They give the Chinese government something they claim is the Windows source code. Unless China is compiling it and distributing the output, there is no reason to believe it's what they're actually running.
Great post. I'm a similar age and have only recently realized that it's more important to users that things look good than that they work well. Thankfully my servers don't care.
I assume any Google searches are delivered directly to the NSA, and routinely shared by them to allied intelligence agencies. After Snowden it would be irresponsible to assume anything less.
I think most libertarians in the US would be perfectly happy with a government the size of the one the US had in, say, 1910 or so. Which would be about a fifth what it is now (as a percent of GDP, in real terms it would still be quite a bit bigger and more intrusive). And when, strangely enough, the US was still not in any way like Somalia.
Left turners hit motorcyclists all the time too. You just have to assume that a certain percentage of people literally can't see you unless you're in a car.
Well a lot of people don't just randomly go out for the night. I do agree that owning a dog significantly restricts your flexibility. They are great pets though.
It's pretty tough to get blacklisted if you're aren't actually sending spam. Block port 25 outbound from your office LAN so trojanned laptops can't send spam, and you're probably good to go.
SPF, DKIM and PTR records take maybe an hour to setup right.
And yeah, if it goes down at 3 am, I fix it, just like any other production system. I probably won't have to drive since it's on a VM on redundant hosts like all the office servers, but if necessary, sure.
In 1994 the network consulting company I worked for decided to become an ISP. As part of building up the systems to support that, on a craptastic System V UNIX from Novell they called UnixWare, I was installing all these open source tools and they all seemed to want to be compiled on something called Linux, by default. Getting some of them to compile on UnixWare was so much fun.
Eventually I figured out Linux was an actual open source OS, and I tried some Slack disks, but it didn't run very well and had like no driver support for my RAID and network boards, so I stayed with UnixWare.
At my next job in 1996, though, I installed Red Hat Linux, and never looked back. I was running a Linux desktop by 1997 I think.
I have tried Debian a couple of times but never really got into it; I just had too much time invested in building RPM packages and doing things the Red Hat way, and the Debian installer has always been so useless it's quite off-putting. I did run Ubuntu on my laptop for a couple of years, though.
I now run a mix of Gentoo and CentOS, depending on application.
His argument makes a tiny bit of sense ..
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If you assume the people watching are in fact the good guys and bear you no ill will and will never misuse their knowledge or incompetently leak it to others.
If, on the other hand, they happen to be human beings, who will inevitably abuse their power, then maybe not so much.
Linux can definitely be hard to use. Normally it isn't quite that bad.
In exchange, though, you get to not be spied on by your OS maker and whatever governments and partner companies they're friendly with, among many other freedoms.
No one else cares if you use it or not. Except for the companies currently spying on you.
Google over IMAP is ridiculously slow, whenever I've tried it. But yeah Outlook also hobbles IMAP. They want you to buy Exchange, not use free email servers.
If you're going to use stranded power to create liquid fuels, at least create something useful, like ammonia. Hydrogen is just way too hard to transport and handle, and just doesn't have the energy density.
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They give the Chinese government something they claim is the Windows source code. Unless China is compiling it and distributing the output, there is no reason to believe it's what they're actually running.
I doubt there's a law against carrying a low-value SD card in your shoe.
Great post. I'm a similar age and have only recently realized that it's more important to users that things look good than that they work well. Thankfully my servers don't care.
I assume any Google searches are delivered directly to the NSA, and routinely shared by them to allied intelligence agencies. After Snowden it would be irresponsible to assume anything less.
Yeah, that's how government works.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanha...
Government losing data does seem more like a feature than a bug.
I think most libertarians in the US would be perfectly happy with a government the size of the one the US had in, say, 1910 or so. Which would be about a fifth what it is now (as a percent of GDP, in real terms it would still be quite a bit bigger and more intrusive). And when, strangely enough, the US was still not in any way like Somalia.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/13/us/airport-luggage-theft/
https://www.rt.com/usa/tsa-stealing-from-travelers-358/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/tsa-thefts/
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/top-20-airports-tsa-theft/story?id=17537887#.UIa7fGmfHft
Left turners hit motorcyclists all the time too. You just have to assume that a certain percentage of people literally can't see you unless you're in a car.
Well a lot of people don't just randomly go out for the night. I do agree that owning a dog significantly restricts your flexibility. They are great pets though.
There are these places called kennels that take care of dogs for you. Some of them are even nice. But yeah it takes some planning.
The current court has proven there are no linguistic hurdles they won't leap to validate the administration's statist overreaches.
Seriously, who really drives to new places that often that they need GPS on all the time.
And lose your kids, half your assets, and a good chunk of your pay cheque for possible the rest of your life.
And people wonder why guys don't want to get married.
It's pretty tough to get blacklisted if you're aren't actually sending spam. Block port 25 outbound from your office LAN so trojanned laptops can't send spam, and you're probably good to go.
SPF, DKIM and PTR records take maybe an hour to setup right.
And yeah, if it goes down at 3 am, I fix it, just like any other production system. I probably won't have to drive since it's on a VM on redundant hosts like all the office servers, but if necessary, sure.
In 1994 the network consulting company I worked for decided to become an ISP. As part of building up the systems to support that, on a craptastic System V UNIX from Novell they called UnixWare, I was installing all these open source tools and they all seemed to want to be compiled on something called Linux, by default. Getting some of them to compile on UnixWare was so much fun.
Eventually I figured out Linux was an actual open source OS, and I tried some Slack disks, but it didn't run very well and had like no driver support for my RAID and network boards, so I stayed with UnixWare.
At my next job in 1996, though, I installed Red Hat Linux, and never looked back. I was running a Linux desktop by 1997 I think.
I have tried Debian a couple of times but never really got into it; I just had too much time invested in building RPM packages and doing things the Red Hat way, and the Debian installer has always been so useless it's quite off-putting. I did run Ubuntu on my laptop for a couple of years, though.
I now run a mix of Gentoo and CentOS, depending on application.
If you assume the people watching are in fact the good guys and bear you no ill will and will never misuse their knowledge or incompetently leak it to others.
If, on the other hand, they happen to be human beings, who will inevitably abuse their power, then maybe not so much.
Linux can definitely be hard to use. Normally it isn't quite that bad.
In exchange, though, you get to not be spied on by your OS maker and whatever governments and partner companies they're friendly with, among many other freedoms.
No one else cares if you use it or not. Except for the companies currently spying on you.
Google over IMAP is ridiculously slow, whenever I've tried it. But yeah Outlook also hobbles IMAP. They want you to buy Exchange, not use free email servers.
If you're going to use stranded power to create liquid fuels, at least create something useful, like ammonia. Hydrogen is just way too hard to transport and handle, and just doesn't have the energy density.
I'll only log in to Facebook from a private browser window. Screw web-wide tracking.
The hydrogen in fuel cells has to be created somewhere. Using electricity. Now at a double (or triple) conversion loss.
Put up a decent profile on LinkedIn. You'll have recruiters on you daily.
Use OpenVPN; the Mikrotiks support it although setup is easier from the command-line than their gui.
The client for Windows works well.