take control of theses servers and force them to update to the newest version of rails?
Yes and after we are done there: - find all the Hummers and downgrade the knobby tires to all-season tires for better gas mileage/less noise pollution. - hand out equipment viloations for every small-dick harley biker running annoying/illegal straight-pipe exhaust. - hit every Walmart parking lots and jimmie the gas caps so we can upgrade everyone to cleaner burning fuel instead of the 87 octane everyone is using. - Storm over the counter at every McDonalds and substitute the "beef" burgers with Tofurkey to save everyone's HDL. - Use the current Rails exploit to hack EC2 and remove every Bieber/Lady Gaga download to save everyone from themselves.
I'd love to fix all these finger-nail-on-chalkboard annonyances of every-day life too, but sometimes IRL, people code explicitly for those versions which later become vulnerable and they need to assess if any business logic is going to be broken via the upgrades. Sometimes you spend extra money on segregation/data separation/egress monitoring to keep the business running on vulnerable software while fixes are put in place. It would be fun to see the look on everryone's faces making Robin-Hood style fixes on all these things, but realistically it just makes you look as douchey as the original exploit author.
What moron thought to himself that having sensitive blue prints to highly classified military equipment was best stored on a computer with Internet access?
Someone who previously sold the same data to the Chinese and now cannot be traced as the only source of the leak.
Now, put some new plans on the cracked network titled 'Top Secret: Strategic F17A Propulsion Update.doc' in which the engines are installed backwards, right in line with the fuel tanks. Wait for youtube vids.
That make carriers put rules in place which make it against the TOS for me to run a home server for SSH or personal Email. I guess on the other hand though, Verizon shouldn't market it as "Unlimited bandwidth" if they are going to have a problem with what you do with it.
Imagine if AT&T were the only game in town (Monopoly). Your only option would be to put-up-or-shut-up. Fanboism drives this sort of thing. And I'm not just picking on the iPhone crowd. Any corporation that can drop something shiny and have a customer base so willing to bend over for it would love to be sitting in AT&T's place. Think about how your future purchases are affected when "everyone is doing it". Be glad you can turn to many different alternatives right now. Alternatives are the only thing keeping these corporations from an all-out slave-driving of it's customers. No, the legal system is not protecting the consumer. Go google for copyright and patent issues if you need proof.
BBM was too important to fade away with the handset business.
You say that like BB is still relevant. The sales figures are questionable and hinge largely on Blackberry's word which, by means of a flailing company, is basically hearsay. It would be interesting to submit a slashdot poll about BB's Z10 and who actually bought one..
What's likely is the dude was selling regular soybeans which had unknowingly become cross-pollinated with Monsanto pollen. Bees and wind give no f#cks about copyright. They take pollen from field to field and Monsanto knows this.
People don't want to change so they deny the credibility of the evidence staring them in the face. Are you really that dense that you cannot see the effects of global climate change around you now? Bleaching of Coral reefs[0], Hurricane frequency[1], Shrinking of one of the largest glaciers on earth[2] not to mention the rate of change in global temps[3] for the past century. Yes it's been warm in the past, but the RATE at which warming occurred has never been seen before. These are the facts and they are happening now. I guess for a lot of people it's more comforting to glue their noses to the manufactured reality of Fox News and the like rather than accept what is happening and that change is needed.
If people are being harmed by way of a cellphone then I would like to start a petition to make it illegal to own a cellphone unless:
A) locked with a safety strap or similar device so it cannot be operated except by the intended owner
B) require retinal scanning or fingerprint recognition so it can only be operated by the owner.
C) SD capacity should be limited to 4 gigabytes. Anything larger than that is clearly a sign that something illegal is afoot. Nobody needs more than 4 gig to practice with a cellphone unless they are law enforcement.
D) Background checks should be required when purchasing a cellphone so the MEID can be recorded along with the person's name and address.
To ease the GPG pain*. Enigmail does a great job but it's only half the battle. How you are going to reconfigure every Recipients client without causing sheer panic is going to be interesting. Please report back when you do.
