The closest I've ever come to AV software has been running clamav on a Slackware machine acting as a mail server, but I do understand how they work. It doesn't look like it was the AV's fault.
Well, it was in a way, AV software is a braindead solution to a problem that shouldn't exist. Use only properly signed software from trusted sources in a secure platform, that's a real solution.
Anyway, this guy killed both Sophos and the Time Machine process in the middle of a backup, while they were both trying to access his backup disk.
Backup disks should never be treated in that way, and you should actually never sync against your only copy of a backup. That is plain stupidity. Backups should be done in two stages:
Active Data -> Backup server -> Offline backup.
Connecting your only copy of your backup to where your precious data is means you have both copies of your information connected and mounted in a single computer. That's beyond stupid.
Anyway, it seems like Apple's fault. I've used Rsync for ages. You can kill an rsync process, and recover from where you started, but I can see how cheaper backup alternatives might screw everything up if you killed them in the middle of an operation.
I don't know how data is stored on TM's timecapsules, but it doesn't seem to be transactional or secure, based on the way this guy lost so much data in a split second.
I guess my policy of staying away of anything proprietary, and using server-class, proven backup solutions in the proper way (data -> backup server -> offline storage), using fully transactional solutions, and always backing up to separate instances on the second stage (instead of replacing) is the only solution, as I've never lost a byte, while I keep hearing terrible stories of data loss, empty backups and massive filesystem corruption (yeah, mostly from windows/mac users).
I'm tired of repeating this: 13.75 billion years ago, god didn't exist. There was nothing that we could now call 'god' at the time. No evidence of a god back then. Neither was 300 thousand years ago. The first evidence of a concept of 'god' has been found ~250 thousand years ago. It was created by humans. So, it's up to those humans that propose the existence of a god to provide verifiable proof of such claims. GP says that nobody can prove or disprove god. That, by the very definition of existence, is proof that god doesn't exist.
I agree with you partially. Religious institutions are more dangerous that lonely lunatics. But that doesn't mean that lonely lunatics aren't dangerous too.
Religion is not a right, it's a disease. We do agree in mandatory psychiatric help and reduced rights to schizophrenics and psychotics, in some cases, reclusion. Why do we treat them different when their particular case of psychotic delusion is shared by other lunatics? Is mass schizophrenia somehow a good thing?
Religion is not a right, it's a form of mental illness, and it's treatment should be mandatory. god is not a philosophical issue, it's a medical one. Just another disease that needs to be diagnosed and treated, both for the sake of the individual's health, and for the public's.
So, no, I am not advocating a violent crusade against religion. I am advocating HONESTY. Are you a rational human being? Then stop pretending that religion is ok. Stop supporting them. Stop saying that it's just a matter of opinion, or a personal right, or that we must defend religious tolerance. We must advocate peace, and we must advocate human rights. Nobody should ever be murdered or assaulted for any reason, period. That doesn't mean that we should allow any kind of behavior just because it gets tax exemption. Tolerance is a BAD THING. It was supposed to mean not harming others because of what they believe, and I couldn't agree more on that, but now, it means not contradicting in any way any idiot that puts certain labels on all kinds of irrational ideas. That, is not reasonable, and we shouldn't take it any longer.
If some guy from the kkk where to show up at your door with a pamphlet to give you the good news about the chosen race, you would call the police in a nanosecond, and they would get their ass pounded in no time. But a variety of fuckers from several cults from the mormons, to the jehovah witnesses show up at your door every week, and suddenly we are ok with that! And, let's be honest, religion has proved to be more dangerous (and has killed way more people) than any group of deranged racists ever will.
No, I propose we stop being polite. I propose we stop accepting the irrational as reasonable. I propose we stop pretending. We've pretended for too long that it's ok. That everyone is entitled to their opinion. Well, guess what? Religion is not an opinion. It's a dangerous mix of deranged lunatics, blind followers, power-holics, and all powerful bastards that found in religion a very useful tool.
