No, parent is modded down because a bunch of fat hate ppls swarm around all these stories and downvote. Make no mistake, parent isn't modded down- he's downvoted.
The internet is flooded with shitposts like yours in every article about weight loss. Diet and exercise, in the real world, appear to cure obesity about 2% of the time. That's like... shamanism cure rates. So yes, we'll need a real solution, and no, shitposts like yours won't bring it to fruition any faster.
Well fuck, it's a good thing we aren't in a war with fucking Russia then, eh?
In seriousness, the A-10's ability to fly slowly does mean that it won't be going anywhere soon. And if we do end up having to shoot at Russian tanks, or any tanks, I'm pretty sure we'd want some A-10s in there for at least some of that. The F-35 solves several of the A-10 problems better than the A-10, but others it doesn't solve at all.
Lol, I think we can all agree that if Hitler didn't Hitler, Germany would have become a shining beacon. Unfortunately, he Hitlered all over their faces.
Frankly, I don't think all the innovation in the world would have saved them once they invaded Russia, and I don't think an early race to an A-Bomb would have won the war all by itself for Germany either.
No. It's not PEBKAC. Go fucking research. To stop Windows from talking, you need several privacy toggles, some of which won't toggle all the way. Then you need a registry workaround, because Windows is so about user friendliness that you need to modify DWORDS in their shitted up binary fuckfest. Then you need to disable like three services, and remove two binaries. Then you need a big hosts file, and that's becoming an issue because Windows will actually work around a hosts file in some cases, using a list of known IPs specifically to circumvent that. So for now, you can block them on your external firewall.
Eventually, you'll need a dedicated Application Firewall to block all that plus the mandatory Windows Update- you obviously don't want to allow Windows Update unless and until the Application Firewall has updated rules, because we can assume Microsoft will sidestep them weekly if allowed to. The advantage of that approach is that Microsoft can't beat it- it's not on their computer- and further, that you can eventually deep packet inspect and sanitize, allowing the use of Cortana with just the information YOU want to share with her.
Again, really, we need to get off Microcock. This level of drama- needing a second computer to use your first computer- is absolutely insane. But for those that want all those lesser applications that only have Windows support, this will be the option.
It is hands down the biggest disaster in computing history. The interesting part is how Enterprise will, eventually, not have any of these spyware bugs, so the challenge for the die hard win-heads will be to pirate and use Enterprise. I'm not really sure if it counts as piracy- you're really just looking for the patch set of the OS you are buying (Pro) that doesn't upload every little thing you do to Microsoft, and since the only entities with privacy rights are corporations, you have to use the stuff meant for them.
>This battle is lost. Install Linux, Problem Solved.
>No amount of litigation or hacking will change that. I hear OSX doesn't do this, though you gotta fuck with settings. If Microsoft doesn't recant on this outright heresy, there will be a workaround for those that care and use Windoze, but it will be ugly.
>We would be wise to keep our efforts focused on freedom on the electronic frontier. Install Linux, Problem Solved.
> Keep it legal to do all the things we want to do, because we will not be able to do them in secret. It's legal to do everything, and legal to do them in private (don't use "secret"- implies you have something to hide- you just don't have every keystroke, every contact, every conversation, to SHARE).
>It isn't the happiest of realities, but it is still reality. Install Linux, Problem Solved.
You are wedged so firmly on their Johnson that you have finally realized you need a full fledged auto-updating APPLICATION FIREWALL sitting between your computer and the internet just to stop junk from getting out to Microsoft, and you are like SEEMS REASONABLE BRO. Give me a fucking break!
Riot or use Linux. Don't pretend you can keep up with Patch Tuesday, which will change what settings you need to protect yourself constantly. You are literally and finally at the point where you need a whole BSD or real time OS guarding you from your own fucking OS and somehow that's better than just like, Install Linux Problem Solved.
This is very 20th century thinking. And where the 20th century feature megadeaths from this thinking, we risk gigadeaths.
Simply put, no fish is too "small to fry" once the technology is in place. Vast amounts of previously hard to deal with stuff have become automated. You don't rank an agent to shit on your life because you clicked on the wrong link, but you do rank a perl script fining you, or releasing you from your license to work, and therefore your job.
