Thank you for posting the additional more reliable source. It is hard to take anything posted on theoutline seriously. It's like someone citing Fox News. "news" sites that are so politically tilted in one way or another should really be avoided IMHO.
"A staggering 94% of Republicans, 92% of Democrats, and 85% of independents" In a system where single digit percentages are the difference between success and failure I would say this is more of an endorsement of political speech on FB than a discouragement.
"young adults ages 18-29. It found that 51 percent of those polled rejected capitalism" In other news, a recent study of young adults aged 18-29 showed that only 49 percent have ever worked to support themselves and paid taxes.:-)
There are private companies already keeping tabs on things you say, tying that to your credit score, creating profiles for you and figuring out your real identity, mapping that to your physical address and then calculating your "threat score" then selling that information to law enforcement. This is so much more invasive and complete than your future employer browsing your twitter or facebook posts. Here is a WaPo article detailing one such system actively in use today. http://wapo.st/1TOtLhC Everyone crying conspiracy/tin foil beanie is only enabling this tech to proliferate. A couple years ago people who knew about Stingray were called paranoid...a couple years before Snowden people who pointed out the NSA's abuse of power were too. At this point I am pretty sure the denial is a self defense mechanism because the reality is too scary for most people to accept.
Motorola, brought to you by the same parent company that gave you Superfish and adware injections from the BIOS on fresh Windows OS installs...I'm sorry, are you surprised? You must be new here.:-)
The people that are going to be specifically targeted are the people who have not, or cannot yet purchase a fuel efficient or a hybrid car. Because the state will just turn the existing gas tax into an environmental tax, and then all drivers will be paying per-mile AND a gas tax/carbon-offset tax except EV drivers.
I know my situation is unique but I found a local govt environment built on legacy tech. I had the opportunity to steer it towards Linux. Find a startup or a datacenter ripe for upgrade (UNIX, netware etc). Also there are a lot of federal positions for UNIX stuff. There will be a lot of Linux opportunities there too.
anyone that refuses a pat-down is free to leave. Our rights haven't been eroded quite that far yet.
You are incorrect. The law says once you enter the security screening area you may not leave without completing the security screening process. Google around there is a bunch of blogs and articles about people being slapped with fines and what I consider to be unreasonable periods of detention if they refuse to "complete the security screening process" as they are ordered to. They are certainly not free to leave.
It is times like these it is nice that our neighbors to the north don't believe in nukes. Think of the vast expanses of arable land at our grimy little finger tips:-) Oil and wheat for everyone!
You are comparing a single person to a government that represents billions of people. Using your rationale people in Libya should all sue the hundreds of various companies that manufacture all the military equipment that NATO has been using to blow them up. Silly.
I was car shopping last year and I wanted to test drive a Ford Fusion hybrid. Besides the speedometer, all other gauges on the dash are LCD. The salesman was trying to show me some of the features and kept getting lost in the menu system and at one point the dash became completely unresponsive. The salesman looked at me kind of sheepishly and then said occasionally when this happens you just have to turn the car off and let it sit for 10 seconds then turn it back on. At that point I had pretty much made up my mind to NOT buy this car but I kind of felt obligated at that point to finish the test drive so after the "reboot" it worked like he expected it to so he showed me all these neato features. In the car's defense there are some pretty cool display options on that vehicle when it is working correctly. Then he let me get behind the wheel for the driving portion. I went to put the car into reverse to back out of the stall it was in and there was a good sized stainless steel plaque at the base of the shifter on the center console that said "Powered by Microsoft" I just sort of sat there for a second staring at it, and the salesguy asked me if everything was OK. I then just put the car back into park and thanked him for his time and left...true story.
