Get a colo service, preferably in another country; OpenVPN to it and use a web proxy running on it. Not perfect, but better than nothing.
Interestingly, this is the same kind of solution often resorted to by residents of those countries usually tagged as 'repressive regimes' by the good ole U.S. of A. Make ya think, at all?
The only problem with that hobby is: - the products are mostly inferior in every category - the market share is shored up by illegal practices, lies and astroturf - the corporate ethos of insane greed and blithe, criminal arrogance is clearly trickledown from the crooks at the top - the resulting monoculture is causing untold direct costs to the industry in security incidents and waste - lockin is not a valid business strategy (but they never thought of another one) - the field of computing has subsequently been tyrannised by low expectations
Religion or not, the revolution of open source owes its success in largest part to the indefensible ethics and execution of proprietary vendors - of whom M******** is the poster child. 'Dislike' doesn't seem to cover it.
One way or another, everything will be redressed. Sell your MSFT now.
During the early months of the invasion of Afghanistan they bought up all satellite imagery over that country, worldwide
Did they buy everything Russia has*? How? Is it really credible that Russia would enter into some kind of clandestine NDA over this material? And what would it mean if they did? We can assume that the US government has more money than $GOD to execute its evil. But what would be the motive here? To prevent before-and-after comparisons? Did they buy up all Iraq's too?
* - There must be a substantial archive of Afghan intelligence somewhere in Russia, as a legacy of the 9-year war.
there would just be a different vendor peddling the dominant operating system
I'm sorry, but this argument has always been full of sh^H^Hholes.
Call me when Apple or Linux gets 80% market share, then we'll talk about how "the monoculture argument" applies to them.
FOR RIGHT NOW, AND THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE: SECURITY *IS* "AVOIDING MICROSOFT."
Fact is, OS X -- a secure operating system -- or Solaris 10 -- perhaps an even more secure operating system -- will not get to 20% of the market. Why? Because people are ignorant, stupid, fearful, and every other reason for the mindless conformity that produced the Microslop monoculture in the first place, to most people's great detriment.
If you people can't work out for yourselves that you're being screwed with crappy product, enriching assholes, well, good luck to you.
On desktops, I run myself and have administered studios of Macs 24/7 (at least 50 machine years or more) and I've seen no malware of any description since the 1980s. How's your Windows experience compare with that, numbskull?
On servers, I run Linux, Solaris 10, and even SunOS 4 for a year or two, for perhaps 100-200 server years (haven't counted them lately), on the public internet, with zero security incidents. Like those apples?
The options have always be there. Just use them and FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF what the difference from the Microshit ghetto is.
Now look at the context. LKML is, if nothing else, an eternal debate between intelligent individuals.
MS is a fiefdom, riddled with politics, inflexible, where the billionaire cadre at the top are entirely insulated from reality, and every other layer of the pyramid wants what they've got. Furthermore, they're well known to be gold plated dysfunctional assholes.
If Linus were a gold-plated asshole, the rest of LKML would soon figure it out, and go do something more rewarding than sniff his butt crack.
Money greatly distorts and/or corrupts personalities and companies. This is one pathology the Linux community doesn't share.
This parable illustrates how personal defects get in the way of quality. If the code is crap, the code is crap, no matter who wrote it. If politics or sensitive egos block improvements, quality suffers. Compare EgolessProgramming.
This "my code is perfect" attitude is alive and well. A friend of mine started a new job recently and found that his boss:
Considered himself in the top 1% of programmers
Described every line of code he had written for the company's application as "perfect"
Refused to use any version control system, yet was part of a team
The scary part is that if a bot can spam it can capture keystrokes or troll for interesting documents.
Uh, yeah, that's why, like, some of us actually run a secure operating system instead of freaking Windows.
I look forward to the day when proposing a Windows SOE is a firing offence. As for the state of American IT... Aren't you guys supposed to have landed on the moon, way back before Microshit was founded? WHAT HAPPENED TO Y'ALL?
It's not as if FreeType and MS' are the only subpixel technologies around; OS X has had it since version 10.3. Microsoft's isn't even particularly good, compared to the others.
At least the brouhaha, while a waste of energy and attention like all FUD, is strong evidence, if any more were required, that software patents are a bad idea.
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I did suggest a colo "in another country". Some countries still have restraints on their governments.
The real vulnerability in my suggestion is the unencrypted side of the proxy.
But I already said it's NOT PERFECT but BETTER THAN NOTHING.
Get a colo service, preferably in another country; OpenVPN to it and use a web proxy running on it. Not perfect, but better than nothing.
Interestingly, this is the same kind of solution often resorted to by residents of those countries usually tagged as 'repressive regimes' by the good ole U.S. of A. Make ya think, at all?
The only problem with that hobby is:
- the products are mostly inferior in every category
- the market share is shored up by illegal practices, lies and astroturf
- the corporate ethos of insane greed and blithe, criminal arrogance is clearly trickledown from the crooks at the top
- the resulting monoculture is causing untold direct costs to the industry in security incidents and waste
- lockin is not a valid business strategy (but they never thought of another one)
- the field of computing has subsequently been tyrannised by low expectations
Religion or not, the revolution of open source owes its success in largest part to the indefensible ethics and execution of proprietary vendors - of whom M******** is the poster child. 'Dislike' doesn't seem to cover it.