Remember that we are already at the "ouchy, that hurts a bit" level of this. The laws for speeding and red lights were made pretty harsh- vastly out of pace with the risk of an individual instance of those actions- because of an aggregate assumption. A typical speeder will incur tickets at some slow pace until they change their tune, become better at speeding (aka, speed much less, see point 1), can't afford insurance, or lose their license. If you suddenly threw a switch and every speeder was caught every time, and let that run silently for a week, you'd strip licenses from almost everyone. 67 in a 65? That's a small ticket. 71 in a 65? That's a serious ticket. Your trip to work just cost your your license, and that's just by Tuesday.
Red light running is vastly more dangerous, and a lot rarer. But suddenly people who inch past a stop line at 5 AM can be ticketed wholesale.
So the original assumption in these laws- that they will NOT be applied at every instance of a crime- is now in doubt. For shit like speeding and red lights, that's nothing. But it shows how the automation of law enforcement and UBIQUITOUS ability to see "crime" was never assumed in the original writing of a law. Plus, then we are just a quick vote or city hall referendum away from enforcing all manner of "decency" stuff, including automatically doxxing you based on literally anything.
Stop assuming automation will remain at the current level. We know that part is incorrect.
Well, there's two things. The first is the ones that hide your password behind a small hash, and hope that you don't have the tech to get into that, by guarding access. Like if you spam PINs into an iphone, it won't let you. The attacker workaround there is a physical hack of the system to let you spam those tries- then you're in instantly, because there's not many combinations.
The second one is data at rest. If all you use is lowercase and numbers, but you have it not something that is a word or otherwise in a hash table, an 8 character password is a bit short, but it is still over 2 trillion possibilities. That's not safe from a state level attacker, but I don't know where you get your "seconds" estimate.
Throw in some special characters or capitals and that goes way up though. However, it's probably easier just to remember a longer password. From above:
The Tenth Wagging Puppy Dog Is the Cutest Swimming In the Twelve Foot Bog
t10wpDiscsit12fB
That's like 8 trillion trillion or something. Ain't nobody checking that in 3 seconds.
The Tenth Wagging Puppy Dog Is the Cutest Swimming In the Twelve Foot Bog
t10wpDiscsin12fB
Don't put all your fucking aeon with enyays and umlauts. That thing right there is totally solid, and you can remember it. Only things that deliberately weaken passwords, such as forced changing of them, will hurt you with a password like this. And frankly? Lose the caps. It's still secure with just lowercase, and it makes it way easier to remember.
Encryption is not a key. Encryption is a set of coordinates on a vast map. It's not a key that unlocks your data, it's a map to your data over an endless sea of possibilities. They can force their way into your safe. They can't find your buried treasure, nor even force you to divulge that such a thing exists.
Good grief mod this guy up. The literal whole point of the bill of rights is for bullshit like these tyrannical dickwads. There's always some mewling excuse to trod on liberty. We're always one lost freedom away from being perfectly safe. This is a coordinated attack against the cybersector for choosing their customers over the federal government, after the vast and crazy overreach that the feds had taken was revealed. First they wanted to trick them into it, which they did for awhile. Now they hope to shame them into it. Next they'll threaten legal action. But the moment they try that legal action, oh wow, will those would by fascists get shit on by the courts. They can't win legally, so they will try to threaten.
> Today the rule of the game with advertisers is simple : if I notice an ad, I cut the medium.
Generally a solid point. This still rewards advertisers, however- it just rewards the ones that are subtle enough to hit your unconscious without your conscious mind screening it.
The other big point you have, about how they started shitting up the DVDs with bullshit, made me go from "guy who buys media to watch more than once" to "never doing that, because there are ads". It's possible, with great effort, to de-shittify any given disk and reburn it without the ads, but that's vastly more effort than just streaming / pirating / ignoring.
Product placement, however, is a serious and growing threat. As much as I love going to a theater to watch a new release (I just arrive after the ads for the poison addictive beverages are gone), a product placement makes me feel so helpless. We need people to edit them out and put them up on torrent or something, a task beyond the reaches of common courtesy still. I doubt it will remain so, however. But even once that is fixed, I will still lose my ability to go to a movie, unless it's something I want all up in my head. That Nokia advert in Star Trek made me rage so hard. Right now, the only tell that it definitely won't have product placement is if it is fantasy or explicitly in a universe which can't have product placement. But even then, the problem is- eventually, that will be a reason to NOT make a movie. Oh, a new science fiction movie? But there's no way we can stick our fucking product in the hero's hand. We can't get this pass the execs. Change it so that we can sell a car. Change your fiction, change your vision. We need to sell a product. Change it so instead of inspiring, it controls. Change it so it hurts people. Only interested if it hurts them. Make the art hurt them and we can talk.
