4) [...] The notion of which is actually better depends on what a person happens to personally prefer, and is not based on objective and universal truth.
In a case of imperfect interoperability, such as that between LibreOffice and Microsoft Office, what is better depends on what lets you communicate with your suppliers, clients, collaborators, etc.
Safari is the only browser allowed to run on iOS. Browsers from the App Store are either wrappers around WebKit, which is the same engine used by Safari, or (in the case of Opera Mini) remote desktop to a browser running elsewhere.
The typical Python program, for instance doesn't need a PVM
What do you think CPython or PyPy is, if not a Python virtual machine? Good luck running a program written in Python on a PC running the Windows operating system without one of those installed.
I don't think.NET Core was open source at the time Mozilla began to develop Servo. Even if Mozilla were to drop Rust today and migrate Servo to C#, that would still take months.
On Twitter, a word beginning with # is a hashtag. A hashtag is displayed as a link to a page of search results for other recent Tweets containing the same hashtag. Users use hashtags to group Tweets by subject.
Twitter already has a VIP badge, currently displayed as a white checkmark on a blue eight-lobed shape. Occasionally the loss of this badge
What you recommend amounts to requiring all verified accounts to use 2-factor authentication. But that'll be impractical until Twitter starts allowing second factors other than SMS, such as TOTP (e.g. Google Authenticator) or a U2F key. As of the last time I checked, a single phone line could be associated with only one account. Trying to use a single phone line as the second factor for both your personal account and the business account that you manage produces an error message: "The phone number you gave us [...] is currently used by another Twitter account. Only one account can be used with a mobile phone at a time."
Zeroes are more compressible than the output of a pseudorandom number generator. On SSD firmware that performs compression, a PRNG fill will touch more "non-erased sectors" than a zero fill.
But otherwise, I agree. You need low-level tools to ensure that everything past the partition table is either A. erased after the fact or B. encrypted at the sector level beforehand. The ideal SSD firmware would encrypt everything transparently, such that ATA Secure Erase just trims everything and changes the master key.
When are high-profile people - particularly tech people - going to learn to use any of the multi-factor auth options available to them?
As soon as Twitter allows a person with more than one account to use two-factor authentication on more than one account without multiple cell phone lines.
If you control both a personal account and a business account, you can expect the following error message when adding a second account: "The phone number you gave us is currently used by another Twitter account. Only one account can be used with a mobile phone at a time." (screenshot). Many major 2FA IDPs other than Twitter support TOTP, and some support U2F keys through Google Chrome. Though the Twitter Rules allow a user to manage more than one account with distinct purposes,* a user has to either forgo 2FA for one account or fork over $120 per year for a second cell phone line. Have things changed materially since September 2014 when this article was written?
Furthermore, this article claims that an account can't have more than one number, which makes 2FA impractical for multiple staffers who tweet on a single account. One might consider using a landline shared by staffers in an office, but that doesn't work either. I tried to associate my Twitter account with a landline in May of this year, but it gave an error message that my carrier was unsupported.
If any of this has changed, link me the announcement.
* As opposed to these Twitter accounts, all of which which exist to praise GNU/Linux and bash "M$".
The view under the DOJ's interpretation of the CFAA is that online roleplay is illegal on sites whose written terms of service explicitly forbid online roleplay.
Firstly, that they will have written this usage into your contract, which may have been changed without you signing anything.
You signed the check for another month of service. I haven't known Comcast to get into the ETF game.
I would expect this to mean that they are administering your internet connection. Therefore, they are responsible for the data your modem requests
I thought every packet was tagged with whether it is destined for Comcast's hotspot or for the subscriber. So the person who authenticated to the captive portal on the xfinitywifi SSID is responsible for that data, not you.
On Slashdot, you occasionally see comments that refer to three "boxes" used in nonviolent defense of liberty: soap box, ballot box, and jury box. Respectively, these refer to petitioning the government, voting out the bastards who disregard said petitions, and challenging constitutionality of legislation. But some people are opposed to use of the jury box as a substitute for the soap box and ballot box. They use "activist judges" as an epithet for those who use the power of judicial review in a way that they don't like. The problem is that the present campaign finance environment encourages use of the jury box, as it is perceived as the box least subject to manipulation by plutocratic rent-seekers.
