Not my style. I own a software company (well, we are manufacturing our own hardware too now , but we're still mostly a software company).
Sure, we hire good coders, but we hire good people, and that's above your coding ability. We have a great environment, and we don't want to spoil it with PC bullshit. We are animals, and so are most of our employees, and we'd like to keep it that way. And you wouldn't believe how much of an awesome environment you can get when people can be themselves, and not worry about what they can and can't do/say/wear/express/whatever. That's why we only hire non-religious people, people who aren't afraid of bad language, rough attitudes, bad smells, and that usually translates to people that isn't afraid of hard work either.
At my company, we troll each other badly, there are no limits, there is no respect for anybody, not even for the owners (my associate and me). Yes, when I fuck up my employees feel free to insult me, and I couldn't be happier about it. I enjoy the same freedom. We get together once a week for bbq and zombie movies. We have a basketball court in the back, and we play rough. Believe it or not, people is actually happy to come in to work on monday, because they feel fucking free. Many of them (specially those that are married) feel more free than they do at home. In our company, the lowest tech calls the CEO a fag for using apple products, and we all laugh, and that's just fine. Getting offended is GREAT. In our culture, this idea that people have a right to not be offended has grown big lately. It's plain wrong. Being offended makes you feel alive, challenges your preconceptions, and makes you overall a better person. It sparks change, and that is always a good thing.
We spend most of our life at work, mostly because it's what we love doing, it's our project, our company, regardless of how much stock you own. Keeping it _just_ professional would be a complete waste of your time.
True for other technical areas, but for IT, terms are in English. Except for a couple of countries that insist on translating everything (France and Spain come to mind).
Stupid Spaniards insist on translating (ridiculously) words like Firewall (Corta Fuegos), Motherboard (Placa Madre), etc. It sounds stupid, and shouldn't be done.
The worst I've ever seen is translated unix tools, kernel and config files. Debian does that shit. It's bloody stupid. Basic tools, such as rm, ls, sed, ln, fdisk, etc have been translated. That's stupid and dangerous.
See, you are destroying your own arguments. You use the typical feminist speech, including the word "patriarchy" (which can't be missing from any feminist sentence), and yet you go own to explain how you aren't comfortable with people acting naturally around you, and how you need a special PC bubble in order to go to work.
If you are so fragile, then you are validating the patriarch argument: Woman aren't strong enough to do a man's job. Go back to the fucking kitchen.
Otherwise, suck it up and go to work like everyone else. Guess what? We don't feel comfortable all the fucking time. Work isn't always comfortable, or nice, or cozy, or equal, or fair. We deal with it, and if you want to be equal, so should you.
See, that's my problem. Your right to work in the computer industry is exactly equivalent to my write to say and write whatever the fuck I want.
I don't believe in equality, not gender equality, not race equality, nor any other kind of equality. I believe in something EVEN better: Individuality. Anyone can do whatever the fuck they want, as long as you don't step on anybody's rights. How about that? Implementing laws to make sure that everybody is equal is killing individuality, and I'm totally against that. You think that in order to get your right to work, I must forfeit my right to free speech?
If you are so sensitive that you can't handle a little comment on your source code, then you are not really as prepared for the job (or life) as you think you are.
If you really want to be equal, you shouldn't start by asking for special privileges. If you might feel "uncomfortable" because of something perfectly natural, then you are not fitted to work with a bunch of people. You can't be equal.
I definitely want more female coders, and more females in the workplace. But I don't want fragile stereotypes who can't handle reality.
I want mature and strong woman who are not scared away by a stupid sexual reference in a piece of code.
What? Maybe it's because I don't give a fuck what other people think, or about what's socially acceptable, I have way too much important stuff to do to care about such mundane concepts, but I don't really understand your post. Like, at all. Care to elaborate on that?
Detractors... interesting. You are using the same words as crazy christians who thing anybody that doesn't validate their imaginary friend is attacking them.
Good choice of words if you ask me, Apple is a religion.
You know that ain't true. It's the other way around. You install what's available, and ask yourself, why would I ever need anything again?
Truth is, it's enough for your average joe, but not for nerds.
I'm running a full Debian install on top of my Ice Cream Sandwich install on my Galaxy. That includes Apache, mysql and PHP. It's a portable webserver, and it comes in handy more than once when you are a dev. Try doing that on your phone...
Anyway, you started your post with "it's called a developer license". You should have stopped RIGHT THERE. Do you realize you need a LICENSE to install software ON YOUR OWN COMPUTER (Yes, the iPhone is a computer)?
Get a phone from a company whose policies don't fucking suck, and where you can install whatever fucking software you want without the need to find a vulnerability.