There's a lot of value in having a way to undeniably prove your identity
There's more value in anonymity. Especially when the proposed system mimics many systems already in place which have been abused by law ennforcement[1], or are simply privatized tax-dollar money-pit schemes which keep getting tax dollars dumped into them[2].
These things have been around forever (image google it). The predecessors usually lasted for more than one or two shots however. But they have been fashioned from every imaginable material. The only reason this is going to gain any legislation traction will be due to A) frenzied knee-jerk reactionaries running amok screaming "Think of the children!" B) Politicians proxying legislation from corporations with an agenda in one direction or the other. It's stupid to give this thing much more attention than slapping a "21 only" label on it. Anything else will be a waste of time, money and energy.
A Pesticide? C'mon, that would just be ridiculous. It must be from feeding the bees high fructose corn syrup. Which probably contains.... Corn treated with pesticides that contain neonicotinoids. Bayer is going to weasel it's way out of this in typical US corporate fashion.
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take control of theses servers and force them to update to the newest version of rails?
Yes and after we are done there:
- find all the Hummers and downgrade the knobby tires to all-season tires for better gas mileage/less noise pollution.
- hand out equipment viloations for every small-dick harley biker running annoying/illegal straight-pipe exhaust.
- hit every Walmart parking lots and jimmie the gas caps so we can upgrade everyone to cleaner burning fuel instead of the 87 octane everyone is using.
- Storm over the counter at every McDonalds and substitute the "beef" burgers with Tofurkey to save everyone's HDL.
- Use the current Rails exploit to hack EC2 and remove every Bieber/Lady Gaga download to save everyone from themselves.
I'd love to fix all these finger-nail-on-chalkboard annonyances of every-day life too, but sometimes IRL, people code explicitly for those versions which later become vulnerable and they need to assess if any business logic is going to be broken via the upgrades. Sometimes you spend extra money on segregation/data separation/egress monitoring to keep the business running on vulnerable software while fixes are put in place. It would be fun to see the look on everryone's faces making Robin-Hood style fixes on all these things, but realistically it just makes you look as douchey as the original exploit author.
When you're the only game in town you get to make all the rules.
What moron thought to himself that having sensitive blue prints to highly classified military equipment was best stored on a computer with Internet access?
Someone who previously sold the same data to the Chinese and now cannot be traced as the only source of the leak.
Now, put some new plans on the cracked network titled 'Top Secret: Strategic F17A Propulsion Update.doc' in which the engines are installed backwards, right in line with the fuel tanks. Wait for youtube vids.
That make carriers put rules in place which make it against the TOS for me to run a home server for SSH or personal Email. I guess on the other hand though, Verizon shouldn't market it as "Unlimited bandwidth" if they are going to have a problem with what you do with it.
Imagine if AT&T were the only game in town (Monopoly). Your only option would be to put-up-or-shut-up. Fanboism drives this sort of thing. And I'm not just picking on the iPhone crowd. Any corporation that can drop something shiny and have a customer base so willing to bend over for it would love to be sitting in AT&T's place. Think about how your future purchases are affected when "everyone is doing it". Be glad you can turn to many different alternatives right now. Alternatives are the only thing keeping these corporations from an all-out slave-driving of it's customers. No, the legal system is not protecting the consumer. Go google for copyright and patent issues if you need proof.
"I believe in sharing knowledge & ideas for the good of society. But I might sue them now cause of what the U.S. did to me,"
Sounds like the typical ire most people have towards the US legal system right now. Including the US itself.
http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Angel
I'd take PINE over either. And I don't even like PINE.
You mean Emacs, VI doesn't even- oh wait, wrong discussion.
Get paying on those loans... the Dept. of Education needs more money to roll in.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/14/obama-student-loans-policy-profit_n_3276428.html
BBM was too important to fade away with the handset business.
