I could make a million dollars with that, or sell it for $100,000
You do? Or you think you do?! Maybe it's worth a million, but how do you get in touch with these people? How do you stay anonymous enough so they cannot blackmail you? Are you sure you're not selling to the NSA and ending up in jail? For $1M it's not worth the risk, unless you already know these people...
TeamViewer traffic gets routed through their servers too (unless you are using it on the same network, but you don't control that).
I doubt that all traffic goes through their servers. You need to connect to their servers to get the ID working, and the ID is used to connect the computer to the proper IP-address. If you're on a local network, you can use a direct IP-address, and probably you can do the same using port forwarding. But on a local network no connection to the TV servers is needed. So if you setup a VPN, you can avoid this.
Albert Einstein wrote, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
I was not surprised. Microsoft has had the same problems in the online world. Bing was never such a success as Google. Hotmail was a huge success, when they bought it, and it has been until Gmail came along. The problems is that they simply don't have the culture to create really groundbreaking new technology. In the 80s and 90s they were smart and quick, first in the market, cheaper than Apple, smarter than IBM. Now everyone is big, has piles of money, has its own business that makes a profit. Microsoft is like IBM. They can focus on Apple and Google because they are hip and make more money, but following them is stupid. They are climbing that tree right now, and they are failing.
Windows (but not WP) and Office, SQL Server and Exchange and more of their business software - why isn't that enough? Will they fail if they fail online in the private sector? Will they fail if they don't have an OS on tablets and phones? I don't say they should forget about phones and tables, but they should join Apple and Google and Tizen, and deliver software for business on those platforms. Good solid software, that simply works, that's based on Exchange and whatever else they have.
Anyway, I like Netbeans much better than Eclipse. It has fewer options and that might make it less flexible but seems to be more focused on getting things working fast and with little effort. It's much more intuitive (IMHO) than Eclipse. In Eclipse everything seems to require lots of configuration.
When using Netbeans, at some point in the near future, it simply won't react anymore. If I remember correctly it starts to analyse the cache, and when it starts doing that, I always have to kill it. Then I have to delete all projects and start over with configuring all projects. After doing that twice, hoping it's just a temporary thing, you start to look differently at Eclipse. Is it slow? Maybe! But that's nothing.
Eclipse works, and has always worked for me. And if it's so slow, how come I can start it at my 2003 P4 without any issue? OK, that takes a minute, but after that it just works. Whatever I do, I'm a lot slower than Eclipse, and if it doesn't stall, I'm OK with it.
Yup I'll bet a bunch. It is not hard if you have a clue as to what you are doing to hide in a public net connection.
Professional hackers do it every single day. And yes it takes more knowledge about networking and computers than 80% of the population has to do it, bit it certainly can be done.
Please give a link to a tutorial! I'm pretty sure I know more about networking and computers than 80% of the population, probably 90% or even 98% (and still I don't consider myself a system or network admin), but I don't know how to do this.
everyone who was a gnome2 user switched to xfce or something similar.
Except for me. I use Ubuntu at work as my daily desktop. I used 11.04 as long as possible because I didn't like Unity at all, but in October 2012 I had to move on. I reinstalled my system because the upgrade went wrong for some reason and wanted to use 12.04LTS only. Some apps don't have a tray icon anymore. I still don't like the way the app launcher works. It's not a big issue for me but I can understand that many people find it non intuitive. The most irritating is the disappearing menu - I want it to be there all the time. I'm going to try Gnome 3 and see how that works out. Maybe it's better, but Unity is workable for me. Compiz is garbage however, crashes many times.
... I won't stop using Windows, but I will not let Windows online.
The thing is: I expect these shinanagins from Android, so I modify my usage habits accordingly. That is harder to do on a general purpose computer, so I don't want it leaking information about my usage habits like a sieve. So I'll just rip out the ethernet cable and grab files from my Mac or Linux box to use under Windows, and cart them over via sneakernet.
Stop using Windows though, that's a somewhat harder case to make.
Why? Use virtualbox, install XP or W7, setup network access to bridged (I believe) and the VM cannot access the internet. You only have a local network between host and guest. No sneakers needed.
No, seriously, what could they do ? Have a stern look ? Show the birdy to the US ? loudly whine ? There is nothing on the law or international court they could do.
They could show the finger to the US. They could stand up and tell Snowden that he can come over here and thank him for what he did, and give him free access to all 28 EU countries. And when the US threatens with air travel restrictions or trade wars, let it be! I wonder how long the US would keep this going when the EU would come to its senses and replied with one voice. I hope this happens sooner than later, but I'm afraid we need a lot more than one guy who is brave enough to sacrify his future.