You still filled the drive with random noise. Or are you referring to the possibility of recovering data from sectors of the raw NAND marked as spares?
What Linux distro ships Chrome as the default browser? None of the main ones (Ubuntu, Mint, RHEL/CentOS, [open]SUSE, Debian, Arch, Gentoo).
Talk about moving the goal posts. But, AFAIK Chromium will happily do the same. But, then, I guess you'll try to claim that's not "default" too or some BS.
It isn't default. Do any of these ship Chromium in the install image, or do they all ship Firefox?
Windows has no equivalent function to AppArmor or SELinux to profile an executive's privileges before running it.
Windows 8 introduces "AppContainer", which IE uses for its Enhanced Protected Mode. An AppContainer provides a capability model analogous to Android permissions. UWP applications likewise runs in an AppContainer. Google Chrome is based on Chromium, which has its own sandbox that uses AppContainer when available.
Rental of cars and hotel rooms often involves such an authorization as a deposit. I'm not aware either of any concerts that require a deposit. The idea in context was supposed to be that a concert promoter attempts to confiscate the phones of those who violate the cell phone policy written on the ticket, and when that is found not to legally fly, the next concert will require such a deposit.
Why ban wolf 3D just as they app store does not like the content?
That depends on whether they banned Id's parent company Zenimax from posting it or whether they banned third parties from posting it.
Third parties, game assets included
Zenimax has sent notices of claimed infringement to those hosting source ports bundled with game asset files (such as WAD or PAK).
Third parties, game assets not included
App store operators want all source ports distributed to the public to be "self-contained", with the engine and game assets in one package authorized by the game assets' copyright owner. A source port with an "Open WAD..." command executes code that has been downloaded from somewhere.
Zenimax
The App Store Review Guidelines appear to contain what amounts to a general policy against historical fiction. The guidelines as of this writing state: "'Enemies' within the context of a game cannot solely target a specific race, culture, real government, corporation, or any other real entity." NSDAP-controlled Germany was a "real government". Like the adult case, this isn't quite as technically defensible.
Why ban NES EMU's just because big N said to?
Different repositories have different excuses.
Fedora
Tom Callaway explained on Fedora's legal mailing list (part 1; part 2) that Red Hat lacks the spare change to pay lawyers to defend a lawsuit. Even if it's winnable, Red Hat's financial resources are better spent elsewhere.
Apple
A ban on emulators probably has little to do with threats from Nintendo. In fact, Nintendo has approved classics compilations containing the free PocketNES emulator for sale on Game Boy Advance (one containing games by Atlus and another with games by Jaleco) and Nintendo DS (extras in Konami's Contra 4). The issue here is the "Open ROM..." command. App store operators want all emulators distributed to the public to be "self-contained", with the emulator and ROM in one package authorized by the ROM's copyright owner. An emulator with an "Open ROM..." command executes code that has been downloaded from somewhere.
You point out that Windows 10 isn't secure from its update provider. But is any general-purpose PC operating system secure both from its update provider and from attackers who exploit defects in software that isn't updated?
I get the impression from "Activation in Windows 10" that when you upgrade to Windows 10 or install Windows 10 with a Windows 7 product key during this offer, your digital entitlement is stored with Microsoft. So if you upgrade before the end of July, go back to Windows 7, and then reinstall Windows 10, it will access the same digital entitlement.
I'm sure there's some other designation you could use that would exclude obvious diploma mills but include mid-tier state universities and other schools (e.g. Notre Dame) that aren't AAU members.
Is regional accreditation an appropriate metric? That'd exclude debt-bait schools like those relying on ACICS.
She didn't support it, until it turned out that a lot of voters supported it, so in 2013 she changed her position and supported it. It speaks to principles. Hers are "say what's popular."
In government by the people and for the people, since when is listening to the constituents that you represent a bad idea in general?
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4) [...] The notion of which is actually better depends on what a person happens to personally prefer, and is not based on objective and universal truth.
In a case of imperfect interoperability, such as that between LibreOffice and Microsoft Office, what is better depends on what lets you communicate with your suppliers, clients, collaborators, etc.