Your post doesn't make any sens. "we did that years ago on the platforms we used as kids" is exactly the point here.
It's like making reports and giving rewards to kids that manage to cross the street in order to get grown ups to hear about road safety. There are better ways, and since any kid can do it, and kids have been doing so for ages, it's not something to be rewarded or praised.
They say "She found a whole new kind of exploit", and that she's found many zero-day exploits in mobile apps.
Ok. So I keep reading. Here's all of it: She changes the date on her phone so the trial lasts longer. That's it.
We've been doing that for decades. I did when I was 10 too, in DOS, and so did most of you. An entire generation changed their machine's date so we could use expired trials. We did this back in the 80's, and none of us got press as 1337 hax0rz for it.
This is the equivalent of every kid is a winner, for technology. Everyone is a computer genius at this conference, even if they can't code and all they do is play with their phone all day long and try to beat trials using a technique that's 30 years old,and that's not technical at all.
I'm still pissed at that situation. I can't believe somebody did that, specially since it was for sure somebody that was at the conference. I mean, not some random thief in the street, but a guy that actually went to his conference in the UBA. Incredible.
The story I told actually happened back in 2004. He still had a thinkpad back then.
Not in Recoleta (It's the fanciest neighborhood in the city). Expensive restaurants, with big Coca Cola contracts. No way I could have walked in there with some other soda.
And I would be all for it if it helped. It's actually counter-productive to our cause. People look at you, and they think we are extremists. They think Free Software is not practical. They look at you, wiping your ass with sandpaper because soft tissue is privative, and they go "That's what using Free Software must be like".
I once spent 2 hours walking around with RMS looking for a restaurant that he liked AND served pepsi. This was in Recoleta, Buenos Aires, where most good restaurants have an exclusive deal with Coca Cola. In each place we entered, he asked if they served coke, and in a few places he insisted on speaking with the manager and when he got his way, he explained to him in gruesome details all the atrocities the Coca Cola company did in Colombia to workers.
I firmly believe in Free Software, and I admire RMS for everything he has done for the world. I try to uphold my principles, but this semi-religious thing of taking it to the extreme and avoiding anything even remotely related to something you disagree with, as if it was permanently tainted by immorality, is just plain stupid.
My company tries to free under the GPL as many products as possible, but if we freed certain things, we would be out of business. If I refused to use privative software at all, I couldn't even use a phone (even if the soft is free, the GSM firmware won't be).
What this guy is doing is just a publicity stunt, and a fairly stupid one at that. He thinks he's sending a message, but it's not the one he's thinking about.
Except for the fact that neither firefox nor explorer implement DNS pinning.
Also, it doesn't apply in this case, the page server could just redirect to the fbi website, and then provide a link back to the original site. If you are trully paranoid about pinning, you can implement a 5 second delay on the fbi redirector. You are going to another domain, then linking back.
Don't display the note on the hijacked request, redirect the user to the actual FBI website, on HTTPS, where they get the note, and the option to redirect to their original request.
Thow tech savy enough will realize it's for real, and those not tech savy enough will believe the message anyway, even if it was hosted at fbi.gq.nu
You are right. That's why there are no Dynamic DNS services out there. Oh, wait, there totally are, shitloads of them. And you can totally set the TTL on any DNS record, therefore preventing caching. Who would have thought it?
I certainly couldn't have figured it out on my own, I only have 15 years of experience as a unix sysadmin.
Keeping the server up for so long was a mistake. Not warning users was a huge mistake too.
What I would have done:
Keep the server up for 10 days. Redirect all requests to a page that says "Your computer has been compromised... blah blah blah. Your internet connection will stop working in N days. Click here to continue to the site you where visiting".
But it's the kernel license, so if they plan on releasing any useful code, it must be under a GPLv2 compatible license.
I really don't understand why they don't open up already. Their only real competition is ATI, and there's not a single technology that nvidia could expose through their source that ATI doesn't already have... so, why don't just open up?
The way nvidia gets itself into the kernel is an ugly hack, and we're sick of it and the problems it brings.
Agreed. Executions are awful, even for adults. Does that justify censorship? No.
My point is that censorship is binary. There's no such thing as "We are not censoring, just taking care of the kids". Sorry, no "buts" allowed. You are either censoring them or you are not.
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That's why I'm happy my company is its own fucking island.
Also, fuck polite society. That's a stupid christian concept and I want nothing to do with it.
Truth supersedes politeness.
Dude, you are posting this as anonymous coward, and demanding I post my company's name?
Not my style. I own a software company (well, we are manufacturing our own hardware too now , but we're still mostly a software company).