Assuming you have valuable and/or personal data on the machine, don't forget disk encryption. Either encrypt the entire disk, or perhaps just the data partition. Truecrypt is a good solution for this.
Plus provide autologin, so the user won't feel the need to reinstall immediately.
And why should a programmer be scared of that? Do programmers double as DBA now?
As a programmer who is graphic designer if no budget is available, customer helpdesk employee when colleagues are on holiday, system/network/database administrator with some assistence from an external and sometimes not so available and specifically not so experienced administrator - I can say: YES - programmers sometimes double as DBA, and they can shit their pants if something happens like hacked servers when on holiday.
Being stuck at a job, because you drifted away from your main skills, and now have difficulty to catch up. Or more specific: being stuck at a job where you don't want to spend another year or even longer. In the company I'm working I stand alone, being the only programmer, so no support from other programmers. I find it hell to get my skills up to date while doing my job properly.
Well, the source code is all there. Why aren't you worried about a backdoor in code you can't read, like say in Windows?
We all know there is a backdoor in Windows, so we don't have to worry about that!;-) But seriously, if the source code is there, it doesn't mean that I can understand it. A good and intelligent backdoor can be hidden somewhere where I won't look, and even if I look I may overlook it completely.
I certainly believe that the AES standard is secure. Maybe some implementation of it not - I can't tell. But what about SELinux, or Debian, or Apache? Who knows how a backdoor is included in one module or another?
I use my phone for talk, text, calendar, alarm, occasional web browsing on the go, random photography, and toilet gaming. I don't need all the exciting social and lifestyle integration that mobile platforms assume you want.
So I'd certainly go for one, provided (a) there's some affordable, nice-ish hardware (like my Nexus 4), and (b) I'm not beholden to the network operator for software updates.
Being free of that pervasive "am I happy with Google slurping this?" feeling every time I do anything on my Android phone would be worth it.
I installed avatarrom on my phone. It turns out to be a big problem, as it takes up more and more system memory. I have 2GB available, and avatarrom takes up 1.7GB of that. That leaves 300MB for apps and cache. Many apps refuse to install or don't work anymore. So did Gmail. I stopped using it. Avatarrom updates followed, as well as Gapps updates (google apps I suppose). The last one I didn't install. Since then I'm Google free. No Google account is needed to use the phone. OK, gmail doesn't work, Google Maps is gone, and worst of all, Google Play doesn't work, so no updates, no new installs, unless I download them manually. But they don't work anyway, so why bother?;-) Of course I'm going to get rid of this stupid install and see if something else works properly. Until then I can pretend to be GFree...
Most intelligence work is illegal by definition. The only question is whether the work is whether the US intelligence work breaks US laws. I envy your fairy tale worldview, but in the real world things work differently.
You're very right. And international law is just as strong as military or economic power. So it now depends on how straight the EU can hold its back, given the perspective of a diplomatic and economic war with the US, given the current EU crisis. Looking back at the past twenty or thirty years, there is not much hope for the EU. We (yes I'm EU citizen) will probably shout and scream out loud, the US will give us some trade benefits plus a lot of useful intelligence to show how good that PRISM stuff works. In the end nothing changes, except that we now know what happens, and the US will continue and expand its practises. And I suppose that Snowden hasn't seen all, so who knows how far reaching it all goes?
I truly hope that the EU will give Snowden political asylum based on this information. He deserves it. But if I were Edward Snowden, I wouldn't count on it and I wouldn't show my face in the EU, as I expect that he will be extradited to the US within weeks. Russia is probably safer - and how sad is that?! Ecuador - I'm not too sure about that...
So I'm moving away from Google and Gmail. Can I sell my own account? And what kind of money can I get for it? Will it buy me a new Macbook at least? Then I might consider it!;-)
I'd like to get more information about these worlds before I die. Also, I'd like to know if I would really get my own planet if I went "Full Mormon" so I can prepare accordingly.
I too have questions. I need to know if high speed internet is available (tcp over warp?)... although with a bunch of wives I could just stage my own granny on granny action...
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The "solution" to the shark "threat" has been around for a while now, basically a metal armor - google 'shark suits san diego' to see it.
It has two attack weapons as well.
It could be a battle. My bets are on Google.
I could make a million dollars with that, or sell it for $100,000
You do? Or you think you do?! Maybe it's worth a million, but how do you get in touch with these people? How do you stay anonymous enough so they cannot blackmail you? Are you sure you're not selling to the NSA and ending up in jail? For $1M it's not worth the risk, unless you already know these people...
Teamviewer does the same, fast enough, and supports Ubuntu and OSX. But if you're on Windows only, remoted assistance or desktop is probably better.
