I have lost important work by rm -rf once. Then, I started working on a trash system*, and realized I just needed backups. I guess there is no other way, you make sure you let your data rest for at least a day before deleting it, and rely on backups... Ok, an alternative would be to use a trash system and backups. Things could stay very short times on the trash, I didn't think about that up to now.
One thing is for sure, I don't want to lose the power of easily deleting stuff.
* Did some work on, but abandoned my code in favor of libtrash.
Thanks for the information. The s60 isn't maintained anymore, but that points to something I didn't know, there are several phones that already let me use ssh.
That said, I didn't look for a ssh capable phone yet, because the network around here was too bad and expensive until recently. Maybe I'll get one of those as my next phone.
Oh, yes, we forgot to ask the know all economists. Nice try bringing oportunity costs of investing in getting without from a resource we won't probably even have anymore (in sizeable amounts) by 2050 and the all known falacy of applying the time value of money into the assesment of global catastrophes.
The only problem is that when the oil finaly runs out we'll probably replace it (if we can replace it at all) with coal, what is nothing better at all.
I'd care a big deal about my phone if I could ssh my computers through them (currently, I only use them to make calls and sms, and I don't like phones). I was almost about to care about a Nokia phone but now it seems I won't...
I used to be a Nokia customer, and I use dumbphones, but the last 3 phones I brought weren't Nokia. That was because their competitors were good enough, and way cheaper than anything Nokia had to offer. Don't underestimate their problems, there are some, and they aren't small. Nothing impossible to deal with, but they are real.
That said, I don't think suicide is their best survival strategy...
"I would prefer that users have to connect to our VPN... There is alot of controls that I can place on the corporate computers, and the terminal servers, which protect our data from just being downloaded onto personal hard drives and this is VERY important to me."
Sorry, but if you permit computers that you have no control access to such documents, you already have no control over where the documents go. Making them pass over your VPN won't improve the situation, unless you have a trusted computing infrastructure (complete, with device keys) on place. And even then, things get quite iffy.
Share Point is great for a lot of things. Unfortunately, being a trustworthy repository for data and making good use of servers are not some of those things. Your example also:
"For example, if you have something like a construction bidding process where you're often filling out the same forms over and over again, and a lot of people are involved at different phases of the process, you can setup a work flow to route the documents from person to person."
This is a great example of Microsoft taking a problem and creating a huge piece of software that makes the problem bigger. If you are often filling out the same forms over and over again, there is your problem. Now, you must either stop filling the forms (if they are not data aquisition), or at least stop making they flow around like they were useable data (if they are data aquisition).
1 - So, that is why buffer overflow is in evindence on "SQL injection, phishing, malicious attachments, social engineering"... Oh, wait, the author didn't even remember it exists. Also, post that at the "PHP code is flawless" section. People need unchecked memory access and pointer arithimetics, just because you never a saw use for it doesn't mean that there isn't one.
2 - There are plenty of ways to isolate code sections within the same process. Some of them are used all the time, others, rarely. Anyway, that has no relevance in a discussion about security.
3 - Keep it complex, stupid! Also known as KICS.
4 - You want to sandbox the software from the file system, right? I asked because it is not the only option, and one of the goals of every operating system is to sandbox processes. It is just that they usualy don't sandbox the file system. Ok, you also talked about applications, that means you weren't thinking about servers (where people do that kind of sandboxes all the time). Well, most people just don't want their browsers sandboxed.
5 - Err, they do. How would an application create a communication channel with the OS? They aren't allowed to do that.
6 - Humm, no. The security model of an operating system applies to the computer where it runs. For a network you need network security.
7 - Define it. Windows uses even the same name.
8 - KICS!!! It's a way of life! Also, post that under the "Nobody can hack a binary format" and "It's secure, I used the double ROT13 algorithm" labels.
Those people didn't revolt for decades, while facing the same kind of abuse every day. They revolted now, and two main things changed, those were Wikileaks data and food prices. Tunisia protests were clearly linked to Wikileaks data, by the way. They could be mainly caused by food prices, and protesters only claimed they were protesting because of Wikileaks, but claiming that they had no relevance when the people protesting was claiming otherwise isn't quite right.
"The funny thing is that when I started using linux back in 1999, the big criticism of Debian was that it wasn't bleeding edge enough! I guess you can't win in the linux world..."
it is more like you can't please everyone all the time. Came-on, Ubuntu has more than 1/4 of the Linux install base (or at least it had last time I looked at distrowatch), and it is very unlikely that the other 3/4 of the population will want exactly the same things their distro provides, so the other people just won't like them. Don't make that confuse you, they've already won.
PS. That comes from somebody that doesn't like Ubuntu.
It seems MS is expecting that we replace out PCs by Xboxes on every activity we currently have. It seems like their management is thinking "Our Xbox division is actualy creative, they have a future, let's bet on them", despite it not making a lot of sense.
And, yet, they didn't release Office for the Xbox. Maybe it is on the pipeline, or it is just the right hand not knowing what the brain is doing.
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I have lost important work by rm -rf once. Then, I started working on a trash system*, and realized I just needed backups. I guess there is no other way, you make sure you let your data rest for at least a day before deleting it, and rely on backups... Ok, an alternative would be to use a trash system and backups. Things could stay very short times on the trash, I didn't think about that up to now.