Is there any non-governmental fix to this parade of feces?
Those ads that hack your monitor, by taking up all the space? No, we promise this one won't do that. Oh no, we won't sign our name to it, or a sign a document saying so. But trust us, this ad won't hack your monitor. It uses up only some of the space, not all of it.
Those ads that hack your browser, by popping up or popping under? No, we promise this one won't do that. Oh no, we won't promise or be accountable, but this one doesn't ignore browser settings like that.
Those ads that hack your inputs, by spoofing a close icon, or tying events to it? Or by looking like a system message? No, we promise this one won't do that. Of course, it could, at any moment, if our jobs depend on it or we are paid off, but we promise it's a good ad.
No, this is a good advertisement.
It's designed to hack just YOU. You should allow this to happen. You believe that only gullible or weakminded humans are affected by advertisements. We believe otherwise, and we spend millions of dollars on this topic, but you're probably right. It probably won't hack you. It's just designed that way, crafted by decades of doctorates, trial and errorred in a multibillion dollar industry. That model of a homunculus in your head is probably correct. You aren't even gonna be affected by this advertisement. After all, if you could be affected by the advertisment, then it would mean you are a human. And humans clearly aren't affected by those, just as long as they are strong willed and intelligent. No, no study has ever shown that correlation, but trust us. This advertisement will just hack you. It will create a sense of fear, and offer to calm you. It will create a sense of dissatisfaction, and attempt to satisfy it. Were you hungry? Did you have a need to eat? Here's a picture of some food. And people enjoying food. I'm sure that has no affect on you. Here's a picture of a willing mate, a happy family, some offspring. Certainly you aren't some emotional wet robot that is subject to this.
I'll just put all this ball of mind poison right here. It won't pop up, pop under, be boring, be annoying, ring bells, have a fake close key, stutter, install a toolbar, or anything else.
No, this is a good ad.
It just hacks *you*.
Especially if you don't think that's possible. Please don't think that's possible, or you might question this whole thing.
The word "material" is there precisely to prevent overreach like this. The vague "support" would allow for ideological supporters to be put behind bars, hence it is qualified. If this doesn't get shut down, it becomes a law that means "fuck the people because we say so".
I was free and clear until I decided I wanted a Linked In. I knew that would put a picture of me up, but I figured the dubious loss of that would be made up for by the dubious gain of having a Linked In.
Eh, yes and no. I mean, would that work on YOU? You're some guy, you have a drone, some mafia dude comes up and starts making threats. Would you go ahead and commit a felony on his behalf?
Much more likely is, your neighbor down the street runs into some trouble, his friend knows a guy, helps him out of a tough spot. He's mostly paid back, then he gets a visit. He can't go to the cops without screwing over his friends and himself, and he can focus more on the small carrot instead of the big stick. I don't think the threat would need to be said or honestly even implied.
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No, parent is modded down because a bunch of fat hate ppls swarm around all these stories and downvote. Make no mistake, parent isn't modded down- he's downvoted.
The internet is flooded with shitposts like yours in every article about weight loss. Diet and exercise, in the real world, appear to cure obesity about 2% of the time. That's like... shamanism cure rates. So yes, we'll need a real solution, and no, shitposts like yours won't bring it to fruition any faster.
Well fuck, it's a good thing we aren't in a war with fucking Russia then, eh?
In seriousness, the A-10's ability to fly slowly does mean that it won't be going anywhere soon. And if we do end up having to shoot at Russian tanks, or any tanks, I'm pretty sure we'd want some A-10s in there for at least some of that. The F-35 solves several of the A-10 problems better than the A-10, but others it doesn't solve at all.
Lol, I think we can all agree that if Hitler didn't Hitler, Germany would have become a shining beacon. Unfortunately, he Hitlered all over their faces.
Frankly, I don't think all the innovation in the world would have saved them once they invaded Russia, and I don't think an early race to an A-Bomb would have won the war all by itself for Germany either.
> What in the world is going on in Redmond?
Frankly I have no idea. This OS is absolutely bat shit insane.
No. It's not PEBKAC. Go fucking research. To stop Windows from talking, you need several privacy toggles, some of which won't toggle all the way. Then you need a registry workaround, because Windows is so about user friendliness that you need to modify DWORDS in their shitted up binary fuckfest. Then you need to disable like three services, and remove two binaries. Then you need a big hosts file, and that's becoming an issue because Windows will actually work around a hosts file in some cases, using a list of known IPs specifically to circumvent that. So for now, you can block them on your external firewall.
