HOPE is definitely not gone. I was there until after midnight yesterday/today (Saturday into Sunday, that is to say less than two hours ago). Oddly their web presence does seem to be dead, though...
I'd go with thermite myself... more reliable than magnetic erasure or programmatic wipe.
Of course you could just trigger a nuke of the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
This comment amazes me. I have believed almost exactly what you suggest in your comment for quite awhile now, but people dismiss the idea out of hand. I have never before seen anyone else express this idea.
What we really need are the Three Laws for corporations..... we also need them not to be people, of course. That would be an interesting national battle.
Heh, forgot I had that... I put it up in response to the sig "never trust anyone under 30." I didn't find out until later that the one I'm using actually came first.:-)
If you knew anything about Linux kernel modules, you would be well aware that "tainted" is not an insult, it's a technical term. A tainted kernel is one which has code running in it for which the source is not available. That means core dumps from it aren't useful as bug reports, and will be marked as such. Any insult you think the word "tainted" implies is entirely in your mind.
I don't know if I should ask for you to be modded Troll or not, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt: the ESR quote you're waving around is fake. He never said it. A Google search trivially reveals that it's from a fake news article on Humorix.org.
I can't imagine you were too fond of ESR to begin with, or you would have fact-checked that rather out-of-character quote.
Slashdot's getting better at posting news while it's new... this one's only about 3 or 4 hours out of date. Meanwhile Fark, a comedy site, had the newsflash up while the tsunami warning was still in effect. I know where I'm going for my news...
I have to say, I'm torn here. I could certainly whip out my 1st-gen ipod and run it for 5 hours, and I doubt the battery would last... but I hate to dirty myself for $50 by participating in one of these class-action clusterf**ks.
Do you mean that the second amendment itself may not be argued against, or that your interpretation of the second amendment is definitively the correct one and may not be argued against? Because the former gets you my respect, whereas the latter merely gets you my suspicion. Always allow for the possibility that you might be mistaken.
I've been doing it for years, but I generally don't talk about it unless directly asked, since it goes against the grain of traditional security advice. My feeling is, 1) My passwords are no more valuable than anything else in my wallet, and 2) if my wallet gets stolen, I will know near-immediately and change all my passwords (probably even before cancelling my credit cards.)
Someone should hire some good English-speaking voice actors and do a cut of Eps 1-3 with all the actors-who-can't-do-emotion (I'll leave it up to you which those are) dubbed over. Maybe then we'll have something worth seeing.
And while you're at it, dub out Jar-jar into some incomprehensible alien language. Then you can use subtitles to give him whatever lines you want, or no lines at all.:-D
The fact that you feel the need to post this suggests that you are concerned about your own ability to discern whether the person you are arguing with is a 10-year-old. Does that mean it is a waste of time for you to argue with them, or for them to argue with you?
Yeah, sorry... I take back the -1. I'm just too used to hearing people jump into every discussion about regulation with "the market could do this better!"
The government has to get involved in permitting stuff like this because they previously MADE IT ILLEGAL with the DMCA. The market isn't likely to help with that.
Don't get me wrong, I like libertarians... but the Libertarians leave a bad taste in my mouth. Even our local libertarian club isn't all that fond of the party. I personally feel that it tries to push economic policies based on pseudoscientific economic theories while pretending it stands up for the common man. I'm not sure even the Libertarians themselves realize to what extent their pseudo-"free market" economics plays into the hands of the corporations.
It's far worse than that -- I'm from California. FEINSTEIN'S MY FUCKING SENATOR! *silent scream* And all I can do is vote against her... presumably for the Republican, if I'm to make a difference. And who's to say the result won't be worse?
Sorry, rant over. I just had to get that out.
Slight correction, for the nitpicky: it does 'rm -rf $HOME'. Which is really much more dangerous if you're not root, because it's harder to notice before it does damage.
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FYI the movie was Real Genius.
HOPE is definitely not gone. I was there until after midnight yesterday/today (Saturday into Sunday, that is to say less than two hours ago). Oddly their web presence does seem to be dead, though...
