Great, now hackers has a single point of attack to lift passwords. Imagine hooking a function call to the generation plugin which sends every password and username back to the attacker....
Oh, Ford is not recognized as a good car in Europe. In fact, FORD over here has become an acronym for "Fire Ordentlige Reparasjoner Daglig", loosly translated from Norwegian to "Four Serious Repairs Daily".
Yes, I have no doubt that some organic farmers are being caught up unfairly in the dragnet. But I also can't blame Monsanto for having these much-maligned "seed police,"
Are you beeing funny or is that an actual quote from the dictionary? If it is, oh man, never buying a dictionary again. Sounds like a teenager wrote it.
Well lolz at them, I don't actually encrypt stuff because I must, it's just because I can. if everyone did it, the government would get pretty tired of intimidating password out of people to unlock pictures of kittens. I thought the plan was for everyone to encrypt shit, so those who actually HAS to, can, without raising suspicion. And the people who HAS to can be 'terrorists' as much as they want, the word doesn't have any meaning anymore to me. A terrorist is anyone who thinks differently these days. Actually, most 'terrorism', per definition, is performed by a 'state' anyway.
I wonder why there's so much drive in Linux to abandon whatever is in the right track.
Been saying this for ages, my guess is that people deep within the 'community' are getting paid to damage Linux as much as possible, while keeping a smile for the public. It's just not possible to be so mindboggingly stupid. There has to be some cold cash somewhere. Linux almost had it right so many times, just to get 'reinvented' and pooof we have a new set of half assed beta software that is 10 years behind again.
Consider yourself lucky. Very few of us achieve one-click->100% working dual monitor setup. Well it did actually work for like 2 weeks before some update broke it. Indeed, my latest two mobo's wasn't even supported by the Linux kernel and related low-level device drivers. No, I could not load any drivers, because the damn thing can't even figure out how to handle my disk controllers. (SB600 and SB950 chipsets. Actually, the last Ubuntu I could run without major buggage was 8.04 and 8.10.) I tried all the major distros, and they all bugged out the same way. Yes Linux is great for servers and all that yadda yadda, but I'm getting too old for this shit and I expect anything that calls itself a desktop distro in this time and age to "Just Work Out Of The Box Like Windows 7 (tm)". If it doesn't, it goes in my ''may be useful some day in case I need to fix my Windows installation- live CD collection'
Just to add to this, the first GPS experiments was a failure, until they realized they had to add in the effects of relativity to the timers on the GPS satellites. Once they did that, everything synced up perfectly.
My point was that it's not easily done by a novice. Go ahead and modify that reversed hybid C/assembly code, reassemble and deploy it meaningfully if you can. Frankly, I'd prefer that the script kiddies does not have access to this code or, god forbid, any GUI slapped on top of this. Github is basically hosting a recipe for disaster.
Aye, I bought one DRM game since DRM was invented, and that was the last too. The experience was rage-inducing. I still buy games that are 100% guaranteed DRM free. Same goes for movies. I have to watch 15 minutes of FBI warnings, unskippable trailers, intros and crappy transitions you say ? For something I paid for? Nuh-uh.
At last, a big player plays the doctrine of first sale-card. This just got interesting. Google is neither pure good nor evil, they are sort of chaotic neutral, i.e. they serve their own purposes, but once in a while they dance on the table too.
One bug kept me from downgrading to the last 3.x version: When you scroll web pages with the mouse wheel, half the vertical space is scrolled a little more than the right side (about 4-5 characters worth). You have to scroll a little back and forth to make it align
(wtf kind of bug is that anyway; either you scroll all the page or none of it; i suppose someone had a brilliant idea about backbuffers and optimizing but it turned out that scrolling on a computer screen was a problem we solved in the 80s and so someone just #included some 80's source code in 4.x to make it work again:] )
Anyway, it's annoying enough to actually get on the 4.x train. I read about this bug before when 3.6 was hot, but it never happened to me. Of course, now that i actually wanted this version back, the bug appeared./sigh
Afaik, this research is also locked down and kept secret in Europe for the same reasons as in the US. These strains of flu viruses are well understood and is probably one of the easiest to modify given the knowledge and research already done. I know little of the subject, but let's say the Stuxnet code was published and all that was needed to make it take down 70% of the nuclear plants in the world at the same time by simply uncommenting a ''Fuxx0rThemAllSimultaneously()' function call. Even a novice programmer would figure that out. Maybe that flu virus is analogous, and requires not much else than a novice fucking around with it to make it uber-deadly. I'd prefer they kept it hidden.