TeamViewer traffic gets routed through their servers too (unless you are using it on the same network, but you don't control that).
I doubt that all traffic goes through their servers. You need to connect to their servers to get the ID working, and the ID is used to connect the computer to the proper IP-address. If you're on a local network, you can use a direct IP-address, and probably you can do the same using port forwarding. But on a local network no connection to the TV servers is needed. So if you setup a VPN, you can avoid this.
Smarter than IBM?
Absolutely - when they created MS-DOS.
Albert Einstein wrote, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
I was not surprised. Microsoft has had the same problems in the online world. Bing was never such a success as Google. Hotmail was a huge success, when they bought it, and it has been until Gmail came along. The problems is that they simply don't have the culture to create really groundbreaking new technology. In the 80s and 90s they were smart and quick, first in the market, cheaper than Apple, smarter than IBM. Now everyone is big, has piles of money, has its own business that makes a profit. Microsoft is like IBM. They can focus on Apple and Google because they are hip and make more money, but following them is stupid. They are climbing that tree right now, and they are failing.
Windows (but not WP) and Office, SQL Server and Exchange and more of their business software - why isn't that enough? Will they fail if they fail online in the private sector? Will they fail if they don't have an OS on tablets and phones? I don't say they should forget about phones and tables, but they should join Apple and Google and Tizen, and deliver software for business on those platforms. Good solid software, that simply works, that's based on Exchange and whatever else they have.
Anyway, I like Netbeans much better than Eclipse. It has fewer options and that might make it less flexible but seems to be more focused on getting things working fast and with little effort. It's much more intuitive (IMHO) than Eclipse. In Eclipse everything seems to require lots of configuration.
When using Netbeans, at some point in the near future, it simply won't react anymore. If I remember correctly it starts to analyse the cache, and when it starts doing that, I always have to kill it. Then I have to delete all projects and start over with configuring all projects. After doing that twice, hoping it's just a temporary thing, you start to look differently at Eclipse. Is it slow? Maybe! But that's nothing.
Eclipse works, and has always worked for me. And if it's so slow, how come I can start it at my 2003 P4 without any issue? OK, that takes a minute, but after that it just works. Whatever I do, I'm a lot slower than Eclipse, and if it doesn't stall, I'm OK with it.
... programs that aren't covered by any Consitutional protection ....
Isn't this enough to make it illegal?
Yup I'll bet a bunch. It is not hard if you have a clue as to what you are doing to hide in a public net connection.
Professional hackers do it every single day. And yes it takes more knowledge about networking and computers than 80% of the population has to do it, bit it certainly can be done.
Please give a link to a tutorial! I'm pretty sure I know more about networking and computers than 80% of the population, probably 90% or even 98% (and still I don't consider myself a system or network admin), but I don't know how to do this.
everyone who was a gnome2 user switched to xfce or something similar.
Except for me. I use Ubuntu at work as my daily desktop. I used 11.04 as long as possible because I didn't like Unity at all, but in October 2012 I had to move on. I reinstalled my system because the upgrade went wrong for some reason and wanted to use 12.04LTS only. Some apps don't have a tray icon anymore. I still don't like the way the app launcher works. It's not a big issue for me but I can understand that many people find it non intuitive. The most irritating is the disappearing menu - I want it to be there all the time. I'm going to try Gnome 3 and see how that works out. Maybe it's better, but Unity is workable for me. Compiz is garbage however, crashes many times.
... I won't stop using Windows, but I will not let Windows online.
The thing is: I expect these shinanagins from Android, so I modify my usage habits accordingly. That is harder to do on a general purpose computer, so I don't want it leaking information about my usage habits like a sieve. So I'll just rip out the ethernet cable and grab files from my Mac or Linux box to use under Windows, and cart them over via sneakernet.
Stop using Windows though, that's a somewhat harder case to make.
Why? Use virtualbox, install XP or W7, setup network access to bridged (I believe) and the VM cannot access the internet. You only have a local network between host and guest. No sneakers needed.
No, seriously, what could they do ? Have a stern look ? Show the birdy to the US ? loudly whine ? There is nothing on the law or international court they could do.
They could show the finger to the US. They could stand up and tell Snowden that he can come over here and thank him for what he did, and give him free access to all 28 EU countries. And when the US threatens with air travel restrictions or trade wars, let it be! I wonder how long the US would keep this going when the EU would come to its senses and replied with one voice. I hope this happens sooner than later, but I'm afraid we need a lot more than one guy who is brave enough to sacrify his future.
