steal the long-term key used to secure connections, they can use that key to decrypt all historic, recorded sessions. PFS prevents this; compromising one session's key only enables decryption of that session.
This will secure Web access, the OneDrive mobile clients, and the OneDrive desktop clients.
Microsoft is also using certificates with 2048 bit keys on both the Outlook.com and OneDrive Web front-ends, another change planned last December.
Can't we just settle for it rendering web pages properly instead of bolting on all sorts of shit ?
It seems like only yesterday that the geek was on a crusade to eliminate any and all plug-is. The problem is that the web page has evolved far beyond the one-way-street, the silent, static, display of text and low-res graphics, typical of the early nineties.
The web browser is in serious danger of being eclipsed by the walled garden and the app --- which are in no way burdened by the geek's sense of propriety, his belief that he owns the web and the web browser and can dictate what it can and cannot do.
Free upgrade to NVIDIA 870M Upgrade to 12 GB for $69. 1 TB HDDs starting at $39. Full range of SSD primary and HDD/SSD secondary drives, optical and tertiary SSD drives.
Dell once explained why their Linux PCs weren't cheaper than similar Windows models.
"Linux is just the kernel."
I wonder sometimes what would happen if a judge took a geek and his memes at face value --- and if the end result would be a successful, marketable, consumer product.
Walk into a store and buy a fully assembled name brand (Dell, HP, etc) PC, complete with warranty and guarantees, without ANY software preinstalled. You can't. Your analogy fails.
Heathkit. Radio Shack. Long dead in any recognizable form.
The PC is a mass market consumer appliance or an office machine. It sells as a kit of parts only to a handful of enthusiasts and IT pros --- who don't do their shopping at the Galleria Mall.
It is not and never has been and never will be a mass market consumer product.
The OEM system install was the key to making the PC a mass market product. It meant that you had a working --- tested --- configuration out of the box, appropriate for its price range and intended use.
In 2014 it is still possible for the geek to be tied up in knots by Linux audio.
Something that leaves the OSX and Windows user with his head shaking in disbelief.
Walmart --- with its enormous purchasing power --- spent about ten years trying to make the OEM Linux PC a viable alternative to Windows in the North American retail market.
The chain sold tons of crap-tastic hardware to the geek for maybe $25 less than a Windows PC with a far more muscular CPU, twice the RAM and hard disk storage. For its rural customers on dial-up, Wamart had a Linux PC without a working modem.
The point being, that by the time product reaches retail shelves, the price of the OEM system install is essentially irrelevant.
There is something distinctly fraudulent about buying a Windows PC and demanding a refund when you could have bought a Linux PC from the start.
It's safer for a supermodel to walk down MLK in your favorite large city naked than a homely woman to walk from one end of Fort Hood to the other, wearing ACUs after dark.
When soldiering becomes less of a duty and more of a way to delay starting out your life of dismal poverty, you start making the wrong kind of army.
I have come to the conclusion that anything the geek says about women, rape or the military needs to be fact-checked.
A cash-strapped female soldier told a Fort Hood hearing board Tuesday about how a noncommissioned sexual assault prevention officer on base forced her into a prostitution ring so she could buy groceries for her child.
The private testified against Sgt. 1st Class Gregory McQueen during a proceeding similar to a grand jury hearing. McQueen could face some 21 criminal charges if he is slapped with a military court-martial.
''Basically, it was having sex with higher ranking officers for money," the woman told the board.
The private, who was 20 and struggling as a single mother of a 3-year-old child at the time of the alleged prostitution, was granted immunity in return for her testimony. She told the board how McQueen snapped pics of her naked to distribute to potential clients. The two also had sex so McQueen could see how she would ''act out'' with clients.
McQueen, who has since been relieved from his sexual assault prevention duties, faces charges of pandering, conspiracy, adultery and sexual assault.
Another female private claims McQueen sexually assaulted her when he tried to recruit her into the military sex ring.
That woman told investigators that McQueen ''preys on young females who are in bad financial situations and that he keeps their pictures on his cell phone,'' the Austin American-Statesman reported in December.
The definition of harassment, at least where I live, is "unwanted sexual advances", meaning the distinction between flirting and harassment is purely based on subjective experience.
It was in the late eighties when someone pinned a single life sized autographed strip club poster in the packing barn of my father's farm. It wasn't long before every inch of open wall was papered over --- and a low-key arms race ongoing to see who could come closest to the X-rated line, without crossing over. There had always been kids about the place, we began hiring women who didn't know our family well and weren't in on the joke, which had long since stopped being funny, and for our wholesale customers and suppliers this was our place of business.
It is unlawful to harass a person (an applicant or employee) because of that person's sex. Harassment can include ''sexual harassment'' or unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature.
Harassment does not have to be of a sexual nature, however, and can include offensive remarks about a personâ(TM)s sex. For example, it is illegal to harass a woman by making offensive comments about women in general.
