Heh. If it's effective in a clusterfuck of copy/paste, then it should be really effective when the bulk of the code is original...
Sounds like the solution is to use an entirely different language than the bulk of one's work is in, if one wants to anonymously write malicious or otherwise legally complicated code.
It didn't help that they also failed to disarm the army as they disbanded it, and they disenfranchised Ba'ath party members, even though to advance in Iraqi society and government pre-invasion one basically had to join the Ba'athists...
Well, one of the flaws in X11 is how one receives remote screens to your X-server, and if people allow localhost to send screens to the session, then if someone compromises a local unprivileged account they could set up a fake lock screen on an admin's session so that when the admin enters his password they get the text he typed.
I see how this could be a problem, but given that desktop Linux isn't all that widespread I see bigger problems in arenas that are much more pressing.
I certainly get the technical explanation. Given that I don't think Deskop Linux will EVER be mainstream, this seems like something we've lived with for an incredibly long time, and doesn't affect very many people or systems.
If someone wants to fix it, cool, but it's not really going to bother me very much if this behavior continues.
Rumsfeld [said], "Stuff happens... and it's untidy and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. They're also free to live their lives and do wonderful things. And that's what's going to happen here."
This was in the context of the Iraq war, when the United States kicked over the anthill that was Saddam's government and suddenly all the factions started tearing each other and their civilization apart.
I do not normally agree with Donald Rumsfeld, and in the context of the Iraq war I definitely disagree with his decision to allow Iraq to destroy itself so thoroughly, but on the other hand if we're extending that freedom to people that we're actively in-confrontation with, then shouldn't we extend that freedom to ourselves?
Having just researched the market, battery life takes a back seat to at least a minimum level of durability. We passed on several tablets because they were just too flimsy for a frequent flyer.
I carry a Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga for work, and it's so useful that my wife bought one to be her next 5+ year portable computer.
We need the capabilities of a full-featured computer. I don't want a light machine, I want a full machine. I want to be able to type when I need to type without having to haul around disconnected third-party accessories that I may lose.
She wanted an e-book reader, a movie player, a word processor, a spreadsheet, and something that she could run Visio and ANSYS and Autocad on, so that she could telecommute. The only thing we wish that the Yoga had was a 4G WWAN interface.
To me most tablets are toys, not business machines. I want a business-capable machine.
If someone is calling from a borrowed phone, then there's a timelimit on the use of that borrowed device. By the time one calls back, the person trying to reach you might not have access to the handset anymore.
Many payphones have no receive-call feature anymore, in part to prevent drug dealers from using them to semianonymously set up their final meeting points. Can't return their call even if you try.
You know, take away the smart features of a phone and there's suddenly a whole lot of nothing for someone to steal from it, at least compared to before.
The problem with security is it is an on-going process, and it takes time.
The entire security model and mindset in IT and computing is severely flawed. Arguably if it weren't for dependency on computers and the ability to gussy-up terrible back-end code with pretty user interfaces, this situation would be completely untenable.
I do remember this issue from back in the early days of CDRs. The worst ones were the no-name gold discs with green undersides. The silver-topped ones with mostly bluish undersides seemed to be pretty good.
I guess I need to break-out my oldest discs to see how many are readable. I probably have some that date back to the late nineties.
And by the way, it doesn't take a firearm to kill people. I'm sure that a certain segment of the Canadian population would be happy to make IEDs and to use them, and to thus prolong a state of war for an extended period of time.
The United States government interned just about all Japanese descendants they could during WWII, in part to prevent that population from committing acts of terrorism and sabotage on American soil. They had some precedent; the Japanese pilot that crash-landed on Ni'ihau after the attack on Pearl Harbor and was captured was released by nisei Yoshio Harada. As a first-generation American, Harada's actions undoubtedly contributed to the decision to round up so many Japanese. Thing of it is, the Japanese physically stood-out due to their racial makeup. Those of ethnic German descent were not rounded up, and I expect that an inability to actually identify them easily contributed to that.
It would be impossible to round-up Canadian ex-pats living in the United States after declaring them enemy aliens, and it's very likely that a small portion of them would not hesitate to commit acts of terrorism or sabotage on US soil if the United States invaded Canada, even if the United States somehow managed to close the massive open border between the US and Canada to stop Canadians from entering the United States to commit those acts themselves.
And as for your assessment of what Canada is worth, there's significant resource extraction (mining, fossil fuel) and an expectation that a Northwest passage could finally open up for shipping. The United States wouldn't be dependent on the Panama Canal for cheap bulk freight via sea or fairly expensive freight overland anymore. Control of that route would also enable collecting duties on Asian vessels heading to Europe that want to bypass the Suez or avoid sailing around Africa.
