[DarkHelmet] "I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate."
[Lone Star] "So what does that make us?"
[Dark Helmet] "Absolutely nothing!"
on having good stable API's of core libraries that are backwards compatible up to an extent, rather than continuously fighting dependency hell when it comes to updating packages ? This proposal seems basically like "we statically link every binary", and we all know that is not wanted because of disk usage and more importantly: memory usage. Especially in constrained embedded systems statically that could be a concern if you start having a lot of running applications.
Barman: Did you say the world is coming to an end? Shouldn't we all lie on the floor or put paper bags over our heads?
Ford: If you like.
Barman: Will it help?
Ford: Not at all.
[Ford runs out of the pub]
Barman: Last orders, please!
(THGTTG - DNA)
..the justice department (yes, you read that right) actually had a login to the same database as it was found following the news on this particular case. One has to wonder if the official story (needed because of certain convicts that have their records in the same medical DB) is even a valid reason, and why they would even be allowed within 10 meters of such a sensitive and secret (medical wise) collection of data. While Henk Krol is not a 'true hacker' perhaps, this does raise a lot of questions with regards to the security of any person's data in such a medical database; questions that "Diagnostiek voor U" may want to keep secret, so a "wag the dog" (or more popular "Chewbecca") tactic is followed...
Finally, get ready for...
[rant mode on]
I am sick of having the message "would you like to try beta or classic" every time when I browse Slashdot on my Chrome browser under my Nexus. I want the *regular* site, or something as close to it as possible. I even cannot click on the "classic" button... First lesson for new designs: if someone says *not for me* then leave them alone or they will leave your site alone.
Why should I have to press "request desktop site" each time I simply want to read an article ? This is not a PALM III where I zoom in with the Plus and Minus keys: my browser is more powerful than a Windows IE6 browser (feature wise), faster than many regular old Pentium IV's and pinching is good enough to get around the site.
..as they ask for a "waiver of secrecy": they actually *realize* that the e-mail voting will need the removal of one of they key things in a democratic election: the secrecy of voting. Now an actual record of the vote is transmitted in the clear (when using e-mail) and if anyone coerced said voter they will have undisputable proof what that person voted. I gues the OSCE will write this down in their report...
At least what I could read of it thus far from the image, some letters in parenthesis if I was unsure, and probably not everything correct: (please reply with your corrections)
A(C)AKN HVPKD (F)NFJU YIDD(C/L)
RQX(Q)R DJHFP (E/F)OVFN MIAPX
PABUZ WYYNP C(M)PNW HJR(C)H
NLXKE MEMEK ON(O)(I/L)B AREE(G)?
UAOTA RBQRH DJOFM TPZEH
LKX(E/P)H R(E/F)(E/F)HT JRZCQ FNKTQ
KLDTS (E/F)QIRU AOAKN (2)7 1525/6
...and computer security was published in a recent report from the European Network and Information Security Agency indicating that banks should always assume their client computers are infected.
I started moving the PC's I "maintain" (parents etc.) away from Windows and to a separate Ubuntu partition *only* for banking for this very reason. The likelihood that that partition is vulnerable (different OS, no other internet tooling running on it) is significantly lower.
At the same time, banks start drawing lines on what they do and do not reimburse to their clients based on e.g. their computers' security state and their client's intellect (giving out pin codes to perfect strangers...). While the latter is quite logical, the former is starting to become an issue: some banks insist that clients (especially business clients) did not take enough precautions against an attack. Of course not all attacks can be prevented in the first place, as TFA indicates. So, better be safe(r) than sorry and protect your banking as much as you can.
(Situation is from The Netherlands BTW, with ABN Amro and Rabobank as some of the examples of banks that start questioning their clients security behaviour, positively or negatively).
