Connecting the machine to HDMI would display a prompt to start the X11 session,
The point of a phone is that you can use it "on the go". Hopefully, you wouldn't need an external HDMI display to access the Ubuntu, that would kinda defeat the purpose... (Yes, it's nice on a hotel room TV, but what about Starbucks, bus stops, chair lifts, boring dinners, or any of the other occasions where you might surf using your pocket device...)
Battue = a type of hunt where one group of hunters "combs" the forest, chasing every living animal towards the other end of the forest where the second group, with guns, wait for them... Of course, if any humans get into the cross-fire, too bad. Usually hunters post people at all "normal" entries to the forest in order to warn away any hikers or tourists. Trouble is, there are people, such as geocachers, who do not use the "normal" entry points.
As for the geocachers...hunting season, in the Forrest = bright orange vests.
Many non-hunters don't know this. Or how many non-hunters have you seen wearing orange vests to the forest? Already the "warning vests" now mandatory in Europe for use after a car breakdown look ridiculous enough...
New Year's Eve firing of guns in the air... (used to be very popular, before the (obvious) dangers became known)
A battue. Hunters have warners posted at all paths leading into the forest. Unfortunately, a small group of geocachers cross between paths, unseen by the warners... (And before you say: the geocachers would have heard the gunfire, think that the battue has to start sometime: before the start everything's reasonably quiet, and when the mayhem starts, they're already to deep in danger zone...)
How often did you use a dildo that you printed yourself on your makerbot? If more than once, can you give me the reference of the plastic mix that you used?
Given the quality of printed items, I doubt somebody could build a gun out of them that would not blow up in the shooter's own face...
A colleague of mine tried to print lego bricks with his 3d printer. They didn't mesh... He tried repeatedly, and often his pieces would separate into layers in the middle of the print job...
Publishing gun parts on thingyverse is more a political statement than a serious way of bringing guns into the hands of the people.
Would they also censor dildos? Actually, does the makerbot work with those kinds of plastics/silicones needed to make a good dildo (the plastic shouldn't be too hard or it might break off inside your ass...)?
If A post statement S1, and B replies with statement S2 which does not actually contradict S1 (but prefixing it with "No" just as if it did), why is poster C, who points out that S2 does not actually refute S1 a "politician...[who] takes two statements that don't contradict each other and trying to create an argument from them".
And why do the moderators mod C as a troll, but reward D? Just because this is about gun parts?
If you need more than a few then the validation fee for StartSSL easily pays for itself.
If you need more than a few... be careful that they should all be for the same organization. If you are the support person for multiple non-profits, don't think you can leverage your personal account to get certificates for all of them: StartSSL will notice, and ask for organizational validation for each of them...
Who is "them"? The (public) certificates (used by the contractors)? The private keys (used by the army)?
noticing SSL hijacking is not particularly hard
Ok, but your initial claim was that wide availability of the public cert would make SSL hijacking more easy to notice, not that it is already easy as it is. Please explain why do you think that the availability of the root certificate changes anything?
If anything, the more people trust the army's root CA certificate, the easier it is for the army to use it for nefarious purposes, because the probability of accidentally abusing it against a client who doesn't trust it would be lower. (Attempting to abuse it against a browser who doesn't trust it would trigger a very obvious warning popup...)
Surely it is not a money issue for the "small guy". Commercial certs can be had, if not free from the one provider I already mentioned
True if by "small guy" you mean a private individual having a (single) domain in his own name.
But small not-for-profits are out of luck with StartSSL: since a couple of month, StartSSL now insists that they get an organizational validation (~ $60 / year), no piggybacking on the account of a member allowed any longer...
be able to validate such a cert has the root CA installed on their machine.
... which in addition gives the military the opportunity to spy on other, unrealted SSL communications as well. Especially, with the US military, I'd be careful about importing them as a root CA...
Better to individually validate their server's certificate from fingerprints... at least that way they can't abuse the trust that you put into their root CA to spy on anything else.
$30 for a cert on a $5-10k Exchange box is a drop in the ocean.
... if you're still using Exchange. But if you do, you probably don't care about security anyways, so why spend $30 on something that nobody in the company really understands? "we're a big well known company, and everybody trusts us anyways. So why do we need a certificate?"
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Not everyone is over 350lbs
He wasn't speaking about sitting on a chair, but about throwing it. You know, like Steve Ballmer does...
Connecting the machine to HDMI would display a prompt to start the X11 session,
The point of a phone is that you can use it "on the go". Hopefully, you wouldn't need an external HDMI display to access the Ubuntu, that would kinda defeat the purpose... (Yes, it's nice on a hotel room TV, but what about Starbucks, bus stops, chair lifts, boring dinners, or any of the other occasions where you might surf using your pocket device...)
Mess of cables is helping as well to hide the "stick"...