Both victim and the harasser can be either a woman or a man, and the victim and harasser can be the same sex.
Although the law doesn't prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that are not very serious, harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or when it results in an adverse employment decision (such as the victim being fired or demoted).
The harasser can be the victim's supervisor, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or someone who is not an employee of the employer, such as a client or customer.
When did MS finally discover the Internet even existed, or was something they ought to consider? Win95? WinFor Workgroups?
It was about the time when AOL began serving an all-you-can eat dial-up buffet for a flat monthly rate and 14 K modems or better began being integrated into every home and stand-alone office PC.
We can see evidence of this in how copyright treats derivative works. All works build on other works, as Asimov wrote when he described connecting A to B to C,
Copyright rewards creativity, originality.
The geek's imagination doesn't to stretch much farther than fan fiction. The golden triangle of Star Trek, Star Wars and Dr. Who.
The great ideas of the ages have come from people who weren't paid to have great ideas, but were paid to be teachers or patent clerks or petty officials, or were not paid at all.
There is a long tradition of finding secure but undemanding jobs for creative talents who, for political or ideological reasons, could not be subsidized openly.
Slashdot Mirror
I know in aviation one of the Wright brothers died during a test flight.
On September 17, 1008, Army lieutenant Thomas Selfridge rode along as Orville's passenger, serving as an official observer. A few minutes into the flight at an altitude of about 100 feet (30 m), a propeller split and shattered, sending the Flyer out of control. Selfridge suffered a fractured skull in the crash and died that evening in the nearby Army hospital, becoming the first airplane crash fatality. Orville was badly injured, suffering a broken left leg and four broken ribs. Twelve years later, after he suffered increasingly severe pains, X-rays revealed the accident had also caused three hip bone fractures and a dislocated hip.
Wright Brothers
Wilbur died of typhoid fever in 1912, Orville of a heart attack in 1948.
Seriously? Anyone still masochist enough for that "authentic experience"?
Frozen grossed $1.3 billion as a first-run theatrical feature. Late in its run, Frozen sing-alongs were very successful.
Guardians of the Galaxy just might slip past an $800 million gross in global release. Guardians was considered as unlikely a box office hit as the first Star Wars film --- and targets essentially the same audience.
Guardians' geek credentials are impeccable:
Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack coming out on cassette: Now you can listen to the music the same way Star-Lord does.
... to the masses of sarcastic "I though Open Source was more secure!" crowd: in an Open Source forum, when vulnerabilities are found, they are patched.
The key words here being "when they are found."
Shellshock makes a perfect farce of the Open Source mantra "With many eyes all bugs are shallow."
Analysis of the source code history of Bash shows the [Shellshock] vulnerabilities had existed since version 1.03 of Bash released in September 1989.
25 years ago. Shellshock (software bug)
The name itself is an acronym, a pun, and a description. As an acronym, it stands for Bourne-again shell, referring to its objective as a free replacement for the Bourne shell. As a pun, it expressed that objective in a phrase that sounds similar to born again, a term for spiritual rebirth. The name is also descriptive of what it did, bashing together the features of sh, csh, and ksh.
Stallman and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) considered a free shell that could run existing sh scripts so strategic to a completely free system built from BSD and GNU code that this was one of the few projects they funded themselves.
it has been distributed widely as the shell for the GNU operating system and as a default shell on Linux and Mac OS X. It has been ported to Microsoft Windows and distributed with Cygwin and MinGW, to DOS by the DJGPP project, to Novell NetWare and to Android via various terminal emulation applications.
Bash (Unix shell)
Really dude? Why not at least say you had a virus/botnet on your machine. At least that gives a reasonable doubt.
In the American system, it is usually the jury who gets to decide what is "reasonable."
The geek, in the absence of evidence, tends to construct scenarios that are theoretically possible, but by no means plausible.
But then there is the pesky "reasonable doubt" that many countries have.
It's in the summary. He admits that the hacker used one of his computers. That he knows who the hacker is.
Mr Warg argued that although the computer used to commit the offence was owned by him, the hacks were carried out by another individual who he declined to name.
Every bittorrent user has tried that excuse when they were caught and I don't think it has ever worked. Try to be a little more original next time Mr. Wang.
But this is something new!
He admits that the hacking was criminal, that the hacker was using one of his computers, and that he knows who the hacker is, but won't name him --- even after being found guilty on the felony charge.
When was the last time you heard tell of a geek throwing away three perfectly serviceable "Get Out Of Jail Free Cards?"
Truly, public housing solved poverty to exactly the same degree that free broadband will "solve" the digital divide. I'm sure that the upstanding U.S. citizens who live in public housing will take it upon themselves to learn how to code and contribute Open Source software to the world in complete gratitude for this benevolent entitlement.
