Tape drives will store your stuff for upwards of 10 years, up to 30 if you store them really well. They're also available in large sizes and is pretty cheap (about a cent per GB).
And if you believe any of that, I have a very interesting investment offer for you...
Surely, the Right Honorable Gentleman does not think President Donald J. Trump, the Beloved, Magnificent, Wise, and All-Knowing Autarch or our Republic, would import such a vile thing to the USA, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave!
Why, that would be a treasonous thought of the highest order, worthy of an internal deportation to the Uranium mines of the Great State of Alaska, at the very least!
You have been warned, Citizen! Now, scurry about your business and let President Donald J. Trump, the Beloved, Magnificent, Wise, and All-Knowing Autarch or our Republic, examine the worthy suggestion of his Chinese Peers.
The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
We are getting there. Thanks for the warning, George. Too bad nobody listened.
50TB of data stolen? OK, so they caught the guy, but, if he had been a bit less greedy, perhaps he would have gotten away with it.
Seriously, how can anyone trust the NSA to do the right thing (respect human rights, rule of law, due process, yadda yadda yadda) after these two... ahem... "incidents" is beyond me. Is everyone asleep at the wheel at Fort Meade?
And here is something even more disturbing: if a contractor can do this, what makes you think other people at NSA can't do this, for, you know... "fun" and profit?
You don't seem to realize this: you are a customer. If ISPs are allowed to traffic-shape, they will traffic shape according to THEIR list, not yours.
And you can bet they will prioritize packets according to THEIR friends. So, if they want you to use THEIR voip service, even though it may be so crappy it makes you puke, THEIR service will get priority over everything else. And your VOIP of choice, whatever it is, will be so crappy it will make you go nuts.
This is not about prioritization: it's about who gets the best service. If ISPs are allowed to choose, again, they will choose THEIR "friends", "partners" or "subsidiaries" over your choice.
What's more, if on your ISP VOIP gets crappy because everyone else is busy torrenting, it simply means your ISP is crappy and is not using its money to invest in infrastucture, which ISP the world over have been guilty of, at one point or another.
The EU being unresponsive to the desires of its populations is exactly why the UK left.
Not on this earth. The UK left because of diffuse and non-concrete fears that large waves of refugees might enter the country, coupled with latent racism against Polish immigrants.
... Not to mention 30 years of vicious, ultra-conservative propaganda against the EU. Just like Fox News in the USA is polluting the political discourse with crappy propaganda, the British tabloids have been spewing nonsense about the EU.
And the fact that both are owned by Rupert Murdoch should tell you a lot...
I think you are naïve. Some people will want to punish the UK, some may not.
But it ultimately comes down to this: the British people chose to leave. Fair enough.
It is now in the interest of the entire EU to negotiate as hard as they can with the UK and get the best deal out of Brexit FOR THE EU. And NOT for the UK.
Here is a very simple example: why should "we" (I am a European) accept a country where banks and financial institutions run amok and without any supervision? Where these same banks can launder money, trade in Euros, turn a blind eye when oligarchs drop millions of pounds and dollars in discreet numbered accounts?
What makes you think that the EU is going to respect these banks and allow them to trade freely with the rest of Europe?
Can you hear that sound? It's the sound of a hundred thousand British bankers crapping their pants at the same time. A true distrubance in the force...
Q1: the UK have had a place at the negociating table for years. If British people don't like the EU decisions, they only have themselves to blame, because they did not negotiate properly. Period.
(As an aside, I am fscking tired of freaking politicians, British or French or otherwise, who complain about EU decisions: DO YOUR JOB YOU MORONS! And negotiate in the best interest of your countries!!)
Q2: See Q1. Immigration is a subject like any other and should be negotiated within the EU itself.
I don't follow European news, but I doubt that very much. The UK is ~14% of the total GDP of the EU (second largest in the EU): it dropping out without replacing the existing trade deals would be a massive economic blow to the EU. The EU may want to punish the UK for leaving, but I doubt they'd do it at the risk of collapsing the EU economy.
A 40+% drop? Ouch. Kiss bye bye to your economy, baby, it's going down the drain.
Oh, and most of the EU is getting pissed, and itching for a fight. Even The Guardian pointed that out. The negociations are not going to be pretty, that's for sure.
