I realize that the logiphobic are going to have a problem with what I'm about to write, so if you have an aversion to logic and reason just skip to the next post.
Hopefully the kids in Hockey helmets are gone now.
Upgrading does not fix security holes, it replaces them. I have been working in IT Security for over 30 years and I have never seen an update that magically fixes everything. I have seen plenty that fix a particular problem but expose another, and sometimes more than one. Risk mitigation is the name of the game, and not doing everything you are told can be quite productive.
If you never connect to public wifi you don't have the same risk footprint as someone who does. If you don't use your phones web browser why do you need it patched exactly? Believe it or not, plenty of people use their smartphone as a phone and ignore the smart. Good for them by the way.
Fear mongering works on the weak minded, but there are people who don't fit that description.
We are all just zealots and haters because we don't want a company to dictate exactly what we can and can't do? No wonder you post anonymously, I would not back such a stupid thought process with my name either.
Nerds started to dislike Microsoft when they forced a registry down everyone's throats removing our ability to tinker. We hated being force to use GUI apps for simple tasks which we should have been able to script. See the common theme? If not, I hope your masters pay you well.
On point however, how many people don't care about how secure their passwords for Windows systems are? I have systems I could care less about, because they are either fully blocked by a FW or air-gapped. I don't trust Windows at all, so use a weak password when it fits me.
MS - attempting to chase all remaining customers away I guess.
I'm not going list all of the sources who have filed FOIA requests, but I was pretty clear that everyone is being stonewalled. "Progress" would mean that we are receiving non redacted emails to review. There are none to be had, and until there is any claim of progress is suspect (if not false).
I never saw the person claim it was only a problem for Hillary. You did that all by yourself. I like to point out that the whole system is corrupt too, but try to limit to when it's appropriate.
Ask Iran how well that "we should be using commodity" rule you want to impose worked for them. Oh, wow! Never thought about that did you? Yeah buddy, we want to be just like them right? (That was sarcasm).
And then you go out to fantasy island for your next point. How about the reason commodity items are overpriced is due to corruption? When we catch it we fix it? Hmm, what a novel thing to consider.. (more sarcasm, but well deserved) Then we consider that some things are better served as commodities, like desks and toilet seats while others are better off as independent systems. Like Military stuff we don't want to share.
If the Government uses 1970s tech they can train new people to support it. Just like they have done for nearly 50 years. It's not like when Joe retires he takes all of his worldly knowledge with him. Good grief, it that were true then long ago someone died and that explains why nobody can ever balance a checkbook again!
What _YOU_ don't realize is that plenty of us have Government experience. Considering you have a whole 3 posts attributed to your account I believe you are not an egocentric prick but much much worse.
I was going to add some stuff, but considering you are simply a shill I won't waste my time. I really wish Slashdot gave us the ability to track AC IP addresses, I'm guessing you are coming from a specific range in DC.. you know, that same one that edits Wiki pages all the time.
If nothing on Hillary's server was classified it should be released without redaction for full review and inspection by any party. That has not happened, and it won't happen. FOI requests regarding information on her server are denied almost as soon as they are filed.
There is no "truth" left in Government. The only option they have is to silence critics. Oh, and more circuses.
The military using special technology is a good thing from a security perspective. It is not supposed to run on Commodity hardware and software, because if anyone can work on it everyone potentially has access.
Stop playing the narrow minded "cheap is good" game and consider other reasoning. Longevity is a good thing, not a bad thing. Specialized knowledge in security is a good thing, not a bad thing. It's only government waste because you are only considering a very minor aspect.
By the way, if they were using "new tech" it would not last for half a damn century. It would have been stuffed in the trash every couple years, like we do with the majority of our servers today who have an average lifespan of less than a year before the first malfunction causing a hard stop.
That is correct in a general sense, but I'd say that the actual loss of the right was in the 60s. Kennedy was "right" and you see where that landed, his VP was left as soon as he swore in. Ross Perot was right, but he lost the primary due to several criminal actions by the Bush Campaign. Ron Paul was right, but he similarly lost the primary due to various activities by both the Media and Republican party.
Controlled opposition is not some new idea, it's been out there for centuries.
Fox is not pro-right, and has never been pro-right. They are anti-right as opposed to most other media being pro-left. Fox does not promote liberty, or the 2nd amendment, or fiscal responsibility, or limited Government, or right leaning candidates like Rand or Ron Paul (two easy examples). They were talking about Trump for ratings/money and because he is not from the right.