Safari is the only browser allowed to run on iOS. Browsers from the App Store are either wrappers around WebKit, which is the same engine used by Safari, or (in the case of Opera Mini) remote desktop to a browser running elsewhere.
The typical Python program, for instance doesn't need a PVM
What do you think CPython or PyPy is, if not a Python virtual machine? Good luck running a program written in Python on a PC running the Windows operating system without one of those installed.
I don't think .NET Core was open source at the time Mozilla began to develop Servo. Even if Mozilla were to drop Rust today and migrate Servo to C#, that would still take months.
Probably because the present user interface for managing client certificates stored on a machine is horrible. See BrowserAuth.net's writeup and my writeup, which suggests a couple fixes.
Could Twitter periodically ask users to revoke write privileges of apps with read/write access that haven't used a write call in 30 days?
Maybe an option to turn all additional API stuff off, except for the web page?
To revoke the access of a third-party application, open the Apps pane of your account settings.
Why did you prefix some of your words with a #?
On Twitter, a word beginning with # is a hashtag. A hashtag is displayed as a link to a page of search results for other recent Tweets containing the same hashtag. Users use hashtags to group Tweets by subject.
Twitter already has a VIP badge, currently displayed as a white checkmark on a blue eight-lobed shape. Occasionally the loss of this badge
What you recommend amounts to requiring all verified accounts to use 2-factor authentication. But that'll be impractical until Twitter starts allowing second factors other than SMS, such as TOTP (e.g. Google Authenticator) or a U2F key. As of the last time I checked, a single phone line could be associated with only one account. Trying to use a single phone line as the second factor for both your personal account and the business account that you manage produces an error message: "The phone number you gave us [...] is currently used by another Twitter account. Only one account can be used with a mobile phone at a time."
Has this changed?
Zeroes are more compressible than the output of a pseudorandom number generator. On SSD firmware that performs compression, a PRNG fill will touch more "non-erased sectors" than a zero fill.
But otherwise, I agree. You need low-level tools to ensure that everything past the partition table is either A. erased after the fact or B. encrypted at the sector level beforehand. The ideal SSD firmware would encrypt everything transparently, such that ATA Secure Erase just trims everything and changes the master key.
When are high-profile people - particularly tech people - going to learn to use any of the multi-factor auth options available to them?
As soon as Twitter allows a person with more than one account to use two-factor authentication on more than one account without multiple cell phone lines.
If you control both a personal account and a business account, you can expect the following error message when adding a second account: "The phone number you gave us is currently used by another Twitter account. Only one account can be used with a mobile phone at a time." (screenshot). Many major 2FA IDPs other than Twitter support TOTP, and some support U2F keys through Google Chrome. Though the Twitter Rules allow a user to manage more than one account with distinct purposes,* a user has to either forgo 2FA for one account or fork over $120 per year for a second cell phone line. Have things changed materially since September 2014 when this article was written?
Furthermore, this article claims that an account can't have more than one number, which makes 2FA impractical for multiple staffers who tweet on a single account. One might consider using a landline shared by staffers in an office, but that doesn't work either. I tried to associate my Twitter account with a landline in May of this year, but it gave an error message that my carrier was unsupported.
If any of this has changed, link me the announcement.
* As opposed to these Twitter accounts, all of which which exist to praise GNU/Linux and bash "M$".
The view under the DOJ's interpretation of the CFAA is that online roleplay is illegal on sites whose written terms of service explicitly forbid online roleplay.
Firstly, that they will have written this usage into your contract, which may have been changed without you signing anything.
You signed the check for another month of service. I haven't known Comcast to get into the ETF game.
I would expect this to mean that they are administering your internet connection. Therefore, they are responsible for the data your modem requests
I thought every packet was tagged with whether it is destined for Comcast's hotspot or for the subscriber. So the person who authenticated to the captive portal on the xfinitywifi SSID is responsible for that data, not you.
On Slashdot, you occasionally see comments that refer to three "boxes" used in nonviolent defense of liberty: soap box, ballot box, and jury box. Respectively, these refer to petitioning the government, voting out the bastards who disregard said petitions, and challenging constitutionality of legislation. But some people are opposed to use of the jury box as a substitute for the soap box and ballot box. They use "activist judges" as an epithet for those who use the power of judicial review in a way that they don't like. The problem is that the present campaign finance environment encourages use of the jury box, as it is perceived as the box least subject to manipulation by plutocratic rent-seekers.
