I've noticed that I get sort of a "contact drunk." When I am around people who are three sheets to the wind, I tend to be more relaxed and uninhibited as well, even to the point of reduced balance and slurring -- even if I didn't have a thing to drink!
But the site restricts direct linking. Go here, then to "Gallery" and "Jade." Scroll down for "Spoiled." The links are there, but virtually hidden on the left.
Satellite photography shows a truly impressive mountain range at approximately 76 degrees 15 minutes Latitude by 113 degrees 10 minutes East Longitude. My team wishes to secure deep-level specimens of Antarctic rock and soil using our new drilling apparatus, and we feel that these mountains are of particular interest, as a previous expedition had found some singular pre-Cambrian formations, seemingly of a fossil, vegetal nature, perhaps worthy of further study.
Miskatonic University, however, has a rather small budget for this sort of affair. One of these robotic devices could be an ideal conveyance for our drilling apparatus, well within the University's budget, and could greatly aid -- could, in fact, be -- our expedition, save only that these mountains are maddeningly high.
How, then, shall our robot ascend to these heights? If only there were some sort of underground passage or tunnel affording access to the mountainous plateau...but natural processes could not carve out such a thing. Still, photographs have revealed what look to be tunnel entrances out among the foothills. But it must be a mere phantasm, an illusion created by strange geometries, for as I said, nature cannot have created any such thing.
OK, so now let's do this experiment again, this time with 51 roaches.
They probably stand around, looking at each other. At one point a few of them turn to one of the other roaches and say, "Sorry, Lenny, you drew the short straw." Then they bite off his head so they can divvy themselves up evenly.
I mean...like, omg, I clicked, like, 50 links? And I still don't know about that information overload thing, or whatever? But it just sounds so cool! I mean, like, my pony collection is totally out of control. But then my computer started making these beeping noises?
Well, it's like this...your other option is to give a "+1 Insightful" to the guy who says it's better to use glitter than sand on an "OMG! Ponies!" sign.:P
As far as damaging relationships, I don't see it as any more damaging that ANY addicted obsession.
I disagree. The article made a good point about becoming jaded. You can be addicted to a game and your wife or girlfriend can still turn you on. But if you watch enough porn, she will not turn you on, and nothing but new and more interesting porn will. It's like you build a tolerance.
In that sense, an "addiction" to porn is more damaging to relationships than other addictions.
Apt does sound pretty good from a security perspective. Less choice, though.
Be that as it may, I have a few comments:
Since only Debian Developers are able to upload packages, a malicious software vendor would have a hard time getting their package into the archive in the first place.
The Debian developers get the packages to upload from somewhere. They probably take source code, compile it, and upload it. This is fine if the source code in question is open source; you just have to assume that any problems were fixed before the Debian devs uploaded it, and that no one added a back door. Similar to what VersionTracker users do.
Since Apt verifies all downloaded packages against the repository's PGP key, an attacker is unable to trick me into downloading their software by breaking into a Debian mirror or play with DNS to redirect me to their site.
If the attacker can redirect the download to his site, is there a reason why he can't just redirect the key-query to his own site as well, and provide a key that matches the package?
Besides, if the price was right, who is to say that the company behind VersionTracker wouldn't deliberatly point users at malware, or take just that little bit longer to remove the bad software from their listing?
An individual Debian developer can be bribed as easily as an employee of VersionTracker, and more easily than VersionTracker as a whole.
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it's our tax euros being spent, but without anything like the sense of obligation to the taxpayers that there ought to be
No taxation without representation! Let history repeat itself!
I've noticed that I get sort of a "contact drunk." When I am around people who are three sheets to the wind, I tend to be more relaxed and uninhibited as well, even to the point of reduced balance and slurring -- even if I didn't have a thing to drink!
Frog-jump the vent core!
All deliverables are tasks, but not all tasks are deliverables.
Pirates ... From Space
OMG!!! Pirates!!!
Though they did, in fact, invent one thing. I believe Dell invented the purple/green color coding for PS2 mouse and keyboard connectors.
I, for one, welcome our...
so don't worry about self powered virus overlords.
Dammit! You ruined it!
So whenever someone uses the word fair, make sure you know which word they are using.