I pretty much agree with every point you make here except this "Then it bought Suse, and screwed that up too." I don't understand why so many people repeat this. If I recall correctly SuSE was failing as a commercial Linux company when Novell acquired them. They were on their way to Mandrake-ville. Where I work we have hundreds of SLES servers in production today and they are rock solid. Fast, reliable, super easy to manage. I would put my SLES datacenters up against a Red Hat shop any day of the week. And Novell licensing is so much cheaper than Red Hat we basically have a site license for the cost it would take to license half our servers for support to Red Hat. Not to mention the fact that Red Hat basically abandoned the Desktop a while ago and SLED is a great windows replacement for a significant portion of our end users who don't require the few remaining windows client-servers apps we have left.
The stupid MS agreement and not ending support for these crap legacy apps is what is killing them. If you look at the numbers, the Linux division of Novell is profitable. The problem is the boat-anchor of closed source legacy BS they are still supporting is dragging down the whole company. Instead Novell has too many old timer bean counters at the helm who don't understand that the word Free does not mean free.
How do I protect myself from a skimmer inside a gas pump?
I only use gas cards to buy gas at the pump and I pay the balance in full each month. These aren't cards with Visa logos on them or whatever they are just credit cards usable only at whatever station honors them. I have 3 of them that cover pretty much every major brand gas station in the US...as they are pretty much all merging nowadays anyway. I once lost my wallet and before I canceled my Union76/Conoco/Phillips/whatever card someone had already filled up like 2 cars and bought a bunch of stuff at the shop and rob at the gas station. A few weeks later when I got the statement I made one phone call and disputed the charges and they were removed from my balance immediately. Took all of ~5 mins, zero hassle.
Maybe you should take your own advice...about the original Novell MSFT agreement because Novell also never conceded or acknowledged any of Microsoft's IP claims in Linux either. In fact the language in the agreement specifically stated that Novell was not, and will never acknowledge any of MSFT's IP claims and in fact Novell has donated ALL of their Unix and Linux IP to the common defense of any Linux distributer who needs it to defend against attacks from Microsoft so stuff that in your pipe and smoke it Tommy. You and the OP should try to RTFA yourself before you comment and spread more FUD.
In fact Novell pretty much buried the only real threat to Linux in SCO. We are 3+ years on after the signing of the Novell/MSFT deal and there has been zero legal action by Ballmer and his cronies. Don't you think that if the Novell/MSFT deal was somehow some kind of trap for the GPL we would have seen something by now? Here we all are still holding our breath waiting for "the other shoe to drop" and there is nothing but the sound of a bunch of fear-mongers running around still looking for a cause because they can't find a constructive way to contribute to the Linux community.
Pidgin is GTK+ and Kopete is still very immature compared to it.
I was totally onboard with your post until you said Kopete was immature compared to Pidgin...As far as I am concerned the complete opposite is true. I am regularly a Gnome user but I switched to KDE for a few weeks (for reasons beyond my control) and I completely fell in love with Kopete. It matches GAIM/Pidgin feature for feature then adds 100 more on top of that. Just the appearance and skinning options alone dwarf Pidgin's. All the best Pidgin plugins are represented in Kopete too. Plus Kopete has great video device support, a feature the GAIM/Pidgin team has been promising for years but never has managed to deliver. The integrated camera on my Lenovo Thinkpad W500 was supported out of the box. I really wish we could get a gtk version of Kopete over to gnome to give Pidgin a run for it's money....for years now, like ever since the main dev went to work for Google it is as if Pidgin has gone into feature freeze/bug fix only mode...
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Thank you for posting the additional more reliable source. It is hard to take anything posted on theoutline seriously. It's like someone citing Fox News. "news" sites that are so politically tilted in one way or another should really be avoided IMHO.
"A staggering 94% of Republicans, 92% of Democrats, and 85% of independents" In a system where single digit percentages are the difference between success and failure I would say this is more of an endorsement of political speech on FB than a discouragement.
Neat, we can finally do convenient two-factor auth on a smart phone. Looking forward to this coming to market.
