RHEL is not Free Software (sure, it comes with mostly Free Software, but there are a lot of proprietary components), and you have to pay for it.
Google Chrome is based on Chromium, and it's 100% free (except for the flash plugin, which doesn't come with Chromium). And you don't have to pay a cent to get it.
How are the activities of a corrupt pedophile, leader of a criminal cult that maintains its power thanks to the delusions of millions, relevant to us in any way?
The last thing we should do is give this insane motherfuckers more press.
(Sorry to refer in those terms to such a terrible event as Pinochet's rise to power, but using the term 9/11 with a twist to remind the US that they are terrorists too, and it's their terrorism that brought the terrorist attacks on their cities is just priceless).
It's simply impossible to become an actual proficient coder in the modern world without understanding English. Leaving aside the actual languages being designed in English, most important documentation and standards are written in English. Also, if you are a reasonably good coder, and land a reasonably good job, at a reasonably sized corporation, there will be outsourced code, and therefore the standard for comments and other communication will be English.
I am one of the owners of a software development company in Argentina. Everyone in my company is a native Spanish speaker. We rarely outsource projects, and when we do, it's small stuff, and it's completely outsourced (that is, the entire development of that particular software, we don't build Frankensteins with outsourced and in-house code). Still, our standard is to use English for everything, and English proficiency is a requirement for every code in our company. I know many other companies who do the same.
You might not like the historical reasons behind English's widespread adoption (I certainly don't), but you have to get pass that and just fucking learn English.
Don't bother translating the GUIs, most translations end up being inaccurate, as many terms are complicated or impossible to translate, and it ends up providing an inconsistent environment, since other software might not be translated. Any coder that doesn't bother learning English is a coder that shouldn't be coding anyway (If you can learn C, you should have no problems learning English). I'm talking to you, chinese motherfuckers who write firmware for IP cameras and comment your JS in chinese.
To be honest, the only difference I see between your Republicans and your Democrats is their age. The only difference I see between Obama and Bush is that, while both are probably fans of Lorne Green, Bush watched Bonanza and Obama BSG. Obama's lies are a bit more elaborate, too, and at least he's more articulate. Other than that, pages of the same book.
Not that they only fire if they can prove these people are guilty, but that the fact that they fired is considered evidence of guilt.
Well, that's Republican logic for you. "The bible is evidence that god exists and is infallible, we know this because the bible is the word of god. We know the bible is the word of god because it says so right in the bible". "Evolution is wrong because it contradicts the bible". "The earth is 6000 years old. We know this because we added the age of the people on the bible".
"This guy is an enemy because we shot him. We only shot enemy combatant, we know so because the US is perfect, land of the brave, etc.". Same logic, same bullshit, same objective, different wording.
The enemies of the USA? Do you actually believe the crap you say?
There are no "enemies of the united states", there are targets of the USA. Truth is, no entity in the entire world has the power or resources to be an enemy of the US. How did the US get so powerful? Well, your beloved daddy, the UK, taught you how to do it. The UK managed to become the most powerful country in the world at one point through pirates and conquerors. The US learned this, and used a more subtle method, that essentially accomplishes the same. Every single "enemy state" of the USA is some country where you waged a war out of the blue years ago, and allowed the CIA to get its dirty fingers on their government. Every single entity that has attacked the US in any way has been either directly created, or at least heavily aided by the US.
If you stopped messing in other countries affairs, and stayed the fuck home, nobody would be targeting your country. You insist on how much they hate you for what you have. Well, I've never heard the same from Finland, or The Netherlands, or Australia, or France, or any other first world country outside of the UK and the US. When was the last time they attacked Canada? And Canada has pretty much the same life-style as the US.