A spindle of 100 CDRs takes an area about six inches tall, and about five inches in diameter.
You can't commit to.07 cubic feet for something that you intend to store for decades in a read-only fashion, then I don't know what to tell you.
Besides, you commit to archive that which is important, not that which is fleeting or trivial. For most people that will be pictures. For some it will be video, and CD probably isn't the best format for video, admittedly.
I don't expect any media that requires a specific bus to be workable 40 years from now. That eliminates all hard disk drives right off the batt; who has an MFM or RLL controller? Who has an ISA bus to plug it into? Who even has traditional SCSI left working and how much longer will the standard 32-bit PCI interface be around? Good ol' fashioned 40-pin IDE is defunct, and I don't expect SATA and SAS to live any longer than it did. USB 3 is pinned differently than 1.1/2, so it's not inconceivable that future USB revisions might break backward compatibility with older revisions. Thunderbolt is based on a video connector that could sunset in much the same way that Firewire is basically gone now too.
Then you look at your solid-state media, the kind that require a reader. Several early formats like Smart Media and Memorystick are completely dead, XD is essentially dead, and only Compact Flash and SD-variants are strong at the moment. Thing is, both of those have had format revisions over the years, so it's also possible that early CF and SD won't work in later readers too. CF will be more dramatic since the early standards were based on the set of standards governing IDE and PCMCIA, and newer standards have changed that so they might not even interface. SD is less dramatic but filesystem changes through the years will pose problems even if there's a reader that can accept the unit and plug into a then-modern computer.
I don't even want to get into tape. Trying to find a Travan drive is already hard, and DAT is getting icky.
That leaves us to look at what's so popular as to likely never be completely inaccessible, aka the Compact Disc.
I think that the question is, what medium will still be around and functional decades from now?
And I think the best predicable answer is Compact Disc, mainly due to the ubiquity of music CDs, which while not as popular as they once were, are still extremely common and will probably continue to be common. 12cm optical readers may eventually stop reading video formats like DVD, or Blu-ray, or other shorter-lived formats once new formats replace them, but there really hasn't been another digital music format with a physical component to it with the longevity and widespread popularity that CD has enjoyed.
Yes, computers are increasingly doing without optical drives, however there are still lots and lots of options for new external optical drives, and every new bus and connector has had a CD-reading drive made for it. SCSI, Parallel, MKE-Panasonic, IDE, USB1/1.1/2.0, Firewire, SATA, eSATA, Thunderbolt, and USB3.0 all have CD-capable optical drives available, and I expect that future buses will also get CD-capable optical drives.
Eventually the CD might not be supported, but there should be plenty of time to figure out what format will replace it and to do the conversion. After all, we still find 5.25" floppy drives at the Goodwill; there will be drives available to read the media.
I don't know, both the French and the Germans attempted to conquer a frozen Russia/Soviet Union and ultimately failed. the Soviet Union attempted to conquer an even more frozen Finland and failed. From the climate perspective it wouldn't be terribly easy to invade and conquer as a lot of armchair chickenhawks like to think.
And even if Canada were successfully invaded and occupied, and if somehow the British Crown didn't object and rally all of the other Commonwealth Realms to make war, there's the issue of the shared language and similar cultures making it extremely easy for Canadians to blend-in to commit acts of insurgency inside of the United States. Think of the issues that the UK had with Irish insurgency during The Troubles, where appearances were similar even though accents were vastly different, and now dampen down how much difference can be quickly profiled through speech, and one would have a really big problem.
Don't get me wrong, the United States could probably still do it, but it wouldn't be a simple walk in the park either.
That way, a vehicle telling cars to "slam brakes, veer hard left" while everything else around is giving an "all clear" can be ignored or weighted negatively (thank SpamAssassin), with other vehicles passing the "dude, this car over here is on crack; ignore it" messages to others around.
That may not work out well; if a car has declared an emergency then it's more likely to be an actual emergency than it is erroneous crap, and that may be the first or only car to discover that it's an emergency. You can't discard its input solely based on its singularity. It's not like e-mail where you have time to sift, or where your e-mail server may be processing mail for thousands of accounts and the pattern-matching between received messages for multiple accounts at the same time will allow one to find things. You have to react to the first declaration of emergency or else you yourself may be involved in that emergency.
"Start" is at least short. On my Linux box at work, I renamed the XFCE "Applications Menu" to "Xfce" so that it wouldn't take up unnecessary space on the panel.
I wish they would have named it something like "Fn Menu" for Function Menu- when I did phone support it would have been fun telling users to go to the effin' menu on the bottom left corner of the screen...
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Heh. If it's effective in a clusterfuck of copy/paste, then it should be really effective when the bulk of the code is original...