"young adults ages 18-29. It found that 51 percent of those polled rejected capitalism" In other news, a recent study of young adults aged 18-29 showed that only 49 percent have ever worked to support themselves and paid taxes. :-)
There are private companies already keeping tabs on things you say, tying that to your credit score, creating profiles for you and figuring out your real identity, mapping that to your physical address and then calculating your "threat score" then selling that information to law enforcement. This is so much more invasive and complete than your future employer browsing your twitter or facebook posts. Here is a WaPo article detailing one such system actively in use today. http://wapo.st/1TOtLhC Everyone crying conspiracy/tin foil beanie is only enabling this tech to proliferate. A couple years ago people who knew about Stingray were called paranoid...a couple years before Snowden people who pointed out the NSA's abuse of power were too. At this point I am pretty sure the denial is a self defense mechanism because the reality is too scary for most people to accept.
Fight Uni!
ZOMG another attack vector the NSA will have to monitor! We need to ban this, for the children!!!
Motorola, brought to you by the same parent company that gave you Superfish and adware injections from the BIOS on fresh Windows OS installs...I'm sorry, are you surprised? You must be new here. :-)
I would cheer but you know there's just another warmonger in an expensive suit standing behind him to take his place.
The people that are going to be specifically targeted are the people who have not, or cannot yet purchase a fuel efficient or a hybrid car. Because the state will just turn the existing gas tax into an environmental tax, and then all drivers will be paying per-mile AND a gas tax/carbon-offset tax except EV drivers.
Because somewhere there is a bureaucrat sitting around trying to justify his/her existence? As is the case with many government regulations.
Although true, I don't think calling the FBI "bitches" would be very constructive in this situation.
I know my situation is unique but I found a local govt environment built on legacy tech. I had the opportunity to steer it towards Linux. Find a startup or a datacenter ripe for upgrade (UNIX, netware etc). Also there are a lot of federal positions for UNIX stuff. There will be a lot of Linux opportunities there too.
anyone that refuses a pat-down is free to leave. Our rights haven't been eroded quite that far yet.
You are incorrect. The law says once you enter the security screening area you may not leave without completing the security screening process. Google around there is a bunch of blogs and articles about people being slapped with fines and what I consider to be unreasonable periods of detention if they refuse to "complete the security screening process" as they are ordered to. They are certainly not free to leave.
"Once a person submits to the screening process, they can not just decide to leave that process," says Sari Koshetz, regional TSA spokesperson, based in Miami. - http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-11-20/business/sfl-airport-scans-pat-downs-refual-20101121_1_tsa-airport-checkpoint-sari-koshetz
There are a lot of examples the above link is just the first one Google ponied up.
It is times like these it is nice that our neighbors to the north don't believe in nukes. Think of the vast expanses of arable land at our grimy little finger tips :-) Oil and wheat for everyone!
You are comparing a single person to a government that represents billions of people. Using your rationale people in Libya should all sue the hundreds of various companies that manufacture all the military equipment that NATO has been using to blow them up. Silly.
How to write better detection avoidance considering they wrote it.
I was car shopping last year and I wanted to test drive a Ford Fusion hybrid. Besides the speedometer, all other gauges on the dash are LCD. The salesman was trying to show me some of the features and kept getting lost in the menu system and at one point the dash became completely unresponsive. The salesman looked at me kind of sheepishly and then said occasionally when this happens you just have to turn the car off and let it sit for 10 seconds then turn it back on. At that point I had pretty much made up my mind to NOT buy this car but I kind of felt obligated at that point to finish the test drive so after the "reboot" it worked like he expected it to so he showed me all these neato features. In the car's defense there are some pretty cool display options on that vehicle when it is working correctly. Then he let me get behind the wheel for the driving portion. I went to put the car into reverse to back out of the stall it was in and there was a good sized stainless steel plaque at the base of the shifter on the center console that said "Powered by Microsoft" I just sort of sat there for a second staring at it, and the salesguy asked me if everything was OK. I then just put the car back into park and thanked him for his time and left...true story.
All because people are scared of offending muslims.
"But sir, no one worries about upsetting a droid"
"That's because droids don't pull peoples arms out of their sockets when they lose, wookies are known to do that."