They don't hate you for your freedom, or your religion, or any other stupid reason. They hate you because you keep messing in their affairs, staging coups, planting dictators, and messing with their affairs for your own personal gain. Cuba was never at odds with the USA, and Castro wasn't even a communist, he was a socialist. He implemented communism because he was being constantly threatened by the US, and needed outside help to defend from you, so he went to the Russians. Maybe if Kennedy hadn't tried to assassinate Castro so many times, the story would have been different. Do you want to know why all of Latin America has an anti-US sentiment? Well, maybe because your country has been stealing their land for 2 centuries. Maybe all the South American Presidents the CIA has assassinated. Or because the CIA has been proved to aid the various Latin American militaries in the so called "Operation Condor" to stage coups and overthrow legitimate governments.
If they hated your "Freedoms", they would hate countries with even more freedoms such as France or Norway even more, but they don't. They hate you because your country has been a fucking asshole to the rest of the fucking world.
Stop getting into every fucking war you see, stop starting wars, stop invading, stop your cultural export, take your fucking soldiers back home, tell your military and the CIA to stay the fuck out of other people's countries, and you will see an immediate decline in the anti-US sentiment around the world.
Now I can throw away that inexpensive, generic 2GB USB drive I've been using to boot GNU/Linux systems for at least a decade and change it for an overpriced drive that boots an inferior OS that just finally got support to boot out of USB!
You can disable password expire and strength policies, or change them at will in the config. There is a HUGE warning in that page. When the customer uses the product for the first time, there's a wizard that guides them through this process, and it asks them if they want the product to be exposed to the net, then provides the option to try and autoconfigure everything using upnp, or to go to our website to read a guide on how to configure port forwarding on most routers. Same for our free DDNS service, it's integrated into the product, but not enabled without customer authorization. To be honest, our product is targeted both towards admins and end users, and we offer options for both. We never enable anything even remotely exploitable by default. We follow the unix rule of no-surprises or at least less surprising behavior possible from the application.
You can change the default password policies in the product's config, and even disable it altogether and use IP based or no auth at all.
Our product is targeted towards sysadmins, the idea is to give them the power to force their users to change passwords if they want to in a simple way. The default setting is once every six months.
The logic behind this is simple: People get a new password, they use it in several places, they save it on several computers, they use it on insecure computers they don't own, they start using them on different services, and eventually that password is well known in the entire organization. Changing passwords often is a good idea for your average user, and if you know better and take care of your passwords, you can change the damn policy, but our sane default protects most users.
That is simply not truth. I know many people that are proud of their country's engineering. I certainly am proud that my company manufactures high quality products right where I am and not in China.
Regardless, no country has lower standards than China.
We've been doing so since '08. We have four major products (our DVR/NVR family of products,an e-learning platform, an ERP, and a Digital Signage solution). If you access any of our products with IE it'll send you to a landing page explaining why it's not supported, why it's a bad idea to use it, and providing alternatives, plus links and easy installation instructions for every platform. Many people told us that policy would doom us. To the contrary, people loved the idea, and to this day we get emails from customers thanking us for helping them discover a better browser.
Yes, we do, all of our products come with a self-signed certificate, and SSL by default, customers can upload their own signed certificate if they want.
Port knocking is insane. It's the worst nightmare the security-through-obscurity mindset brought us, and it's so fucking annoying.
My company develops a CCTV DVR/NVR. It's GNU/Linux based, we keep it up to date by offering free updates for life. Upgrades are not a huge firmware blob you need to download and then install (something customers won't do), It's a simple package (we use our own pkg management, and it's slackware-like), usually a few mb of download, but to the customer it's transparent. They just get a warning when they log-in, and the system lets them know via e-mail there are available updates, they can install them with a single click. The whole system is web-based, HTML5, and works out of the box on anything Gecko or Webkit based plus Opera (IE not supported). We don't require additional ports, everything works through a single HTTP port. Everything is session-based. We force the customer to use secure passwords, and to change them frequently. We use uPNP to open that single port, but that's when the customer runs the setup wizard, and we explain what we are going to do, and request customer authorization.
