The US invaded Iraq without UN approval and with false proof (remember the WMD) to "liberate" it. Now Russia does the same with Crimea, only the proof is much more valid, even if this poll was a complete farce. What's new?
Disclaimer: I'm EU citizen and totally against all this idiotic behavior. But let's be honest - the US has no moral standing in cases like this anymore, even if Obama is not to blame for Iraq. And the EU, well, they simply have no backbone in foreign policy.
That will be fun! This will only work if SSH is banned as well. That means they can only use Telnet. I'm all for it. Let them do this and let us have a good laugh!;-)
Ive used Crashplan for years at clients, friends, and personally, and its generally been good. They have 2 options that may work here.
The first is their all-you-can eat backup service, but they may well balk when you tell them its 20TB-- they might shove you to a $120/year business plan.
The other is buying a pack of Crashplan ProE licenses, which let you host your own cloud backup service. You can use any PC as the "server" (just make sure its reliable and on 24/7) and it handles diffs like a champ. It also verifies backups to avoid bit rot.
You can use the free version. Setup another computer with sufficient capacity, so probably 6x 4TB external drives in a ZFS system of something like that. Make the first backup locally. Then move the computer to another location.
Only catch with these local backups - it seems to be that when CP goes offline (bankrupt), even the local backups won't work anymore. Just disconnect the network cable from the backup server, and then try to restore a file from the local backup to test this. I use CP myself, and haven't seen anything that compares in price, but this "feature" is something I really don't like.
I have doors (and windows) because it's fucking cold outside, it's windy, it rains/snows... I don't want my neighbors cat inside my house. I don't want a bugs/insects and what not inside my house. Why are you talking about doors?!
Credit cards, because it's a bazzillion times easier to use, than carry around money.
Money, because modern society would not work without it...
Doors... to protect that money!
Money... to pay for the gas and the doors to keep the heat inside!
Actually, your second point IS the middle. The logical third point would be, there is one who thinks Kurzweil is a genius and is spot on about the future.
I use Kaspersky for family computers, $40 for 3 computers yearly I believe. Before I used Avast, until it started to get annoying. I forced her to use Firefox when she started using a computer, and installed Adblock and some other addons that keep browsing safe without annoying her with popups. You can even install Noscript in such a way that it blocks a known list of sites and scripts, without ever asking for new scripts. If she had to buy a new computer, I would use the old Windows 7 install disc and remove Windows 8 right away. I have moved her from Office 2003 to OpenOffice and LibreOffice. If I had to move her to Linux, I would start with finding out a setup in a VM that looks most similar to what she uses now, then install that but only if it was an LTS version.
My mother is 81, started using a computer about 15 years ago, first Windows 98, then 2000, XP and now 7. From 98 to XP I always used the same (classic) interface. When moving to 7 I tried to make it as "classic" as possible, but MS messed this up. I don't understand that they have absolutely no clue about older people having troubles moving to new interfaces. Was it so much trouble to keep the classic interface?
I installed Mozilla/Firefox and Eudora from the beginning, removed IE from the desktop. She still uses Eudora (which does not install in 7 if I remember correctly, but you can just copy the install folder from XP and that's all). I tried to install Thunderbird once, but she didn't like the buttons. That was years ago. Now Eudora starts to show signs of age as well, and I'm in doubt what to do. I don't like Thunderbirds layout.
I moved her from Office 2003 to OpenOffice and then LibreOffice without much trouble. I helped her get a new mobile phone recently, and I hate the fact that this phone will probably not be available anymore in three or five years, and then she'll have to get used to a different phone. So I'm going to buy a second one, just in case. Same with de house phone. How difficult can that be? Well it can! So another set that has to be doubled.
When this computer is finished and Windows 7 is done, and there is nothing left but a Windows 8 interface, I'm afraid I have to move her to Linux as well. Then I hope to find an LTS version that stays up to date for five or seven years, with a classic gnome interface or maybe something like mint. My goal is to keep changes as minimal as possible, but in the current world, this is a difficult task.
It's their anti-science position. Going to Europa and finding alien life might encourage the teaching of evolutions in schools.
It will also interfere with their plan to teach that the Earth is a the center of the universe, and the eventual mandate to make it official policy that the world is flat.
Just let them believe that they are going to invade Europa (the continent) and they will probably stand in line to support this idea.
Yup. But proxies cannot handle HTTPS unless... they are acting as a MITM.
The proxy must either pass it along, block it outright or essentially stand in the middle so as to be able to perform all the usual filtering/sniffing/etc. it would do were the traffic plain ole' HTTP.
