The place is full of busybodies and curtain twitchers, people who think they know best, the "think of the children" pro-censorship crowd, the people who fully support the government's creeping "terror" legislation (yes they exist, in droves. Only bad people fall under suspicion, remember?), reactionary anti-europeans and nationalists (I agree the EU has problems, but the "they'll never take our pound!" crowd piss me off)...
That's coupled with a government who run the country by knee-jerk and grant themselves ever more power, money and manpower, bring in badly defined bans (extreme porn anyone?) and seem to get off on stripping us of rights.
The law is out of touch with reality and with society; though if it actually reflected the people we'd all be in trouble too, hanging would be back in a week. OTOH if the law was actually sensible and the government stopped their weekly crackdowns on freedom then more people might start to respect it and not just break the law and disregard everyone else. Currently the attitude seems to be "Everything's iullegal, so I'll just do what the hell I like when I think I have a chance not to be caught".
No politician has the balls to do what needs to be done though (legalise drugs, review speed limits, take away hundreds of little pieces of legislated social engineering, castrate and massively cull the public sector), so IMHO we're fucked.
i think it's sad that there are legions of people willing to report each other to the authorities over pretty much nothing.
And laws? We have too many, and the more the petty laws are enforced on normal people (especially with most in the UK seem to think the police are woefully inadequate at dealing with "real" crime) the more people will get pissed off and start to ignore the law completely.
Nice and fast plus a static IP for an extra quid a month.
Watch out if you're a pirate though, they've been court-ordered to hand over a bunch of folks details to Daniel Lyons, who are in the business of shaking down pirates for a quick buck, and complied with the order back in June. That has me a little worried as I haven't always been the most law abiding individual, and I run a small network for the household which I didn't bother to lock down very well either...
Love the ability to run my own mailserver and webserver though, and they had no problem when I asked for an rDNS entry.
As a man with the same name as an ex-Gitmo inmate, I get hassle.
Thankfully I'm not on the no-fly, but because my namesake was an inmate I'm denied luxuries like online checkin on US flights, use of automated checkin machines at airports and a bunch of other stuff. Not only that but at checkin desks I get, at the very least, the agent having to call upstairs and more usually a stern looking man taking my passport off for checks for a few minutes and then coming back and giving the all clear.
This speaks to me of broken systems because surely they have my passport number on record...
What got my hopes upwas the announcement of official debian support.
I'm sure that the openmoko guys are doing a great job, but they haven't produced anything stable and usable yet by all accounts.
Suddenly, with debian support, you have a software distribution that supports, and makes available, pretty much all of the hardware. Plus it's debian, a big, stable software base with a lo of guys working on it. That's what'sgoing on my freerunner as soon as I get a moment.
Yup, they're now in bed with a very dodgy outfit that get their intelligence from a company who've been widely discredited across the EU. But not the UK yet.
Sending out thousands of "pay us or go to court" fishing mails, suing people and crowing about a 16K judgment made in absentia (that's right, she'd moved and the judgement was a default - ie not worth the paper it's written on as a precedent and open to a range of appeal options).
Well done on your purchase of a working iPhone. I don't sneer at the user experience, I particularly pointed out that the user experience was special.
My self esteem isn't tied up with how the iPhone fares. It may have been if I'd bought the shares my damned financial advisor told me were going to be a flop...
I'm just pointing out that evidence that it doesn't "Just Work" for everyone is somewhat tasty when you're guaranted to find a good few comments in any "Is linux ready for the desktop?" story saying "But apple just works!!"
"I'd love it if Linux had a great user experience."
It does, actually. But then I'm a user who likes screwing with things.
Reason 1 - Hype - people are pissed off at those who sound so happy with their apple stuff that they'd fellate the great steve, when technically it's not that special (even if the user experience generally is)
Reason 2 - Hype - the hype is always "It just works". It's virus free and PERFECT out of the box. This is what Macfans use to slag off both MS and Linux. It's delightful to see this falling down.
Reason 3 - Actually, with most mobile phones (see Nokia/LG etc) they do just work and firmware isn't updated.
The IOC are making themselves look pretty scummy by association at the moment. They seem complicit in various pieces of fraud and dodgy dealings, and perfectly willing to help cover everything up.