No... the combination's on a post-it note stuck to the front. But _we're_ locked inside!
I'd go with thermite myself... more reliable than magnetic erasure or programmatic wipe. Of course you could just trigger a nuke of the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
This comment amazes me. I have believed almost exactly what you suggest in your comment for quite awhile now, but people dismiss the idea out of hand. I have never before seen anyone else express this idea. What we really need are the Three Laws for corporations..... we also need them not to be people, of course. That would be an interesting national battle.
I'd mod you up if I had mod points. Wish you would have posted with an account so I could friend you.
Heh, forgot I had that... I put it up in response to the sig "never trust anyone under 30." I didn't find out until later that the one I'm using actually came first. :-)
A good text editor: vim A good OS: emacs Something else: Your mom.
If you knew anything about Linux kernel modules, you would be well aware that "tainted" is not an insult, it's a technical term. A tainted kernel is one which has code running in it for which the source is not available. That means core dumps from it aren't useful as bug reports, and will be marked as such. Any insult you think the word "tainted" implies is entirely in your mind.
Wow... I apologize, then. I had no idea Mr. Raymond had such a case of Foot-in-Mouth disease. That makes me sad on many levels.
I can't imagine you were too fond of ESR to begin with, or you would have fact-checked that rather out-of-character quote.
Slashdot's getting better at posting news while it's new... this one's only about 3 or 4 hours out of date. Meanwhile Fark, a comedy site, had the newsflash up while the tsunami warning was still in effect. I know where I'm going for my news...
Slashdot: reaching new heights in intra-story dupes. Slashdot: reaching new heights in intra-story dupes.
I have to say, I'm torn here. I could certainly whip out my 1st-gen ipod and run it for 5 hours, and I doubt the battery would last... but I hate to dirty myself for $50 by participating in one of these class-action clusterf**ks.
Do you mean that the second amendment itself may not be argued against, or that your interpretation of the second amendment is definitively the correct one and may not be argued against? Because the former gets you my respect, whereas the latter merely gets you my suspicion. Always allow for the possibility that you might be mistaken.
I've been doing it for years, but I generally don't talk about it unless directly asked, since it goes against the grain of traditional security advice. My feeling is, 1) My passwords are no more valuable than anything else in my wallet, and 2) if my wallet gets stolen, I will know near-immediately and change all my passwords (probably even before cancelling my credit cards.)
Someone should hire some good English-speaking voice actors and do a cut of Eps 1-3 with all the actors-who-can't-do-emotion (I'll leave it up to you which those are) dubbed over. Maybe then we'll have something worth seeing. And while you're at it, dub out Jar-jar into some incomprehensible alien language. Then you can use subtitles to give him whatever lines you want, or no lines at all. :-D
... when a Godwin's Law violation by an Anonymous Coward gets +4, Insightful!
The fact that you feel the need to post this suggests that you are concerned about your own ability to discern whether the person you are arguing with is a 10-year-old. Does that mean it is a waste of time for you to argue with them, or for them to argue with you?
Yeah, sorry... I take back the -1. I'm just too used to hearing people jump into every discussion about regulation with "the market could do this better!"
The government has to get involved in permitting stuff like this because they previously MADE IT ILLEGAL with the DMCA. The market isn't likely to help with that.
Don't get me wrong, I like libertarians... but the Libertarians leave a bad taste in my mouth. Even our local libertarian club isn't all that fond of the party. I personally feel that it tries to push economic policies based on pseudoscientific economic theories while pretending it stands up for the common man. I'm not sure even the Libertarians themselves realize to what extent their pseudo-"free market" economics plays into the hands of the corporations.
It's far worse than that -- I'm from California. FEINSTEIN'S MY FUCKING SENATOR! *silent scream* And all I can do is vote against her... presumably for the Republican, if I'm to make a difference. And who's to say the result won't be worse? Sorry, rant over. I just had to get that out.
Slight correction, for the nitpicky: it does 'rm -rf $HOME'. Which is really much more dangerous if you're not root, because it's harder to notice before it does damage.