You're forgetting one available option: Quit fucking around with "security theater", find out why people in the Middle East are so insanely pissed off at the USA, and deal with it. Honestly, though, that doesn't look promising to me. I am just a citizen, and even I could tell you right now what the cause of all of this is. It's not that the government doesn't know why. It's that they want to pretend that the root causes do not exist. And that, my friends, is going to be the downfall of our country sooner or later.
"Because they hate our freedom" is just a fucking bullshit sound byte for our politicians to use.
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Why in the hell is your friend majoring in Computer Technology and planning to become a Network Admin if he is "terrified" of command lines and text-based installs? He's either going to have to get used to them really quickly, or find another field to go into. You may want to sit him down and have a talk:P
I've always assumed that if you have the electricity to "waste", you would do better to leave your PC on as often as possible. This is attributed to the life of the hard drive degrading more quickly when you are constantly turning the thing off and back on. I think the reasoning is based on the little power "surge" that takes place every time it is turned on. I admit I haven't bothered to look into this at all, though, so I could be way off in left field. It's just evolved into habit for me now.
I actually found it ironic because Ian Anderson has described himself as an anarchist. Pushing for copyright extension (or any copyright at all, for that matter) isn't very anarchistic, now is it? Sad, as well, because I really like the band's music.
I'm using Opera 9.02 under Linux (Kubuntu 6.10), and could not get the proof-of-concept to work with Wand (Opera's Password Management). I don't think this would be much of an issue with any browser, though, if people would just use some common sense and not store passwords for important things like online banking. While it might suck to have someone exploit this for your Slashdot account and start trolling using your UID, it would be nothing more than an inconvenience. Online banking and credit card transactions, on the other hand, would be major problems. So really, this is a non-issue if you are already a security-minded person. The question: How many normal users are security-minded? The answer is, unfortunately, rather obvious, I think.
I cannot help but wonder if you would change your opinion, were you not graced (probably through no actions of your own, other than popping out of a birth canal where you did) with the fortunate position of living in a western or westernized country. It is one thing to look down upon others from a metaphorical "high horse" and say that they should not be given the things that they need for survival. It is quite another to be looking up at the metaphorical "high horse" and listening to someone else say those things. Suffice it to say that if the roles were reversed in your case, that personally, I would not lift one finger to help you. I would rather watch you come to the realization that your opinion was, in fact, a greedy and excessively stupid one. Though I get the idea that you actually don't think that way, and you're just trying to go against what you perceive as the "status quo", in order to score "cool points".
If BlackBox is worried about people saving a list of exploits for a zero-day attack they can put their software through a strict accreditation process before they reveal their final release.
Actually, BlackBoxVoting.org is an organization that is fighting for change in electronic voting systems. ES&S is the company in question. I agree with what you're saying, but I think you got a little mixed up there.:P
After summarizing that past statement, Allchin continued, "Please don't misunderstand me: This is an escalating situation. The hackers are getting smarter, there's more at stake, and so there's just no way for us to say that some perfection has been achieved. But I can say, knowing what I know now, I feel very confident."
If you RTFA, and then go back and read the title of this post, it's quite apparent that it's sensationalist and stupid. Of course Allchin thinks that this version of Windows will be the "Most Secure Evar". He works at Microsoft. Taking what he said out of context is just childish. But really, I suppose I shouldn't expect any less.
When I turned eighteen, I managed to get a job doing tech support for a large broadband ISP. That may be something to look into, because generally, 1st tier positions like that are entry level, and only require a high-school diploma and good scores on computer-based "tech" tests. A word of warning, though, if you do choose this route: 1st tier tech support is fucking stressful, and can result in premature balding, possible aneurysm, and loss of will to live:P
From my point of view, Google should be commended for not caving in, no matter what the content of those blogs happen to be. They've got my appreciation.
If firefox wanted to 1-up IE, they could make the toolbars autohide, and then even make the scrollbar autohide. Then it would be true full screen.
Actually, Opera (9.02, at least) 1-ups both of them. It autohides both the toolbars and the scrollbar (F11 key). Oh, and it also passes Acid2, for what it's worth.
I commend the effort to increase consumer awareness regarding wireless security, but am I the only one that thinks this won't make one iota of difference? I'm willing to bet that the majority of these warnings will end up in the trashcan without even a cursory glance; And as for including the warning in router setup, the majority will probably do the same thing they do with EULAs: click 'Accept/I Agree' without reading any of it, and promptly go on about their day.
Nice attempt, though..
I, for one, don't mind all that much if Google saves my search inquiries, just so long as they keep the information private and (hopefully) anonymous. Google has also had a pretty damn good track record at doing just that.. Comparing them to AOL isn't even apples and oranges.. More like apples and live grenades...
By another token, Open Source is being used by companies as a way to get individuals to create code without compensating them. This unfairly competes with the American software industry...
By another token, music piracy is being used by people as a way to get artists to create music without compensating them. This unfairly competes with the RIAA...
