I've always wondered why this isn't better integrated/more automatic when it comes to email systems
The extra step needed (entering passphrase to use private key) are too cumbersome for most people. Implementing a work-around to make it "easier" negates the whole point of protecting the key in the first place.
It can't get much easier than Enigmail in Thunderbird yet still nobody will use it. We live in the times of patheticosis.
The guy certainly has a knack for getting people riled up. Thing is though, when you mouth builds a bridge your ass can't cross people get sick of hearing you spew. Maybe this guy is genuinely going to change things for the better and maybe not. Time will tell.
Nuclear accidents have not been proven to have killed a single person.
Sa- wha- hah? What kind of logic are you spewing? Fukishama may have gotten a wiki[1] entry citing a "no deaths directly attributed" death toll, but that is by no means a trustworthy represenation of fact. Radiation poisoning[2] is a very real and well understood consequence of exposure. DNA becomes damaged and cancer results from both short term and long term exposure[3]. Sometimes the cancers can take decades to develop before actually killing you[4]. Tepco has been lying about radiation levels[5] for a long time and will continue to do so to keep people guessing about the truth. Stop helping them spread it.
Tesla is a big target in the crosshairs of the automotive industry right now so I'm very skeptical. Tesla is doing what no other company has been able to do in the US and that seems to be a problem with everyone from dealers to falsified reviews in The New York Times. Let's do without the TFA drama have a look at the the egregious attack vectors listed:
1)You want to leverage a tool on a website with some useful functionality. You enter your email/password. They willfully and incorrectly store that information and are subsequently compromised (or worse, they use it themselves).
This is a really broad claim. What's more, if you haven't logged in over an SSL connection then... well, you're kind of a dumbass.
2)An attacker gains access to a website's database of authenticated tokens. It has free access to all of that siteâ(TM)s cars up to 3 months with no ability for the owners to do anything about it.
This is no less dubious that so many online services that I couldn't begin to count. The risk of compromise is an accepted one and hopefully mitigated. No fair faulting them without seeing how they would handle said compromise.
In a nutshell, TFA is going to need to find more substantial basis for panic than this. Sheesh.
Just not go on facebook? It seems like there is an entire generation which has developed the inability to focus an anything for more than.... Oh look! shiny...
Loosing nearly a billion bucks on one project isn't exactly successful. Yeah, M$ has a lot of liquid assets but when Wall Street looks at your quarterly reports and sees that much red, the resulting losses are much bigger. Shareholders get anxious and customers think they're on a sinking ship. Things are going to get much worse for M$ before they get better and that's what the industry analysts are trying to say. You need to plan now for the rough road ahead, and splitting things up basically makes it simpler for a company to put focus on the areas where it does best (eg: kinect, Office). I'm not a microsoft fan, but Ballmer has never done M$ any favors. Vista, Surface, Windows Phone, Metro -- all catastrophes caused by Ballmer's bullheaded tunnel vision; a really common trait among people identified by acronym.
It's interesting that the best slur campaign the US can come up with involves Snowden eating pizza while trying to figure out where to run and hide. I don't give a flying f#ck if he lied, cheated and stole everything he turned over. The root of the matter is the NSA, and US government got caught with their hands full of illegal sh#t and many people in high place need to be held accountable. And that's not happening. In the meantime, the media is either trying to figure out how to spin this into reality tv for ratings. I can remember a day when the network news would have had a field day ripping apart all three branches of government over something like this. Instead, they carry on like a bunch of drama starved crack whores.
Seems awesome till you consider what's been going on with education in the US. Textbooks are a lot harder to change than electronic media. I know LU isn't in Texas, but Florida is almost just as bad. If you can rewrite a cultures history, or erase it, you can make up your own and a few generations later nobody will remember a thing... like the Constitution.
"Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathersâ(TM) commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light."[1]
How sad is it that prison rape and rape in general is such a joke in the US
By-product of people living a sheltered life or a comment by someone not old enough to know how difficult life can be. There's little room for empathy when you've never had a point of reference.
US meddling in mid-east affairs is a guaranteed disaster for the US.
This isn't new. The US has been meddling in the mid-east affairs for decades of decades. The only reason it turns into a disaster is because the only time it steps in is when something too-big-to-fail is in danger (Oil, etc).
You're far more likely to die in an auto accident or of heart disease... Where's all the fear of automobiles and fast food?
