>what they mean is, there aren't many one man or 5 man shops developing Open Source for a living.
Yes there are. They are also directly supporting that stuff for their clients and getting cash for it. Because a lot of businesses don't want a "one size fits all" solution, because "one size fits all" is a complete oxymoron.
I could have let this one slide, but I have a few things to say:
1. Darl, Darl McBride, is that you? When will you be testifying against Mark Shurtleff and John Swallow? You have a chance to redeem your soul! Imagine that! 2. The myth that "you can't make money on open source" is a myth so debunked that you have entire industries built on it, from servers and supercomputers to cellphones and kids' toys. 3. The myth that people don't get paid (slaves) to develop open source is belied by the fact that small companies like IBM are major contributors and specifically pay for people to work on open source code.
And even Microsoft pays people to do it now.
You can take your 20 year old arguments, write them out on oaktag, fold it until it's all sharp corners, and shove it straight up your arse.
Typing in a 6 letter word that I remember is much quicker than opening a program, typing in my master password, finding the account that I want to log in to, clicking on the log-in button, then switching back to the browser. Even describing what you need to do is too long and complicated.
You know how I know you've never even/tried/ using a password manager?
Argument from complete ignorance is bad form, man.
Ask for "inconsequential" slashdot password Raymorris dodges it Tells me "yelp password" Go to yelp Yelp requires email address as login Look up raymorris' email on slashdot (email not shown publicly) Try various raymorris@$MAILPROVIDER via "lost password" None exist, not the top 5 anyway. Google search site:yelp.com "ray morris" or "raymorris" Nothing.
Lastpass fills in both the "new password" and "confirm new password" automagically after you've generated a secure password. This makes passwords for trivial sites even more trivial to use.
I cannot even imagine what I would have had to do when I had to re-set all my passwords one night and/didn't/ have a password manager to type all that shit in for me, including the "new password" and "confirm new password" fields. It would have taken half a day, but instead it only took one hour. And all that stuff is backed up offsite in a csv file in multiple locations.
Life is easier with a password manager. It literally is.
Microsoft researchers have determined that reuse of the same password for low security services is safer than generating a unique password for each service.
This has to be a fucking joke. It has to be. bmo looks at calendar. Huh, it's not April 1.
And what, exactly, is a "low security service?" The only "low security service" I can possibly think of is stuff like Mailinator where you don't even use a password.
Remember when the entire Youporn chat login credentials file was leaked? You know, the one with real names, aliases, emails, and passwords in cleartext? Remember? Nearly every single password was usable on Facebook and the same password was reused in email.
People had fun with that. I was in/g/ when it happened. I laughed at the results.
Yahoo lost control of my fucking credentials twice showing logins from Romania and Sweden. I no longer use Yahoo Mail as a result, except as a throw-away, and the last time pushed me over the edge into using a password manager that holds -unique to every site- passwords that I can't even remember myself at 25 characters of complete ASCII gibberish. And you know what? It's easier on top of being more secure.
Lose control over your login credentials at one place, and the rest is vulnerable if you recycle them elsewhere. Password re-use over multiple sites is fucking bad. Anecdotes aren't data but I don't care about your calculations because my reality trumps your poorly researched paper.
Two lions who, escaping from the zoo, split up to increase their chances but agree to meet after 2 months. When they finally meet, one is skinny and the other overweight. The thin one says: âoeHow did you manage? I ate a human just once and they turned out a small army to chase me â" guns, nets, it was terrible. Since then I've been reduced to eating mice, insects, even grass.â The fat one replies: âoeWell, I hid outside the door at One Microsoft Way and ate a manager a day. And nobody even noticed!â
But stale content/does/ get taken down. It's a concept called "bit rot" which not only describes bits on media physically rotting, but it's also "link rot" where a link goes to something that no longer exists. Link rot is such a problem that efforts are always being made to automagically check links through scripting to make sure they're "live" on a periodic basis.
Well, smart people do that. Other people check manually.
"B...but the Waback Machine" you say. The Wayback Machine doesn't archive everything, and unless you know the specific URL you're looking for, searching it can be a bear.
There are many ways that content disappears from public view. In some ways it's/worse/ than what we had with microfilm, because the "microfilm" archives simply aren't there for this stuff.
"The Right To Be Forgotten" is founded on three false beliefs:
1. It's a right. 2. It can be enforced 3. It's necessary because data doesn't rot in a digital world.
It didn't exist before the Internet, and it doesn't exist now. It's a complete fiction. I don't even know why we're discussing this as if it exists. It doesn't. I can't go back and tell people to forget things or destroy newspaper clippings about what I did any more than I can stop the tide from coming in.
It didn't exist before the Internet, and it doesn't exist now. It's a complete fiction. People remember things. People save newspaper clippings. Friends/family remember that time you got drunk and hit on the waitress who thought you were disgusting and rude and put you in your place.