The geek's own sense of upper middle class entitlement, his being part a privileged class, is the first thing you discover when reading Slashdot. It doesn't matter whether he is really making that kind of money or would know how to manage it properly if he did.
Alms for the Upper Middle Class: Subsidized Apartments Aim at $200K Earners
Alexa offers a reminder that the Slashdot reader is most likely still in school. Who visits slashdot.org? The prospect of facing long-term unemployment, crushing debt, aging and ill health are not quite real to him yet.
I don't need their gratitude --- and I don't give a damn whether the poor learn to code or have any desire to contribute to Open Source. What I do give a damn about is breaking through the social and physical isolation which has been the lot of the poor in every generation.
BTW, people who use spaces in filenames are imbeciles. They don't have a clue how command lines operate. Point and click is about the limit of their brainpower.
If the use of spaces make file names and associated meta data more readable, they are doing their job.
The GUI frees the user from the arcane and unforgiving command line argument --- permitting him to focus on tasks that more relevant to his own skill sets and the work at hand. That doesn't make him stupid. It makes him productive.
where Gates & Jobs got all their ideas from.
The revolutionary Alto would have been an expensive personal computer if put on sale commercially. Lead engineer Charles Thacker noted that the first one cost Xerox $12,000. As a product, the price tag might have been $40,000.
Xerox Alto
Adjusted for inflation, $62,000 for the 1973 prototype and $207,000 for the commercial product.
Linux is free. Hell, even OSX is free. Yet MS wants to keep gouging customers $100
We have been down this road countless times before.
In the general consumer market what people buy is the OEM Windows system install. Which tends to be a one time purchase for the life of their PC - with maybe one $15 to $20 upgrade to the next-generation OS.
When shopping for a new or refurbished PC or laptop, hardware with more or less the same specs will sell for more or less the same price, no matter what mass market OS comes installed.
Clocks ticking MPEG LA. What are you going to do in 2016?
The 50" 4K UHD TV is at Walmart, starting at $1300. MPEG LA has moved on.
What t a gift to the NSA!
Or not.
Outlook.com and OneDrive have also been updated to use perfect forward security (PFS). In PFS, the keys used for each connection are randomly generated on a per-session basis. This is important because it protects against bulk data collection. Without PFS, if a law enforcement agency or hacker can demand or steal the long-term key used to secure connections, they can use that key to decrypt all historic, recorded sessions. PFS prevents this; compromising one session's key only enables decryption of that session.
This will secure Web access, the OneDrive mobile clients, and the OneDrive desktop clients.
Microsoft is also using certificates with 2048 bit keys on both the Outlook.com and OneDrive Web front-ends, another change planned last December.
Microsoft expands the use of encryption on Outlook, OneDrive [July 1, 2014]
Can't we just settle for it rendering web pages properly instead of bolting on all sorts of shit ?
It seems like only yesterday that the geek was on a crusade to eliminate any and all plug-is. The problem is that the web page has evolved far beyond the one-way-street, the silent, static, display of text and low-res graphics, typical of the early nineties.
The web browser is in serious danger of being eclipsed by the walled garden and the app --- which are in no way burdened by the geek's sense of propriety, his belief that he owns the web and the web browser and can dictate what it can and cannot do.
Q: What Will It Take To Make Automated Vehicles Legal In the US?
A: A lot of bribes for people at various levels of government.
Bribery, defined;
(1) "The geek's all-purpose excuse for his own political incompetence and futility."
(2) "A puff of hot air guaranteed to be rewarded by an instant +5 mod-up on Slashdot."
Ok I'll bite. Show me where I can buy a Linux laptop, with a i7-4710, 1TB HDD, 8GB of RAM, and a GTX 850M.
No trouble:
Configure your Bonobo Extreme [Desktop Replacement]
Base price $1629
CPU Upgrades start at $50.
Free upgrade to NVIDIA 870M
Upgrade to 12 GB for $69.
1 TB HDDs starting at $39.
Full range of SSD primary and HDD/SSD secondary drives, optical and tertiary SSD drives.
Dell once explained why their Linux PCs weren't cheaper than similar Windows models.
"Linux is just the kernel."
I wonder sometimes what would happen if a judge took a geek and his memes at face value --- and if the end result would be a successful, marketable, consumer product.
Walk into a store and buy a fully assembled name brand (Dell, HP, etc) PC, complete with warranty and guarantees, without ANY software preinstalled. You can't. Your analogy fails.
Heathkit. Radio Shack. Long dead in any recognizable form.
The PC is a mass market consumer appliance or an office machine. It sells as a kit of parts only to a handful of enthusiasts and IT pros --- who don't do their shopping at the Galleria Mall.
The bare bones PC doesn't sell worth spit.
It is not and never has been and never will be a mass market consumer product.