Assuming you have valuable and/or personal data on the machine, don't forget disk encryption. Either encrypt the entire disk, or perhaps just the data partition. Truecrypt is a good solution for this.
Plus provide autologin, so the user won't feel the need to reinstall immediately.
Well, reception kinda sucks 30m down, so....
Ha ha, but if I drop my phone in a pool, I want it to still work when I pick it up. 1 meter won't give me that. It's useless, like most Sony products.
Most people don't have to dive deeper than 10cm to pick their phone up - from the toilet.
And all the corporate client data gone ...
And why should a programmer be scared of that? Do programmers double as DBA now?
As a programmer who is graphic designer if no budget is available, customer helpdesk employee when colleagues are on holiday, system/network/database administrator with some assistence from an external and sometimes not so available and specifically not so experienced administrator - I can say: YES - programmers sometimes double as DBA, and they can shit their pants if something happens like hacked servers when on holiday.
Being stuck at a job, because you drifted away from your main skills, and now have difficulty to catch up. Or more specific: being stuck at a job where you don't want to spend another year or even longer. In the company I'm working I stand alone, being the only programmer, so no support from other programmers. I find it hell to get my skills up to date while doing my job properly.
Well, the source code is all there. Why aren't you worried about a backdoor in code you can't read, like say in Windows?
We all know there is a backdoor in Windows, so we don't have to worry about that! ;-) But seriously, if the source code is there, it doesn't mean that I can understand it. A good and intelligent backdoor can be hidden somewhere where I won't look, and even if I look I may overlook it completely.
I certainly believe that the AES standard is secure. Maybe some implementation of it not - I can't tell. But what about SELinux, or Debian, or Apache? Who knows how a backdoor is included in one module or another?
First of all he starts by telling us what the internet has brought us:
- vast amounts of information
- youtube
- itunes
- GPS
Wait, what? GPS?
Yes! GPS! Global Piss and Shit!
I use my phone for talk, text, calendar, alarm, occasional web browsing on the go, random photography, and toilet gaming. I don't need all the exciting social and lifestyle integration that mobile platforms assume you want.
So I'd certainly go for one, provided (a) there's some affordable, nice-ish hardware (like my Nexus 4), and (b) I'm not beholden to the network operator for software updates.
Being free of that pervasive "am I happy with Google slurping this?" feeling every time I do anything on my Android phone would be worth it.
I installed avatarrom on my phone. It turns out to be a big problem, as it takes up more and more system memory. I have 2GB available, and avatarrom takes up 1.7GB of that. That leaves 300MB for apps and cache. Many apps refuse to install or don't work anymore. So did Gmail. I stopped using it. Avatarrom updates followed, as well as Gapps updates (google apps I suppose). The last one I didn't install. Since then I'm Google free. No Google account is needed to use the phone. OK, gmail doesn't work, Google Maps is gone, and worst of all, Google Play doesn't work, so no updates, no new installs, unless I download them manually. But they don't work anyway, so why bother? ;-) Of course I'm going to get rid of this stupid install and see if something else works properly. Until then I can pretend to be GFree...
Most intelligence work is illegal by definition. The only question is whether the work is whether the US intelligence work breaks US laws. I envy your fairy tale worldview, but in the real world things work differently.
You're very right. And international law is just as strong as military or economic power. So it now depends on how straight the EU can hold its back, given the perspective of a diplomatic and economic war with the US, given the current EU crisis. Looking back at the past twenty or thirty years, there is not much hope for the EU. We (yes I'm EU citizen) will probably shout and scream out loud, the US will give us some trade benefits plus a lot of useful intelligence to show how good that PRISM stuff works. In the end nothing changes, except that we now know what happens, and the US will continue and expand its practises. And I suppose that Snowden hasn't seen all, so who knows how far reaching it all goes?
I truly hope that the EU will give Snowden political asylum based on this information. He deserves it. But if I were Edward Snowden, I wouldn't count on it and I wouldn't show my face in the EU, as I expect that he will be extradited to the US within weeks. Russia is probably safer - and how sad is that?! Ecuador - I'm not too sure about that...
Perhaps if they had an issue tracking system they could manage those defects and get them fixed...
Well it appears you can sign in yourself. So go ahead and file a bug report!
So I'm moving away from Google and Gmail. Can I sell my own account? And what kind of money can I get for it? Will it buy me a new Macbook at least? Then I might consider it! ;-)
I'd like to get more information about these worlds before I die. Also, I'd like to know if I would really get my own planet if I went "Full Mormon" so I can prepare accordingly.
I too have questions. I need to know if high speed internet is available (tcp over warp?)...
although with a bunch of wives I could just stage my own granny on granny action...
FTFY!