For example:
Michael Kent, of Saunderstown, RI pissed all of us off in the neighborhood 20 years ago because he bought an illegally subdivided lot and threw a temper tantrum, cut down the trees and painted the tree stumps bright pink. He doesn't get to erase that from "history" and my right to look that up in the Providence Journal and repost it shall not be infringed.
Does it matter what the source is, so long as it presents a testable claim?
Yes. If Natual News told me that the sun will come up tomorrow, I would assume it's false until I check the astronomical tables.
Because some people are just so full of shit. Because they've made a life/career out of spouting bullshit, like Natural News, Robert Enderle, and this guy.
"Furthermore, all of GCHQ's work is carried out in accordance with a strict legal and policy framework which ensures that our activities are authorised, necessary and proportionate, and that there is rigorous oversight, including from the Secretary of State, the Interception and Intelligence Services Commissioners and the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee. All our operational processes rigorously support this position."
nearly 30% of Americans either aren't digitally literate or don't trust the Internet.
I have been out here in e-space for decades.
You are a fool if you trust any kind of technology blindly, especially a technology that gives every moron with free access to a terminal somewhere. This goes for the POTS too.
Because I'm sure going to trust that guy with the east-Indian accent telling me over the phone to install a remote access tool to my computer. Which actually happened to me 3 something weeks ago.
You are digitally illiterate if you "trust the Internet."
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>what they mean is, there aren't many one man or 5 man shops developing Open Source for a living.
Yes there are. They are also directly supporting that stuff for their clients and getting cash for it. Because a lot of businesses don't want a "one size fits all" solution, because "one size fits all" is a complete oxymoron.
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I could have let this one slide, but I have a few things to say:
1. Darl, Darl McBride, is that you? When will you be testifying against Mark Shurtleff and John Swallow? You have a chance to redeem your soul! Imagine that!
2. The myth that "you can't make money on open source" is a myth so debunked that you have entire industries built on it, from servers and supercomputers to cellphones and kids' toys.
3. The myth that people don't get paid (slaves) to develop open source is belied by the fact that small companies like IBM are major contributors and specifically pay for people to work on open source code.
And even Microsoft pays people to do it now.
You can take your 20 year old arguments, write them out on oaktag, fold it until it's all sharp corners, and shove it straight up your arse.
Have a great day.
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I use one all the time.
No you don't and you're a liar, and not only that, you have rage issues. Go away.
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>two factor
Fat lotta fucking good that does you when hardly any place on the web uses it.
You just went full retard. Never go full retard.
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Typing in a 6 letter word that I remember is much quicker than opening a program, typing in my master password, finding the account that I want to log in to, clicking on the log-in button, then switching back to the browser. Even describing what you need to do is too long and complicated.
You know how I know you've never even /tried/ using a password manager?
Argument from complete ignorance is bad form, man.
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Ask for "inconsequential" slashdot password
Raymorris dodges it
Tells me "yelp password"
Go to yelp
Yelp requires email address as login
Look up raymorris' email on slashdot
(email not shown publicly)
Try various raymorris@$MAILPROVIDER via "lost password"
None exist, not the top 5 anyway.
Google search site:yelp.com "ray morris" or "raymorris"
Nothing.
Whatever, man.
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have you never heard of the very time-tested wisdom against putting all your eggs in one basket?
Have you ever heard of backups? For someone supposedly technically astute, you seem to have dropped that idea on the floor. I'll pick it up for you.
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I know it's poor form to bitch about moderation, but "offtopic?" Really?
It never crossed anyone's mind to type the name into a web browser? You know, just to make sure that it didn't link to something like lemonparty?
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So then tell me what your slashdot password is if it's that trivial.
I can be trusted. I have a 5 digit UID!
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Using a password manager makes it just as easy to have secure passwords as it is to have easy to remember passwords that you recycle everywhere.
And it fills them in for you, automagically, when you have to do the "new password" and "confirm new password" fields on a new site.
People complaining that password managers are complex never used one.
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Eric S. Raymond is crying in his beer about his "hotgirl69" problem.
Fuck'em.
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>CHERI processor
Really? Cheri?
http://cheri.com/ You have been promoted!
NOT SAFE FOR WORK.
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Lastpass fills in both the "new password" and "confirm new password" automagically after you've generated a secure password. This makes passwords for trivial sites even more trivial to use.
I cannot even imagine what I would have had to do when I had to re-set all my passwords one night and /didn't/ have a password manager to type all that shit in for me, including the "new password" and "confirm new password" fields. It would have taken half a day, but instead it only took one hour. And all that stuff is backed up offsite in a csv file in multiple locations.
Life is easier with a password manager. It literally is.