Okay, on a serious note, I don't see what you're seeing here. Most people that contribute code to an OSS project are doing it in their spare time and as a hobby, and I don't see proprietary (especially in-house) solutions crumbling to OSS as we speak. Maybe eventually that will happen on a more general scale, but I'm willing to bet that the field will adjust accordingly and keep right on going if that (unlikely) scenario does take place.
On SuSE 9.1. Pages seem to be loading somewhat quicker. Most themes/extentions are incompatible at the moment, though. Movable tabs is nice. Haven't had it running long enough to watch for a mem leak. One thing that's irking me is that my cursor changes
when it's within the program. Weird, and a bit uncomfortable for me, because my default cursor is significantly larger than the one in Firefox. Oh well, I'll test-drive 1.5b for a day or so. Can't say I won't be heading back to Opera, though:P
This particular service may indeed die off, but others will undoubtebly sprout up to take its place. This format, on much more grand of a scale, of course, is the future of the idiot box. Content that -you- specify, downloaded and presented to you, the viewer, when and how you want it. Think of an interactive 'TV guide', where you place your entire week's worth of programming, that you've set to download, by time and day of the week. Or have the set-top randomize it for you, if you aren't as picky as some of us are. This may take a bit to catch on, but honestly, I think the general public is becoming much more pissed off at having to sit through ten minutes of bullshit for twenty minutes of content. And let's not forget cable "packages", that give you two-hundred channels you don't give a flying fuck about, but if you don't subscribe, you lose the five or ten that you actually -do- watch. I think the time has come for something like this to fossilize the dinosaurs that are still plodding along atm. Hopefully soon..
I don't know if I'd want a PDA-type device chock full of crap that I will never use, but personally, I find the idea of a cellphone-slash-personal mp3 player a rather good one. Unfortunately, the price is going to have to come down -alot- before mainstream adoption of this will be remotely feasible. It will happen, though, eventually. Remember, DVD players used to cost roughly the same amount as a used car when they first arrived on the scene.
Finally! Insight into the making of Evan Williams. I can't tell you how many mornings I've woken up, hung-over, wondering: (besides, 'What happened last night?') "How do they make that whiskey so damn drinkable?" Now I'll finally get the answer!
I would kill for a sequel to Perfect Dark. That game was like fucking crack. I played through single player once, and that was it. It was all about multiplayer with sims.. Only downside was that you had to purchase an expansion pack.. No expansion pack, no fun..
I'm really surprised that they haven't released a sequel yet (what? Four years now?).. As long as it didn't reinvent the wheel, and just built on the foundation that the original laid out, it would be a killer. Definately..
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You're forgetting one available option: Quit fucking around with "security theater", find out why people in the Middle East are so insanely pissed off at the USA, and deal with it. Honestly, though, that doesn't look promising to me. I am just a citizen, and even I could tell you right now what the cause of all of this is. It's not that the government doesn't know why. It's that they want to pretend that the root causes do not exist. And that, my friends, is going to be the downfall of our country sooner or later.
"Because they hate our freedom" is just a fucking bullshit sound byte for our politicians to use.
Why in the hell is your friend majoring in Computer Technology and planning to become a Network Admin if he is "terrified" of command lines and text-based installs? He's either going to have to get used to them really quickly, or find another field to go into. You may want to sit him down and have a talk :P
I've always assumed that if you have the electricity to "waste", you would do better to leave your PC on as often as possible. This is attributed to the life of the hard drive degrading more quickly when you are constantly turning the thing off and back on. I think the reasoning is based on the little power "surge" that takes place every time it is turned on. I admit I haven't bothered to look into this at all, though, so I could be way off in left field. It's just evolved into habit for me now.
I actually found it ironic because Ian Anderson has described himself as an anarchist. Pushing for copyright extension (or any copyright at all, for that matter) isn't very anarchistic, now is it? Sad, as well, because I really like the band's music.
I'm using Opera 9.02 under Linux (Kubuntu 6.10), and could not get the proof-of-concept to work with Wand (Opera's Password Management). I don't think this would be much of an issue with any browser, though, if people would just use some common sense and not store passwords for important things like online banking. While it might suck to have someone exploit this for your Slashdot account and start trolling using your UID, it would be nothing more than an inconvenience. Online banking and credit card transactions, on the other hand, would be major problems. So really, this is a non-issue if you are already a security-minded person. The question: How many normal users are security-minded? The answer is, unfortunately, rather obvious, I think.
That's rather strange, considering that the window manager that was booted into was Gnome.
I cannot help but wonder if you would change your opinion, were you not graced (probably through no actions of your own, other than popping out of a birth canal where you did) with the fortunate position of living in a western or westernized country. It is one thing to look down upon others from a metaphorical "high horse" and say that they should not be given the things that they need for survival. It is quite another to be looking up at the metaphorical "high horse" and listening to someone else say those things. Suffice it to say that if the roles were reversed in your case, that personally, I would not lift one finger to help you. I would rather watch you come to the realization that your opinion was, in fact, a greedy and excessively stupid one. Though I get the idea that you actually don't think that way, and you're just trying to go against what you perceive as the "status quo", in order to score "cool points".