Ooh, nice!
But the site restricts direct linking. Go here, then to "Gallery" and "Jade." Scroll down for "Spoiled." The links are there, but virtually hidden on the left.
This is especially true if each pixel is grayscale. I can imagine a 32x32 grayscale image being quite useful.
Satellite photography shows a truly impressive mountain range at approximately 76 degrees 15 minutes Latitude by 113 degrees 10 minutes East Longitude. My team wishes to secure deep-level specimens of Antarctic rock and soil using our new drilling apparatus, and we feel that these mountains are of particular interest, as a previous expedition had found some singular pre-Cambrian formations, seemingly of a fossil, vegetal nature, perhaps worthy of further study.
Miskatonic University, however, has a rather small budget for this sort of affair. One of these robotic devices could be an ideal conveyance for our drilling apparatus, well within the University's budget, and could greatly aid -- could, in fact, be -- our expedition, save only that these mountains are maddeningly high.
How, then, shall our robot ascend to these heights? If only there were some sort of underground passage or tunnel affording access to the mountainous plateau...but natural processes could not carve out such a thing. Still, photographs have revealed what look to be tunnel entrances out among the foothills. But it must be a mere phantasm, an illusion created by strange geometries, for as I said, nature cannot have created any such thing.
I use a Mac at work and have a PC at home. For some reason, I feel like I have the ability to tinker with the PC more.
Do you think maybe that is because one is at home and the other at work?
You never know, it might hit its preset kill limit.
So, middle management will survive the nuclear holocaust as well?!
Dammit, what's the point, then?
OK, so now let's do this experiment again, this time with 51 roaches.
They probably stand around, looking at each other. At one point a few of them turn to one of the other roaches and say, "Sorry, Lenny, you drew the short straw." Then they bite off his head so they can divvy themselves up evenly.
Quite a difference from this. Charles is cocky as hell now. :)
I'm sorry, Traci, but your ponies have...gone to Pony Heaven.
Holy recursion, Batman!
I mean...like, omg, I clicked, like, 50 links? And I still don't know about that information overload thing, or whatever? But it just sounds so cool! I mean, like, my pony collection is totally out of control. But then my computer started making these beeping noises?
StarCraft:Ghost Multiplayer!
Who's with me!?
q.v. Serial Experiments: Lain
So April Fools on you, Mr. Doubting Thomas! *giggle*
What's up with the pointless karma whoring today?
:P
Well, it's like this...your other option is to give a "+1 Insightful" to the guy who says it's better to use glitter than sand on an "OMG! Ponies!" sign.
As far as damaging relationships, I don't see it as any more damaging that ANY addicted obsession.
I disagree. The article made a good point about becoming jaded. You can be addicted to a game and your wife or girlfriend can still turn you on. But if you watch enough porn, she will not turn you on, and nothing but new and more interesting porn will. It's like you build a tolerance.
In that sense, an "addiction" to porn is more damaging to relationships than other addictions.
The UWB frequencies aren't in the 2.4 GHz area. The SIG plans on using 6 GHz and up. Your giraffe pictures won't interfere with teh Intarweb.
Apt does sound pretty good from a security perspective. Less choice, though.
Be that as it may, I have a few comments:
Since only Debian Developers are able to upload packages, a malicious software vendor would have a hard time getting their package into the archive in the first place.
The Debian developers get the packages to upload from somewhere. They probably take source code, compile it, and upload it. This is fine if the source code in question is open source; you just have to assume that any problems were fixed before the Debian devs uploaded it, and that no one added a back door. Similar to what VersionTracker users do.
Since Apt verifies all downloaded packages against the repository's PGP key, an attacker is unable to trick me into downloading their software by breaking into a Debian mirror or play with DNS to redirect me to their site.
If the attacker can redirect the download to his site, is there a reason why he can't just redirect the key-query to his own site as well, and provide a key that matches the package?
Besides, if the price was right, who is to say that the company behind VersionTracker wouldn't deliberatly point users at malware, or take just that little bit longer to remove the bad software from their listing?
An individual Debian developer can be bribed as easily as an employee of VersionTracker, and more easily than VersionTracker as a whole.
The rest of your points stand.