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Microsoft researchers have determined that reuse of the same password for low security services is safer than generating a unique password for each service.
This has to be a fucking joke. It has to be. bmo looks at calendar. Huh, it's not April 1.
And what, exactly, is a "low security service?" The only "low security service" I can possibly think of is stuff like Mailinator where you don't even use a password.
Remember when the entire Youporn chat login credentials file was leaked? You know, the one with real names, aliases, emails, and passwords in cleartext? Remember? Nearly every single password was usable on Facebook and the same password was reused in email.
People had fun with that. I was in /g/ when it happened. I laughed at the results.
Yahoo lost control of my fucking credentials twice showing logins from Romania and Sweden. I no longer use Yahoo Mail as a result, except as a throw-away, and the last time pushed me over the edge into using a password manager that holds -unique to every site- passwords that I can't even remember myself at 25 characters of complete ASCII gibberish. And you know what? It's easier on top of being more secure.
Lose control over your login credentials at one place, and the rest is vulnerable if you recycle them elsewhere. Password re-use over multiple sites is fucking bad. Anecdotes aren't data but I don't care about your calculations because my reality trumps your poorly researched paper.
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Two lions who, escaping from the zoo, split up to increase their chances but agree to meet after 2 months. When they finally meet, one is skinny and the other overweight. The thin one says: âoeHow did you manage? I ate a human just once and they turned out a small army to chase me â" guns, nets, it was terrible. Since then I've been reduced to eating mice, insects, even grass.â The fat one replies: âoeWell, I hid outside the door at One Microsoft Way and ate a manager a day. And nobody even noticed!â
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>naturalnews
You're a fucking moron.
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>tits and swords.
Since when are these items bad?
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...no match for Natural Stupidity.
I mean, just look around you.
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But stale content /does/ get taken down. It's a concept called "bit rot" which not only describes bits on media physically rotting, but it's also "link rot" where a link goes to something that no longer exists. Link rot is such a problem that efforts are always being made to automagically check links through scripting to make sure they're "live" on a periodic basis.
Well, smart people do that. Other people check manually.
"B...but the Waback Machine" you say. The Wayback Machine doesn't archive everything, and unless you know the specific URL you're looking for, searching it can be a bear.
There are many ways that content disappears from public view. In some ways it's /worse/ than what we had with microfilm, because the "microfilm" archives simply aren't there for this stuff.
"The Right To Be Forgotten" is founded on three false beliefs:
1. It's a right.
2. It can be enforced
3. It's necessary because data doesn't rot in a digital world.
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Does not exist.
It didn't exist before the Internet, and it doesn't exist now. It's a complete fiction. I don't even know why we're discussing this as if it exists. It doesn't. I can't go back and tell people to forget things or destroy newspaper clippings about what I did any more than I can stop the tide from coming in.
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>right to be forgotten
Does not exist. Anywhere.
It didn't exist before the Internet, and it doesn't exist now. It's a complete fiction. People remember things. People save newspaper clippings. Friends/family remember that time you got drunk and hit on the waitress who thought you were disgusting and rude and put you in your place.
For example:
Michael Kent, of Saunderstown, RI pissed all of us off in the neighborhood 20 years ago because he bought an illegally subdivided lot and threw a temper tantrum, cut down the trees and painted the tree stumps bright pink. He doesn't get to erase that from "history" and my right to look that up in the Providence Journal and repost it shall not be infringed.
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Does it matter what the source is, so long as it presents a testable claim?
Yes. If Natual News told me that the sun will come up tomorrow, I would assume it's false until I check the astronomical tables.
Because some people are just so full of shit. Because they've made a life/career out of spouting bullshit, like Natural News, Robert Enderle, and this guy.
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On the other side of the pond...
"Furthermore, all of GCHQ's work is carried out in accordance with a strict legal and policy framework which ensures that our activities are authorised, necessary and proportionate, and that there is rigorous oversight, including from the Secretary of State, the Interception and Intelligence Services Commissioners and the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee. All our operational processes rigorously support this position."
Bollocks.
To both.
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nearly 30% of Americans either aren't digitally literate or don't trust the Internet.
I have been out here in e-space for decades.
You are a fool if you trust any kind of technology blindly, especially a technology that gives every moron with free access to a terminal somewhere. This goes for the POTS too.
Because I'm sure going to trust that guy with the east-Indian accent telling me over the phone to install a remote access tool to my computer. Which actually happened to me 3 something weeks ago.
You are digitally illiterate if you "trust the Internet."
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This is a troll, sortof, but it is exactly the slope this is going down.
$CORPORATE_RELIGION can discriminate against $YOUR_RELIGION or lack thereof.
This is a can o' worms that I don't think Hobby Lobby and their directors has completely thought through.
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