The OEM system install was the key to making the PC a mass market product. It meant that you had a working --- tested --- configuration out of the box, appropriate for its price range and intended use.
In 2014 it is still possible for the geek to be tied up in knots by Linux audio.
Something that leaves the OSX and Windows user with his head shaking in disbelief.
Walmart --- with its enormous purchasing power --- spent about ten years trying to make the OEM Linux PC a viable alternative to Windows in the North American retail market.
The chain sold tons of crap-tastic hardware to the geek for maybe $25 less than a Windows PC with a far more muscular CPU, twice the RAM and hard disk storage. For its rural customers on dial-up, Wamart had a Linux PC without a working modem.
The point being, that by the time product reaches retail shelves, the price of the OEM system install is essentially irrelevant.
There is something distinctly fraudulent about buying a Windows PC and demanding a refund when you could have bought a Linux PC from the start.
It's safer for a supermodel to walk down MLK in your favorite large city naked than a homely woman to walk from one end of Fort Hood to the other, wearing ACUs after dark. When soldiering becomes less of a duty and more of a way to delay starting out your life of dismal poverty, you start making the wrong kind of army.
I have come to the conclusion that anything the geek says about women, rape or the military needs to be fact-checked.
A cash-strapped female soldier told a Fort Hood hearing board Tuesday about how a noncommissioned sexual assault prevention officer on base forced her into a prostitution ring so she could buy groceries for her child.
The private testified against Sgt. 1st Class Gregory McQueen during a proceeding similar to a grand jury hearing. McQueen could face some 21 criminal charges if he is slapped with a military court-martial.
''Basically, it was having sex with higher ranking officers for money," the woman told the board.
The private, who was 20 and struggling as a single mother of a 3-year-old child at the time of the alleged prostitution, was granted immunity in return for her testimony. She told the board how McQueen snapped pics of her naked to distribute to potential clients. The two also had sex so McQueen could see how she would ''act out'' with clients.
McQueen, who has since been relieved from his sexual assault prevention duties, faces charges of pandering, conspiracy, adultery and sexual assault.
Another female private claims McQueen sexually assaulted her when he tried to recruit her into the military sex ring.
That woman told investigators that McQueen ''preys on young females who are in bad financial situations and that he keeps their pictures on his cell phone,'' the Austin American-Statesman reported in December.
Fort Hood sexual assault prevention officer ran on-base prostitution ring: witness [June 3, 2014]
Remember when games were entertainment, instead of blatant propaganda for military recruitment?
Back in the day, Doom wads were used for Marine training and recruitment. America's Army was first released in 2002.
We don't need social networks at all.
Says the Slashdot poster with the five digit ID.
If all you want is the "news for nerds," there are many more sites that deliver it faster and more reliably.
The definition of harassment, at least where I live, is "unwanted sexual advances", meaning the distinction between flirting and harassment is purely based on subjective experience.
It was in the late eighties when someone pinned a single life sized autographed strip club poster in the packing barn of my father's farm.
It wasn't long before every inch of open wall was papered over --- and a low-key arms race ongoing to see who could come closest to the X-rated line, without crossing over.
There had always been kids about the place, we began hiring women who didn't know our family well and weren't in on the joke, which had long since stopped being funny, and for our wholesale customers and suppliers this was our place of business.
It is unlawful to harass a person (an applicant or employee) because of that person's sex. Harassment can include ''sexual harassment'' or unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature.
Harassment does not have to be of a sexual nature, however, and can include offensive remarks about a personâ(TM)s sex. For example, it is illegal to harass a woman by making offensive comments about women in general.
Both victim and the harasser can be either a woman or a man, and the victim and harasser can be the same sex.
Although the law doesn't prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that are not very serious, harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or when it results in an adverse employment decision (such as the victim being fired or demoted).
The harasser can be the victim's supervisor, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or someone who is not an employee of the employer, such as a client or customer.
Sexual Harassment
Good luck trying to find a girlfriend without "harassing" anyone!
Like I said, "Loser."
Who visits slashdot.org?
When did MS finally discover the Internet even existed, or was something they ought to consider? Win95? WinFor Workgroups?
It was about the time when AOL began serving an all-you-can eat dial-up buffet for a flat monthly rate and 14 K modems or better began being integrated into every home and stand-alone office PC.
We can see evidence of this in how copyright treats derivative works. All works build on other works, as Asimov wrote when he described connecting A to B to C,
Copyright rewards creativity, originality.
The geek's imagination doesn't to stretch much farther than fan fiction. The golden triangle of Star Trek, Star Wars and Dr. Who.
The great ideas of the ages have come from people who weren't paid to have great ideas, but were paid to be teachers or patent clerks or petty officials, or were not paid at all.
There is a long tradition of finding secure but undemanding jobs for creative talents who, for political or ideological reasons, could not be subsidized openly.