There is no longer a right leaning media, and has not been since the early 90s when all major outlets were monopolized and canned their journalists. Today all outlets use the AP as their source and hire teleprompter readers instead of journalists.
You keep making that claim, other people are stating that "trending" should not be manipulated because Facebook has progressive biases. No, it's not the same thing and you are a moron if you keep repeating it.
The responsibility it to the shareholder, no the government.
Here I thought the responsibility of the tax code was to the voters.
Precisely. Politicians are voting for things not in the interest of their constituents exactly the way they always do. Constituents are being deprived of information and fed bread and circuses to distract them from the activity of the Politicians.
One thing people in power know is to keep information away from the public. 2,600 years after being written, the majority of people know only what some twit paraphrased for them and called "The Republic".
I'm not sure how you slept through the last several years but you did. Snowden dumped the complete playbook and we found it to be the US Government inside of everything all the time. More than half of the countries we ally with in Europe have shit canned US services and ban new projects from landing on US servers. Not because "Ebil IBM and MS" but the more "EBIL UNCLE SAM".
Several whistle blowers have been jailed, reporters have been jailed and threatened, and lawsuits have been filed by numerous parties. Stonewalls have been erected all over Washington DC, and countless very high ranking politicians spend extended durations of time doing nothing but denying what they did was "really" wrong.
Since you have slept through the last few years, you probably also missed the US having black sites, covering up wrongful death in the middle east, etc....etc.. Maybe you should try living out of the cave for a while. You can't be an incarnation of a different sockpuppet 'cf" trying ot re-write history can you? Nah, you have to be crazy from all the batshit.
You just explained your own lack of objectivity, you didn't explain their lack of the same. You are claiming that being force fed cyanide kills you, he is claiming that arsenic in low doses will kill you over time. In both cases you are being poisoned and in both cases you die. You seem to want to deny the poisoning is occurring, or claiming that if it's not cyanide it does not matter.
Pointing out what should be obvious, convincing people to drink water instead of arsenic laced juice is a good thing. You attacking people trying to do that, is a bad thing.
Train engineers and Systems engineers have certifications (certain positions and places require them, like Government). Alas that does not matter to a person who has trolled my posts for years because I dared to question several aspects of the Government report on 9/11. According to the troll, questioning the narrative is "dishonoring the dead" and only done by a traitor. Questioning is worthy of a punishment by years of trolling. It's like that kid with autism that can do one thing over and over and sometimes it's really cool, but in this case it's the same pathetic trolling over and over.
Certain people have purchased media, and at the same time placed puppets into the Government. This is why no matter who we have in office the shit continues. We don't hear about horrible policies and are drown in "interest" stories (AKA Propaganda).
This is not new, it started back in at least the 60s. Start to track the point where "Conspiracy" synonymous with "false narrative" and "Conspiracy Theorist" was used as an ad hominem against certain types of investigative reporters covering specific types of stories.
Not that the public at large was ever crazy intelligent, but in the last 50 years we have gone from mostly rational to a place where in general people can not tell fact from fantasy. "Feelings" today trump facts in the majority of our discussions in Political Philosophy and Sociology.
I read long ago that there are two possible ways to view the world. One, pushed by media and politicians, is that everything is accidental and results which could never be predicted. The other, which is ignored by media and politicians, is that most things are intentional with results which are predicted with reasonable accuracy. When you consider that the people in politics are the highest educated among society, with literally teams of highly educated people working as advisers and think tanks, which do you find the more likely world view?
You have to have been performing a self summary in your subject.
There are genetic, biological differences between peoples, obviously. But
There is no "But", and as soon as you go away from facts and start ranting from fantasy land you lose any rational argument. The amount of ad hominem displayed shows that you are both happy fantasy land and don't care about basic logic.
Looks like you are just a troll, who somehow got up modded on a troll.
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I realize that the logiphobic are going to have a problem with what I'm about to write, so if you have an aversion to logic and reason just skip to the next post.
Hopefully the kids in Hockey helmets are gone now.
Upgrading does not fix security holes, it replaces them. I have been working in IT Security for over 30 years and I have never seen an update that magically fixes everything. I have seen plenty that fix a particular problem but expose another, and sometimes more than one. Risk mitigation is the name of the game, and not doing everything you are told can be quite productive.