Since this is the last CD release, yes, I think it's worth ordering it. It's going on a special shelf with all the other CDs I have collected over the years...
Let's see: simple web server, firewall, laptop, firewall, router, secure storage, firewall, another laptop, home computer, router, firewall, security console, monitoring and I think I forgot a couple...
OpenBSD is rock solid and a pleasure to use. Try it, you may like it.
- Custom officer : Do you have a github account? - Me: Sure, it's x x x - Custom officer (takes one look at the github page, does a double-take): right this way sir.... And that is how I found myself in Guantanamo, thinking I was going to visit my aunt in New York.
After years of insults and demeaning comment,s Microsoft suddenly realizes:
1. That Linux (and open source) has won (see AWS, any successful start-up in the past 5 years).
2. That lean command-line tools are probably a lot more efficient to manage servers than a GUI (see also: OpenSSH, coming soon to a Windows server near you... finally).
Now, let me say this: Dear Microsoft, I already know bash and ksh. I have no need for a bloated, incoherent new shell on my machines.
I know you mean well, thanks, but no thanks. As far as I am concerned, I will never, ever, use your OS ever again.
Now, let's go back to the subject (err... flame war) at hand: systemd. What the fsck?;-)
All sounds nice in paper, but yet, you still can buy cocaine easily, and the laws on it are pretty much just as rough as the ones you just proposed.
Obviously there would a good benefit on performing a good background check and actually training the person how to safely handle the gun instead of just "LETS GIVE WEAPONS TO EVERYONE LOL", but banning guns won't solve the issue of people that want to commit crimes having access to weapons. The best approach is giving people less reasons to want to commit crimes in first place.
You are trying to avoid the crucial issue here. The problem is not whether we can go to zero crime, because... Newsflash! There is crime, even in countries where there are very strict gun laws.
Here is an example: Japan. Lowest gun crime rate in the world. Ultra-strict laws regarding gun ownership. And Japan is also a country where organized crime, the Yakuzas, is practically out in the open.
The goal of banning guns is to ban guns, and reduce gun-related violence and homicide. Banning guns will reduce violence and crime acros the board, but it will not suppress it completely.
Let's take your example: in any big city, american or not, you can probably find out where to buy cocaine. The difference is that, in the US, an addict can pull a gun on his dealer (or the reverse) and kill him for his stash. And whoever survives can then use the same gun to shoot at police officers and kill them. In the rest of the world, while this can happen, gun violence, even between addicts and dealers, is a lot less prevalent.
Yes, crime and law-breaking will always exist, gun ban or not. But banning guns will reduce violence and, ultimately, the number of deaths per year.
Here is another example: if the Florida shooter did not have access to guns, and he went into that disco to, say, stab people with a sharp knife or sword, he may have been able to kill a couple of people, at best, before being subdued by bouncers and others in the disco. This would now be treated as a horrible hate crime, and not as the bloodbath -- 50 dead, scores wounded -- that it is.
The Economist said it best years ago when they said "It takes a lot of knowledg and strength to kill someone with a knife or a blade. It takes none to pull a trigger." (and I paraphrase from memory).
Ban guns. This is the best solution overall, and it requires nothing more than courage and a willingness to tackle this problem.
No, the problem is not "the how". The problem is the lack of political courage.
Here is an outline:
- Ban guns. - Give all law-abiding gun owners 6 to 18 months to turn in all their guns, including a complete amnesty and a small financial incentive (let us say US$10 to US$20 per gun turned in), no questions asked. - Make all hunters register their guns, obtain a permit and prove they are respecting sensible safety measures (gun safe, ammo safe, kept separate and under lock and key at all times).
After 6 months:
- Make crime (any crime) commited with the help of guns (even if not a single shot has been fired) a crime punishable by life in prison, without the possibility of parole. - Ban all military or quasi-military guns and make possession of said weapons a crime punishable by life in prison, without the possibility of parole. - Make all forms of gun trafficking a crime punishable by life in prison, without the possibility of parole. - Make all murders and sexual assaults committed with guns a crime punishable by the death penalty (since you guys love the death penalty almost as much as your guns). - Make sure all gun owners are registered, with a thorough (federal) background check and psychological evaluation beforehand, including a valid reason for gun ownership and respect all safety measures at all times (see hunters above). - Raise the funds allocated to law enforcement to make sure the largest cities are safe.