We lock up our lunatics. We held everyone by higher standards than the ones we use for religious idiots. We decided that the certain things are not ok, and therefore we do not have neonazis, kkk members, black panthers or talibans on network television telling us what to do. And yet, we do allow other cults with a funny hat to go on national tv at 9 A.M on a sunday morning to tell the world that people that believe in a different invisible man in the sky should burn in hell. We allow them to determine what candidates can run on an election, what contents are ok in public school, what is ok and not ok to say on tv or radio, what substances we can use, and the list goes on and on.
Bullshit. We are at war with religion. Tolerance is tearing humanity apart. Tolerance is their tool, they have convinced the rest of the world that we must tolerate their stupidity. They are against everything that is good for the human kind. We must destroy them, and everything they stand for, if we want to move forward. Religion has been holding us back for ages. We could truly be an evolved race by now, if it weren't for them.
They have murdered the best of our kind for thousands of years, and still some of us protects them.
We have to be outspoken. We have to be merciless. The biggest dangers doesn't lie in those irrational masses that believe in made up bullshit, it lies in the traitors: all the rationalists that don't have the balls to stand up against them. You are humanity's biggest enemy.
Dude, I feel your pain. Evolution is so obvious, so evident, so undeniable. We experience it every day, even within our own families. And yet, you find people that tell you that there is "no proof of evolution", but he insists that there is more proof of the existence of an invisible man in the sky. Even when all evidence goes against it, he insists that there is only evidence for it. And does the opposite with evolution. Stupidity hurts because we try to understand them.
Making an informed decision on what we believe to be true is a basic start to that end.
See, that shows the very problem with religious idiots like yourself: You CHOOSE what to believe. You said so yourself. Informed decision or not, you are DECIDING on what to believe.
Rational people do not decide what to believe. Science doesn't decide that something is true or false. We conduct experiments, Study the results, construct the truth based on empiric evidence. A rigorous method shows us the truth, and we take it with a grain of salt, constantly questioning what we know, until we find new evidence, either to support or claim or to disprove it, and we accept it as it comes. You see, we are not biased. We do not start with a conclusion and then find evidence to support it. We first experiment, then draw our conclusions.
I truly despise you, your kind is the lowest scum on this earth, and the real culprits behind most of what is wrong with this world. I truly wish you were all dead, not because I hate you, because it's the best for the human kind.
There is no need to analyze 'each side' as you say, because there is only one side: Science. And all of the scientific community agrees that evolution is a fact. We might not agree on some details regarding evolution, but we do on the general concept. Then, there are religious types. All of their affirmations are based on the fact that there is a god. Well, There is no god. That has been proved long ago. We know how gods where invented, we have historical proof of their invention. We can show you how gods where invented from a variety of POVs: History, Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, etc.
Also, the very fact that this people believe that there is an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do every minute of every day (paraphrasing Carlin, Fuck yeah) is enough proof that they are deluded.
You need the help of a professional, a psychiatrist.
Also, this technology is a cover-up. What they are actually developing here is touchscreen-enabled gloves for GOTHS. We've managed to keep them in line, and contain the infection because they don't have access to human technology. This would enable them to conquer the world. Just say NO to touchscreen-enabled gloves!
No, you are wrong. Apple didn't share it because they wanted to. They did it because they had no choice. KHTML is under the LGPL, which means they can link prorietary software to it, but they can't restrict KHTML itself. That's why they kept Webkit free ('cause they didn't have a choice), but the next piece of software (Safari itself) is proprietary. Also, the KDE team did most of the hard work, not apple.
Wow, they are actually transmitting the mouse clicks now? Awesome! I thought those just triggered an HTTP GET request or similar. Never figured they actually digitized the mouse click and sent it over to the server.;)
On the other hand, using a modem for upload and a different connection for download is still heavily used for Satellite.
WiFI is a trademark, and it describes a wireless network on specific frequencies, specifically 2.4Ghz, 3.6Ghz and 5Ghz using IEEE's 802.11x standards. Because it's wireless, and because it can carry a TCP/IP connection doesn't mean it's WiFI.
