m... strange that your config backup isn't working. Mine is working beautifully!
Off course, I don't need to use it, ever, because my operating system works.
Come on guys! it's 2010! Computers are awesome, and we are exploring space more than ever. We discovered the whole human genome, and everyone has a touchscreen in their pocket! But... many are still using windows and praying to their $invisible_man_in_the_sky. The future is here, but half of you didn't get the memo.
(And unfortunately the only browser that works with my ISP's web compression.)
What? It's the first time I've ever heard of an ISP that forces you to use a given browser. I assume your ISP has a proxy with deflate enabled... but deflate is supported by virtually all browsers!
Care to explain a bit more? I believe you have material here to sue the fuck out of your ISP.
9 - I am J.R.R. Tolkien. 8 - I've had my pet language used and studied by others. 7 - People who don't know me have used words I've coined. I've written
my own artificial language. 6 - I am known for certain words or phrases, my friends use my linguistic
creations regularly. 5 - I've coined a phrase or made up a new word or two. 4 - I'm a grammar nazi; people hate to talk to me because I correct them
mid-sentence. 3 - I hate people who don't follow the basic rules of $LANG, which I
strive to speak properly. 2 - I'm illiterate and/or can only speak IM: l8r sk8r! 1 - I am a Slashdot editor.
Hey there! I'm sorry about the broken link. It was something similar to the Geek Code (http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html) Except it was more IT-related than the more general GeekCode. It was a nice idea. It's gone now... I was never involved in the hackerkey project, but I've been thinking about bringing it back to life for a few years... except I haven't found the time.
Not to mention that a scanned image will never achieve the same quality as a born-digital picture. Also, convenience. If you take hundreds of shots, and factor in the time spent in getting them processed, then scanned, you'll be loosing a lot (compare to just plug in your camera and there are your pictures).
I agree 100% with you. Encrypting is very important, but more important is UNDERSTANDING what encryption is. This guys think if you magically apply DSA/Elgamal over your data, then it's secure. It's the same kind of delusion that development companies have with DRM. They added an if() somewhere on their code that checks a stupid key, and they believe that keeps them safe. It doesn't matter how much you encrypt your data, if you are going to access it eventually in an automated way, that is not going to protect you in any way. Encrypting the data and hardcoding the key on your app means nothing. Also, keeping certain information encrypted on the DB is just crazy. Doing a complex JOIN with multiple tables and a few LIKEs when you have a table with 200 million records is complex and resource intensive enough, adding encryption in every motherfucking field to that is only adding insult to injury. I manage a pretty complex setup of distributed asterisk servers, with replicating SQL DBs across 3 countries. CC data is only stored on the US server, and the key to decrypt them is not on the server, it's stored securely on another workstation, encrypted with yet another 4096 DSA/Elgamal key that I only have on yet another location. I only enter it once a month for billing purposes, and it only stays in RAM as long as the server is processing the monthly payments. I am a conscious coders, and I take privacy and security very seriously, but this law is just ridiculous.
Attached to the "readme" file that comes with the hacked content (which can be found here), Skid Row alerted other hackers that the group's methods were safeguarded against reverse-engineering in order to fend off competing hacking groups and Ubisoft itself.
Let me see if I got it... you are against the draconian practices of ubisoft... so you crack the game and... protect the source of your crack?
I guess how you differentiate between hackers and crackers, this guys are nothing but thieves.
And, before anyone replies saying that this is to protect the patch against ubisoft... ubisoft created the DRM, they don't need to take a look at the crack's code.
Oh, except there is no human population around the dead sea. Just two tribes of very primitive animals that kill each other all day.
Bacteria is not a threat to them, self annihilation is.
In fact, considering the way both Palestinians and Jews have been acting against each other and against the rest of the world's population, and considering they have no respect for human life, the extremophiles on the dead sea are worth saving more than the 'human' population of the area. At least the bacteria is trying to survive.
Louis C.K is fucking great too. I've recently started listening to Dara O'Briain, the guy does some amazing comedy too. We were also forgetting about Bill Maher and John Stewart.
X11 provides copy-on-select. Then whatever WM you are using implements Control-C/V functionality. The reason you had only one of them and no C-c C-v was most probably that you were using a very basic WM, like Window Maker.
Yes, it's really useful. For example, I am reading a text file, which has an URL in it. I select that URL and it is automatically copied. I now switch to Firefox, select the current URL there and want to paste over it, except I can't - the URL was copied too. So I select it, delete it, then switch back to the text file, select the URL in it, switch to Firefox and now I can paste the URL in the address bar. Really useful.
