Not only the patent card. You know how things work at m$. They are huge, and they extend everywhere. They spoke about.net for about 5 year before finally deciding what the fuck it was exactly. So, they said It's going to be a ripp off of Java. Then they said fuck it! It'll be Basic. And then they fucked up C, and made C#. Nop, sorry, It'll be Ada, and it'll be called Ada#. They managed to get their fingers on things like Gnome, and prompted Gtk# through the shadows. Don't mind the man behind the curtain. In another 2 years, Gnome will most probably be totally compromised by Mono. We have lots of Free Software written in Mono, all completely compromised.
Look at the ooxml fiasco. At Novell.
Oh, I do I really need to explain this all over again? We all know microsoft guys. We are grown ups. And we've grown up watching m$ screw us up over and over and over. They might pretend to be playing nice for a while, but it's just another strategy. When they get a chance, they'll turn over and fuck us in the ass.
They REALLY want to dominate the market. Most company's goals include making money and getting bigger. m$ is past that stage. It's as big as it'll ever be, and they are making as much money as can be possibly made off this industry. The whole fucking world is using their shitty OS. They've already won. So, what i their goal now? Taking over fucking everything. They don't want to be the most successful company in the industry, they want to be the ONLY ONE.
Strange, the only winning move is not to play [with microsoft].
They are having surely huge issues with it's stability and control. I'm also sure it's not generating enough thrust. In all videos they show, two man are holding the device down, pretending that it's because of safety concerns. Bullshit. If they let it go, it'll go crazy and crash into the ground. There's only ONE video of the thing flying by itself, and it's INDOORS (Yeah, no wind at all), it doesn't go higher than half a meter off the ground, it doesn't move at all (It just floats there, and then it rotates on it's own axis), and the flight only lasts 30 seconds. The other video that shows the thing flying in outdoors (not fully outdoors, it's a backyard, well protected against wind), the camera is carefully positioned on the helmet, so that whatever is holding it still, can't be seen. There's no video from other points, only the on-helmet camera. And the video only lasts 10 seconds. And it's cut off mid-flight.
Yes there is such a thing as bordering the illegal.
When something is per se illegal, but a team of lawyers with questionable ethics find a way to phrase it that somehow circumvents the law, that situation is certainly in the border of the illegal.
When something goes against the spirit of the law, but steps carefully over regulations, and is "technically" legal, that is bordering the illegal too.
Not only not the only one... And I'm in a different timezone. It's 4:33 A.M down here (Argentina).
I was precisely thinking about that fact (that I need to be up at 8 A.M tomorrow). But I can't help it. I can't go to bed before 5 A.M.
Now, one thing is staying on slashdot. It's pathetic but in it's own cool, geek way. Staying 'till 4 A.M in facebook is just truly pathetic. Well, being at facebut at any time of the day must be pathetic.
Dude, I feel your pain. Same thing happened to my internet.
When we first met, she gave me, all shy and embarrassed, her first 176x144 animated gift of a naked girl. After that, mountains of pornography throughout our good years together. Now that we are married, she won't even let me download a single boob. All I get from her is "404 - I have a headache". I'm still getting some action from a clandestine ISP that delivers binary groups to me. If she ever finds out about eth0:1, I'm dead.
I don't believe the submitter actually does 110 WPM without proper technique, and specially not if his using less than 6 fingers. Because, that's all we use when typing. Few people use the pinkies. The thumbs stay in the space bar.
I learned myself to touch, and I don't follow any particular technique. I use between 5 and 6 fingers + Thumbs in spacebar and left pinky on the shift key.
When I say between 5 and 6, it means I type differently with my left than my right hand.
I barely use the thumb in my left hand. I mostly space with my right hand. I barely use the pinky on my right hand, mostly left pinky, always on shift. I use the 3 remaining fingers on my left hand. I barely use the ring finger on my right hand, mostly for backspace and for semicolon.
I tested myself on typingtest.com and got 73 WPM with the Astronaut test.
Yes... PRONT won't work, I think PRINT would be much better. I just found a bug on your 2 line program (3 if you count Line 10, which is just a comment)
Haven't heard of that website. My favourite is megavideo. They have Lost. Call me when ABC has such good programming, ads-free, for such a convenient cost of 0 dollars.