Sure, we hire good coders, but we hire good people, and that's above your coding ability. We have a great environment, and we don't want to spoil it with PC bullshit. We are animals, and so are most of our employees, and we'd like to keep it that way. And you wouldn't believe how much of an awesome environment you can get when people can be themselves, and not worry about what they can and can't do/say/wear/express/whatever. That's why we only hire non-religious people, people who aren't afraid of bad language, rough attitudes, bad smells, and that usually translates to people that isn't afraid of hard work either.
At my company, we troll each other badly, there are no limits, there is no respect for anybody, not even for the owners (my associate and me). Yes, when I fuck up my employees feel free to insult me, and I couldn't be happier about it. I enjoy the same freedom. We get together once a week for bbq and zombie movies. We have a basketball court in the back, and we play rough. Believe it or not, people is actually happy to come in to work on monday, because they feel fucking free. Many of them (specially those that are married) feel more free than they do at home. In our company, the lowest tech calls the CEO a fag for using apple products, and we all laugh, and that's just fine. Getting offended is GREAT. In our culture, this idea that people have a right to not be offended has grown big lately. It's plain wrong. Being offended makes you feel alive, challenges your preconceptions, and makes you overall a better person. It sparks change, and that is always a good thing.
We spend most of our life at work, mostly because it's what we love doing, it's our project, our company, regardless of how much stock you own. Keeping it _just_ professional would be a complete waste of your time.
True for other technical areas, but for IT, terms are in English. Except for a couple of countries that insist on translating everything (France and Spain come to mind).
Stupid Spaniards insist on translating (ridiculously) words like Firewall (Corta Fuegos), Motherboard (Placa Madre), etc. It sounds stupid, and shouldn't be done.
The worst I've ever seen is translated unix tools, kernel and config files. Debian does that shit. It's bloody stupid. Basic tools, such as rm, ls, sed, ln, fdisk, etc have been translated. That's stupid and dangerous.
See, you are destroying your own arguments. You use the typical feminist speech, including the word "patriarchy" (which can't be missing from any feminist sentence), and yet you go own to explain how you aren't comfortable with people acting naturally around you, and how you need a special PC bubble in order to go to work.
If you are so fragile, then you are validating the patriarch argument: Woman aren't strong enough to do a man's job. Go back to the fucking kitchen.
Otherwise, suck it up and go to work like everyone else. Guess what? We don't feel comfortable all the fucking time. Work isn't always comfortable, or nice, or cozy, or equal, or fair. We deal with it, and if you want to be equal, so should you.
See, that's my problem. Your right to work in the computer industry is exactly equivalent to my write to say and write whatever the fuck I want.
I don't believe in equality, not gender equality, not race equality, nor any other kind of equality. I believe in something EVEN better: Individuality. Anyone can do whatever the fuck they want, as long as you don't step on anybody's rights. How about that? Implementing laws to make sure that everybody is equal is killing individuality, and I'm totally against that. You think that in order to get your right to work, I must forfeit my right to free speech?
If you are so sensitive that you can't handle a little comment on your source code, then you are not really as prepared for the job (or life) as you think you are.
If you really want to be equal, you shouldn't start by asking for special privileges. If you might feel "uncomfortable" because of something perfectly natural, then you are not fitted to work with a bunch of people. You can't be equal.
I definitely want more female coders, and more females in the workplace. But I don't want fragile stereotypes who can't handle reality.
I want mature and strong woman who are not scared away by a stupid sexual reference in a piece of code.
What? Maybe it's because I don't give a fuck what other people think, or about what's socially acceptable, I have way too much important stuff to do to care about such mundane concepts, but I don't really understand your post. Like, at all. Care to elaborate on that?
"detractors of ios?"
Detractors ... interesting. You are using the same words as crazy christians who thing anybody that doesn't validate their imaginary friend is attacking them.
Good choice of words if you ask me, Apple is a religion.
You know that ain't true. It's the other way around. You install what's available, and ask yourself, why would I ever need anything again?
Truth is, it's enough for your average joe, but not for nerds.
I'm running a full Debian install on top of my Ice Cream Sandwich install on my Galaxy. That includes Apache, mysql and PHP. It's a portable webserver, and it comes in handy more than once when you are a dev. Try doing that on your phone ...
Anyway, you started your post with "it's called a developer license". You should have stopped RIGHT THERE. Do you realize you need a LICENSE to install software ON YOUR OWN COMPUTER (Yes, the iPhone is a computer)?
Get a phone from a company whose policies don't fucking suck, and where you can install whatever fucking software you want without the need to find a vulnerability.
Your post doesn't make any sens. "we did that years ago on the platforms we used as kids" is exactly the point here.