Sounds like the solution is to use an entirely different language than the bulk of one's work is in, if one wants to anonymously write malicious or otherwise legally complicated code.
...based on the quality of that code...
"Linux" is already something of a 'cute' name, a man named Linus applied his name to his reimplemented UNIX-type kernel...
It didn't help that they also failed to disarm the army as they disbanded it, and they disenfranchised Ba'ath party members, even though to advance in Iraqi society and government pre-invasion one basically had to join the Ba'athists...
Isn't terrorism still fundamentally people doing bad things to each other, or threatening to do bad things to each other?
Every year is the year of the Linux desktop. And none of them are.
Well, one of the flaws in X11 is how one receives remote screens to your X-server, and if people allow localhost to send screens to the session, then if someone compromises a local unprivileged account they could set up a fake lock screen on an admin's session so that when the admin enters his password they get the text he typed.
I see how this could be a problem, but given that desktop Linux isn't all that widespread I see bigger problems in arenas that are much more pressing.
I certainly get the technical explanation. Given that I don't think Deskop Linux will EVER be mainstream, this seems like something we've lived with for an incredibly long time, and doesn't affect very many people or systems.
If someone wants to fix it, cool, but it's not really going to bother me very much if this behavior continues.
This was in the context of the Iraq war, when the United States kicked over the anthill that was Saddam's government and suddenly all the factions started tearing each other and their civilization apart.
I do not normally agree with Donald Rumsfeld, and in the context of the Iraq war I definitely disagree with his decision to allow Iraq to destroy itself so thoroughly, but on the other hand if we're extending that freedom to people that we're actively in-confrontation with, then shouldn't we extend that freedom to ourselves?
Having just researched the market, battery life takes a back seat to at least a minimum level of durability. We passed on several tablets because they were just too flimsy for a frequent flyer.
I carry a Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga for work, and it's so useful that my wife bought one to be her next 5+ year portable computer.
We need the capabilities of a full-featured computer. I don't want a light machine, I want a full machine. I want to be able to type when I need to type without having to haul around disconnected third-party accessories that I may lose.
She wanted an e-book reader, a movie player, a word processor, a spreadsheet, and something that she could run Visio and ANSYS and Autocad on, so that she could telecommute. The only thing we wish that the Yoga had was a 4G WWAN interface.
To me most tablets are toys, not business machines. I want a business-capable machine.
If someone is calling from a borrowed phone, then there's a timelimit on the use of that borrowed device. By the time one calls back, the person trying to reach you might not have access to the handset anymore.
Many payphones have no receive-call feature anymore, in part to prevent drug dealers from using them to semianonymously set up their final meeting points. Can't return their call even if you try.
You know, take away the smart features of a phone and there's suddenly a whole lot of nothing for someone to steal from it, at least compared to before.
ie, "I want to go live somewhere beautiful and I'm rich, how's Switzerland this time of year?"
The entire security model and mindset in IT and computing is severely flawed. Arguably if it weren't for dependency on computers and the ability to gussy-up terrible back-end code with pretty user interfaces, this situation would be completely untenable.
I do remember this issue from back in the early days of CDRs. The worst ones were the no-name gold discs with green undersides. The silver-topped ones with mostly bluish undersides seemed to be pretty good.
I guess I need to break-out my oldest discs to see how many are readable. I probably have some that date back to the late nineties.
I'm not Canadian.
And by the way, it doesn't take a firearm to kill people. I'm sure that a certain segment of the Canadian population would be happy to make IEDs and to use them, and to thus prolong a state of war for an extended period of time.
The United States government interned just about all Japanese descendants they could during WWII, in part to prevent that population from committing acts of terrorism and sabotage on American soil. They had some precedent; the Japanese pilot that crash-landed on Ni'ihau after the attack on Pearl Harbor and was captured was released by nisei Yoshio Harada. As a first-generation American, Harada's actions undoubtedly contributed to the decision to round up so many Japanese. Thing of it is, the Japanese physically stood-out due to their racial makeup. Those of ethnic German descent were not rounded up, and I expect that an inability to actually identify them easily contributed to that.
It would be impossible to round-up Canadian ex-pats living in the United States after declaring them enemy aliens, and it's very likely that a small portion of them would not hesitate to commit acts of terrorism or sabotage on US soil if the United States invaded Canada, even if the United States somehow managed to close the massive open border between the US and Canada to stop Canadians from entering the United States to commit those acts themselves.