Indeed. About 3000 people have died from terrorism *since* 2001 10 times more people die (PDF warning) *each year* by suicide. The numbers and justifications for all this "yeahbut think of teh terroristss!!" malarkey is just that. Malarkey. Malarkey based on irrational fear, scooped up and eaten by a drama staved public.
decent person will figure out a way to biologically/mechanically enhance a human
Perhaps. However, it would be very unlikely that this power to control a human mind would not find it's way immediately into political or military advantage.
I was soooo glad when we finally decommissioned our last Solaris box. It's not that Unix got worse it's just the alternatives got better. Also the proprietary RISC based hardware underpinning much of commercialized Unix lost out to cheaper PC commodity stuff. Again, it's not that RISC sucked, it's the fact that the lazy proprietary paradigm couldn't figure out how to evolve past the "Screw, em. They're locked in. They _CANT_ switch" model.
A little overly sensational. PC hardware is no way going to push 1.4M PPS*. I don't know the exact figures but asking a cable/DSL modem to push that many packets seems ludicrous. Good luck "scanning the entire" internet from your PC.
Sorry, folks, but no Master's in CS is worth $45,000
For $6k, you can list a legitimate MS degree on your Resume so HR can will put it in the 'save' pile instead of the 'circular file' during initial screening. That's a pretty valuable edge these days.
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I've always wondered why this isn't better integrated/more automatic when it comes to email systems
The extra step needed (entering passphrase to use private key) are too cumbersome for most people. Implementing a work-around to make it "easier" negates the whole point of protecting the key in the first place.
It can't get much easier than Enigmail in Thunderbird yet still nobody will use it. We live in the times of patheticosis.
The guy certainly has a knack for getting people riled up. Thing is though, when you mouth builds a bridge your ass can't cross people get sick of hearing you spew. Maybe this guy is genuinely going to change things for the better and maybe not. Time will tell.
So who's still getting one?
If you look at the turnout at most Xbox related (Halo) conventions, it's the parents of the kids in the age groups 5 to 14.
Nuclear accidents have not been proven to have killed a single person.
Sa- wha- hah? What kind of logic are you spewing? Fukishama may have gotten a wiki[1] entry citing a "no deaths directly attributed" death toll, but that is by no means a trustworthy represenation of fact. Radiation poisoning[2] is a very real and well understood consequence of exposure. DNA becomes damaged and cancer results from both short term and long term exposure[3]. Sometimes the cancers can take decades to develop before actually killing you[4]. Tepco has been lying about radiation levels[5] for a long time and will continue to do so to keep people guessing about the truth. Stop helping them spread it.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_by_death_toll
[2] http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/radiation-sickness/DS00432
[3] http://science.howstuffworks.com/radiation-sickness.htm
[4] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/19/fukushima-workers-risk-thyroid-cancer_n_3622529.html
[5] http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=26707
Perfect example of patents stifling progress instead of encouraging it.
It's an even better example of patents serving the precise purpose they were designed to prevent.
Tesla is a big target in the crosshairs of the automotive industry right now so I'm very skeptical. Tesla is doing what no other company has been able to do in the US and that seems to be a problem with everyone from dealers to falsified reviews in The New York Times. Let's do without the TFA drama have a look at the the egregious attack vectors listed:
1) You want to leverage a tool on a website with some useful functionality. You enter your email/password. They willfully and incorrectly store that information and are subsequently compromised (or worse, they use it themselves).
This is a really broad claim. What's more, if you haven't logged in over an SSL connection then... well, you're kind of a dumbass.
2) An attacker gains access to a website's database of authenticated tokens. It has free access to all of that siteâ(TM)s cars up to 3 months with no ability for the owners to do anything about it.
This is no less dubious that so many online services that I couldn't begin to count. The risk of compromise is an accepted one and hopefully mitigated. No fair faulting them without seeing how they would handle said compromise.
In a nutshell, TFA is going to need to find more substantial basis for panic than this. Sheesh.
Just not go on facebook? It seems like there is an entire generation which has developed the inability to focus an anything for more than.... Oh look! shiny...
which is still doing billions in business
Loosing nearly a billion bucks on one project isn't exactly successful. Yeah, M$ has a lot of liquid assets but when Wall Street looks at your quarterly reports and sees that much red, the resulting losses are much bigger. Shareholders get anxious and customers think they're on a sinking ship. Things are going to get much worse for M$ before they get better and that's what the industry analysts are trying to say. You need to plan now for the rough road ahead, and splitting things up basically makes it simpler for a company to put focus on the areas where it does best (eg: kinect, Office). I'm not a microsoft fan, but Ballmer has never done M$ any favors. Vista, Surface, Windows Phone, Metro -- all catastrophes caused by Ballmer's bullheaded tunnel vision; a really common trait among people identified by acronym.