Except in most environments you have two clipboards: The Control-c clipboard and the copy-on-select clipboard. It's not a replacement of the copy/past functionality. If you don't like it, don't use it, and you have a perfectly functional clipboard. Use it, and you have to directly accessible clipboards. If you are awesome, you use Emacs, and therefore have unlimited clipboard history with C-y M-y.
How is implementing the feature and then MORE optional features somehow a problem?
Updated 20100422 23:55 by timothy: Oops! This story is a year old (rounding up), which I didn't spot quickly enough. Hope they've got it all worked out in the meantime.
Generating news isn't simple. You have to investigate, contact the sources, write the article, correct it, publish it in a readable way, etc, etc.
Agregating news isn't that hard. All you have to do is check the source, the date and place of the article, if it's serious and still relevant, write a small summary (or cut and past it from the article) and submit. Not that hard at all. Google news does a better job than Slashdot at it. A damn perl script does a better job than 20+ slashdot editors. Even Fark is doing better than slashdot. If you post some old copypasta on the randomness and caos that is/b/, it'll be spotted instantly. The 13 year old kids at/b/ do a better job than slashdot's team of editors.
I usually don't complain about article quality, dups, etc. I believe it's better to just let it go and move on. I say "hey, anyone can make a mistake". But it just gets worse everyday. We trust slashdot. We just spent a lot of our time discussing this issue, and trying to provide meaningful answers. It turned out to be an issue that happened almost a year ago. That is worse than reading slashdot on April 1st (at least you KNOW it's all bullshit on April fools day).
Even taking all the stupid trolls into account, this community is much more valuable than the site that is hosting it. Yes, we can be a bunch of assholes sometimes, but I believe this is still true: Slashdot's community is la creme de la creme of the Internet. Just tell me of any other place where you can get a high profile open source developer, a NASA researcher that has written code for the Shuttle, a guy from Star Trek, a lawyer that understands copyright law, one of the founders of Apple, the Father of quake, an employee from almost every single technology corporation in the world, plus a huge crowd of engineers, coders, technology enthusiasts, writers, philosophers, sysadmins, doctors, lawyers, politicians, and generally smart people. The Slashdot community is amazing. Unique. I can't think of any other place with such diversity and such a high concentration of people that matters. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that/. readers are some kind of superior race. I'm just saying that the distribution of people in/. isn't average. We certainly have less cab drivers and more world changers than any other community out there. What worries me, is that the the site hosting that community is not up to the task. I love Slashdot. I've been in here for a long long time, and I have no intention of leaving. This is an off topic comment, and it'll certainly be flagged as such... But I just felt like sharing this lines with you. What can we do to improve this place? it is, after all, like a second home to many of us.
That reminds me of Bill Hicks. He always said that there were always some crazy christians that would bother him after the show (specially in the south), and they would go:
"Buddy, come here" (pushing him) "Hey, come here (push)" then he would push away with his hand, while saying "come here.... not a physics major".
And then...
- We are christians, we don't like what you said
- Then forgive me.
I've got a HUGE stash... Including some nice stuff like 4 (1 fully functional) commodores, 1 Talent MSX, or an Apple Powerbook 140 from 1992.
Dozens of HDs, from 10 MB 5 1/4 models from my old XTs and 286, all the way to 4 GB Quantum BigFoot. {2,3,4,5}86 and Pentium{I,II,III,IIII} mobos. I've got a box full with dead processors from all times. I've even got a few Hercules displays. Shitloads of ISA, EISA, PCI, and other cards. Several boxes full of cables. A motherfucking GeekPort together with a box full of crap I did with it. Shitloads of software, including one opened OS/2 Box, and one unopened OS/2 Disk+Licenses+Manual in it's original envelope, several DOS boxes, all from IBM, including IBM DOS 5.0 + DOSShell. A few cubic meters of 5 1/4 in Floppies with soft and games. Another box with just GNU/Linux distros in 3 1/2 Floppies.
Yes, I Hoard technology. I love it. And I'm not throwing it away anytime soon.
It's in Spanish, but it's totally funny. You'll only get certain things if you are from Argentina, but even if you don't speak the language, you'll laugh at this masterpiece.
Please, please, read the post you are replying to.