It's easy to do the right thing, and if the manufacturer does the right thing, you don't need any additional security (for example, you don't really need to firewall the damn DVR). Sadly, most manufacturers don't do the right thing. They don't even bother providing upgrades. And the customers don't usually care, even when you offer a better solution, most will go with the generic chinese crap just because it's a few dollars cheaper. That's why more secure and functional solutions such as ours are usually only found in corporations (95% of our customer base).
This issue is not restricted to DVRs, China doesn't give a fuck, and people in general only care about the price tag. That's a deadly combination for the technology used by 90% of the population.
You'd like to see wartime deployable cabling? I have a better solution. No more wartime. Just stay home and stop sending your soldiers to play in the sand. Then take all that research money and spend it in something worthwhile. I want to see mars-landing deployable cabling.
I live in Argentina. We're serious about our meat, that stuff doesn't happen here. 100% of the meat sold in this country comes from animals grown rarely more than 150km away from the place they are sold. We still feed our cows the traditional way: Let them roam freely on the fields, eat grass. And in every block of every city in this country, there's a meat shop that looks like this http://tlloh.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/carniceria.jpg or this http://bimg1.mlstatic.com/carniceria-equipamiento-completo-polleria_MLA-F-3355456136_112012.jpg, with a guy you know behind the counter, who most of the time cuts whatever you want right in front of you. Then we go to another store that looks like this: http://bimg1.mlstatic.com/carniceria-equipamiento-completo-polleria_MLA-F-3355456136_112012.jpg and we get our actually fresh vegetables that are rarely grown more than 100km way from your location. Even the big stores such as walmart incorporate entire sections that look just like that, with actual people behind the counter cutting whatever meat you want in front of you.
Minced meat is most of the time grinded right before your eyes, and it usually comes in two qualities you can choose from at any store, "Comun" or normal which is the cheapest, usually grinded from cheap cuts and leftovers (all 100% actual cow meat), and "Special" which is grinded from selected cuts (the difference is just the amount of fat in the meat, usually). Most meat stores in Argentina know what the customer wants, and have the entire process visible for you (the back wall is glass, and they prepare the various meat cuts in plain sight, from half a cow (called a "media res") to the counter. It's also common for their refrigerated rooms to have a glass wall facing the public area.
For the record, 1kg of minced meat ("Comun" or normal) retails for 3.5 dollars, and Special minced meat ~5 dollars. Good steak (fine cuts such as Cuadril or Bife de Chorizo retails ~6 to 9 dollars, but you can get cheaper steaks (Paleta, Roast Beef) for ~4.5 dollars.
You are either purposefully or accidentally missing my point. I agree there is a HUGE difference between eating dogs and persons... just as big as between eating dogs and cows.
It's all about what we perceive as "our group" and what we feel emotionally attached to.
Well, then why not eat humans then? . The reasoning is simple. We don't eat members of our own species. Under an extension to that same rule, certain species are close to us for one reason or the other, therefore we don't eat them either. Apes are close to us in intelligence, therefore we don't eat them. Dogs and Horses are highly intelligent, and close to us because they are our pets/working animals, therefore, we don't eat them. If you don't see a difference between eating an animal that we raise for food such as a cow and eating an animal that has been our loyal companion for thousands of years such as dogs, then what difference do you see between eating a cow and a human?
Because Hamburger doesn't come from Ham + Burger, it comes from Hamburg, Germany. It just means anything coming from that location, You stupid illiterate cunt.
Except they are. Also, horses are pets. We don't eat humans, and we don't eat our pets. If you are onboard with eating horses, I'm sure you are all for eating cats and dogs too?
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m ... you got that backwards.
RHEL is not Free Software (sure, it comes with mostly Free Software, but there are a lot of proprietary components), and you have to pay for it.
Google Chrome is based on Chromium, and it's 100% free (except for the flash plugin, which doesn't come with Chromium). And you don't have to pay a cent to get it.
How are the activities of a corrupt pedophile, leader of a criminal cult that maintains its power thanks to the delusions of millions, relevant to us in any way?