It's interesting that the best slur campaign the US can come up with involves Snowden eating pizza while trying to figure out where to run and hide. I don't give a flying f#ck if he lied, cheated and stole everything he turned over. The root of the matter is the NSA, and US government got caught with their hands full of illegal sh#t and many people in high place need to be held accountable. And that's not happening. In the meantime, the media is either trying to figure out how to spin this into reality tv for ratings. I can remember a day when the network news would have had a field day ripping apart all three branches of government over something like this. Instead, they carry on like a bunch of drama starved crack whores.
That's not an out-of-body experience.
That's because Zothecula seems to do a lot of contributing for gizmag.
Seems awesome till you consider what's been going on with education in the US. Textbooks are a lot harder to change than electronic media. I know LU isn't in Texas, but Florida is almost just as bad. If you can rewrite a cultures history, or erase it, you can make up your own and a few generations later nobody will remember a thing... like the Constitution.
"Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathersâ(TM) commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light."[1]
[1] - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.html
How sad is it that prison rape and rape in general is such a joke in the US
By-product of people living a sheltered life or a comment by someone not old enough to know how difficult life can be.
There's little room for empathy when you've never had a point of reference.
How would you like us to be a bitch to an oil cartel
You mean we aren't right now?
eg:
upload to mega.co.nz
publish to mega-search.me
US meddling in mid-east affairs is a guaranteed disaster for the US.
This isn't new. The US has been meddling in the mid-east affairs for decades of decades. The only reason it turns into a disaster is because the only time it steps in is when something too-big-to-fail is in danger (Oil, etc).
You're far more likely to die in an auto accident or of heart disease... Where's all the fear of automobiles and fast food?
Indeed. About 3000 people have died from terrorism *since* 2001 10 times more people die (PDF warning) *each year* by suicide. The numbers and justifications for all this "yeahbut think of teh terroristss!!" malarkey is just that. Malarkey. Malarkey based on irrational fear, scooped up and eaten by a drama staved public.
laws for government:
smashed your hard drives?
We protected public from chinese data theft!
cell phone stolen by cops while recording cops?
We need it for evidence!
no manslaughter charges for fire chief throttle spaz?
We need to protect your privacy and ours!
laws for citizens
intentionally smashed someones hard drives?
felony assault/reckless endangerment
stolen cell phone left at bar (Apple/Engadget fiasco)?
theft of lost property.
ran over someone at accident scene?
vehicular manslaughter
shutting down are doing - wimping out?
Not sure if you're being dense or what but do you suppose some sites may follow Lavabit's lead as a way of showing support or in protest?
I'll show my Netflix love when they are able to produce a native Linux binary.
decent person will figure out a way to biologically/mechanically enhance a human
Perhaps. However, it would be very unlikely that this power to control a human mind would not find it's way immediately into political or military advantage.
I was soooo glad when we finally decommissioned our last Solaris box. It's not that Unix got worse it's just the alternatives got better. Also the proprietary RISC based hardware underpinning much of commercialized Unix lost out to cheaper PC commodity stuff. Again, it's not that RISC sucked, it's the fact that the lazy proprietary paradigm couldn't figure out how to evolve past the "Screw, em. They're locked in. They _CANT_ switch" model.
was on the store for a few moments.
Agreed. All iOS apps claiming to be "malware" need to actually destroy something or we aren't going to believe you could actually do it.
Hello Guido,
Has the forced
indenting model of Python
affected your life in any way?
I found it very easy
to adapt to after doing it
for awhile, and nowdays
it's just become so automatic
I don't even notice it.
A little overly sensational. PC hardware is no way going to push 1.4M PPS*. I don't know the exact figures but asking a cable/DSL modem to push that many packets seems ludicrous. Good luck "scanning the entire" internet from your PC.
[*] - https://zmap.io/zmap-talk-sec13.pdf
Sorry, folks, but no Master's in CS is worth $45,000
For $6k, you can list a legitimate MS degree on your Resume so HR can will put it in the 'save' pile instead of the 'circular file' during initial screening. That's a pretty valuable edge these days.