Baumgartner achieved speed of sound 'autonomously' without first sitting in a high-speed jet but by freefalling. All other examples are of pilots ejecting from a high-speed airplane, going over Mach using an engine. So while what you say is correct, I would rather emphasize the "freefall" versus "engine-powered" part:)
...but apps, apps, apps: imagine wanting to do something like video processing, where there are tons of good tools for Windows there are only a handful for Linux and most of them well... do not meet expectations. I am using a Linux desktop for several years now, and I am very happy with it, but there are times I need to run Wine or VMWare just to do certain stuff in a way that is more simple and more productive than if I had to do the same on my Ubuntu installation. It can be improved, but I think it will not be only a question of looking at the community (although that is my biggest wish: community driven FOSS software for all our needs), but also at the large corporations providing software for e.g. Windows. Once competition comes in from that side (large corporations), I think there will be more community projects taking up the same quality level of software, simply because the demand is there at that point. Now the demand somehow is not big enough to raise the quality level of the community driven software to the level that is seen on Windows, where it pertains to these apps for things like video editing (and perhaps also the same for games, but Steam could change all that nicely).
Office, web, mail: already covered by Linux very well, as well as a decent UI (although people may disagree). Now it's ready for the next level.
...because upstream providers or Google itself may start cutting down on the bandwidth used for certain types of services (ie non-Google ones, for example). Of course their intention is good, but I am glad that in The Netherlands I know what my FTTH (30Mb) is worth because we have a law on net neutrality. Without that a huge bandwidth is simply "a huge bandwidth for all services... that I allow".
...but I guess this fit's right in the studio's (TV ones...) idea of keeping control of whatever they produce. There is no real reason cloud recording isn't a perfectly valid, legal way to record stuff where even the owners could benefit. But no, judges intervene based on old laws and politics take a while to catch up and realize it is not 1980 anymore. Wake up people, the new world is coming, and floating out of the window before you know it.
There are already voices in the Dutch parliament calling for an investigation into copyright law, and whether censoring sites for commercial purposes/civil law is allowed : this would then only allow the blocking of sites illegal under criminal law. This story has not ended by far, and a similar thing as what happened to KPN (calling netneutrality into question) could happen to Brein (our "MPAA", using censorship for commercial purposes).
I am also having some fragmented Domotica in my home, self-built and generally working 'ok': doorbell gives me an e-mail, outside lights are controlled by a crontab, alarm system gives a message when a door is opened and that stuff. But like the parent I feel that it is generally useless to the common person. However, there may be an opportunity for someone to integrate everything into 1 solution that *would* give benefit ; maybe integrate it with the TV system using tools like jstx. But I don't think MS will solve this issue though ; way too much focused on their own OS, not on the user.
...while the parliament voted on this (in favor) already, the Senate ("Eerste Kamer") can still vote it down. Although chances are slim, the (indirectly elected) Senate in the Netherlands proved in the past that their view of the country is sometimes substantially different from that of the directly elected representatives. Officially the Senate can only regard the law against the constitution, but recent developments made the senate a more political institute. Because currently there are critical negotiations going on to keep the government in office, there is no saying what will be decided in that meeting room that affects ongoing legislation, including any Senate decisions. ( https://www.bof.nl/2012/03/05/stemming-eerste-kamer-telecommunicatiewet-uitgesteld/ in Dutch and https://www.bof.nl/2011/06/22/press-release-%E2%80%93-the-netherlands-first-country-in-europe-to-launch-net-neutrality/ on the original law in English)
Interesting news article, but when I read at the end that he is creating his own startup (and the disclosure of the author), I get funny feelings about the research and read back in the article: no critics. There must be some critical information in the scientific publication, but this article reads like a readers digest. Such articles make people probably pull their wallets quicker I guess... [/rantmodeoff]
OP here, I left out the knife part originally because for Slashdot I figured the real interesting fact was the "game data equals good" part. The original ruling already had the other person convicted because of the knife thing, but the defense argued that the crime could not constitute actual theft because there were no goods to be stolen. That is what the supreme court overturned, and that is the 'news' part in this story.
Slashdot Mirror
[DarkHelmet] "I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate."
[Lone Star] "So what does that make us?"
[Dark Helmet] "Absolutely nothing!"
on having good stable API's of core libraries that are backwards compatible up to an extent, rather than continuously fighting dependency hell when it comes to updating packages ?
This proposal seems basically like "we statically link every binary", and we all know that is not wanted because of disk usage and more importantly: memory usage. Especially in constrained embedded systems statically that could be a concern if you start having a lot of running applications.
Barman: Did you say the world is coming to an end? Shouldn't we all lie on the floor or put paper bags over our heads?