If you never connect to public wifi you don't have the same risk footprint as someone who does. If you don't use your phones web browser why do you need it patched exactly? Believe it or not, plenty of people use their smartphone as a phone and ignore the smart. Good for them by the way.
Fear mongering works on the weak minded, but there are people who don't fit that description.
Is that thirty-one hours or thirty-one days?
Well, the first sentence of the summary does mention it took over 30 hours. 31 days is over 30 hours, sure, but we're all smart people here. Right?
Ha ha! That was funneh! "we're all smart people here." Oh man, that's a good one.
We are all just zealots and haters because we don't want a company to dictate exactly what we can and can't do? No wonder you post anonymously, I would not back such a stupid thought process with my name either.
Nerds started to dislike Microsoft when they forced a registry down everyone's throats removing our ability to tinker. We hated being force to use GUI apps for simple tasks which we should have been able to script. See the common theme? If not, I hope your masters pay you well.
Haha, that was funneh!
On point however, how many people don't care about how secure their passwords for Windows systems are? I have systems I could care less about, because they are either fully blocked by a FW or air-gapped. I don't trust Windows at all, so use a weak password when it fits me.
MS - attempting to chase all remaining customers away I guess.
I'm not going list all of the sources who have filed FOIA requests, but I was pretty clear that everyone is being stonewalled. "Progress" would mean that we are receiving non redacted emails to review. There are none to be had, and until there is any claim of progress is suspect (if not false).
Someone else who values Fortran and PJL!
I never saw the person claim it was only a problem for Hillary. You did that all by yourself. I like to point out that the whole system is corrupt too, but try to limit to when it's appropriate.
Ask Iran how well that "we should be using commodity" rule you want to impose worked for them. Oh, wow! Never thought about that did you? Yeah buddy, we want to be just like them right? (That was sarcasm).
And then you go out to fantasy island for your next point. How about the reason commodity items are overpriced is due to corruption? When we catch it we fix it? Hmm, what a novel thing to consider.. (more sarcasm, but well deserved) Then we consider that some things are better served as commodities, like desks and toilet seats while others are better off as independent systems. Like Military stuff we don't want to share.
If the Government uses 1970s tech they can train new people to support it. Just like they have done for nearly 50 years. It's not like when Joe retires he takes all of his worldly knowledge with him. Good grief, it that were true then long ago someone died and that explains why nobody can ever balance a checkbook again!
What _YOU_ don't realize is that plenty of us have Government experience. Considering you have a whole 3 posts attributed to your account I believe you are not an egocentric prick but much much worse.
I was going to add some stuff, but considering you are simply a shill I won't waste my time. I really wish Slashdot gave us the ability to track AC IP addresses, I'm guessing you are coming from a specific range in DC.. you know, that same one that edits Wiki pages all the time.
If nothing on Hillary's server was classified it should be released without redaction for full review and inspection by any party. That has not happened, and it won't happen. FOI requests regarding information on her server are denied almost as soon as they are filed.
There is no "truth" left in Government. The only option they have is to silence critics. Oh, and more circuses.
The military using special technology is a good thing from a security perspective. It is not supposed to run on Commodity hardware and software, because if anyone can work on it everyone potentially has access.
Stop playing the narrow minded "cheap is good" game and consider other reasoning. Longevity is a good thing, not a bad thing. Specialized knowledge in security is a good thing, not a bad thing. It's only government waste because you are only considering a very minor aspect.
By the way, if they were using "new tech" it would not last for half a damn century. It would have been stuffed in the trash every couple years, like we do with the majority of our servers today who have an average lifespan of less than a year before the first malfunction causing a hard stop.
That is correct in a general sense, but I'd say that the actual loss of the right was in the 60s. Kennedy was "right" and you see where that landed, his VP was left as soon as he swore in. Ross Perot was right, but he lost the primary due to several criminal actions by the Bush Campaign. Ron Paul was right, but he similarly lost the primary due to various activities by both the Media and Republican party.
Controlled opposition is not some new idea, it's been out there for centuries.
Fox is not pro-right, and has never been pro-right. They are anti-right as opposed to most other media being pro-left. Fox does not promote liberty, or the 2nd amendment, or fiscal responsibility, or limited Government, or right leaning candidates like Rand or Ron Paul (two easy examples). They were talking about Trump for ratings/money and because he is not from the right.