If you have to die, die. Don't try to extend your life at all costs, while making your family go through hell. You just found out you have a terminal disease? You have 6 months left? Live 5 happy months with your family, and when you start to deteriorate, jump off a bridge.
It's not about the money. It's about your dignity (and your family's).
If you happen to be a simple minded person, and so, you believe in religion, then go happily thinking you'll get an afterlife.
If you are smart enough to be an atheist, you should be smart enough to die when it's time.
Geek developed the internet. And in a daily basis we develop the software and standards that run the internet, and everything behind it. We managed to find a development model that doesn't hurt the product. We fund the development ourselves. We find jobs elsewhere and do it on our free time, take donations, find companies that benefit from our software and will hire geeks to develop more free software, etc. And we release the software untouched, completely free, for you to do what you want with it.
Do the same, or get out of the way. We don't need your content, Ars Technica, You need our clicks. If you leave, we'll find our content somewhere else, or we'll create the content ourselves (like we do everyday).
Seriously, we don't need you. You are not making a profit? Shut down. Someone else will fill that space.
You are getting a free ride in our world. We make the rules. Accept them or go away.
So, you are saying there's absolutely bug-free software? That is akin to saying perfection can be achieved. That truth can be absolute. Those words, are essentially against science. They sound like the thoughts of a delusional, religious person.
There is no such thing as absolute truth or absolute security. 0K is considered the absolute zero, but It'll probably be challenged eventually (And we are having our doubts about it already). c seems to be the upper limit for information transmission... unless... (And yes, most of us consider that we'll find a workaround, eventually).
So, you are saying we can absolutely debug that code? No way.
What we can believe in are thresholds. All we can expect is to set a threshold of fair enough security, and live with that. The most likely problem here is that this companies don't hire real programmers. They hire engineers that visually design their systems on crappy applications that are sadly used by the whole industry. None of this guys have any idea of how the underlying code actually works. And the amount of code generated is so huge that reviewing it by hand would require an impressive workforce.
So, they will just continue to patch the issue with a little voodoo.
When the developing strategies of the vb,.net, java and other stupidities of our industry gets out and are applied to critical systems, we should start to worry.
It's not really that bad. I manage several Unix systems. I have done so for all of my professional life. Some servers get in someone's list, some others don't.
I currently work for an international telco, with base in the US, and servers in the US, Brazil and Argentina. It's a small firm, and I manage the whole operation. Some servers get attack attempts all the time. Others don't. The first thing you have to find out is: Are those attacks targeted? Many times, you'll get a new server up, assign a fresh IP, and immediately inherit shitloads of connection attempts. Those've been probably targeted at that IP for years. Most probably aren't even meant for your particular platform. I get shitloads of IIS+Windows attacks targeted at my Slackware + Apache2 servers. I see connections to my SSH daemons trying to exploit vulnerabilities that have been patched for at least 5 years. But mostly, I get stupid dictionary attacks. With oh so crappy dictionaries that look mostly for usual names and system defaults.
This are the steps you should follow:
1st: Move SSH out of port 22. That'll filter out 75% of all attempts. 2nd: Use Portsentry. You'll eventually have to whitelist some guy unfairly banned, but most of the time, it works like a charm. 3rd: Implement way of the many scripts (or write your own) that bans IPs or ranges of IPs that have failed auth many times to your opensshd. This is your most important defense here. 4rd: Implement longer delays after failed passwords 5th: Seat back, and relax. Change passwords regularly. Keep them strong. Watch logs regularly, keep an eye for sofisticated, targeted attacks, and ignore the script kiddies.
Most of the time, those logs just mean that you are out there on a public network, and you've got an IP on way too many people's lists. If it's sucking up too much bandwidth, ask your ISP for a new IP.
If you ever became worried about some guys, feel no shame about banning whole ranges of IPs. If you truly expect no traffic from those places, dropping China, Brasil and Russia from ever reaching your ssh port is a great idea. Actually, if you only expects connections from certain places, whitelist those ranges and drop anything else.
Finally, don't focus so much on SSH. OpenSSH is stable and secure, and it'll rarely be the source of you getting rooted. Focus on more vulnerable services, like crappy php webapps, ftp servers, etc.