From my post:
I don't browse with Flash, but I do keep a Firefox-altern dir with Flash installed in case I really really need to check out something that requires Flash. I can't believe how invasive that thing is, and how many privileges it automatically grants to random content on the web. Same thing for JS. The simple fact that 'last measure' still works is living proof of how stupidly insecure certain technologies are.
So, yeah, Flash is insecure. That's why I browse Flash-less, and I have a separate firefox install in another directory, that runs under nobody:nobody, with Flash installed. So, yes, that Flash is a lot more protected than a random Flash running on your average XP machine. It is not run regularly, only when I really need flash for something, and in that case it runs under another user with no privileges whatsoever. I have access to several important systems from this machine, and I'm not going to compromise that security. Off course, I access all of those services form a different account than I use for web surfing.
Except that Firefox's vulnerabilities are patched on average less than 24 hours after they have been discovered, that is, according to statistics, 15x faster than for micro$oft's IE.
On the other hand, I wasn't JUST complaining about "microsft software", I was complaining about insecure setups in general. Windows only allows an insecure setup. That's it. There is only one way to use it, and it's insecure by default. Any person with administrative access to any kind of important system (like this guy had), should be running sandboxed apps in a secure environment.
Extensive use of thoroughly configured SELinux/PaX should be mandatory on such a workstation. Stricter file permissions, app sandboxing, well thought iptable rules.
Most Unix systems are very secure on a default install. You can VERY EASILY harden a Unix system to be very very very secure. If you take enough measures, you can make a system virtually impenetrable. Windows, on the other hand, is absolutely insecure by default, with the chance of spending an enormous effort to turn it into (at most) a sort of insecure system.
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tar zcvf `date '+%Y%m%d'`_configs.tgz /etc
m ... strange that your config backup isn't working. Mine is working beautifully!
Off course, I don't need to use it, ever, because my operating system works.
Come on guys! it's 2010! Computers are awesome, and we are exploring space more than ever. We discovered the whole human genome, and everyone has a touchscreen in their pocket! But ... many are still using windows and praying to their $invisible_man_in_the_sky. The future is here, but half of you didn't get the memo.
Well, not when you look at their records side by side. The Nazis vs. the Catholic church?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlWi5NvGLpE
It's totally worth it ... Doug Stanhope is the real GOD.
(And unfortunately the only browser that works with my ISP's web compression.)
What? It's the first time I've ever heard of an ISP that forces you to use a given browser. I assume your ISP has a proxy with deflate enabled ... but deflate is supported by virtually all browsers!
Care to explain a bit more? I believe you have material here to sue the fuck out of your ISP.
Yes, it's a new concept: Security through clarity. We keep the passwords out in the open, where nobody will ever think they are important.
That's why I said DSA/Elgamal, you stupid piece of shit. You use DSA for signing, and Elgamal for encrypting.
A nice extract from the hackerkey guide:
ln - Language Hacking
9 - I am J.R.R. Tolkien.
8 - I've had my pet language used and studied by others.
7 - People who don't know me have used words I've coined. I've written
my own artificial language.
6 - I am known for certain words or phrases, my friends use my linguistic
creations regularly.
5 - I've coined a phrase or made up a new word or two.
4 - I'm a grammar nazi; people hate to talk to me because I correct them
mid-sentence.
3 - I hate people who don't follow the basic rules of $LANG, which I
strive to speak properly.
2 - I'm illiterate and/or can only speak IM: l8r sk8r!
1 - I am a Slashdot editor.
Hey there! I'm sorry about the broken link. It was something similar to the Geek Code (http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html) Except it was more IT-related than the more general GeekCode. It was a nice idea. It's gone now ... I was never involved in the hackerkey project, but I've been thinking about bringing it back to life for a few years ... except I haven't found the time.
The wayback machine is your friend:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://hackerkey.com
Not to mention that a scanned image will never achieve the same quality as a born-digital picture. Also, convenience. If you take hundreds of shots, and factor in the time spent in getting them processed, then scanned, you'll be loosing a lot (compare to just plug in your camera and there are your pictures).
I agree 100% with you. Encrypting is very important, but more important is UNDERSTANDING what encryption is. This guys think if you magically apply DSA/Elgamal over your data, then it's secure. It's the same kind of delusion that development companies have with DRM. They added an if() somewhere on their code that checks a stupid key, and they believe that keeps them safe. It doesn't matter how much you encrypt your data, if you are going to access it eventually in an automated way, that is not going to protect you in any way. Encrypting the data and hardcoding the key on your app means nothing.