Eventually, you'll need a dedicated Application Firewall to block all that plus the mandatory Windows Update- you obviously don't want to allow Windows Update unless and until the Application Firewall has updated rules, because we can assume Microsoft will sidestep them weekly if allowed to. The advantage of that approach is that Microsoft can't beat it- it's not on their computer- and further, that you can eventually deep packet inspect and sanitize, allowing the use of Cortana with just the information YOU want to share with her.
Again, really, we need to get off Microcock. This level of drama- needing a second computer to use your first computer- is absolutely insane. But for those that want all those lesser applications that only have Windows support, this will be the option.
It is hands down the biggest disaster in computing history. The interesting part is how Enterprise will, eventually, not have any of these spyware bugs, so the challenge for the die hard win-heads will be to pirate and use Enterprise. I'm not really sure if it counts as piracy- you're really just looking for the patch set of the OS you are buying (Pro) that doesn't upload every little thing you do to Microsoft, and since the only entities with privacy rights are corporations, you have to use the stuff meant for them.
>This battle is lost.
Install Linux, Problem Solved.
>No amount of litigation or hacking will change that.
I hear OSX doesn't do this, though you gotta fuck with settings. If Microsoft doesn't recant on this outright heresy, there will be a workaround for those that care and use Windoze, but it will be ugly.
>We would be wise to keep our efforts focused on freedom on the electronic frontier.
Install Linux, Problem Solved.
> Keep it legal to do all the things we want to do, because we will not be able to do them in secret.
It's legal to do everything, and legal to do them in private (don't use "secret"- implies you have something to hide- you just don't have every keystroke, every contact, every conversation, to SHARE).
>It isn't the happiest of realities, but it is still reality.
Install Linux, Problem Solved.
You are wedged so firmly on their Johnson that you have finally realized you need a full fledged auto-updating APPLICATION FIREWALL sitting between your computer and the internet just to stop junk from getting out to Microsoft, and you are like SEEMS REASONABLE BRO. Give me a fucking break!
Riot or use Linux. Don't pretend you can keep up with Patch Tuesday, which will change what settings you need to protect yourself constantly. You are literally and finally at the point where you need a whole BSD or real time OS guarding you from your own fucking OS and somehow that's better than just like, Install Linux Problem Solved.
I've never heard of any drama with Dell, besides their bloatware. But that's removable or reinstallable.
With this attitude, the 90s have a "Clipper" chip they'd like to sell you.
This is very 20th century thinking. And where the 20th century feature megadeaths from this thinking, we risk gigadeaths.
Simply put, no fish is too "small to fry" once the technology is in place. Vast amounts of previously hard to deal with stuff have become automated. You don't rank an agent to shit on your life because you clicked on the wrong link, but you do rank a perl script fining you, or releasing you from your license to work, and therefore your job.
Remember that we are already at the "ouchy, that hurts a bit" level of this. The laws for speeding and red lights were made pretty harsh- vastly out of pace with the risk of an individual instance of those actions- because of an aggregate assumption. A typical speeder will incur tickets at some slow pace until they change their tune, become better at speeding (aka, speed much less, see point 1), can't afford insurance, or lose their license. If you suddenly threw a switch and every speeder was caught every time, and let that run silently for a week, you'd strip licenses from almost everyone. 67 in a 65? That's a small ticket. 71 in a 65? That's a serious ticket. Your trip to work just cost your your license, and that's just by Tuesday.
Red light running is vastly more dangerous, and a lot rarer. But suddenly people who inch past a stop line at 5 AM can be ticketed wholesale.
So the original assumption in these laws- that they will NOT be applied at every instance of a crime- is now in doubt. For shit like speeding and red lights, that's nothing. But it shows how the automation of law enforcement and UBIQUITOUS ability to see "crime" was never assumed in the original writing of a law. Plus, then we are just a quick vote or city hall referendum away from enforcing all manner of "decency" stuff, including automatically doxxing you based on literally anything.
Stop assuming automation will remain at the current level. We know that part is incorrect.
Well, there's two things. The first is the ones that hide your password behind a small hash, and hope that you don't have the tech to get into that, by guarding access. Like if you spam PINs into an iphone, it won't let you. The attacker workaround there is a physical hack of the system to let you spam those tries- then you're in instantly, because there's not many combinations.