That is PRECISELY what I'm saying. In the future, other research, might turn this into a wireless technology, it might improve, and in probably 15 years we might have a better application. Then, in another 5 years, it might be applied to cellphones.
So, RIGHT NOW, it has NOTHING to do with cellphones. So, what I said, is accurate.
OTOH, off course we've been able to reduce the size and cabling of many inventions, but for others, it's impossible. Basically, when the technique itself involves cabling...
What I mean is: Sure, we've been able to reduce electrocardiograms from huge mechanical machines with shitloads of cables to small devices connected to a computer and only 5 cables, but it still involves connecting cables into your chest, and It most probably always will.
This technique:
a) Has nothing at all to do with cellphones. It's just one possible application. b) Involves and will always involve cables. Off course, we might develop OTHER techniques in the future that don't involve reading electrical signals on the body, but that'll be a whole different technology, maybe involving a camera and feature detection...
The fact that we can probably emulate something like this in OpenCV and maybe port it to the iphone is not the same as saying that this technique equals being able to use your cellphone without actually emitting sounds.
And I was just waiting for that sign, well hidden somewhere in the article, that this is just some beta concept that will stay as such forever.
And then I found the photo of two guys with shitloads of cables attached to their faces.
There's a huge difference between "cellphones convert mouth movements into speech" and "Guy with shitloads of cables on his face tracks the movements of his mouth muscles using 4 unix servers running a processor intensive application with an accuracy of 25%"
The whole thing has nothing to do with cellphones. It's just yet another muscle tracking system, but used on the mouth instead of the hands, and tied to a TTS engine.
First thing I should make clear here is, I am not from the US. I'm Argentinian. born, raised and living in Argentina.
Second thing is, I don't give a fuck about laws. I don't believe in laws. I believe in codes of ethic. So, Let me clarify, "violates the gpl" to me means "abuses the trust of lots of coders who release their code hoping that their actions will help us live in a free society".
When I say someone is a murderer, I don't mean that they violated whatever shit is in the penal code, I mean they are doing something wrong, taking a life.
So, what I mean to say is that what they are doing is unethical. I was talking about the human, ethical value of the GPL, not the legalese. I was talking about the preamble... "the licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedoms..." not the actual legal mumbo jumbo in the license.
And, yes, I am aware that the US is the main violator if International law. But, again, I don't care about laws being broken. I'm more concerned about all the wrong that the US government does to its own citizens and the rest of the world, and about how a big part of the US population consists mostly of racist, irrational, ego maniacal, selfish pricks that condone the actions of their government while circle jerking each other talking about freedom, while they are all slaves to their bible, their corrupt government, and their lack of understanding of the world we live in.
Those two words sum up the way you guys think. It also sums up 200 years of history, and everything your country has done in those 2 centuries: Hate yourselves, and everything else. And basically be afraid of the whole world. You are worth less than the air you are breathing.
Well, the gringos have an issue with brown things. They don't like brown lawns,and they bomb brown people. It's just a racist country dude. They like their people white, their gardens green, and their governments corrupt and totalitarian. It's just the kind of people they are. I wouldn't move to the US for all the gold in Fort Knox.
It's just not economical to fix laptops. And it sucks having to wait for replacement parts.
Of the 3 laptops I mentioned, the first one got the screen broken, so It got transformed into a file server (It's got an internal 250 GB Drive plus another 250GB Disk connected where the cd drive used to be). The second laptop's motherboard died. So, the one I have now is a compatible model Toshiba. I reused the battery from the old one as backup battery, and all the RAM it had (I bought a base model with only 2 gb). I reused the PSU. The 250 GB drive connected through the SATA used for the cd drive in the fileserver laptop came out of this machine too. The rest is there waiting to be used as spare parts. Throwing away computers is stupid. But fixing broken laptops is stupid too. Reuse them as something else and get a new one.
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Not only the patent card. You know how things work at m$. They are huge, and they extend everywhere. They spoke about .net for about 5 year before finally deciding what the fuck it was exactly. So, they said It's going to be a ripp off of Java. Then they said fuck it! It'll be Basic. And then they fucked up C, and made C#. Nop, sorry, It'll be Ada, and it'll be called Ada#. They managed to get their fingers on things like Gnome, and prompted Gtk# through the shadows. Don't mind the man behind the curtain. In another 2 years, Gnome will most probably be totally compromised by Mono. We have lots of Free Software written in Mono, all completely compromised.