So if I use a VPN as proxy service, what does that mean? Does this all mean that they could decrypt all traffic and see what I do without me knowing it? How can I be sure that this isn't happening?
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You can get 20 dedicated VPSes for ~$20 a month and run them as a beowulf cluster for all they care.
While a competent mobile-oriented IM is a good idea in general, I intensely dislike the fact that they went with binding your account to your phone number. I juggle several SIM cards, and that's a no-no in WhatsApp's book.
I really dislike the link to my phone number, plus them uploading my contacts. I use a different phone number for WA only. So the sim that is linked to WA is not in the phone that uses WA. Then I block the contacts from WA, but that block hasn't worked always, so they got what they wanted anyway.
Its great for comms - images, chat, multi-user. My Indonesian friends got me onto it when I was living there. Its non-cloudness is something I love. It goes only to one phone and that's it. Images can be saved to your phone, so you have a record of docs and pics, if you want.
Non-cloudness? Is that true? So if I send you a message while you are offline, and I go offline immediately before you get online, the message is not delivered? It will only work when both are online? I don't think so, but I haven't tested it. I'm pretty sure that WA can see all your messages. Plus they store all your contacts, so they can notify anyone who registered that is in that list.
I would love something open source, so I'm going to have a look at Wazapp (a.ka. OpenWhatsapp). Anybody have any experience with it?
You're confusing two things. OpenWhatsApp is an OSS implementation of the WA app. It uses their network, and they still get your data. The only difference is that you don't use the official app, which can have its advantages, like making sure that it doesn't misuse personal data.
Wazapp is another app, another network, and it may be open source, but that still doesn't mean that you can trust them with your data.
That said, I'm not sure rebranding is going to save them. This isn't a situation like NMR/MRI, where 'nuclear' is a scary word; but basically everyone is 100% onboard with better diagnostic imaging.
Totally offtopic: Reading your comment, along the lines of the medical branding. They should rebrand AIDS (Auto Immune Disease Syndrome) to Autoimmune Disease Syndrome: ADS! See how that would fit the situation a lot better?
Sounds like the reason why I give up Linux so often. I'm extremely quick with Windows 7 (when I have to be), to the point where I don't have to think - my brain wants an action to be performed, the fingers take over automatically. But when I try to use the latest linux distro or whatever, the lack of familiarity with the interface (even basic shit like Ubuntu moving all the window buttons to the left) throws me out completely.
I had this problem a long time ago. I wanted to learn Linux, but it couldn't replace Windows back then, and I didn't have any real world uses for it. Then came Mac OS X, I bought a Mac, started to use the commandline more and more. Then I changed jobs, which meant changing from Windows servers to Linux, and after one year I ditched my Windows desktop for Ubuntu. Now I'm more familiar with Linux than with Windows.
Obviously. How much battery life or storage space do you think would need to fit in this device to be permanently recording? Permanent recording, or even frequent recording by user choice, is not practical in a device this size with current technology.
You don't need to be a rocket engineer to connect it to a larger battery in your pocket. If people want it, someone will make it.
If you can avoid paying income tax in Australia then you can avoid paying back the HECS fees. The classic way of doing it is by emigrating to the UK once University is finished.
Seriously?! The classic way? If I can rob a bank for $25m and can get away to the UK without having to pay the "tax", I would do it, but fleeing the country for 3% extra tax sounds absurd.
And for those few 90+ students you can set an age limit, or a limit on the number of years. Or you can set an increasing onetime tax for each college year after 40.
I've never bought an Apple product (and never will), but for pretty much anything else I might want that has a future release date I can pre-order it and get it on day of release. Do Apple not do this?
Reading your comment you must have been first in line for your portion of seriousness. This is Slashdot, don't mess with this man's believe in God's creatures. If you want your share, get a life or get in line!
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Is it free as in bundled with an expensive Mac, or can I get it for free without buying a Mac (download link?)
Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are free on the Mac App Store for qualifying Mac computers purchased on or after October 1, 2013. OS X Mavericks required.
The US invaded Iraq without UN approval and with false proof (remember the WMD) to "liberate" it. Now Russia does the same with Crimea, only the proof is much more valid, even if this poll was a complete farce. What's new?
Disclaimer: I'm EU citizen and totally against all this idiotic behavior. But let's be honest - the US has no moral standing in cases like this anymore, even if Obama is not to blame for Iraq. And the EU, well, they simply have no backbone in foreign policy.