Well, I'm from Argentina, we say Che all the fucking time. That's how Ernesto Guevara got his nickname in the first place. Che here is a sort of "Hey".
If I didn't think he meant that Che as in "Ernesto Guevara de La Serna" it was because everything that I just said had nothing to do with Che's life, history or Ideas.
Also, he put that Che the way we Argentinians use it, which is either at the start of an exchange (Che, get over here for a second) or at the end of a sentence, to give emphasis to what we just said by calling out the person (dude works in a similar fashion sometimes) example: (don't do that che!).
So, I think he knows me, and he's using that 'che' as a wink-wink-nudge-nudge. It's happened before, and it's actually something we Argentinians sometimes do outside of Argentinian's website to say 'hey fellow, I'm from down here too'.
Anyway, the use your country and your people have done of the name of Ernesto Guevara is disgusting.
Looks like this treatment is growing, I'm sure you'll soon find someone in Australia that can help you. The source of the treatment is a parasite, and when it comes to weird, dangerous and frightening animals, Australia has them all:) So I'm sure you'll find something locally.
A quick google search revealed that there is activity related to Helminthic therapy in Australia. A few of them didn't sound very serious to me (web services that deliver hookworms to your door... that wouldn't be my first choice).
Anyway, how serious is your disease? What is your prognosis? If it's serious enough, your prognosis isn't good, or it's seriously affecting your life quality, travelling to wherever a treatment is available should be your first priority.
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The closest I've ever come to AV software has been running clamav on a Slackware machine acting as a mail server, but I do understand how they work. It doesn't look like it was the AV's fault.
Well, it was in a way, AV software is a braindead solution to a problem that shouldn't exist. Use only properly signed software from trusted sources in a secure platform, that's a real solution.
Anyway, this guy killed both Sophos and the Time Machine process in the middle of a backup, while they were both trying to access his backup disk.
Backup disks should never be treated in that way, and you should actually never sync against your only copy of a backup. That is plain stupidity. Backups should be done in two stages:
Active Data -> Backup server -> Offline backup.
Connecting your only copy of your backup to where your precious data is means you have both copies of your information connected and mounted in a single computer. That's beyond stupid.
Anyway, it seems like Apple's fault. I've used Rsync for ages. You can kill an rsync process, and recover from where you started, but I can see how cheaper backup alternatives might screw everything up if you killed them in the middle of an operation.
I don't know how data is stored on TM's timecapsules, but it doesn't seem to be transactional or secure, based on the way this guy lost so much data in a split second.
I guess my policy of staying away of anything proprietary, and using server-class, proven backup solutions in the proper way (data -> backup server -> offline storage), using fully transactional solutions, and always backing up to separate instances on the second stage (instead of replacing) is the only solution, as I've never lost a byte, while I keep hearing terrible stories of data loss, empty backups and massive filesystem corruption (yeah, mostly from windows/mac users).
Exactly.
I'm tired of repeating this: 13.75 billion years ago, god didn't exist. There was nothing that we could now call 'god' at the time. No evidence of a god back then. Neither was 300 thousand years ago. The first evidence of a concept of 'god' has been found ~250 thousand years ago. It was created by humans. So, it's up to those humans that propose the existence of a god to provide verifiable proof of such claims. GP says that nobody can prove or disprove god. That, by the very definition of existence, is proof that god doesn't exist.
I agree with you partially. Religious institutions are more dangerous that lonely lunatics. But that doesn't mean that lonely lunatics aren't dangerous too.
Religion is not a right, it's a disease. We do agree in mandatory psychiatric help and reduced rights to schizophrenics and psychotics, in some cases, reclusion. Why do we treat them different when their particular case of psychotic delusion is shared by other lunatics? Is mass schizophrenia somehow a good thing?