And as for your assessment of what Canada is worth, there's significant resource extraction (mining, fossil fuel) and an expectation that a Northwest passage could finally open up for shipping. The United States wouldn't be dependent on the Panama Canal for cheap bulk freight via sea or fairly expensive freight overland anymore. Control of that route would also enable collecting duties on Asian vessels heading to Europe that want to bypass the Suez or avoid sailing around Africa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_Great_Britain
A spindle of 100 CDRs takes an area about six inches tall, and about five inches in diameter.
.07 cubic feet for something that you intend to store for decades in a read-only fashion, then I don't know what to tell you.
You can't commit to
Besides, you commit to archive that which is important, not that which is fleeting or trivial. For most people that will be pictures. For some it will be video, and CD probably isn't the best format for video, admittedly.
I don't expect any media that requires a specific bus to be workable 40 years from now. That eliminates all hard disk drives right off the batt; who has an MFM or RLL controller? Who has an ISA bus to plug it into? Who even has traditional SCSI left working and how much longer will the standard 32-bit PCI interface be around? Good ol' fashioned 40-pin IDE is defunct, and I don't expect SATA and SAS to live any longer than it did. USB 3 is pinned differently than 1.1/2, so it's not inconceivable that future USB revisions might break backward compatibility with older revisions. Thunderbolt is based on a video connector that could sunset in much the same way that Firewire is basically gone now too.
Then you look at your solid-state media, the kind that require a reader. Several early formats like Smart Media and Memorystick are completely dead, XD is essentially dead, and only Compact Flash and SD-variants are strong at the moment. Thing is, both of those have had format revisions over the years, so it's also possible that early CF and SD won't work in later readers too. CF will be more dramatic since the early standards were based on the set of standards governing IDE and PCMCIA, and newer standards have changed that so they might not even interface. SD is less dramatic but filesystem changes through the years will pose problems even if there's a reader that can accept the unit and plug into a then-modern computer.
I don't even want to get into tape. Trying to find a Travan drive is already hard, and DAT is getting icky.
That leaves us to look at what's so popular as to likely never be completely inaccessible, aka the Compact Disc.
Relax, at least part of Star Trek fell into public domain...
...guess I'll still have to keep service with those COX for awhile longer...
I don't think that's the question at all.
I think that the question is, what medium will still be around and functional decades from now?
And I think the best predicable answer is Compact Disc, mainly due to the ubiquity of music CDs, which while not as popular as they once were, are still extremely common and will probably continue to be common. 12cm optical readers may eventually stop reading video formats like DVD, or Blu-ray, or other shorter-lived formats once new formats replace them, but there really hasn't been another digital music format with a physical component to it with the longevity and widespread popularity that CD has enjoyed.
Yes, computers are increasingly doing without optical drives, however there are still lots and lots of options for new external optical drives, and every new bus and connector has had a CD-reading drive made for it. SCSI, Parallel, MKE-Panasonic, IDE, USB1/1.1/2.0, Firewire, SATA, eSATA, Thunderbolt, and USB3.0 all have CD-capable optical drives available, and I expect that future buses will also get CD-capable optical drives.
Eventually the CD might not be supported, but there should be plenty of time to figure out what format will replace it and to do the conversion. After all, we still find 5.25" floppy drives at the Goodwill; there will be drives available to read the media.
I don't know, both the French and the Germans attempted to conquer a frozen Russia/Soviet Union and ultimately failed. the Soviet Union attempted to conquer an even more frozen Finland and failed. From the climate perspective it wouldn't be terribly easy to invade and conquer as a lot of armchair chickenhawks like to think.
And even if Canada were successfully invaded and occupied, and if somehow the British Crown didn't object and rally all of the other Commonwealth Realms to make war, there's the issue of the shared language and similar cultures making it extremely easy for Canadians to blend-in to commit acts of insurgency inside of the United States. Think of the issues that the UK had with Irish insurgency during The Troubles, where appearances were similar even though accents were vastly different, and now dampen down how much difference can be quickly profiled through speech, and one would have a really big problem.
Don't get me wrong, the United States could probably still do it, but it wouldn't be a simple walk in the park either.
That may not work out well; if a car has declared an emergency then it's more likely to be an actual emergency than it is erroneous crap, and that may be the first or only car to discover that it's an emergency. You can't discard its input solely based on its singularity. It's not like e-mail where you have time to sift, or where your e-mail server may be processing mail for thousands of accounts and the pattern-matching between received messages for multiple accounts at the same time will allow one to find things. You have to react to the first declaration of emergency or else you yourself may be involved in that emergency.
"Start" is at least short. On my Linux box at work, I renamed the XFCE "Applications Menu" to "Xfce" so that it wouldn't take up unnecessary space on the panel.
I wish they would have named it something like "Fn Menu" for Function Menu- when I did phone support it would have been fun telling users to go to the effin' menu on the bottom left corner of the screen...