One thing is for sure, I don't want to lose the power of easily deleting stuff.
* Did some work on, but abandoned my code in favor of libtrash.
Thanks for the information. The s60 isn't maintained anymore, but that points to something I didn't know, there are several phones that already let me use ssh.
That said, I didn't look for a ssh capable phone yet, because the network around here was too bad and expensive until recently. Maybe I'll get one of those as my next phone.
Ok, I was not screwed my Sonny since I stopped buying anything from them... But that didn't protect me against Microsoft.
Any blacklist that doesn't include Monsanto is not complete.
...Or, maybe it is just realist. I have no idea on how to not buy any Monsanto product.
Do you have a pointer to that data that shows cooling at the last 3 decades?
Oh, yes, we forgot to ask the know all economists. Nice try bringing oportunity costs of investing in getting without from a resource we won't probably even have anymore (in sizeable amounts) by 2050 and the all known falacy of applying the time value of money into the assesment of global catastrophes.
The only problem is that when the oil finaly runs out we'll probably replace it (if we can replace it at all) with coal, what is nothing better at all.
I'd care a big deal about my phone if I could ssh my computers through them (currently, I only use them to make calls and sms, and I don't like phones). I was almost about to care about a Nokia phone but now it seems I won't...
I used to be a Nokia customer, and I use dumbphones, but the last 3 phones I brought weren't Nokia. That was because their competitors were good enough, and way cheaper than anything Nokia had to offer. Don't underestimate their problems, there are some, and they aren't small. Nothing impossible to deal with, but they are real.
That said, I don't think suicide is their best survival strategy...
Sorry, but if you permit computers that you have no control access to such documents, you already have no control over where the documents go. Making them pass over your VPN won't improve the situation, unless you have a trusted computing infrastructure (complete, with device keys) on place. And even then, things get quite iffy.
Share Point is great for a lot of things. Unfortunately, being a trustworthy repository for data and making good use of servers are not some of those things. Your example also:
This is a great example of Microsoft taking a problem and creating a huge piece of software that makes the problem bigger. If you are often filling out the same forms over and over again, there is your problem. Now, you must either stop filling the forms (if they are not data aquisition), or at least stop making they flow around like they were useable data (if they are data aquisition).
1 - So, that is why buffer overflow is in evindence on "SQL injection, phishing, malicious attachments, social engineering"... Oh, wait, the author didn't even remember it exists. Also, post that at the "PHP code is flawless" section. People need unchecked memory access and pointer arithimetics, just because you never a saw use for it doesn't mean that there isn't one.
2 - There are plenty of ways to isolate code sections within the same process. Some of them are used all the time, others, rarely. Anyway, that has no relevance in a discussion about security.
3 - Keep it complex, stupid! Also known as KICS.
4 - You want to sandbox the software from the file system, right? I asked because it is not the only option, and one of the goals of every operating system is to sandbox processes. It is just that they usualy don't sandbox the file system. Ok, you also talked about applications, that means you weren't thinking about servers (where people do that kind of sandboxes all the time). Well, most people just don't want their browsers sandboxed.
5 - Err, they do. How would an application create a communication channel with the OS? They aren't allowed to do that.
6 - Humm, no. The security model of an operating system applies to the computer where it runs. For a network you need network security.
7 - Define it. Windows uses even the same name.
8 - KICS!!! It's a way of life! Also, post that under the "Nobody can hack a binary format" and "It's secure, I used the double ROT13 algorithm" labels.
Voice commands are becomming common at cars. The only problem is that I still didn't see one that works.
That is a certainty. After all, except from Libia, all of those dictatorships were implanted and supported by the US.
Those people didn't revolt for decades, while facing the same kind of abuse every day. They revolted now, and two main things changed, those were Wikileaks data and food prices. Tunisia protests were clearly linked to Wikileaks data, by the way. They could be mainly caused by food prices, and protesters only claimed they were protesting because of Wikileaks, but claiming that they had no relevance when the people protesting was claiming otherwise isn't quite right.
There has just been a trial, and he lost it, despite all the evidence.
That's way better than PCs. Now Israel will only need to 0wn one computer, and they are done.
We have no choice. GNU HURD still didn't release. But when it is out you'll see, there will be no need to agree on anything anymore about the kernel!
it is more like you can't please everyone all the time. Came-on, Ubuntu has more than 1/4 of the Linux install base (or at least it had last time I looked at distrowatch), and it is very unlikely that the other 3/4 of the population will want exactly the same things their distro provides, so the other people just won't like them. Don't make that confuse you, they've already won.
PS. That comes from somebody that doesn't like Ubuntu.
What goes to show that there are at least 26 languages on GitHub. Thanks, if I had to guess, I'd try a much lower number.
Is there any other way?
It seems MS is expecting that we replace out PCs by Xboxes on every activity we currently have. It seems like their management is thinking "Our Xbox division is actualy creative, they have a future, let's bet on them", despite it not making a lot of sense.
And, yet, they didn't release Office for the Xbox. Maybe it is on the pipeline, or it is just the right hand not knowing what the brain is doing.
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Orkut is losing ground to Facebook at Brazil.
Your certainty here is 3, 4 or 5 standard deviations?
Ok, i just wanted to nitpick