You still filled the drive with random noise. Or are you referring to the possibility of recovering data from sectors of the raw NAND marked as spares?
What Linux distro ships Chrome as the default browser? None of the main ones (Ubuntu, Mint, RHEL/CentOS, [open]SUSE, Debian, Arch, Gentoo).
Talk about moving the goal posts. But, AFAIK Chromium will happily do the same. But, then, I guess you'll try to claim that's not "default" too or some BS.
It isn't default. Do any of these ship Chromium in the install image, or do they all ship Firefox?
Windows has no equivalent function to AppArmor or SELinux to profile an executive's privileges before running it.
Windows 8 introduces "AppContainer", which IE uses for its Enhanced Protected Mode. An AppContainer provides a capability model analogous to Android permissions. UWP applications likewise runs in an AppContainer. Google Chrome is based on Chromium, which has its own sandbox that uses AppContainer when available.
GitHub has stopped listing new ones:
Rental of cars and hotel rooms often involves such an authorization as a deposit. I'm not aware either of any concerts that require a deposit. The idea in context was supposed to be that a concert promoter attempts to confiscate the phones of those who violate the cell phone policy written on the ticket, and when that is found not to legally fly, the next concert will require such a deposit.
Why ban wolf 3D just as they app store does not like the content?
That depends on whether they banned Id's parent company Zenimax from posting it or whether they banned third parties from posting it.
Third parties, game assets included Zenimax has sent notices of claimed infringement to those hosting source ports bundled with game asset files (such as WAD or PAK). Third parties, game assets not included App store operators want all source ports distributed to the public to be "self-contained", with the engine and game assets in one package authorized by the game assets' copyright owner. A source port with an "Open WAD..." command executes code that has been downloaded from somewhere. Zenimax The App Store Review Guidelines appear to contain what amounts to a general policy against historical fiction. The guidelines as of this writing state: "'Enemies' within the context of a game cannot solely target a specific race, culture, real government, corporation, or any other real entity." NSDAP-controlled Germany was a "real government". Like the adult case, this isn't quite as technically defensible.Why ban NES EMU's just because big N said to?
Different repositories have different excuses.
Fedora Tom Callaway explained on Fedora's legal mailing list (part 1; part 2) that Red Hat lacks the spare change to pay lawyers to defend a lawsuit. Even if it's winnable, Red Hat's financial resources are better spent elsewhere. Apple A ban on emulators probably has little to do with threats from Nintendo. In fact, Nintendo has approved classics compilations containing the free PocketNES emulator for sale on Game Boy Advance (one containing games by Atlus and another with games by Jaleco) and Nintendo DS (extras in Konami's Contra 4). The issue here is the "Open ROM..." command. App store operators want all emulators distributed to the public to be "self-contained", with the emulator and ROM in one package authorized by the ROM's copyright owner. An emulator with an "Open ROM..." command executes code that has been downloaded from somewhere.You point out that Windows 10 isn't secure from its update provider. But is any general-purpose PC operating system secure both from its update provider and from attackers who exploit defects in software that isn't updated?
I get the impression from "Activation in Windows 10" that when you upgrade to Windows 10 or install Windows 10 with a Windows 7 product key during this offer, your digital entitlement is stored with Microsoft. So if you upgrade before the end of July, go back to Windows 7, and then reinstall Windows 10, it will access the same digital entitlement.
I'm sure there's some other designation you could use that would exclude obvious diploma mills but include mid-tier state universities and other schools (e.g. Notre Dame) that aren't AAU members.
Is regional accreditation an appropriate metric? That'd exclude debt-bait schools like those relying on ACICS.
She didn't support it, until it turned out that a lot of voters supported it, so in 2013 she changed her position and supported it. It speaks to principles. Hers are "say what's popular."
In government by the people and for the people, since when is listening to the constituents that you represent a bad idea in general?
Accreditation has already been heavily compromised in order to suck up student loan money.
Is this only true of national accrediting agencies, such as the infamous ACICS (which the Department of Education will likely shut down), or also true of the regional accrediting agencies that oversee traditional universities?