Look at the ooxml fiasco. At Novell.
Oh, I do I really need to explain this all over again? We all know microsoft guys. We are grown ups. And we've grown up watching m$ screw us up over and over and over. They might pretend to be playing nice for a while, but it's just another strategy. When they get a chance, they'll turn over and fuck us in the ass.
They REALLY want to dominate the market. Most company's goals include making money and getting bigger. m$ is past that stage. It's as big as it'll ever be, and they are making as much money as can be possibly made off this industry. The whole fucking world is using their shitty OS. They've already won. So, what i their goal now? Taking over fucking everything. They don't want to be the most successful company in the industry, they want to be the ONLY ONE.
Strange, the only winning move is not to play [with microsoft].
They are having surely huge issues with it's stability and control. I'm also sure it's not generating enough thrust. In all videos they show, two man are holding the device down, pretending that it's because of safety concerns. Bullshit. If they let it go, it'll go crazy and crash into the ground. There's only ONE video of the thing flying by itself, and it's INDOORS (Yeah, no wind at all), it doesn't go higher than half a meter off the ground, it doesn't move at all (It just floats there, and then it rotates on it's own axis), and the flight only lasts 30 seconds. The other video that shows the thing flying in outdoors (not fully outdoors, it's a backyard, well protected against wind), the camera is carefully positioned on the helmet, so that whatever is holding it still, can't be seen. There's no video from other points, only the on-helmet camera. And the video only lasts 10 seconds. And it's cut off mid-flight.
Nothing to see here folks, move along.
Yes there is such a thing as bordering the illegal.
When something is per se illegal, but a team of lawyers with questionable ethics find a way to phrase it that somehow circumvents the law, that situation is certainly in the border of the illegal.
When something goes against the spirit of the law, but steps carefully over regulations, and is "technically" legal, that is bordering the illegal too.
Try bittorrent.
So, rewatching season 2? The addiction is terrible. I recommend a dosis of Flashforward ...
Off course you can type fast while being a total mess. All I said is you can't do it that fast if you are only using 2 fingers on each hand.
Not only not the only one ... And I'm in a different timezone. It's 4:33 A.M down here (Argentina).
I was precisely thinking about that fact (that I need to be up at 8 A.M tomorrow). But I can't help it. I can't go to bed before 5 A.M.
Now, one thing is staying on slashdot. It's pathetic but in it's own cool, geek way. Staying 'till 4 A.M in facebook is just truly pathetic. Well, being at facebut at any time of the day must be pathetic.
Dude, I feel your pain. Same thing happened to my internet.
When we first met, she gave me, all shy and embarrassed, her first 176x144 animated gift of a naked girl. After that, mountains of pornography throughout our good years together. Now that we are married, she won't even let me download a single boob. All I get from her is "404 - I have a headache". I'm still getting some action from a clandestine ISP that delivers binary groups to me. If she ever finds out about eth0:1, I'm dead.
Oh Great!, Now I have to marry the internet?
I don't believe the submitter actually does 110 WPM without proper technique, and specially not if his using less than 6 fingers. Because, that's all we use when typing. Few people use the pinkies. The thumbs stay in the space bar.
I learned myself to touch, and I don't follow any particular technique. I use between 5 and 6 fingers + Thumbs in spacebar and left pinky on the shift key.
When I say between 5 and 6, it means I type differently with my left than my right hand.
I barely use the thumb in my left hand. I mostly space with my right hand. I barely use the pinky on my right hand, mostly left pinky, always on shift. I use the 3 remaining fingers on my left hand. I barely use the ring finger on my right hand, mostly for backspace and for semicolon.
I tested myself on typingtest.com and got 73 WPM with the Astronaut test.
Error 26: Syntax error at line No. 2
Yes ... PRONT won't work, I think PRINT would be much better. I just found a bug on your 2 line program (3 if you count Line 10, which is just a comment)
Haven't heard of that website. My favourite is megavideo. They have Lost. Call me when ABC has such good programming, ads-free, for such a convenient cost of 0 dollars.
That's all good and fun for an ERP app.
I want my critical apps written in ASM by real hackers.
If you have to die, die. Don't try to extend your life at all costs, while making your family go through hell.