Also, keeping certain information encrypted on the DB is just crazy. Doing a complex JOIN with multiple tables and a few LIKEs when you have a table with 200 million records is complex and resource intensive enough, adding encryption in every motherfucking field to that is only adding insult to injury.
I manage a pretty complex setup of distributed asterisk servers, with replicating SQL DBs across 3 countries. CC data is only stored on the US server, and the key to decrypt them is not on the server, it's stored securely on another workstation, encrypted with yet another 4096 DSA/Elgamal key that I only have on yet another location. I only enter it once a month for billing purposes, and it only stays in RAM as long as the server is processing the monthly payments. I am a conscious coders, and I take privacy and security very seriously, but this law is just ridiculous.
Attached to the "readme" file that comes with the hacked content (which can be found here), Skid Row alerted other hackers that the group's methods were safeguarded against reverse-engineering in order to fend off competing hacking groups and Ubisoft itself.
Let me see if I got it ... you are against the draconian practices of ubisoft ... so you crack the game and ... protect the source of your crack?
I guess how you differentiate between hackers and crackers, this guys are nothing but thieves.
And, before anyone replies saying that this is to protect the patch against ubisoft ... ubisoft created the DRM, they don't need to take a look at the crack's code.
Oh, except there is no human population around the dead sea. Just two tribes of very primitive animals that kill each other all day.
Bacteria is not a threat to them, self annihilation is.
In fact, considering the way both Palestinians and Jews have been acting against each other and against the rest of the world's population, and considering they have no respect for human life, the extremophiles on the dead sea are worth saving more than the 'human' population of the area. At least the bacteria is trying to survive.
I mean, he can't multi-touch now ;)
Louis C.K is fucking great too. I've recently started listening to Dara O'Briain, the guy does some amazing comedy too. We were also forgetting about Bill Maher and John Stewart.
Actually, here's how it works:
X11 provides copy-on-select. Then whatever WM you are using implements Control-C/V functionality. The reason you had only one of them and no C-c C-v was most probably that you were using a very basic WM, like Window Maker.
Don't forget Lenny Bruce and Doug Stanhope.
Yes, it's really useful. For example, I am reading a text file, which has an URL in it. I select that URL and it is automatically copied. I now switch to Firefox, select the current URL there and want to paste over it, except I can't - the URL was copied too. So I select it, delete it, then switch back to the text file, select the URL in it, switch to Firefox and now I can paste the URL in the address bar. Really useful.
Except in most environments you have two clipboards: The Control-c clipboard and the copy-on-select clipboard. It's not a replacement of the copy/past functionality. If you don't like it, don't use it, and you have a perfectly functional clipboard. Use it, and you have to directly accessible clipboards. If you are awesome, you use Emacs, and therefore have unlimited clipboard history with C-y M-y.
How is implementing the feature and then MORE optional features somehow a problem?
Updated 20100422 23:55 by timothy: Oops! This story is a year old (rounding up), which I didn't spot quickly enough. Hope they've got it all worked out in the meantime.
Generating news isn't simple. You have to investigate, contact the sources, write the article, correct it, publish it in a readable way, etc, etc.
Agregating news isn't that hard. All you have to do is check the source, the date and place of the article, if it's serious and still relevant, write a small summary (or cut and past it from the article) and submit. Not that hard at all. Google news does a better job than Slashdot at it. A damn perl script does a better job than 20+ slashdot editors. Even Fark is doing better than slashdot. If you post some old copypasta on the randomness and caos that is /b/, it'll be spotted instantly. The 13 year old kids at /b/ do a better job than slashdot's team of editors.
I usually don't complain about article quality, dups, etc. I believe it's better to just let it go and move on. I say "hey, anyone can make a mistake". But it just gets worse everyday. We trust slashdot. We just spent a lot of our time discussing this issue, and trying to provide meaningful answers. It turned out to be an issue that happened almost a year ago. That is worse than reading slashdot on April 1st (at least you KNOW it's all bullshit on April fools day).