Congrats NSA! Novell has been performing this miraculous feat of software wizardry for a few years now... http://www.novell.com/products/zenworks/endpointsecuritymanagement/
I pretty much agree with every point you make here except this "Then it bought Suse, and screwed that up too." I don't understand why so many people repeat this. If I recall correctly SuSE was failing as a commercial Linux company when Novell acquired them. They were on their way to Mandrake-ville. Where I work we have hundreds of SLES servers in production today and they are rock solid. Fast, reliable, super easy to manage. I would put my SLES datacenters up against a Red Hat shop any day of the week. And Novell licensing is so much cheaper than Red Hat we basically have a site license for the cost it would take to license half our servers for support to Red Hat. Not to mention the fact that Red Hat basically abandoned the Desktop a while ago and SLED is a great windows replacement for a significant portion of our end users who don't require the few remaining windows client-servers apps we have left.
The stupid MS agreement and not ending support for these crap legacy apps is what is killing them. If you look at the numbers, the Linux division of Novell is profitable. The problem is the boat-anchor of closed source legacy BS they are still supporting is dragging down the whole company. Instead Novell has too many old timer bean counters at the helm who don't understand that the word Free does not mean free.
How do I protect myself from a skimmer inside a gas pump?
I only use gas cards to buy gas at the pump and I pay the balance in full each month. These aren't cards with Visa logos on them or whatever they are just credit cards usable only at whatever station honors them. I have 3 of them that cover pretty much every major brand gas station in the US...as they are pretty much all merging nowadays anyway. I once lost my wallet and before I canceled my Union76/Conoco/Phillips/whatever card someone had already filled up like 2 cars and bought a bunch of stuff at the shop and rob at the gas station. A few weeks later when I got the statement I made one phone call and disputed the charges and they were removed from my balance immediately. Took all of ~5 mins, zero hassle.
I think it was big oil in rollerball. but it could have been big amazon. plus the idea of a big Amazon woman is somewhat scarier than a big brother.
Rollerball2 - DEATH BY SNU SNU!!!
Read TFA.
Maybe you should take your own advice...about the original Novell MSFT agreement because Novell also never conceded or acknowledged any of Microsoft's IP claims in Linux either. In fact the language in the agreement specifically stated that Novell was not, and will never acknowledge any of MSFT's IP claims and in fact Novell has donated ALL of their Unix and Linux IP to the common defense of any Linux distributer who needs it to defend against attacks from Microsoft so stuff that in your pipe and smoke it Tommy. You and the OP should try to RTFA yourself before you comment and spread more FUD.
In fact Novell pretty much buried the only real threat to Linux in SCO. We are 3+ years on after the signing of the Novell/MSFT deal and there has been zero legal action by Ballmer and his cronies. Don't you think that if the Novell/MSFT deal was somehow some kind of trap for the GPL we would have seen something by now? Here we all are still holding our breath waiting for "the other shoe to drop" and there is nothing but the sound of a bunch of fear-mongers running around still looking for a cause because they can't find a constructive way to contribute to the Linux community.
Pidgin is GTK+ and Kopete is still very immature compared to it.
I was totally onboard with your post until you said Kopete was immature compared to Pidgin...As far as I am concerned the complete opposite is true. I am regularly a Gnome user but I switched to KDE for a few weeks (for reasons beyond my control) and I completely fell in love with Kopete. It matches GAIM/Pidgin feature for feature then adds 100 more on top of that. Just the appearance and skinning options alone dwarf Pidgin's. All the best Pidgin plugins are represented in Kopete too. Plus Kopete has great video device support, a feature the GAIM/Pidgin team has been promising for years but never has managed to deliver. The integrated camera on my Lenovo Thinkpad W500 was supported out of the box. I really wish we could get a gtk version of Kopete over to gnome to give Pidgin a run for it's money....for years now, like ever since the main dev went to work for Google it is as if Pidgin has gone into feature freeze/bug fix only mode...