The last thing we should do is give this insane motherfuckers more press.
Your signature, so full of win.
(Sorry to refer in those terms to such a terrible event as Pinochet's rise to power, but using the term 9/11 with a twist to remind the US that they are terrorists too, and it's their terrorism that brought the terrorist attacks on their cities is just priceless).
It's simply impossible to become an actual proficient coder in the modern world without understanding English. Leaving aside the actual languages being designed in English, most important documentation and standards are written in English. Also, if you are a reasonably good coder, and land a reasonably good job, at a reasonably sized corporation, there will be outsourced code, and therefore the standard for comments and other communication will be English.
I am one of the owners of a software development company in Argentina. Everyone in my company is a native Spanish speaker. We rarely outsource projects, and when we do, it's small stuff, and it's completely outsourced (that is, the entire development of that particular software, we don't build Frankensteins with outsourced and in-house code). Still, our standard is to use English for everything, and English proficiency is a requirement for every code in our company. I know many other companies who do the same.
You might not like the historical reasons behind English's widespread adoption (I certainly don't), but you have to get pass that and just fucking learn English.
Don't bother translating the GUIs, most translations end up being inaccurate, as many terms are complicated or impossible to translate, and it ends up providing an inconsistent environment, since other software might not be translated. Any coder that doesn't bother learning English is a coder that shouldn't be coding anyway (If you can learn C, you should have no problems learning English). I'm talking to you, chinese motherfuckers who write firmware for IP cameras and comment your JS in chinese.
To be honest, the only difference I see between your Republicans and your Democrats is their age. The only difference I see between Obama and Bush is that, while both are probably fans of Lorne Green, Bush watched Bonanza and Obama BSG. Obama's lies are a bit more elaborate, too, and at least he's more articulate. Other than that, pages of the same book.
Let me tell you how we see it in saner parts of the world than the US:
Obama IS a Republican. He acts like one, he behaves like one, his policies are those of a Republican. He is a Republican.
The people you consider to be on the left, are, to our gauge, in the far right.
Not that they only fire if they can prove these people are guilty, but that the fact that they fired is considered evidence of guilt.
Well, that's Republican logic for you. "The bible is evidence that god exists and is infallible, we know this because the bible is the word of god. We know the bible is the word of god because it says so right in the bible". "Evolution is wrong because it contradicts the bible". "The earth is 6000 years old. We know this because we added the age of the people on the bible".
"This guy is an enemy because we shot him. We only shot enemy combatant, we know so because the US is perfect, land of the brave, etc.". Same logic, same bullshit, same objective, different wording.
The enemies of the USA? Do you actually believe the crap you say?
There are no "enemies of the united states", there are targets of the USA. Truth is, no entity in the entire world has the power or resources to be an enemy of the US. How did the US get so powerful? Well, your beloved daddy, the UK, taught you how to do it. The UK managed to become the most powerful country in the world at one point through pirates and conquerors. The US learned this, and used a more subtle method, that essentially accomplishes the same. Every single "enemy state" of the USA is some country where you waged a war out of the blue years ago, and allowed the CIA to get its dirty fingers on their government. Every single entity that has attacked the US in any way has been either directly created, or at least heavily aided by the US.
If you stopped messing in other countries affairs, and stayed the fuck home, nobody would be targeting your country. You insist on how much they hate you for what you have. Well, I've never heard the same from Finland, or The Netherlands, or Australia, or France, or any other first world country outside of the UK and the US. When was the last time they attacked Canada? And Canada has pretty much the same life-style as the US.
They don't hate you for your freedom, or your religion, or any other stupid reason. They hate you because you keep messing in their affairs, staging coups, planting dictators, and messing with their affairs for your own personal gain. Cuba was never at odds with the USA, and Castro wasn't even a communist, he was a socialist. He implemented communism because he was being constantly threatened by the US, and needed outside help to defend from you, so he went to the Russians. Maybe if Kennedy hadn't tried to assassinate Castro so many times, the story would have been different. Do you want to know why all of Latin America has an anti-US sentiment? Well, maybe because your country has been stealing their land for 2 centuries. Maybe all the South American Presidents the CIA has assassinated. Or because the CIA has been proved to aid the various Latin American militaries in the so called "Operation Condor" to stage coups and overthrow legitimate governments.