I can guarantee you that these measures would also drastically reduce the amount of criminal activity in the USA, as an added bonus.
Only for a couple of years. Google has itself has abandoned eg. Nexus 7, which was sold two years ago. Only a fool will buy anything new again from a vendor, who has just pulled the plug from the model one has currently..
That is totally new to me, since I own a Nexus 5 (not a Nexus 5x, mind you, the original Nexus 5) and a Nexus 7 and both were updated a couple of weeks ago to Android 6.0.1, Security patch level May 2016.
I have noticed the updates for the Nexus 7 lag a bit behind the Nexus 5, but usually not much more than 10 days.
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Tape drives will store your stuff for upwards of 10 years, up to 30 if you store them really well. They're also available in large sizes and is pretty cheap (about a cent per GB).
And if you believe any of that, I have a very interesting investment offer for you...
Tape suffers from bit rot.
And tape standards themselves also suffer form obsolescence. QIC-80 format, anyone?
Who is going to save me from this dangerous hack?
What? Windows only?
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Popcorn_Time" [path_to]\popcorn_time.exe
Oh?
Haven't used Windows in years. Never mind, carry on...
Oh, come on!
Surely, the Right Honorable Gentleman does not think President Donald J. Trump, the Beloved, Magnificent, Wise, and All-Knowing Autarch or our Republic, would import such a vile thing to the USA, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave!
Why, that would be a treasonous thought of the highest order, worthy of an internal deportation to the Uranium mines of the Great State of Alaska, at the very least!
You have been warned, Citizen! Now, scurry about your business and let President Donald J. Trump, the Beloved, Magnificent, Wise, and All-Knowing Autarch or our Republic, examine the worthy suggestion of his Chinese Peers.
Yours Truly - The NSA.
The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
We are getting there. Thanks for the warning, George. Too bad nobody listened.
Coming soon to a country near you.
First there was Snowden, now this.
50TB of data stolen? OK, so they caught the guy, but, if he had been a bit less greedy, perhaps he would have gotten away with it.
Seriously, how can anyone trust the NSA to do the right thing (respect human rights, rule of law, due process, yadda yadda yadda) after these two... ahem... "incidents" is beyond me. Is everyone asleep at the wheel at Fort Meade?
And here is something even more disturbing: if a contractor can do this, what makes you think other people at NSA can't do this, for, you know... "fun" and profit?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
You don't seem to realize this: you are a customer. If ISPs are allowed to traffic-shape, they will traffic shape according to THEIR list, not yours.
And you can bet they will prioritize packets according to THEIR friends. So, if they want you to use THEIR voip service, even though it may be so crappy it makes you puke, THEIR service will get priority over everything else. And your VOIP of choice, whatever it is, will be so crappy it will make you go nuts.
This is not about prioritization: it's about who gets the best service. If ISPs are allowed to choose, again, they will choose THEIR "friends", "partners" or "subsidiaries" over your choice.
What's more, if on your ISP VOIP gets crappy because everyone else is busy torrenting, it simply means your ISP is crappy and is not using its money to invest in infrastucture, which ISP the world over have been guilty of, at one point or another.
Educate yourself: https://savetheinternet.eu/en/
No privacy? Use Signal.
One more time, with feelings: use Signal. Use Signal. Use Signal.
The EU being unresponsive to the desires of its populations is exactly why the UK left.
Not on this earth. The UK left because of diffuse and non-concrete fears that large waves of refugees might enter the country, coupled with latent racism against Polish immigrants.
... Not to mention 30 years of vicious, ultra-conservative propaganda against the EU. Just like Fox News in the USA is polluting the political discourse with crappy propaganda, the British tabloids have been spewing nonsense about the EU.
And the fact that both are owned by Rupert Murdoch should tell you a lot...
I think you are naïve. Some people will want to punish the UK, some may not.
But it ultimately comes down to this: the British people chose to leave. Fair enough.
It is now in the interest of the entire EU to negotiate as hard as they can with the UK and get the best deal out of Brexit FOR THE EU. And NOT for the UK.
Here is a very simple example: why should "we" (I am a European) accept a country where banks and financial institutions run amok and without any supervision? Where these same banks can launder money, trade in Euros, turn a blind eye when oligarchs drop millions of pounds and dollars in discreet numbered accounts?