You just found out you have a terminal disease? You have 6 months left? Live 5 happy months with your family, and when you start to deteriorate, jump off a bridge.
It's not about the money. It's about your dignity (and your family's).
If you happen to be a simple minded person, and so, you believe in religion, then go happily thinking you'll get an afterlife.
If you are smart enough to be an atheist, you should be smart enough to die when it's time.
So, let me see if I got this right:
Geek developed the internet. And in a daily basis we develop the software and standards that run the internet, and everything behind it. We managed to find a development model that doesn't hurt the product. We fund the development ourselves. We find jobs elsewhere and do it on our free time, take donations, find companies that benefit from our software and will hire geeks to develop more free software, etc. And we release the software untouched, completely free, for you to do what you want with it.
Do the same, or get out of the way. We don't need your content, Ars Technica, You need our clicks. If you leave, we'll find our content somewhere else, or we'll create the content ourselves (like we do everyday).
Seriously, we don't need you. You are not making a profit? Shut down. Someone else will fill that space.
You are getting a free ride in our world. We make the rules. Accept them or go away.
So, you are saying there's absolutely bug-free software?
That is akin to saying perfection can be achieved. That truth can be absolute.
Those words, are essentially against science. They sound like the thoughts of a delusional, religious person.
There is no such thing as absolute truth or absolute security. 0K is considered the absolute zero, but It'll probably be challenged eventually (And we are having our doubts about it already). c seems to be the upper limit for information transmission ... unless ... (And yes, most of us consider that we'll find a workaround, eventually).
So, you are saying we can absolutely debug that code? No way.
What we can believe in are thresholds. All we can expect is to set a threshold of fair enough security, and live with that. The most likely problem here is that this companies don't hire real programmers. They hire engineers that visually design their systems on crappy applications that are sadly used by the whole industry. None of this guys have any idea of how the underlying code actually works. And the amount of code generated is so huge that reviewing it by hand would require an impressive workforce.
So, they will just continue to patch the issue with a little voodoo.
When the developing strategies of the vb, .net, java and other stupidities of our industry gets out and are applied to critical systems, we should start to worry.
It's not really that bad. I manage several Unix systems. I have done so for all of my professional life. Some servers get in someone's list, some others don't.
I currently work for an international telco, with base in the US, and servers in the US, Brazil and Argentina. It's a small firm, and I manage the whole operation. Some servers get attack attempts all the time. Others don't.
The first thing you have to find out is: Are those attacks targeted? Many times, you'll get a new server up, assign a fresh IP, and immediately inherit shitloads of connection attempts. Those've been probably targeted at that IP for years. Most probably aren't even meant for your particular platform. I get shitloads of IIS+Windows attacks targeted at my Slackware + Apache2 servers. I see connections to my SSH daemons trying to exploit vulnerabilities that have been patched for at least 5 years.
But mostly, I get stupid dictionary attacks. With oh so crappy dictionaries that look mostly for usual names and system defaults.
This are the steps you should follow:
1st: Move SSH out of port 22. That'll filter out 75% of all attempts.
2nd: Use Portsentry. You'll eventually have to whitelist some guy unfairly banned, but most of the time, it works like a charm.
3rd: Implement way of the many scripts (or write your own) that bans IPs or ranges of IPs that have failed auth many times to your opensshd. This is your most important defense here.
4rd: Implement longer delays after failed passwords
5th: Seat back, and relax. Change passwords regularly. Keep them strong. Watch logs regularly, keep an eye for sofisticated, targeted attacks, and ignore the script kiddies.
Most of the time, those logs just mean that you are out there on a public network, and you've got an IP on way too many people's lists. If it's sucking up too much bandwidth, ask your ISP for a new IP.
If you ever became worried about some guys, feel no shame about banning whole ranges of IPs. If you truly expect no traffic from those places, dropping China, Brasil and Russia from ever reaching your ssh port is a great idea. Actually, if you only expects connections from certain places, whitelist those ranges and drop anything else.
Finally, don't focus so much on SSH. OpenSSH is stable and secure, and it'll rarely be the source of you getting rooted. Focus on more vulnerable services, like crappy php webapps, ftp servers, etc.