Actually, BlackBoxVoting.org is an organization that is fighting for change in electronic voting systems. ES&S is the company in question. I agree with what you're saying, but I think you got a little mixed up there. :P
When I turned eighteen, I managed to get a job doing tech support for a large broadband ISP. That may be something to look into, because generally, 1st tier positions like that are entry level, and only require a high-school diploma and good scores on computer-based "tech" tests. A word of warning, though, if you do choose this route: 1st tier tech support is fucking stressful, and can result in premature balding, possible aneurysm, and loss of will to live :P
It's referred to as "Defending free speech."
From my point of view, Google should be commended for not caving in, no matter what the content of those blogs happen to be. They've got my appreciation.
If firefox wanted to 1-up IE, they could make the toolbars autohide, and then even make the scrollbar autohide. Then it would be true full screen.
Actually, Opera (9.02, at least) 1-ups both of them. It autohides both the toolbars and the scrollbar (F11 key). Oh, and it also passes Acid2, for what it's worth.
I commend the effort to increase consumer awareness regarding wireless security, but am I the only one that thinks this won't make one iota of difference? I'm willing to bet that the majority of these warnings will end up in the trashcan without even a cursory glance; And as for including the warning in router setup, the majority will probably do the same thing they do with EULAs: click 'Accept/I Agree' without reading any of it, and promptly go on about their day. Nice attempt, though..
No Opera support? Oh well.. Maybe in the future..
I, for one, don't mind all that much if Google saves my search inquiries, just so long as they keep the information private and (hopefully) anonymous. Google has also had a pretty damn good track record at doing just that.. Comparing them to AOL isn't even apples and oranges.. More like apples and live grenades...
Alright, can't you google for your own info?
http://www.freesbie.org/ - Latest release is based on FreeBSD 5.3.
It's harder to find LiveCDs of Open/NetBSD, but you can create your own -
http://ezunix.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sect ions&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=88&page=1
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/07/14/openbsd _live.html
Gee golly, and all of that was on the first results page after searching for "Open/Net/FreeBSD LiveCD".. Whooda thunkit?
By another token, music piracy is being used by people as a way to get artists to create music without compensating them. This unfairly competes with the RIAA...
Okay, on a serious note, I don't see what you're seeing here. Most people that contribute code to an OSS project are doing it in their spare time and as a hobby, and I don't see proprietary (especially in-house) solutions crumbling to OSS as we speak. Maybe eventually that will happen on a more general scale, but I'm willing to bet that the field will adjust accordingly and keep right on going if that (unlikely) scenario does take place.Why there are no Linux (or BSD, etc) versions of the majority of Google's software? Kind of unusual, eh?
For all of us geeks, now it really won't feel like your own hand!
On SuSE 9.1. Pages seem to be loading somewhat quicker. Most themes/extentions are incompatible at the moment, though. Movable tabs is nice. Haven't had it running long enough to watch for a mem leak. One thing that's irking me is that my cursor changes when it's within the program. Weird, and a bit uncomfortable for me, because my default cursor is significantly larger than the one in Firefox. Oh well, I'll test-drive 1.5b for a day or so. Can't say I won't be heading back to Opera, though :P
This particular service may indeed die off, but others will undoubtebly sprout up to take its place. This format, on much more grand of a scale, of course, is the future of the idiot box. Content that -you- specify, downloaded and presented to you, the viewer, when and how you want it. Think of an interactive 'TV guide', where you place your entire week's worth of programming, that you've set to download, by time and day of the week. Or have the set-top randomize it for you, if you aren't as picky as some of us are. This may take a bit to catch on, but honestly, I think the general public is becoming much more pissed off at having to sit through ten minutes of bullshit for twenty minutes of content. And let's not forget cable "packages", that give you two-hundred channels you don't give a flying fuck about, but if you don't subscribe, you lose the five or ten that you actually -do- watch. I think the time has come for something like this to fossilize the dinosaurs that are still plodding along atm. Hopefully soon..
FunWithKnives opens a new tab directed to www.wikipedia.org.
FunWithKnives waits...
FunWithKnives puts tab in background and browses Slashdot for the three minutes it takes Wikipedia to load.
After that it's usually fine, but jeez :P
I don't know if I'd want a PDA-type device chock full of crap that I will never use, but personally,
I find the idea of a cellphone-slash-personal mp3 player a rather good one. Unfortunately, the price
is going to have to come down -alot- before mainstream adoption of this will be remotely feasible.
It will happen, though, eventually. Remember, DVD players used to cost roughly the same amount
as a used car when they first arrived on the scene.
Oh.. wait...
I'm really surprised that they haven't released a sequel yet (what? Four years now?).. As long as it didn't reinvent the wheel, and just built on the foundation that the original laid out, it would be a killer. Definately..