If they hated your "Freedoms", they would hate countries with even more freedoms such as France or Norway even more, but they don't. They hate you because your country has been a fucking asshole to the rest of the fucking world.
Stop getting into every fucking war you see, stop starting wars, stop invading, stop your cultural export, take your fucking soldiers back home, tell your military and the CIA to stay the fuck out of other people's countries, and you will see an immediate decline in the anti-US sentiment around the world.
Now I can throw away that inexpensive, generic 2GB USB drive I've been using to boot GNU/Linux systems for at least a decade and change it for an overpriced drive that boots an inferior OS that just finally got support to boot out of USB!
You can disable password expire and strength policies, or change them at will in the config. There is a HUGE warning in that page. When the customer uses the product for the first time, there's a wizard that guides them through this process, and it asks them if they want the product to be exposed to the net, then provides the option to try and autoconfigure everything using upnp, or to go to our website to read a guide on how to configure port forwarding on most routers. Same for our free DDNS service, it's integrated into the product, but not enabled without customer authorization. To be honest, our product is targeted both towards admins and end users, and we offer options for both. We never enable anything even remotely exploitable by default. We follow the unix rule of no-surprises or at least less surprising behavior possible from the application.
I have a policy of not advertising on /., It's (yes, my standards are higher than those of the editors) for honest, serious discussion, not marketing.
If you are sincerely interested, mail me and I'll let you know.
You can change the default password policies in the product's config, and even disable it altogether and use IP based or no auth at all.
Our product is targeted towards sysadmins, the idea is to give them the power to force their users to change passwords if they want to in a simple way. The default setting is once every six months.
The logic behind this is simple: People get a new password, they use it in several places, they save it on several computers, they use it on insecure computers they don't own, they start using them on different services, and eventually that password is well known in the entire organization. Changing passwords often is a good idea for your average user, and if you know better and take care of your passwords, you can change the damn policy, but our sane default protects most users.
That is simply not truth. I know many people that are proud of their country's engineering. I certainly am proud that my company manufactures high quality products right where I am and not in China.
Regardless, no country has lower standards than China.
We've been doing so since '08. We have four major products (our DVR/NVR family of products,an e-learning platform, an ERP, and a Digital Signage solution). If you access any of our products with IE it'll send you to a landing page explaining why it's not supported, why it's a bad idea to use it, and providing alternatives, plus links and easy installation instructions for every platform. Many people told us that policy would doom us. To the contrary, people loved the idea, and to this day we get emails from customers thanking us for helping them discover a better browser.
Yes, we do, all of our products come with a self-signed certificate, and SSL by default, customers can upload their own signed certificate if they want.
Port knocking is insane. It's the worst nightmare the security-through-obscurity mindset brought us, and it's so fucking annoying.
My company develops a CCTV DVR/NVR. It's GNU/Linux based, we keep it up to date by offering free updates for life. Upgrades are not a huge firmware blob you need to download and then install (something customers won't do), It's a simple package (we use our own pkg management, and it's slackware-like), usually a few mb of download, but to the customer it's transparent. They just get a warning when they log-in, and the system lets them know via e-mail there are available updates, they can install them with a single click. The whole system is web-based, HTML5, and works out of the box on anything Gecko or Webkit based plus Opera (IE not supported). We don't require additional ports, everything works through a single HTTP port. Everything is session-based. We force the customer to use secure passwords, and to change them frequently. We use uPNP to open that single port, but that's when the customer runs the setup wizard, and we explain what we are going to do, and request customer authorization.