Religion is not a right, it's a form of mental illness, and it's treatment should be mandatory. god is not a philosophical issue, it's a medical one. Just another disease that needs to be diagnosed and treated, both for the sake of the individual's health, and for the public's.
But for some reason I couldn't post my complete post. /. kept sending me back to edit it. Maybe it was hitting some wordfilter?
So, no, I am not advocating a violent crusade against religion. I am advocating HONESTY. Are you a rational human being? Then stop pretending that religion is ok. Stop supporting them. Stop saying that it's just a matter of opinion, or a personal right, or that we must defend religious tolerance. We must advocate peace, and we must advocate human rights. Nobody should ever be murdered or assaulted for any reason, period. That doesn't mean that we should allow any kind of behavior just because it gets tax exemption. Tolerance is a BAD THING. It was supposed to mean not harming others because of what they believe, and I couldn't agree more on that, but now, it means not contradicting in any way any idiot that puts certain labels on all kinds of irrational ideas. That, is not reasonable, and we shouldn't take it any longer.
If some guy from the kkk where to show up at your door with a pamphlet to give you the good news about the chosen race, you would call the police in a nanosecond, and they would get their ass pounded in no time. But a variety of fuckers from several cults from the mormons, to the jehovah witnesses show up at your door every week, and suddenly we are ok with that! And, let's be honest, religion has proved to be more dangerous (and has killed way more people) than any group of deranged racists ever will.
No, I propose we stop being polite. I propose we stop accepting the irrational as reasonable. I propose we stop pretending. We've pretended for too long that it's ok. That everyone is entitled to their opinion. Well, guess what? Religion is not an opinion. It's a dangerous mix of deranged lunatics, blind followers, power-holics, and all powerful bastards that found in religion a very useful tool.
We lock up our lunatics. We held everyone by higher standards than the ones we use for religious idiots. We decided that the certain things are not ok, and therefore we do not have neonazis, kkk members, black panthers or talibans on network television telling us what to do. And yet, we do allow other cults with a funny hat to go on national tv at 9 A.M on a sunday morning to tell the world that people that believe in a different invisible man in the sky should burn in hell. We allow them to determine what candidates can run on an election, what contents are ok in public school, what is ok and not ok to say on tv or radio, what substances we can use, and the list goes on and on.
Bullshit. We are at war with religion. Tolerance is tearing humanity apart. Tolerance is their tool, they have convinced the rest of the world that we must tolerate their stupidity. They are against everything that is good for the human kind. We must destroy them, and everything they stand for, if we want to move forward. Religion has been holding us back for ages. We could truly be an evolved race by now, if it weren't for them.
They have murdered the best of our kind for thousands of years, and still some of us protects them.
We have to be outspoken. We have to be merciless. The biggest dangers doesn't lie in those irrational masses that believe in made up bullshit, it lies in the traitors: all the rationalists that don't have the balls to stand up against them. You are humanity's biggest enemy.
Dude, I feel your pain. Evolution is so obvious, so evident, so undeniable. We experience it every day, even within our own families. And yet, you find people that tell you that there is "no proof of evolution", but he insists that there is more proof of the existence of an invisible man in the sky. Even when all evidence goes against it, he insists that there is only evidence for it. And does the opposite with evolution. Stupidity hurts because we try to understand them.
Making an informed decision on what we believe to be true is a basic start to that end.
See, that shows the very problem with religious idiots like yourself: You CHOOSE what to believe. You said so yourself. Informed decision or not, you are DECIDING on what to believe.
Rational people do not decide what to believe. Science doesn't decide that something is true or false. We conduct experiments, Study the results, construct the truth based on empiric evidence. A rigorous method shows us the truth, and we take it with a grain of salt, constantly questioning what we know, until we find new evidence, either to support or claim or to disprove it, and we accept it as it comes. You see, we are not biased. We do not start with a conclusion and then find evidence to support it. We first experiment, then draw our conclusions.