That is PRECISELY what I'm saying. In the future, other research, might turn this into a wireless technology, it might improve, and in probably 15 years we might have a better application. Then, in another 5 years, it might be applied to cellphones.
So, RIGHT NOW, it has NOTHING to do with cellphones. So, what I said, is accurate.
Here is the link: http://www.kit.edu/english/pi_2010_767.php
It's right there in the article ...
OTOH, off course we've been able to reduce the size and cabling of many inventions, but for others, it's impossible. Basically, when the technique itself involves cabling ...
What I mean is: Sure, we've been able to reduce electrocardiograms from huge mechanical machines with shitloads of cables to small devices connected to a computer and only 5 cables, but it still involves connecting cables into your chest, and It most probably always will.
This technique:
a) Has nothing at all to do with cellphones. It's just one possible application. ...
b) Involves and will always involve cables. Off course, we might develop OTHER techniques in the future that don't involve reading electrical signals on the body, but that'll be a whole different technology, maybe involving a camera and feature detection
The fact that we can probably emulate something like this in OpenCV and maybe port it to the iphone is not the same as saying that this technique equals being able to use your cellphone without actually emitting sounds.
And I was just waiting for that sign, well hidden somewhere in the article, that this is just some beta concept that will stay as such forever.
And then I found the photo of two guys with shitloads of cables attached to their faces.
There's a huge difference between "cellphones convert mouth movements into speech" and "Guy with shitloads of cables on his face tracks the movements of his mouth muscles using 4 unix servers running a processor intensive application with an accuracy of 25%"
The whole thing has nothing to do with cellphones. It's just yet another muscle tracking system, but used on the mouth instead of the hands, and tied to a TTS engine.
First thing I should make clear here is, I am not from the US. I'm Argentinian. born, raised and living in Argentina.
Second thing is, I don't give a fuck about laws. I don't believe in laws. I believe in codes of ethic. So, Let me clarify, "violates the gpl" to me means "abuses the trust of lots of coders who release their code hoping that their actions will help us live in a free society".
When I say someone is a murderer, I don't mean that they violated whatever shit is in the penal code, I mean they are doing something wrong, taking a life.
So, what I mean to say is that what they are doing is unethical. I was talking about the human, ethical value of the GPL, not the legalese. I was talking about the preamble ... "the licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedoms..." not the actual legal mumbo jumbo in the license.
And, yes, I am aware that the US is the main violator if International law. But, again, I don't care about laws being broken. I'm more concerned about all the wrong that the US government does to its own citizens and the rest of the world, and about how a big part of the US population consists mostly of racist, irrational, ego maniacal, selfish pricks that condone the actions of their government while circle jerking each other talking about freedom, while they are all slaves to their bible, their corrupt government, and their lack of understanding of the world we live in.
Yet Another GNU Linux distro.
With a skin that resembles windows, and rebranded apps.
Here's an article with a bit more of information
http://techie-buzz.com/linux-news/red-star-os-linux-distro-north-korea.html
The "My Country" browser is just firefox.
Interesting is, they are in violation of the GPL. But then again, It's North Korea ...
Filthy foreigner ...
Those two words sum up the way you guys think. It also sums up 200 years of history, and everything your country has done in those 2 centuries: Hate yourselves, and everything else. And basically be afraid of the whole world. You are worth less than the air you are breathing.
Well, the gringos have an issue with brown things. They don't like brown lawns,and they bomb brown people. It's just a racist country dude. They like their people white, their gardens green, and their governments corrupt and totalitarian. It's just the kind of people they are. I wouldn't move to the US for all the gold in Fort Knox.
I don't throw them away.
It's just not economical to fix laptops. And it sucks having to wait for replacement parts.
Of the 3 laptops I mentioned, the first one got the screen broken, so It got transformed into a file server (It's got an internal 250 GB Drive plus another 250GB Disk connected where the cd drive used to be). The second laptop's motherboard died. So, the one I have now is a compatible model Toshiba. I reused the battery from the old one as backup battery, and all the RAM it had (I bought a base model with only 2 gb). I reused the PSU. The 250 GB drive connected through the SATA used for the cd drive in the fileserver laptop came out of this machine too. The rest is there waiting to be used as spare parts.
Throwing away computers is stupid. But fixing broken laptops is stupid too. Reuse them as something else and get a new one.