It's easy to do the right thing, and if the manufacturer does the right thing, you don't need any additional security (for example, you don't really need to firewall the damn DVR). Sadly, most manufacturers don't do the right thing. They don't even bother providing upgrades. And the customers don't usually care, even when you offer a better solution, most will go with the generic chinese crap just because it's a few dollars cheaper. That's why more secure and functional solutions such as ours are usually only found in corporations (95% of our customer base).
This issue is not restricted to DVRs, China doesn't give a fuck, and people in general only care about the price tag. That's a deadly combination for the technology used by 90% of the population.
You'd like to see wartime deployable cabling? I have a better solution. No more wartime. Just stay home and stop sending your soldiers to play in the sand. Then take all that research money and spend it in something worthwhile. I want to see mars-landing deployable cabling.
hahaha, wrong link. Still, all I eat lately is meat and tomatoes, and sometimes I skip the tomatoes, so it's not far from truth.
I live in Argentina. We're serious about our meat, that stuff doesn't happen here. 100% of the meat sold in this country comes from animals grown rarely more than 150km away from the place they are sold. We still feed our cows the traditional way: Let them roam freely on the fields, eat grass. And in every block of every city in this country, there's a meat shop that looks like this http://tlloh.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/carniceria.jpg or this http://bimg1.mlstatic.com/carniceria-equipamiento-completo-polleria_MLA-F-3355456136_112012.jpg, with a guy you know behind the counter, who most of the time cuts whatever you want right in front of you. Then we go to another store that looks like this: http://bimg1.mlstatic.com/carniceria-equipamiento-completo-polleria_MLA-F-3355456136_112012.jpg and we get our actually fresh vegetables that are rarely grown more than 100km way from your location. Even the big stores such as walmart incorporate entire sections that look just like that, with actual people behind the counter cutting whatever meat you want in front of you.
Minced meat is most of the time grinded right before your eyes, and it usually comes in two qualities you can choose from at any store, "Comun" or normal which is the cheapest, usually grinded from cheap cuts and leftovers (all 100% actual cow meat), and "Special" which is grinded from selected cuts (the difference is just the amount of fat in the meat, usually). Most meat stores in Argentina know what the customer wants, and have the entire process visible for you (the back wall is glass, and they prepare the various meat cuts in plain sight, from half a cow (called a "media res") to the counter. It's also common for their refrigerated rooms to have a glass wall facing the public area.
For the record, 1kg of minced meat ("Comun" or normal) retails for 3.5 dollars, and Special minced meat ~5 dollars. Good steak (fine cuts such as Cuadril or Bife de Chorizo retails ~6 to 9 dollars, but you can get cheaper steaks (Paleta, Roast Beef) for ~4.5 dollars.
You are either purposefully or accidentally missing my point. I agree there is a HUGE difference between eating dogs and persons ... just as big as between eating dogs and cows.
It's all about what we perceive as "our group" and what we feel emotionally attached to.
I'm the master of puns, and that was fully intended. That's my story and I'm sticking with it :)
(Bullshit, it was as accidental as it was hilarious)
THIS. If we where to kill all dogs for food, big fat chinese bastards would get them,and the poor would still be starving.
We have the technology to feed the entire planet, it's the will to do so we're lacking.
Well, then why not eat humans then? . The reasoning is simple. We don't eat members of our own species. Under an extension to that same rule, certain species are close to us for one reason or the other, therefore we don't eat them either. Apes are close to us in intelligence, therefore we don't eat them. Dogs and Horses are highly intelligent, and close to us because they are our pets/working animals, therefore, we don't eat them. If you don't see a difference between eating an animal that we raise for food such as a cow and eating an animal that has been our loyal companion for thousands of years such as dogs, then what difference do you see between eating a cow and a human?
Because Hamburger doesn't come from Ham + Burger, it comes from Hamburg, Germany. It just means anything coming from that location, You stupid illiterate cunt.
Except they are. Also, horses are pets. We don't eat humans, and we don't eat our pets. If you are onboard with eating horses, I'm sure you are all for eating cats and dogs too?