Ford: If you like.
Barman: Will it help?
Ford: Not at all.
[Ford runs out of the pub]
Barman: Last orders, please!
(THGTTG - DNA)
... we only have a few hours left before they will delete everything !
(grabs 3.5" floppy drive and starts downloading...)
..the justice department (yes, you read that right) actually had a login to the same database as it was found following the news on this particular case. One has to wonder if the official story (needed because of certain convicts that have their records in the same medical DB) is even a valid reason, and why they would even be allowed within 10 meters of such a sensitive and secret (medical wise) collection of data.
While Henk Krol is not a 'true hacker' perhaps, this does raise a lot of questions with regards to the security of any person's data in such a medical database; questions that "Diagnostiek voor U" may want to keep secret, so a "wag the dog" (or more popular "Chewbecca") tactic is followed...
reply to the positive or 'constructive' remarks or also to the more negative ones ? I will be watching this topic, my finger on the Resign button.
Finally, get ready for... [rant mode on]
I am sick of having the message "would you like to try beta or classic" every time when I browse Slashdot on my Chrome browser under my Nexus. I want the *regular* site, or something as close to it as possible. I even cannot click on the "classic" button... First lesson for new designs: if someone says *not for me* then leave them alone or they will leave your site alone.
Why should I have to press "request desktop site" each time I simply want to read an article ? This is not a PALM III where I zoom in with the Plus and Minus keys: my browser is more powerful than a Windows IE6 browser (feature wise), faster than many regular old Pentium IV's and pinching is good enough to get around the site.
[rant mode off]
These guns found in the McAfee place and this Luger 9mm do have similarities to the untrained eye.
As reported on Slashdot here ? I wonder if they were tracking him down back then for posession of a Luger 9mm.
..as they ask for a "waiver of secrecy": they actually *realize* that the e-mail voting will need the removal of one of they key things in a democratic election: the secrecy of voting. Now an actual record of the vote is transmitted in the clear (when using e-mail) and if anyone coerced said voter they will have undisputable proof what that person voted. I gues the OSCE will write this down in their report...
...this was already done before:
http://m.fark.com/comments/7412776/British-get-coded-message-by-carrier-pigeon-from-agent-in-Nazi-Germany-This-is-not-a-repeat-from-1940
And some more newsitems (not video): http://swns.com/news/wwii-carrier-pigeon-secret-code-defeating-nazis-70-years-later-chimney-26984/
At least what I could read of it thus far from the image, some letters in parenthesis if I was unsure, and probably not everything correct: (please reply with your corrections)
A(C)AKN HVPKD (F)NFJU YIDD(C/L)
RQX(Q)R DJHFP (E/F)OVFN MIAPX
PABUZ WYYNP C(M)PNW HJR(C)H
NLXKE MEMEK ON(O)(I/L)B AREE(G)?
UAOTA RBQRH DJOFM TPZEH
LKX(E/P)H R(E/F)(E/F)HT JRZCQ FNKTQ
KLDTS (E/F)QIRU AOAKN (2)7 1525/6
NURP 40 TW 194
NURP 37 DK (7/1)6
...and computer security was published in a recent report from the European Network and Information Security Agency indicating that banks should always assume their client computers are infected.
I started moving the PC's I "maintain" (parents etc.) away from Windows and to a separate Ubuntu partition *only* for banking for this very reason. The likelihood that that partition is vulnerable (different OS, no other internet tooling running on it) is significantly lower.
At the same time, banks start drawing lines on what they do and do not reimburse to their clients based on e.g. their computers' security state and their client's intellect (giving out pin codes to perfect strangers...). While the latter is quite logical, the former is starting to become an issue: some banks insist that clients (especially business clients) did not take enough precautions against an attack. Of course not all attacks can be prevented in the first place, as TFA indicates. So, better be safe(r) than sorry and protect your banking as much as you can. (Situation is from The Netherlands BTW, with ABN Amro and Rabobank as some of the examples of banks that start questioning their clients security behaviour, positively or negatively).