I don't know the legality or widespreadness of this, but at least Norway has started to apply Norwegian law to anyone with a Norwegian citizenship, no matter where the person may find itself. So if you break Norwegian law in, say Thailand, where the action is NOT forbidden, you will still be prosecuted as if the action took place on Norwegian ground.
This practice was made to fight child abuse (O REALLY?!) but nothing stops them from taking that further. And most people don't care about this because of the 'think of the children' defense.
I am just waiting for the police to arrest Norwegians coming home from an Amsterdam smoke-out.
I don't know if this sort of extra territorial mumbo jumbo has ever made it to higher European courts. (to which Norway must answer)
This is why we have managers. THEY are responsible setting up systems that eliminates simple human mistakes. That's why managers earn 10-fold the average workers salary. They have the responsibility. A mechanic is merely a biological robot tool in this context. The story heading should be "A bunch of managers could not manage to manage what they were paid to manage, tries to blame someone else"
We are in the situation now that parties like The Pirate Party are a viable option for people. We are so fucked that so called pirates has to lead the way. Much like the pirates of the seas of old. Did you know, pirate ships was one of the first places in the world where something democracy-like was observed in practice ?
they are DISTRACTIONS to keep us fighting with each other.
This. A thousand times this. There are no left or right. There are no republicans or democrats. It's all distractions from the real problem, which are the sleezy puppet masters that we do not see.
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Great, now hackers has a single point of attack to lift passwords. Imagine hooking a function call to the generation plugin which sends every password and username back to the attacker....
Oh, Ford is not recognized as a good car in Europe. In fact, FORD over here has become an acronym for "Fire Ordentlige Reparasjoner Daglig", loosly translated from Norwegian to "Four Serious Repairs Daily".
This is worse. It's like Aliens 4. (Ripley dies in a molten steel container at the end of A3, but is back in A4, 'genetically reconstructed')
Companies just want the rights and privilegies of humans, but none of the responsibility.
Yes, I have no doubt that some organic farmers are being caught up unfairly in the dragnet. But I also can't blame Monsanto for having these much-maligned "seed police,"
Holy contradiciton batman
Are you beeing funny or is that an actual quote from the dictionary? If it is, oh man, never buying a dictionary again. Sounds like a teenager wrote it.
Well lolz at them, I don't actually encrypt stuff because I must, it's just because I can. if everyone did it, the government would get pretty tired of intimidating password out of people to unlock pictures of kittens. I thought the plan was for everyone to encrypt shit, so those who actually HAS to, can, without raising suspicion. And the people who HAS to can be 'terrorists' as much as they want, the word doesn't have any meaning anymore to me. A terrorist is anyone who thinks differently these days. Actually, most 'terrorism', per definition, is performed by a 'state' anyway.
This is not a security site. Also, does any of these elite security websites have a 100% clean record?
I wonder why there's so much drive in Linux to abandon whatever is in the right track.
Been saying this for ages, my guess is that people deep within the 'community' are getting paid to damage Linux as much as possible, while keeping a smile for the public. It's just not possible to be so mindboggingly stupid. There has to be some cold cash somewhere. Linux almost had it right so many times, just to get 'reinvented' and pooof we have a new set of half assed beta software that is 10 years behind again.
just encrypt the files with AES256 before you upload.
RedCard wins this thread. You are absolutely correct. I have modpoints but you already have +5 Insightful.