What makes you think that the EU is going to respect these banks and allow them to trade freely with the rest of Europe?
Can you hear that sound? It's the sound of a hundred thousand British bankers crapping their pants at the same time. A true distrubance in the force...
Let me be the first to point out that:
Q1: the UK have had a place at the negociating table for years. If British people don't like the EU decisions, they only have themselves to blame, because they did not negotiate properly. Period.
(As an aside, I am fscking tired of freaking politicians, British or French or otherwise, who complain about EU decisions: DO YOUR JOB YOU MORONS! And negotiate in the best interest of your countries!!)
Q2: See Q1. Immigration is a subject like any other and should be negotiated within the EU itself.
I don't follow European news, but I doubt that very much. The UK is ~14% of the total GDP of the EU (second largest in the EU): it dropping out without replacing the existing trade deals would be a massive economic blow to the EU. The EU may want to punish the UK for leaving, but I doubt they'd do it at the risk of collapsing the EU economy.
Ah, yes, but anywhere from 40% to 50% of all UK exports (I believe the exact figure is around 43%) are sent to the EU.
A 14% drop in GDP is painful.
A 40+% drop? Ouch. Kiss bye bye to your economy, baby, it's going down the drain.
Oh, and most of the EU is getting pissed, and itching for a fight. Even The Guardian pointed that out. The negociations are not going to be pretty, that's for sure.
Oh come on, Linus and Theo are both very well known for trolling other people relentlessly... That's part of the fun of these two characters...
Until you find yourself their target, that is.
Walnut Creek! Ha, you mixed up FreeBSD and OpenBSD (not to mention it has been closed for years, as far as I know).
Use the OpenBSD Store instead.
Since this is the last CD release, yes, I think it's worth ordering it. It's going on a special shelf with all the other CDs I have collected over the years...
OpenBSD? Good Heavens! It's still around?
What have you used it for lately?
Let's see: simple web server, firewall, laptop, firewall, router, secure storage, firewall, another laptop, home computer, router, firewall, security console, monitoring and I think I forgot a couple...
OpenBSD is rock solid and a pleasure to use. Try it, you may like it.
- Custom officer : Do you have a github account? ... And that is how I found myself in Guantanamo, thinking I was going to visit my aunt in New York.
- Me: Sure, it's x x x
- Custom officer (takes one look at the github page, does a double-take): right this way sir.
yadda yadda yadda.
Linux does not "force" you into anything: systemd is still optional and many linux distros run perfectly well without systemd (including my old friend Slackware).
And if you really don't like Linux, there is always the BSD. Nope, no systemd there, no sirree.
So anyway... yeah, you have no idea what you are talking about.
After years of insults and demeaning comment,s Microsoft suddenly realizes:
1. That Linux (and open source) has won (see AWS, any successful start-up in the past 5 years).
2. That lean command-line tools are probably a lot more efficient to manage servers than a GUI (see also: OpenSSH, coming soon to a Windows server near you... finally).
Now, let me say this: Dear Microsoft, I already know bash and ksh. I have no need for a bloated, incoherent new shell on my machines.
I know you mean well, thanks, but no thanks. As far as I am concerned, I will never, ever, use your OS ever again.
Now, let's go back to the subject (err... flame war) at hand: systemd. What the fsck? ;-)
Work:
MacBook Pro with one additonal 19" screen. Firefox + MacVim, except when I use PyCharm (with the vim plugin).
Most of my work is spent in iTerm2 and tmux anyway, since I have anywhere from 2 to 20+ SSH sessions opened. Also: pkgsrc.
Home:
MacBook Air 11", no additional screen. Otherwise, pretty much identical. Lots and lots and lots of USB3 external HDD.
One of the very first Linux distribution is still alive and kicking (without systemd!).
Great work Patrick & crew, I'll make sure I'll order a DVD soon!
All sounds nice in paper, but yet, you still can buy cocaine easily, and the laws on it are pretty much just as rough as the ones you just proposed.
Obviously there would a good benefit on performing a good background check and actually training the person how to safely handle the gun instead of just "LETS GIVE WEAPONS TO EVERYONE LOL", but banning guns won't solve the issue of people that want to commit crimes having access to weapons.
The best approach is giving people less reasons to want to commit crimes in first place.