I truly despise you, your kind is the lowest scum on this earth, and the real culprits behind most of what is wrong with this world. I truly wish you were all dead, not because I hate you, because it's the best for the human kind.
There is no need to analyze 'each side' as you say, because there is only one side: Science. And all of the scientific community agrees that evolution is a fact. We might not agree on some details regarding evolution, but we do on the general concept. Then, there are religious types. All of their affirmations are based on the fact that there is a god. Well, There is no god. That has been proved long ago. We know how gods where invented, we have historical proof of their invention. We can show you how gods where invented from a variety of POVs: History, Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, etc.
Also, the very fact that this people believe that there is an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do every minute of every day (paraphrasing Carlin, Fuck yeah) is enough proof that they are deluded.
You need the help of a professional, a psychiatrist.
http://acko.net/blog/javascript-audio-synthesis-with-html-5
It's not perfect, but we are getting there.
Man up, and don't wear gloves.
Also, this technology is a cover-up. What they are actually developing here is touchscreen-enabled gloves for GOTHS. We've managed to keep them in line, and contain the infection because they don't have access to human technology. This would enable them to conquer the world. Just say NO to touchscreen-enabled gloves!
No, you are wrong. Apple didn't share it because they wanted to. They did it because they had no choice. KHTML is under the LGPL, which means they can link prorietary software to it, but they can't restrict KHTML itself. That's why they kept Webkit free ('cause they didn't have a choice), but the next piece of software (Safari itself) is proprietary. Also, the KDE team did most of the hard work, not apple.
/. can be a bitch ;)
Webkit. You can thank Apple for being open when using the browser on your phone.
Except you should actually thank the KDE team, for making Konqueror and KHTML. Apple just stole it, just like they did with OSX.
Well, BY DEFINITION if they are "web" apps they MUST use the HTTP/HTTPS protocol. Otherwise, they are not "web".
Wow, they are actually transmitting the mouse clicks now? Awesome! I thought those just triggered an HTTP GET request or similar. Never figured they actually digitized the mouse click and sent it over to the server. ;)
On the other hand, using a modem for upload and a different connection for download is still heavily used for Satellite.
Dey tuk er jerbs!
WiFI is a trademark, and it describes a wireless network on specific frequencies, specifically 2.4Ghz, 3.6Ghz and 5Ghz using IEEE's 802.11x standards. Because it's wireless, and because it can carry a TCP/IP connection doesn't mean it's WiFI.
Well, I'm from Argentina, we say Che all the fucking time. That's how Ernesto Guevara got his nickname in the first place. Che here is a sort of "Hey".
If I didn't think he meant that Che as in "Ernesto Guevara de La Serna" it was because everything that I just said had nothing to do with Che's life, history or Ideas.
Also, he put that Che the way we Argentinians use it, which is either at the start of an exchange (Che, get over here for a second) or at the end of a sentence, to give emphasis to what we just said by calling out the person (dude works in a similar fashion sometimes) example: (don't do that che!).
So, I think he knows me, and he's using that 'che' as a wink-wink-nudge-nudge. It's happened before, and it's actually something we Argentinians sometimes do outside of Argentinian's website to say 'hey fellow, I'm from down here too'.
Anyway, the use your country and your people have done of the name of Ernesto Guevara is disgusting.
Well, it's good to know it ain't that bad.
Looks like this treatment is growing, I'm sure you'll soon find someone in Australia that can help you. The source of the treatment is a parasite, and when it comes to weird, dangerous and frightening animals, Australia has them all :) So I'm sure you'll find something locally.
Best of luck, hope you get better.
That was my original point.
It's actually Lucha Libre, not Libra. And it's fucking stupid, FYI
A quick google search revealed that there is activity related to Helminthic therapy in Australia. A few of them didn't sound very serious to me (web services that deliver hookworms to your door ... that wouldn't be my first choice).
Anyway, how serious is your disease? What is your prognosis? If it's serious enough, your prognosis isn't good, or it's seriously affecting your life quality, travelling to wherever a treatment is available should be your first priority.