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." ~ Plato
This will probably be the next step.
1. Make VPN services illegal in Australia.
That will be fun! This will only work if SSH is banned as well. That means they can only use Telnet. I'm all for it. Let them do this and let us have a good laugh! ;-)
to pull out my old C64, dust it off and find my floppies.
to a happier and simpler time
You remember PEEK and POKE? What is this discussion about? Peeking and poking!
Ive used Crashplan for years at clients, friends, and personally, and its generally been good. They have 2 options that may work here.
The first is their all-you-can eat backup service, but they may well balk when you tell them its 20TB-- they might shove you to a $120/year business plan.
The other is buying a pack of Crashplan ProE licenses, which let you host your own cloud backup service. You can use any PC as the "server" (just make sure its reliable and on 24/7) and it handles diffs like a champ. It also verifies backups to avoid bit rot.
You can use the free version. Setup another computer with sufficient capacity, so probably 6x 4TB external drives in a ZFS system of something like that. Make the first backup locally. Then move the computer to another location.
Only catch with these local backups - it seems to be that when CP goes offline (bankrupt), even the local backups won't work anymore. Just disconnect the network cable from the backup server, and then try to restore a file from the local backup to test this. I use CP myself, and haven't seen anything that compares in price, but this "feature" is something I really don't like.
I have doors (and windows) because it's fucking cold outside, it's windy, it rains/snows... I don't want my neighbors cat inside my house. I don't want a bugs/insects and what not inside my house. Why are you talking about doors?!
Credit cards, because it's a bazzillion times easier to use, than carry around money.
Money, because modern society would not work without it...
Doors... to protect that money!
Money... to pay for the gas and the doors to keep the heat inside!
Could this result in cryopreservation becoming mainstream and generating massively increased lifespans for people who are wealthy enough to afford it?
No, but it could result in the year of the Linux Desktop!
Would you trust a for-profit corporation to not pull the plug on you in 30 or 40 years when the new board of directors takes over?
Yes, if they open source it!
Actually, your second point IS the middle. The logical third point would be, there is one who thinks Kurzweil is a genius and is spot on about the future.
FTFY!
I use Kaspersky for family computers, $40 for 3 computers yearly I believe. Before I used Avast, until it started to get annoying. I forced her to use Firefox when she started using a computer, and installed Adblock and some other addons that keep browsing safe without annoying her with popups. You can even install Noscript in such a way that it blocks a known list of sites and scripts, without ever asking for new scripts. If she had to buy a new computer, I would use the old Windows 7 install disc and remove Windows 8 right away. I have moved her from Office 2003 to OpenOffice and LibreOffice. If I had to move her to Linux, I would start with finding out a setup in a VM that looks most similar to what she uses now, then install that but only if it was an LTS version.
My mother is 81, started using a computer about 15 years ago, first Windows 98, then 2000, XP and now 7. From 98 to XP I always used the same (classic) interface. When moving to 7 I tried to make it as "classic" as possible, but MS messed this up. I don't understand that they have absolutely no clue about older people having troubles moving to new interfaces. Was it so much trouble to keep the classic interface?
I installed Mozilla/Firefox and Eudora from the beginning, removed IE from the desktop. She still uses Eudora (which does not install in 7 if I remember correctly, but you can just copy the install folder from XP and that's all). I tried to install Thunderbird once, but she didn't like the buttons. That was years ago. Now Eudora starts to show signs of age as well, and I'm in doubt what to do. I don't like Thunderbirds layout.
I moved her from Office 2003 to OpenOffice and then LibreOffice without much trouble. I helped her get a new mobile phone recently, and I hate the fact that this phone will probably not be available anymore in three or five years, and then she'll have to get used to a different phone. So I'm going to buy a second one, just in case. Same with de house phone. How difficult can that be? Well it can! So another set that has to be doubled.
When this computer is finished and Windows 7 is done, and there is nothing left but a Windows 8 interface, I'm afraid I have to move her to Linux as well. Then I hope to find an LTS version that stays up to date for five or seven years, with a classic gnome interface or maybe something like mint. My goal is to keep changes as minimal as possible, but in the current world, this is a difficult task.
It's their anti-science position. Going to Europa and finding alien life might encourage the teaching of evolutions in schools.
It will also interfere with their plan to teach that the Earth is a the center of the universe, and the eventual mandate to make it official policy that the world is flat.
Just let them believe that they are going to invade Europa (the continent) and they will probably stand in line to support this idea.
Yup. But proxies cannot handle HTTPS unless... they are acting as a MITM.