Baumgartner achieved speed of sound 'autonomously' without first sitting in a high-speed jet but by freefalling. All other examples are of pilots ejecting from a high-speed airplane, going over Mach using an engine. So while what you say is correct, I would rather emphasize the "freefall" versus "engine-powered" part :)
I want him to answer that ;=)
Unless you are Woz, in which case I would imagine 604554 is too high a UID ;=)
...the short end of the stick where Apple is concerned - why so or why not ?
In other words: who is the genius ?
...but apps, apps, apps: imagine wanting to do something like video processing, where there are tons of good tools for Windows there are only a handful for Linux and most of them well... do not meet expectations. I am using a Linux desktop for several years now, and I am very happy with it, but there are times I need to run Wine or VMWare just to do certain stuff in a way that is more simple and more productive than if I had to do the same on my Ubuntu installation.
It can be improved, but I think it will not be only a question of looking at the community (although that is my biggest wish: community driven FOSS software for all our needs), but also at the large corporations providing software for e.g. Windows. Once competition comes in from that side (large corporations), I think there will be more community projects taking up the same quality level of software, simply because the demand is there at that point. Now the demand somehow is not big enough to raise the quality level of the community driven software to the level that is seen on Windows, where it pertains to these apps for things like video editing (and perhaps also the same for games, but Steam could change all that nicely).
Office, web, mail: already covered by Linux very well, as well as a decent UI (although people may disagree). Now it's ready for the next level.
...because upstream providers or Google itself may start cutting down on the bandwidth used for certain types of services (ie non-Google ones, for example). Of course their intention is good, but I am glad that in The Netherlands I know what my FTTH (30Mb) is worth because we have a law on net neutrality. Without that a huge bandwidth is simply "a huge bandwidth for all services... that I allow".
...but I guess this fit's right in the studio's (TV ones...) idea of keeping control of whatever they produce.
There is no real reason cloud recording isn't a perfectly valid, legal way to record stuff where even the owners could benefit. But no, judges intervene based on old laws and politics take a while to catch up and realize it is not 1980 anymore.
Wake up people, the new world is coming, and floating out of the window before you know it.
...which is the biggest problem with many of these schemes: friends giving away other friends' data. Is that term still correct in that case ?
There are already voices in the Dutch parliament calling for an investigation into copyright law, and whether censoring sites for commercial purposes/civil law is allowed : this would then only allow the blocking of sites illegal under criminal law. This story has not ended by far, and a similar thing as what happened to KPN (calling netneutrality into question) could happen to Brein (our "MPAA", using censorship for commercial purposes).
I am also having some fragmented Domotica in my home, self-built and generally working 'ok': doorbell gives me an e-mail, outside lights are controlled by a crontab, alarm system gives a message when a door is opened and that stuff. But like the parent I feel that it is generally useless to the common person. However, there may be an opportunity for someone to integrate everything into 1 solution that *would* give benefit ; maybe integrate it with the TV system using tools like jstx. But I don't think MS will solve this issue though ; way too much focused on their own OS, not on the user.
...while the parliament voted on this (in favor) already, the Senate ("Eerste Kamer") can still vote it down. Although chances are slim, the (indirectly elected) Senate in the Netherlands proved in the past that their view of the country is sometimes substantially different from that of the directly elected representatives. Officially the Senate can only regard the law against the constitution, but recent developments made the senate a more political institute. Because currently there are critical negotiations going on to keep the government in office, there is no saying what will be decided in that meeting room that affects ongoing legislation, including any Senate decisions. ( https://www.bof.nl/2012/03/05/stemming-eerste-kamer-telecommunicatiewet-uitgesteld/ in Dutch and https://www.bof.nl/2011/06/22/press-release-%E2%80%93-the-netherlands-first-country-in-europe-to-launch-net-neutrality/ on the original law in English)
Interesting news article, but when I read at the end that he is creating his own startup (and the disclosure of the author), I get funny feelings about the research and read back in the article: no critics. There must be some critical information in the scientific publication, but this article reads like a readers digest. Such articles make people probably pull their wallets quicker I guess... [/rantmodeoff]
OP here, I left out the knife part originally because for Slashdot I figured the real interesting fact was the "game data equals good" part. The original ruling already had the other person convicted because of the knife thing, but the defense argued that the crime could not constitute actual theft because there were no goods to be stolen. That is what the supreme court overturned, and that is the 'news' part in this story.