Consider yourself lucky. Very few of us achieve one-click->100% working dual monitor setup. Well it did actually work for like 2 weeks before some update broke it. Indeed, my latest two mobo's wasn't even supported by the Linux kernel and related low-level device drivers. No, I could not load any drivers, because the damn thing can't even figure out how to handle my disk controllers. (SB600 and SB950 chipsets. Actually, the last Ubuntu I could run without major buggage was 8.04 and 8.10.) I tried all the major distros, and they all bugged out the same way. Yes Linux is great for servers and all that yadda yadda, but I'm getting too old for this shit and I expect anything that calls itself a desktop distro in this time and age to "Just Work Out Of The Box Like Windows 7 (tm)". If it doesn't, it goes in my ''may be useful some day in case I need to fix my Windows installation- live CD collection'
3. If this wasn't true, your GPS would not work.
Just to add to this, the first GPS experiments was a failure, until they realized they had to add in the effects of relativity to the timers on the GPS satellites. Once they did that, everything synced up perfectly.
My point was that it's not easily done by a novice. Go ahead and modify that reversed hybid C/assembly code, reassemble and deploy it meaningfully if you can. Frankly, I'd prefer that the script kiddies does not have access to this code or, god forbid, any GUI slapped on top of this. Github is basically hosting a recipe for disaster.
Aye, I bought one DRM game since DRM was invented, and that was the last too. The experience was rage-inducing. I still buy games that are 100% guaranteed DRM free. Same goes for movies. I have to watch 15 minutes of FBI warnings, unskippable trailers, intros and crappy transitions you say ? For something I paid for? Nuh-uh.
what does this have to do with Wikileaks?
At last, a big player plays the doctrine of first sale-card. This just got interesting. Google is neither pure good nor evil, they are sort of chaotic neutral, i.e. they serve their own purposes, but once in a while they dance on the table too.
One bug kept me from downgrading to the last 3.x version: When you scroll web pages with the mouse wheel, half the vertical space is scrolled a little more than the right side (about 4-5 characters worth). You have to scroll a little back and forth to make it align
:] )
/sigh
(wtf kind of bug is that anyway; either you scroll all the page or none of it; i suppose someone had a brilliant idea about backbuffers and optimizing but it turned out that scrolling on a computer screen was a problem we solved in the 80s and so someone just #included some 80's source code in 4.x to make it work again
Anyway, it's annoying enough to actually get on the 4.x train. I read about this bug before when 3.6 was hot, but it never happened to me. Of course, now that i actually wanted this version back, the bug appeared.
Afaik, this research is also locked down and kept secret in Europe for the same reasons as in the US. These strains of flu viruses are well understood and is probably one of the easiest to modify given the knowledge and research already done. I know little of the subject, but let's say the Stuxnet code was published and all that was needed to make it take down 70% of the nuclear plants in the world at the same time by simply uncommenting a ''Fuxx0rThemAllSimultaneously()' function call. Even a novice programmer would figure that out. Maybe that flu virus is analogous, and requires not much else than a novice fucking around with it to make it uber-deadly. I'd prefer they kept it hidden.
I don't know the legality or widespreadness of this, but at least Norway has started to apply Norwegian law to anyone with a Norwegian citizenship, no matter where the person may find itself. So if you break Norwegian law in, say Thailand, where the action is NOT forbidden, you will still be prosecuted as if the action took place on Norwegian ground. This practice was made to fight child abuse (O REALLY?!) but nothing stops them from taking that further. And most people don't care about this because of the 'think of the children' defense. I am just waiting for the police to arrest Norwegians coming home from an Amsterdam smoke-out. I don't know if this sort of extra territorial mumbo jumbo has ever made it to higher European courts. (to which Norway must answer)
This is why we have managers. THEY are responsible setting up systems that eliminates simple human mistakes. That's why managers earn 10-fold the average workers salary. They have the responsibility. A mechanic is merely a biological robot tool in this context. The story heading should be "A bunch of managers could not manage to manage what they were paid to manage, tries to blame someone else"
Thats the free market. If there's a market for telling people when they took a dump, someone will provide the service.
The solution is.... piracy until the game studios die. The natural successors are the indy developers.
We are in the situation now that parties like The Pirate Party are a viable option for people. We are so fucked that so called pirates has to lead the way. Much like the pirates of the seas of old. Did you know, pirate ships was one of the first places in the world where something democracy-like was observed in practice ?
they are DISTRACTIONS to keep us fighting with each other.
This. A thousand times this. There are no left or right. There are no republicans or democrats. It's all distractions from the real problem, which are the sleezy puppet masters that we do not see.