There is no longer a right leaning media, and has not been since the early 90s when all major outlets were monopolized and canned their journalists. Today all outlets use the AP as their source and hire teleprompter readers instead of journalists.
You keep making that claim, other people are stating that "trending" should not be manipulated because Facebook has progressive biases. No, it's not the same thing and you are a moron if you keep repeating it.
The responsibility it to the shareholder, no the government.
Here I thought the responsibility of the tax code was to the voters.
Precisely. Politicians are voting for things not in the interest of their constituents exactly the way they always do. Constituents are being deprived of information and fed bread and circuses to distract them from the activity of the Politicians.
One thing people in power know is to keep information away from the public. 2,600 years after being written, the majority of people know only what some twit paraphrased for them and called "The Republic".
I am considering starting a petition for a 220v@10A model. Dumb enough to buy this and configure it for a shock? Let them win a Darwin award!
In fact, advertise that buyers can win a Darwin award and I'll bet we an sell exponentially more of them!
When you serve the best koolaide in the world you better have open rest rooms!
Interesting how a story about China turns into a condemnation of the USA.
PS. I'm not American.
You misread that post. That was a proactive denial of wrong doing, not a condemnation. Read it again.
I'm not sure how you slept through the last several years but you did. Snowden dumped the complete playbook and we found it to be the US Government inside of everything all the time. More than half of the countries we ally with in Europe have shit canned US services and ban new projects from landing on US servers. Not because "Ebil IBM and MS" but the more "EBIL UNCLE SAM".
Several whistle blowers have been jailed, reporters have been jailed and threatened, and lawsuits have been filed by numerous parties. Stonewalls have been erected all over Washington DC, and countless very high ranking politicians spend extended durations of time doing nothing but denying what they did was "really" wrong.
Since you have slept through the last few years, you probably also missed the US having black sites, covering up wrongful death in the middle east, etc....etc.. Maybe you should try living out of the cave for a while. You can't be an incarnation of a different sockpuppet 'cf" trying ot re-write history can you? Nah, you have to be crazy from all the batshit.
You just explained your own lack of objectivity, you didn't explain their lack of the same. You are claiming that being force fed cyanide kills you, he is claiming that arsenic in low doses will kill you over time. In both cases you are being poisoned and in both cases you die. You seem to want to deny the poisoning is occurring, or claiming that if it's not cyanide it does not matter.
Pointing out what should be obvious, convincing people to drink water instead of arsenic laced juice is a good thing. You attacking people trying to do that, is a bad thing.
I read the whole of TFA and left scratching my head as to why it was called foul mouthed.
Train engineers and Systems engineers have certifications (certain positions and places require them, like Government). Alas that does not matter to a person who has trolled my posts for years because I dared to question several aspects of the Government report on 9/11. According to the troll, questioning the narrative is "dishonoring the dead" and only done by a traitor. Questioning is worthy of a punishment by years of trolling. It's like that kid with autism that can do one thing over and over and sometimes it's really cool, but in this case it's the same pathetic trolling over and over.
Certain people have purchased media, and at the same time placed puppets into the Government. This is why no matter who we have in office the shit continues. We don't hear about horrible policies and are drown in "interest" stories (AKA Propaganda).
This is not new, it started back in at least the 60s. Start to track the point where "Conspiracy" synonymous with "false narrative" and "Conspiracy Theorist" was used as an ad hominem against certain types of investigative reporters covering specific types of stories.
Not that the public at large was ever crazy intelligent, but in the last 50 years we have gone from mostly rational to a place where in general people can not tell fact from fantasy. "Feelings" today trump facts in the majority of our discussions in Political Philosophy and Sociology.
I read long ago that there are two possible ways to view the world. One, pushed by media and politicians, is that everything is accidental and results which could never be predicted. The other, which is ignored by media and politicians, is that most things are intentional with results which are predicted with reasonable accuracy. When you consider that the people in politics are the highest educated among society, with literally teams of highly educated people working as advisers and think tanks, which do you find the more likely world view?
Ahh, the great advice of relationships by someone who can't maintain them.
You have to have been performing a self summary in your subject.
There are genetic, biological differences between peoples, obviously. But
There is no "But", and as soon as you go away from facts and start ranting from fantasy land you lose any rational argument. The amount of ad hominem displayed shows that you are both happy fantasy land and don't care about basic logic.
Looks like you are just a troll, who somehow got up modded on a troll.