Even taking all the stupid trolls into account, this community is much more valuable than the site that is hosting it. Yes, we can be a bunch of assholes sometimes, but I believe this is still true: Slashdot's community is la creme de la creme of the Internet. Just tell me of any other place where you can get a high profile open source developer, a NASA researcher that has written code for the Shuttle, a guy from Star Trek, a lawyer that understands copyright law, one of the founders of Apple, the Father of quake, an employee from almost every single technology corporation in the world, plus a huge crowd of engineers, coders, technology enthusiasts, writers, philosophers, sysadmins, doctors, lawyers, politicians, and generally smart people. The Slashdot community is amazing. Unique. I can't think of any other place with such diversity and such a high concentration of people that matters. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that /. readers are some kind of superior race. I'm just saying that the distribution of people in /. isn't average. We certainly have less cab drivers and more world changers than any other community out there. What worries me, is that the the site hosting that community is not up to the task. I love Slashdot. I've been in here for a long long time, and I have no intention of leaving. This is an off topic comment, and it'll certainly be flagged as such ... But I just felt like sharing this lines with you. What can we do to improve this place? it is, after all, like a second home to many of us.
That reminds me of Bill Hicks. He always said that there were always some crazy christians that would bother him after the show (specially in the south), and they would go:
"Buddy, come here" (pushing him) "Hey, come here (push)" then he would push away with his hand, while saying "come here .... not a physics major".
And then ...
- We are christians, we don't like what you said
- Then forgive me.
"Later, when i was hanging from the tree ..."
That is not true. He didn't have any wifes, because he didn't exist. Just like Jesus, he's the product of some delusional mind.
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Lovable stuff. I'm still hunting for a 1970's Payphone from Entel (The phone company at the time in Argentina).
They were fucking amazing, this is what they looked like:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EbEIPrrCAnI/SMp_6IqeRlI/AAAAAAAAAYg/lOe9ImQ8Jjw/s320/tel+publico+entel.jpg
They came in a variety of colors. Fucking amazing!
No! Not the old motherboards!!!
I've got a HUGE stash ... Including some nice stuff like 4 (1 fully functional) commodores, 1 Talent MSX, or an Apple Powerbook 140 from 1992.
Dozens of HDs, from 10 MB 5 1/4 models from my old XTs and 286, all the way to 4 GB Quantum BigFoot. {2,3,4,5}86 and Pentium{I,II,III,IIII} mobos. I've got a box full with dead processors from all times. I've even got a few Hercules displays. Shitloads of ISA, EISA, PCI, and other cards. Several boxes full of cables. A motherfucking GeekPort together with a box full of crap I did with it. Shitloads of software, including one opened OS/2 Box, and one unopened OS/2 Disk+Licenses+Manual in it's original envelope, several DOS boxes, all from IBM, including IBM DOS 5.0 + DOSShell. A few cubic meters of 5 1/4 in Floppies with soft and games. Another box with just GNU/Linux distros in 3 1/2 Floppies.
Yes, I Hoard technology. I love it. And I'm not throwing it away anytime soon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uJ54JxQZbs
It's in Spanish, but it's totally funny. You'll only get certain things if you are from Argentina, but even if you don't speak the language, you'll laugh at this masterpiece.
Long live todo x 2 pesos!
Please, please, read the post you are replying to.
From my post:
I don't browse with Flash, but I do keep a Firefox-altern dir with Flash installed in case I really really need to check out something that requires Flash. I can't believe how invasive that thing is, and how many privileges it automatically grants to random content on the web. Same thing for JS. The simple fact that 'last measure' still works is living proof of how stupidly insecure certain technologies are.
So, yeah, Flash is insecure. That's why I browse Flash-less, and I have a separate firefox install in another directory, that runs under nobody:nobody, with Flash installed. So, yes, that Flash is a lot more protected than a random Flash running on your average XP machine. It is not run regularly, only when I really need flash for something, and in that case it runs under another user with no privileges whatsoever. I have access to several important systems from this machine, and I'm not going to compromise that security. Off course, I access all of those services form a different account than I use for web surfing.
Except that Firefox's vulnerabilities are patched on average less than 24 hours after they have been discovered, that is, according to statistics, 15x faster than for micro$oft's IE.
On the other hand, I wasn't JUST complaining about "microsft software", I was complaining about insecure setups in general. Windows only allows an insecure setup. That's it. There is only one way to use it, and it's insecure by default. Any person with administrative access to any kind of important system (like this guy had), should be running sandboxed apps in a secure environment.
Extensive use of thoroughly configured SELinux/PaX should be mandatory on such a workstation. Stricter file permissions, app sandboxing, well thought iptable rules.
Most Unix systems are very secure on a default install. You can VERY EASILY harden a Unix system to be very very very secure. If you take enough measures, you can make a system virtually impenetrable. Windows, on the other hand, is absolutely insecure by default, with the chance of spending an enormous effort to turn it into (at most) a sort of insecure system.