But then I've never held them in that high a regard anyway. They're a business and they make the world's governments beg like puppydogs to be allowed to hold their games.
Frankly I find the whole thing to be something of a joke, and an incredible waste of money.
I was walking through the park and obviously got too near a nest of something. I noticed two started to circle way above my head. My first thought was "Cool" because I was heavily into the goth thing at the time. After a few more feet they attacked. No pecking, but flapping wings in front of my face, diving at my head, that sort of stuff. Nobody else walking along that way was targeted.
People watching they would have seen a goth in a leather trenchcoat stumbling, waving his arms, running and yelling. Looking back, that must have been quite funny to watch.
"As a funny little note, a self-signed cert is actually not vulnerable to the above, because the key is in your hands, not some authority that you have no real business trusting./shrug"
Err, no, it's not any more secure at all for your users, unless you have pre-distributed the associated authority key to them, as they have no idea who they are talking to. It's no better than open comms.
If there are deficiencies in the current signers (and there are) then we should tackle that. Self signed (NOT private authority) is a waste of everyone's time.
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Face it, our society is broken. (I'm British).
The place is full of busybodies and curtain twitchers, people who think they know best, the "think of the children" pro-censorship crowd, the people who fully support the government's creeping "terror" legislation (yes they exist, in droves. Only bad people fall under suspicion, remember?), reactionary anti-europeans and nationalists (I agree the EU has problems, but the "they'll never take our pound!" crowd piss me off)...
That's coupled with a government who run the country by knee-jerk and grant themselves ever more power, money and manpower, bring in badly defined bans (extreme porn anyone?) and seem to get off on stripping us of rights.
The law is out of touch with reality and with society; though if it actually reflected the people we'd all be in trouble too, hanging would be back in a week. OTOH if the law was actually sensible and the government stopped their weekly crackdowns on freedom then more people might start to respect it and not just break the law and disregard everyone else. Currently the attitude seems to be "Everything's iullegal, so I'll just do what the hell I like when I think I have a chance not to be caught".
No politician has the balls to do what needs to be done though (legalise drugs, review speed limits, take away hundreds of little pieces of legislated social engineering, castrate and massively cull the public sector), so IMHO we're fucked.
Frankly I'm getting the hell out of here.
i think it's sad that there are legions of people willing to report each other to the authorities over pretty much nothing.
And laws? We have too many, and the more the petty laws are enforced on normal people (especially with most in the UK seem to think the police are woefully inadequate at dealing with "real" crime) the more people will get pissed off and start to ignore the law completely.
Indeed, they do seem to be set up for that.
Nice and fast plus a static IP for an extra quid a month.
Watch out if you're a pirate though, they've been court-ordered to hand over a bunch of folks details to Daniel Lyons, who are in the business of shaking down pirates for a quick buck, and complied with the order back in June. That has me a little worried as I haven't always been the most law abiding individual, and I run a small network for the household which I didn't bother to lock down very well either...
Love the ability to run my own mailserver and webserver though, and they had no problem when I asked for an rDNS entry.
Hey, I found one from November too.
It's slashdot.org
Read about this YEARS ago.
Here's one from january, but I'm pretty sure I read about this, right here, long before then.
Lamo.
Well maybe not, I recall that passage being tricky, but beat the templars first time. Yes, Robert is an asshole, but we got him too,
I'm with you on the unskippable scenes, they blow goats. That and the extremely repetetive nature of the body of the game.
As a man with the same name as an ex-Gitmo inmate, I get hassle.
Thankfully I'm not on the no-fly, but because my namesake was an inmate I'm denied luxuries like online checkin on US flights, use of automated checkin machines at airports and a bunch of other stuff. Not only that but at checkin desks I get, at the very least, the agent having to call upstairs and more usually a stern looking man taking my passport off for checks for a few minutes and then coming back and giving the all clear.
This speaks to me of broken systems because surely they have my passport number on record...
Anyway, it's an annoyance.
What got my hopes upwas the announcement of official debian support.
I'm sure that the openmoko guys are doing a great job, but they haven't produced anything stable and usable yet by all accounts.
Suddenly, with debian support, you have a software distribution that supports, and makes available, pretty much all of the hardware. Plus it's debian, a big, stable software base with a lo of guys working on it. That's what'sgoing on my freerunner as soon as I get a moment.