You are trying to avoid the crucial issue here. The problem is not whether we can go to zero crime, because... Newsflash! There is crime, even in countries where there are very strict gun laws.
Here is an example: Japan. Lowest gun crime rate in the world. Ultra-strict laws regarding gun ownership. And Japan is also a country where organized crime, the Yakuzas, is practically out in the open.
The goal of banning guns is to ban guns, and reduce gun-related violence and homicide. Banning guns will reduce violence and crime acros the board, but it will not suppress it completely.
Let's take your example: in any big city, american or not, you can probably find out where to buy cocaine. The difference is that, in the US, an addict can pull a gun on his dealer (or the reverse) and kill him for his stash. And whoever survives can then use the same gun to shoot at police officers and kill them. In the rest of the world, while this can happen, gun violence, even between addicts and dealers, is a lot less prevalent.
Yes, crime and law-breaking will always exist, gun ban or not. But banning guns will reduce violence and, ultimately, the number of deaths per year.
Here is another example: if the Florida shooter did not have access to guns, and he went into that disco to, say, stab people with a sharp knife or sword, he may have been able to kill a couple of people, at best, before being subdued by bouncers and others in the disco. This would now be treated as a horrible hate crime, and not as the bloodbath -- 50 dead, scores wounded -- that it is.
The Economist said it best years ago when they said "It takes a lot of knowledg and strength to kill someone with a knife or a blade. It takes none to pull a trigger." (and I paraphrase from memory).
Ban guns. This is the best solution overall, and it requires nothing more than courage and a willingness to tackle this problem.
The problem is the how.
No, the problem is not "the how". The problem is the lack of political courage.
Here is an outline:
- Ban guns.
- Give all law-abiding gun owners 6 to 18 months to turn in all their guns, including a complete amnesty and a small financial incentive (let us say US$10 to US$20 per gun turned in), no questions asked.
- Make all hunters register their guns, obtain a permit and prove they are respecting sensible safety measures (gun safe, ammo safe, kept separate and under lock and key at all times).
After 6 months:
- Make crime (any crime) commited with the help of guns (even if not a single shot has been fired) a crime punishable by life in prison, without the possibility of parole.
- Ban all military or quasi-military guns and make possession of said weapons a crime punishable by life in prison, without the possibility of parole.
- Make all forms of gun trafficking a crime punishable by life in prison, without the possibility of parole.
- Make all murders and sexual assaults committed with guns a crime punishable by the death penalty (since you guys love the death penalty almost as much as your guns).
- Make sure all gun owners are registered, with a thorough (federal) background check and psychological evaluation beforehand, including a valid reason for gun ownership and respect all safety measures at all times (see hunters above).
- Raise the funds allocated to law enforcement to make sure the largest cities are safe.
I can guarantee you that these measures would also drastically reduce the amount of criminal activity in the USA, as an added bonus.
Seriously, though, pretty much everyone on earth realizes that private gun ownership is a bad idea. Except for the United States of America. It's time to wake up and smell the coffee. A good example of this is Canada, as simply crossing the border makes you immediately safer from guns.
Once you have done that, we can start talking about the metric system.
Two words:
Ban. Guns.
Problem solved. You are welcome.
(I know Americans like their guns. But guns -- especially guns in the hands of violent, disturbed people -- are the problem. More guns is not the solution).
There, feel free to mod me down now.
Fear not, people of Slashdot, because there is an option to maintain background processes, even after user disconnection.
But this option is not "on" by default. So, yeah, screen and tmux all of a sudden become useless, unless you fiddle with the knobs.
Seriously, now, fsck systemd: Slackware and OpenBSD for me from now on.
Even Mac OS X has the decency not to mess up your tmux sessions when suspending and restoring your session. Fsck systemd.
Only for a couple of years. Google has itself has abandoned eg. Nexus 7, which was sold two years ago. Only a fool will buy anything new again from a vendor, who has just pulled the plug from the model one has currently..
That is totally new to me, since I own a Nexus 5 (not a Nexus 5x, mind you, the original Nexus 5) and a Nexus 7 and both were updated a couple of weeks ago to Android 6.0.1, Security patch level May 2016.
I have noticed the updates for the Nexus 7 lag a bit behind the Nexus 5, but usually not much more than 10 days.
Make of that what you will.