You say that like BB is still relevant. The sales figures are questionable and hinge largely on Blackberry's word which, by means of a flailing company, is basically hearsay. It would be interesting to submit a slashdot poll about BB's Z10 and who actually bought one..
http://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/encrypt-your-skype-messages-thwart-snooping-eyes-using-pidgin-0131804/
It was easier to change the version numbering scheme to break all the current malware rather than fix the myriad of holes in the code.
Are they planning on re-making Cosmos as a fictional comedy?
for selling seeds he is not authorized to sell
What's likely is the dude was selling regular soybeans which had unknowingly become cross-pollinated with Monsanto pollen. Bees and wind give no f#cks about copyright. They take pollen from field to field and Monsanto knows this.
People don't want to change so they deny the credibility of the evidence staring them in the face. Are you really that dense that you cannot see the effects of global climate change around you now? Bleaching of Coral reefs[0], Hurricane frequency[1], Shrinking of one of the largest glaciers on earth[2] not to mention the rate of change in global temps[3] for the past century. Yes it's been warm in the past, but the RATE at which warming occurred has never been seen before. These are the facts and they are happening now. I guess for a lot of people it's more comforting to glue their noses to the manufactured reality of Fox News and the like rather than accept what is happening and that change is needed.
[0] - http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coral_bleach.html
[1] - http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2007/hurricanefrequency.shtml
[2] - http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2013/04/21/tracking-greenlands-fast-melting-ice-sheets.html
[3] - http://www.npr.org/2013/03/08/173739884/since-end-of-last-ice-age-rates-of-global-warming-amazing-and-atypical
[3] -
If people are being harmed by way of a cellphone then I would like to start a petition to make it illegal to own a cellphone unless:
A) locked with a safety strap or similar device so it cannot be operated except by the intended owner
B) require retinal scanning or fingerprint recognition so it can only be operated by the owner.
C) SD capacity should be limited to 4 gigabytes. Anything larger than that is clearly a sign that something illegal is afoot. Nobody needs more than 4 gig to practice with a cellphone unless they are law enforcement.
D) Background checks should be required when purchasing a cellphone so the MEID can be recorded along with the person's name and address.
To ease the GPG pain*. Enigmail does a great job but it's only half the battle. How you are going to reconfigure every Recipients client without causing sheer panic is going to be interesting. Please report back when you do.
[*] - http://www.enigmail.net/home/index.php
There's a lot of value in having a way to undeniably prove your identity
There's more value in anonymity. Especially when the proposed system mimics many systems already in place which have been abused by law ennforcement[1], or are simply privatized tax-dollar money-pit schemes which keep getting tax dollars dumped into them[2].
[1] - http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/10/09/woman-allegedly-stalked-by-schaumburg-police-chief-i-felt-just-complete-hopelessness/
[2] - http://www.legitgov.org/price_obusha_afpak_war_031009.html
I'm guessing you need pretty clear weather for the targeting system to work.
The music I get, but how does this tie in with the Perl code? Is this the madness one falls into after graduating from basic Perl Zealotry?
"Limiting what customers can do..." seems to be the new norm... along with with "shut up. give up rights. sign EULA"
Criminal prosecutions are just the thing to remedy that attitude.
That works really well until there is a political body in power which passes legislation to enable large bureaucracies to legally be above the law.
These things have been around forever (image google it). The predecessors usually lasted for more than one or two shots however. But they have been fashioned from every imaginable material. The only reason this is going to gain any legislation traction will be due to A) frenzied knee-jerk reactionaries running amok screaming "Think of the children!" B) Politicians proxying legislation from corporations with an agenda in one direction or the other. It's stupid to give this thing much more attention than slapping a "21 only" label on it. Anything else will be a waste of time, money and energy.
A Pesticide? C'mon, that would just be ridiculous. It must be from feeding the bees high fructose corn syrup. Which probably contains....
Corn treated with pesticides that contain neonicotinoids. Bayer is going to weasel it's way out of this in typical US corporate fashion.