Yeah, but look at the spec that counts.
HP's top of the line barely weighs over a ton, whereas IBM's top Z box weighs a little over two!
Not so smart now, huh, HP?
Yup, they're now in bed with a very dodgy outfit that get their intelligence from a company who've been widely discredited across the EU. But not the UK yet.
Sending out thousands of "pay us or go to court" fishing mails, suing people and crowing about a 16K judgment made in absentia (that's right, she'd moved and the judgement was a default - ie not worth the paper it's written on as a precedent and open to a range of appeal options).
yay atari!
That's why I don't telecommute, even though I could - I get nothing done.
Well that and I have no excuse as I live a half hour's walk from work.
Why would I hate you?
Well done on your purchase of a working iPhone. I don't sneer at the user experience, I particularly pointed out that the user experience was special.
My self esteem isn't tied up with how the iPhone fares. It may have been if I'd bought the shares my damned financial advisor told me were going to be a flop...
I'm just pointing out that evidence that it doesn't "Just Work" for everyone is somewhat tasty when you're guaranted to find a good few comments in any "Is linux ready for the desktop?" story saying "But apple just works!!"
"I'd love it if Linux had a great user experience."
It does, actually. But then I'm a user who likes screwing with things.
I still think my answer was an adequate insight into the mind of someone taking delight in apple having problems :)
Seriously?
I'm answering the question! Sorry, should I not have questioned the superiority of everything that comes out of the fruit-based company?
Perhaps slashdot ought to have "-1, Heresy"
Reason 1 - Hype - people are pissed off at those who sound so happy with their apple stuff that they'd fellate the great steve, when technically it's not that special (even if the user experience generally is)
Reason 2 - Hype - the hype is always "It just works". It's virus free and PERFECT out of the box. This is what Macfans use to slag off both MS and Linux. It's delightful to see this falling down.
Reason 3 - Actually, with most mobile phones (see Nokia/LG etc) they do just work and firmware isn't updated.
The IOC are making themselves look pretty scummy by association at the moment. They seem complicit in various pieces of fraud and dodgy dealings, and perfectly willing to help cover everything up.
But then I've never held them in that high a regard anyway. They're a business and they make the world's governments beg like puppydogs to be allowed to hold their games.
Frankly I find the whole thing to be something of a joke, and an incredible waste of money.
Yeah, that was the bit that got me too.
These things are going to be used in an actual election, and they're being allowed offsite in the hands of pretty much anyone.
I'm sure they're still guarantee'd to be impartial though right?
'kin morons...
Had a similar experience with crows.
I was walking through the park and obviously got too near a nest of something. I noticed two started to circle way above my head. My first thought was "Cool" because I was heavily into the goth thing at the time. After a few more feet they attacked. No pecking, but flapping wings in front of my face, diving at my head, that sort of stuff. Nobody else walking along that way was targeted.
People watching they would have seen a goth in a leather trenchcoat stumbling, waving his arms, running and yelling. Looking back, that must have been quite funny to watch.
Well that's exactly my problem, it's not an official ubuntu thing and I'm not really willing to use a hack as I want to fire and forget on this one.
I'm not a KDE user either really. I think Ubuntu is the way forward for me.
"As a funny little note, a self-signed cert is actually not vulnerable to the above, because the key is in your hands, not some authority that you have no real business trusting. /shrug"
Err, no, it's not any more secure at all for your users, unless you have pre-distributed the associated authority key to them, as they have no idea who they are talking to. It's no better than open comms.
If there are deficiencies in the current signers (and there are) then we should tackle that. Self signed (NOT private authority) is a waste of everyone's time.
Oh give it up.
Seriously, every time there's an article about security this gets dragged out now and it's BULLSHIT.
Self signed certificates are as good as useless.
1. I still haven't tried it with a mouse, ruins the portability, for me.
2. haven;t found a big config manager yet, but AFAIK the advanced GUI mode isn't available on the 901
3. See 2. Start menu?
4. True, but no different to ubuntu on most hardware. Though I think the wireless card in the 901 isn't supported yet.
5. Meh,, I tend to find it nice and easy.
Dunno what's up with your desktop machine there though.
So, like, you know this doesn't work on the 901 right?
On a 901?
I thought the network hardware (amongst other bits) wasn't supported right now?