One way or another, everything will be redressed. Sell your MSFT now.
I've known some MS cultists. Hard to believe that a /. submitter wouldn't have encountered them.
Cuz the world is rapidly running out.
Which also means we're next.
During the early months of the invasion of Afghanistan they bought up all satellite imagery over that country, worldwide
Did they buy everything Russia has*? How? Is it really credible that Russia would enter into some kind of clandestine NDA over this material? And what would it mean if they did? We can assume that the US government has more money than $GOD to execute its evil. But what would be the motive here? To prevent before-and-after comparisons? Did they buy up all Iraq's too?
* - There must be a substantial archive of Afghan intelligence somewhere in Russia, as a legacy of the 9-year war.
1. BSD explicitly allows the wholesale appropriation of IP.
2. GPL explicitly disallows it.
Any questions?
there would just be a different vendor peddling the dominant operating system
I'm sorry, but this argument has always been full of sh^H^Hholes.
Call me when Apple or Linux gets 80% market share, then we'll talk about how "the monoculture argument" applies to them.
FOR RIGHT NOW, AND THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE: SECURITY *IS* "AVOIDING MICROSOFT."
Fact is, OS X -- a secure operating system -- or Solaris 10 -- perhaps an even more secure operating system -- will not get to 20% of the market. Why? Because people are ignorant, stupid, fearful, and every other reason for the mindless conformity that produced the Microslop monoculture in the first place, to most people's great detriment.
If you people can't work out for yourselves that you're being screwed with crappy product, enriching assholes, well, good luck to you.
How would life without Microsoft be different?
WHY DON'T YOU TRY IT AND FIND OUT?
On desktops, I run myself and have administered studios of Macs 24/7 (at least 50 machine years or more) and I've seen no malware of any description since the 1980s. How's your Windows experience compare with that, numbskull?
On servers, I run Linux, Solaris 10, and even SunOS 4 for a year or two, for perhaps 100-200 server years (haven't counted them lately), on the public internet, with zero security incidents. Like those apples?
The options have always be there. Just use them and FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF what the difference from the Microshit ghetto is.
Life's too short for Microcrap.
Now look at the context. LKML is, if nothing else, an eternal debate between intelligent individuals.
MS is a fiefdom, riddled with politics, inflexible, where the billionaire cadre at the top are entirely insulated from reality, and every other layer of the pyramid wants what they've got. Furthermore, they're well known to be gold plated dysfunctional assholes.
If Linus were a gold-plated asshole, the rest of LKML would soon figure it out, and go do something more rewarding than sniff his butt crack.
Money greatly distorts and/or corrupts personalities and companies. This is one pathology the Linux community doesn't share.
This parable illustrates how personal defects get in the way of quality. If the code is crap, the code is crap, no matter who wrote it. If politics or sensitive egos block improvements, quality suffers. Compare EgolessProgramming.
This "my code is perfect" attitude is alive and well. A friend of mine started a new job recently and found that his boss:
...And we can be sure he gets to hear a lot of dumb ideas.
But why greenlight them, bill?
There's nothing a good lawsuit can't fix!
I rarely read replies. But thanks for yours, it made me smile.
Here.
* - May not be the real Steve Jobs. Contents may have settled in transit. Void if removed. Etc.
Headline and/or summary should state clearly that this is limited to MICROSOFT WINDOWS desktops.
Eliminate those, and you're a good deal closer to solving the problem.
The scary part is that if a bot can spam it can capture keystrokes or troll for interesting documents.
Uh, yeah, that's why, like, some of us actually run a secure operating system instead of freaking Windows.
I look forward to the day when proposing a Windows SOE is a firing offence. As for the state of American IT... Aren't you guys supposed to have landed on the moon, way back before Microshit was founded? WHAT HAPPENED TO Y'ALL?
...ANYWHERE in the system.
Surest sign of technical incompetence there is.
The article you probably mean is Peter Gutmann's A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection, which memorably coined the phrase,
At least, we can hope.
And beautiful women, natch. (Eastwards.)
Microsoft has only one business strategy: LOCK-IN.
It's the motive behind everything they do. It's the raison d'être for every one of their products, and this latest ploy is no different.
And Chizen ought to know, since Adobe is not afraid to exercise monopoly muscle in the markets it dominates.
Did anyone stop to think that the Microshit monoculture just MIGHT be contributing to this problem?
Question the status quo, people. (In Soviet Russia, the status quo questions YOU.)
It's not as if FreeType and MS' are the only subpixel technologies around; OS X has had it since version 10.3. Microsoft's isn't even particularly good, compared to the others.
At least the brouhaha, while a waste of energy and attention like all FUD, is strong evidence, if any more were required, that software patents are a bad idea.
That my main takeout from your post is that you misspelled "whooshing" in the sig?