The proxy must either pass it along, block it outright or essentially stand in the middle so as to be able to perform all the usual filtering/sniffing/etc. it would do were the traffic plain ole' HTTP.
So if I use a VPN as proxy service, what does that mean? Does this all mean that they could decrypt all traffic and see what I do without me knowing it? How can I be sure that this isn't happening?
You can get 20 dedicated VPSes for ~$20 a month and run them as a beowulf cluster for all they care.
Yeah right! Beobunnies run faster than that!
wattcp has been around for ages. Like, seriously, where have you been?
http://www.vogons.org/viewtopi...
He clearly needs to reconfigure his extended memory.
What the fuck does that even mean?
Mick Jagger is the degree of freedom needed to give this article some mass. And if this confuses you - see the comic! ;-)
I can tell you why I don't use WhatsApp.
While a competent mobile-oriented IM is a good idea in general, I intensely dislike the fact that they went with binding your account to your phone number. I juggle several SIM cards, and that's a no-no in WhatsApp's book.
I really dislike the link to my phone number, plus them uploading my contacts. I use a different phone number for WA only. So the sim that is linked to WA is not in the phone that uses WA. Then I block the contacts from WA, but that block hasn't worked always, so they got what they wanted anyway.
Its great for comms - images, chat, multi-user. My Indonesian friends got me onto it when I was living there. Its non-cloudness is something I love. It goes only to one phone and that's it. Images can be saved to your phone, so you have a record of docs and pics, if you want.
Non-cloudness? Is that true? So if I send you a message while you are offline, and I go offline immediately before you get online, the message is not delivered? It will only work when both are online? I don't think so, but I haven't tested it. I'm pretty sure that WA can see all your messages. Plus they store all your contacts, so they can notify anyone who registered that is in that list.
I would love something open source, so I'm going to have a look at Wazapp (a.ka. OpenWhatsapp). Anybody have any experience with it?
You're confusing two things. OpenWhatsApp is an OSS implementation of the WA app. It uses their network, and they still get your data. The only difference is that you don't use the official app, which can have its advantages, like making sure that it doesn't misuse personal data.
Wazapp is another app, another network, and it may be open source, but that still doesn't mean that you can trust them with your data.
I heard OSX has the same problem.
@Apple: Admit that it exists (plus give advice how to prevent problems) or let us know that OSX is safe.
That said, I'm not sure rebranding is going to save them. This isn't a situation like NMR/MRI, where 'nuclear' is a scary word; but basically everyone is 100% onboard with better diagnostic imaging.
Totally offtopic: Reading your comment, along the lines of the medical branding. They should rebrand AIDS (Auto Immune Disease Syndrome) to Autoimmune Disease Syndrome: ADS! See how that would fit the situation a lot better?
Sounds like the reason why I give up Linux so often. I'm extremely quick with Windows 7 (when I have to be), to the point where I don't have to think - my brain wants an action to be performed, the fingers take over automatically. But when I try to use the latest linux distro or whatever, the lack of familiarity with the interface (even basic shit like Ubuntu moving all the window buttons to the left) throws me out completely.
I had this problem a long time ago. I wanted to learn Linux, but it couldn't replace Windows back then, and I didn't have any real world uses for it. Then came Mac OS X, I bought a Mac, started to use the commandline more and more. Then I changed jobs, which meant changing from Windows servers to Linux, and after one year I ditched my Windows desktop for Ubuntu. Now I'm more familiar with Linux than with Windows.
Obviously. How much battery life or storage space do you think would need to fit in this device to be permanently recording? Permanent recording, or even frequent recording by user choice, is not practical in a device this size with current technology.
You don't need to be a rocket engineer to connect it to a larger battery in your pocket. If people want it, someone will make it.
If you can avoid paying income tax in Australia then you can avoid paying back the HECS fees. The classic way of doing it is by emigrating to the UK once University is finished.
Seriously?! The classic way? If I can rob a bank for $25m and can get away to the UK without having to pay the "tax", I would do it, but fleeing the country for 3% extra tax sounds absurd.
And for those few 90+ students you can set an age limit, or a limit on the number of years. Or you can set an increasing onetime tax for each college year after 40.
I've never bought an Apple product (and never will), but for pretty much anything else I might want that has a future release date I can pre-order it and get it on day of release. Do Apple not do this?
Reading your comment you must have been first in line for your portion of seriousness. This is Slashdot, don't mess with this man's believe in God's creatures. If you want your share, get a life or get in line!