What's the difference between the Rotary Club and the mafia?
And I'm not sure I understand battue correctly.
Battue = a type of hunt where one group of hunters "combs" the forest, chasing every living animal towards the other end of the forest where the second group, with guns, wait for them... Of course, if any humans get into the cross-fire, too bad. Usually hunters post people at all "normal" entries to the forest in order to warn away any hikers or tourists. Trouble is, there are people, such as geocachers, who do not use the "normal" entry points.
As for the geocachers ...hunting season, in the Forrest = bright orange vests.
Many non-hunters don't know this. Or how many non-hunters have you seen wearing orange vests to the forest? Already the "warning vests" now mandatory in Europe for use after a car breakdown look ridiculous enough...
Potato guns are actually restricted in many jurisdictions...
but it's a hell of a lot easier to kill 26 people in a short period of time with a gun than with a knife.
But even though injuring 23 people with a knife is less bad than killing 26 with a gun, it's still bad enough.
How often did you use a dildo that you printed yourself on your makerbot? If more than once, can you give me the reference of the plastic mix that you used?
There is no such thing as an "accidental shooting" either.
Yes, all these examples do have a part of negligence in them, but so have most accidents (even car or kitchen accidents).
A colleague of mine tried to print lego bricks with his 3d printer. They didn't mesh... He tried repeatedly, and often his pieces would separate into layers in the middle of the print job...
Publishing gun parts on thingyverse is more a political statement than a serious way of bringing guns into the hands of the people.
other naughty objects
Would they also censor dildos? Actually, does the makerbot work with those kinds of plastics/silicones needed to make a good dildo (the plastic shouldn't be too hard or it might break off inside your ass...)?
And why do the moderators mod C as a troll, but reward D? Just because this is about gun parts?
The "Spam" button is not enough?
The targets change ips, email accounts and message formats faster every couple hours if not minutes.
WTF are you talking about?
what is google to do if the account is under someone else's domain?
But they definately should do something when the the account is under their domain, which they don't, and that's the problem I was talking about.
If you need more than a few then the validation fee for StartSSL easily pays for itself.
If you need more than a few... be careful that they should all be for the same organization. If you are the support person for multiple non-profits, don't think you can leverage your personal account to get certificates for all of them: StartSSL will notice, and ask for organizational validation for each of them...
Because they actively use them...
Who is "they"? The army? Their contractors?
Who is "them"? The (public) certificates (used by the contractors)? The private keys (used by the army)?
noticing SSL hijacking is not particularly hard
Ok, but your initial claim was that wide availability of the public cert would make SSL hijacking more easy to notice, not that it is already easy as it is. Please explain why do you think that the availability of the root certificate changes anything?
If anything, the more people trust the army's root CA certificate, the easier it is for the army to use it for nefarious purposes, because the probability of accidentally abusing it against a client who doesn't trust it would be lower. (Attempting to abuse it against a browser who doesn't trust it would trigger a very obvious warning popup...)
It seems pretty unlikely that it's going on, particularly since it's available to a ton of contractors and SSL hijacking is not so hard to notice.
Why would availability of the (public) cert to a ton of contractors make it more easy to notice any funny usage of said certificate?
Surely it is not a money issue for the "small guy". Commercial certs can be had, if not free from the one provider I already mentioned
True if by "small guy" you mean a private individual having a (single) domain in his own name.
But small not-for-profits are out of luck with StartSSL: since a couple of month, StartSSL now insists that they get an organizational validation (~ $60 / year), no piggybacking on the account of a member allowed any longer...
Stick your transparent bigotry/intolerance/preconceptions where the sun don't shine.
.... and when you do, make sure you have the camera rolling, and don't forget to upload the result to youporn!
I for one am VERY happy with the free email services provided by google and their ability to filter out spam.
... if only they would stop spamming everybody else...
not having to maintain my own webmail interface.
And there's plenty of open source webmail interfaces:
Yeah, it's not like you can buy a wildcard server certificate for only $200/year....... oh wait. You can!
What if you have multiple domains? (esso.com, exxon.com, petrol.com, ...)
be able to validate such a cert has the root CA installed on their machine.
... which in addition gives the military the opportunity to spy on other, unrealted SSL communications as well. Especially, with the US military, I'd be careful about importing them as a root CA...
Better to individually validate their server's certificate from fingerprints... at least that way they can't abuse the trust that you put into their root CA to spy on anything else.
$30 for a cert on a $5-10k Exchange box is a drop in the ocean.
... if you're still using Exchange. But if you do, you probably don't care about security anyways, so why spend $30 on something that nobody in the company really understands? "we're a big well known company, and everybody trusts us anyways. So why do we need a certificate?"
or remember a long and complicated fingerprint
That's why God has invented wallet-sized "business" cards onto which to print such details.