It's like making reports and giving rewards to kids that manage to cross the street in order to get grown ups to hear about road safety. There are better ways, and since any kid can do it, and kids have been doing so for ages, it's not something to be rewarded or praised.
They say "She found a whole new kind of exploit", and that she's found many zero-day exploits in mobile apps.
Ok. So I keep reading. Here's all of it: She changes the date on her phone so the trial lasts longer. That's it.
We've been doing that for decades. I did when I was 10 too, in DOS, and so did most of you. An entire generation changed their machine's date so we could use expired trials. We did this back in the 80's, and none of us got press as 1337 hax0rz for it.
This is the equivalent of every kid is a winner, for technology. Everyone is a computer genius at this conference, even if they can't code and all they do is play with their phone all day long and try to beat trials using a technique that's 30 years old,and that's not technical at all.
Eric Raymond backs loony right causes like gun rights. Raymond is a gun nut. So much better, right ...
I'm still pissed at that situation. I can't believe somebody did that, specially since it was for sure somebody that was at the conference. I mean, not some random thief in the street, but a guy that actually went to his conference in the UBA. Incredible.
The story I told actually happened back in 2004. He still had a thinkpad back then.
http://www.stallman.org/photos/argentina/mar-del-plata/img_0851.jpg (that's in La Serranita, Mar del Plata, Argentina).
Not in Recoleta (It's the fanciest neighborhood in the city). Expensive restaurants, with big Coca Cola contracts. No way I could have walked in there with some other soda.
And I would be all for it if it helped. It's actually counter-productive to our cause. People look at you, and they think we are extremists. They think Free Software is not practical. They look at you, wiping your ass with sandpaper because soft tissue is privative, and they go "That's what using Free Software must be like".
I once spent 2 hours walking around with RMS looking for a restaurant that he liked AND served pepsi. This was in Recoleta, Buenos Aires, where most good restaurants have an exclusive deal with Coca Cola. In each place we entered, he asked if they served coke, and in a few places he insisted on speaking with the manager and when he got his way, he explained to him in gruesome details all the atrocities the Coca Cola company did in Colombia to workers.
I firmly believe in Free Software, and I admire RMS for everything he has done for the world. I try to uphold my principles, but this semi-religious thing of taking it to the extreme and avoiding anything even remotely related to something you disagree with, as if it was permanently tainted by immorality, is just plain stupid.
My company tries to free under the GPL as many products as possible, but if we freed certain things, we would be out of business. If I refused to use privative software at all, I couldn't even use a phone (even if the soft is free, the GSM firmware won't be).
What this guy is doing is just a publicity stunt, and a fairly stupid one at that. He thinks he's sending a message, but it's not the one he's thinking about.
Except for the fact that neither firefox nor explorer implement DNS pinning.
Also, it doesn't apply in this case, the page server could just redirect to the fbi website, and then provide a link back to the original site. If you are trully paranoid about pinning, you can implement a 5 second delay on the fbi redirector. You are going to another domain, then linking back.
Don't display the note on the hijacked request, redirect the user to the actual FBI website, on HTTPS, where they get the note, and the option to redirect to their original request.
Thow tech savy enough will realize it's for real, and those not tech savy enough will believe the message anyway, even if it was hosted at fbi.gq.nu
You are right. That's why there are no Dynamic DNS services out there.
Oh, wait, there totally are, shitloads of them. And you can totally set the TTL on any DNS record, therefore preventing caching. Who would have thought it?
I certainly couldn't have figured it out on my own, I only have 15 years of experience as a unix sysadmin.
Keeping the server up for so long was a mistake. Not warning users was a huge mistake too.
What I would have done:
Keep the server up for 10 days. ... blah blah blah. Your internet connection will stop working in N days. Click here to continue to the site you where visiting".
Redirect all requests to a page that says "Your computer has been compromised
Simple yet effective.
I didn't buy it to masturbate to it and show it to other people at Starbucks telling them how cool I own for owning it, so, no, and idevice won't do.
But it's the kernel license, so if they plan on releasing any useful code, it must be under a GPLv2 compatible license.
I really don't understand why they don't open up already. Their only real competition is ATI, and there's not a single technology that nvidia could expose through their source that ATI doesn't already have ... so, why don't just open up?
The way nvidia gets itself into the kernel is an ugly hack, and we're sick of it and the problems it brings.
Agreed. Executions are awful, even for adults. Does that justify censorship? No.
My point is that censorship is binary. There's no such thing as "We are not censoring, just taking care of the kids". Sorry, no "buts" allowed. You are either censoring them or you are not.
There's no need to cover electrical outlets because evolution rocks.