The second one is data at rest. If all you use is lowercase and numbers, but you have it not something that is a word or otherwise in a hash table, an 8 character password is a bit short, but it is still over 2 trillion possibilities. That's not safe from a state level attacker, but I don't know where you get your "seconds" estimate.
Throw in some special characters or capitals and that goes way up though. However, it's probably easier just to remember a longer password. From above:
The Tenth Wagging Puppy Dog Is the Cutest Swimming In the Twelve Foot Bog
t10wpDiscsit12fB
That's like 8 trillion trillion or something. Ain't nobody checking that in 3 seconds.
Slight typo, but not relevant.
The Tenth Wagging Puppy Dog Is the Cutest Swimming In the Twelve Foot Bog
t10wpDiscsin12fB
Don't put all your fucking aeon with enyays and umlauts. That thing right there is totally solid, and you can remember it. Only things that deliberately weaken passwords, such as forced changing of them, will hurt you with a password like this. And frankly? Lose the caps. It's still secure with just lowercase, and it makes it way easier to remember.
Encryption is not a key. Encryption is a set of coordinates on a vast map. It's not a key that unlocks your data, it's a map to your data over an endless sea of possibilities. They can force their way into your safe. They can't find your buried treasure, nor even force you to divulge that such a thing exists.
Good grief mod this guy up. The literal whole point of the bill of rights is for bullshit like these tyrannical dickwads. There's always some mewling excuse to trod on liberty. We're always one lost freedom away from being perfectly safe. This is a coordinated attack against the cybersector for choosing their customers over the federal government, after the vast and crazy overreach that the feds had taken was revealed. First they wanted to trick them into it, which they did for awhile. Now they hope to shame them into it. Next they'll threaten legal action. But the moment they try that legal action, oh wow, will those would by fascists get shit on by the courts. They can't win legally, so they will try to threaten.
Many forms of encryption are unbreakable.
In fairness, this article is pretty much the mating call of his kind.
> Today the rule of the game with advertisers is simple : if I notice an ad, I cut the medium.
Generally a solid point. This still rewards advertisers, however- it just rewards the ones that are subtle enough to hit your unconscious without your conscious mind screening it.
The other big point you have, about how they started shitting up the DVDs with bullshit, made me go from "guy who buys media to watch more than once" to "never doing that, because there are ads". It's possible, with great effort, to de-shittify any given disk and reburn it without the ads, but that's vastly more effort than just streaming / pirating / ignoring.
Product placement, however, is a serious and growing threat. As much as I love going to a theater to watch a new release (I just arrive after the ads for the poison addictive beverages are gone), a product placement makes me feel so helpless. We need people to edit them out and put them up on torrent or something, a task beyond the reaches of common courtesy still. I doubt it will remain so, however. But even once that is fixed, I will still lose my ability to go to a movie, unless it's something I want all up in my head. That Nokia advert in Star Trek made me rage so hard. Right now, the only tell that it definitely won't have product placement is if it is fantasy or explicitly in a universe which can't have product placement. But even then, the problem is- eventually, that will be a reason to NOT make a movie. Oh, a new science fiction movie? But there's no way we can stick our fucking product in the hero's hand. We can't get this pass the execs. Change it so that we can sell a car. Change your fiction, change your vision. We need to sell a product. Change it so instead of inspiring, it controls. Change it so it hurts people. Only interested if it hurts them. Make the art hurt them and we can talk.
Is there any non-governmental fix to this parade of feces?
No, trust us, this is a good ad.
Those ads that hack your monitor, by taking up all the space? No, we promise this one won't do that. Oh no, we won't sign our name to it, or a sign a document saying so. But trust us, this ad won't hack your monitor. It uses up only some of the space, not all of it.
Those ads that hack your browser, by popping up or popping under? No, we promise this one won't do that. Oh no, we won't promise or be accountable, but this one doesn't ignore browser settings like that.
Those ads that hack your inputs, by spoofing a close icon, or tying events to it? Or by looking like a system message? No, we promise this one won't do that. Of course, it could, at any moment, if our jobs depend on it or we are paid off, but we promise it's a good ad.
No, this is a good advertisement.
It's designed to hack just YOU. You should allow this to happen. You believe that only gullible or weakminded humans are affected by advertisements. We believe otherwise, and we spend millions of dollars on this topic, but you're probably right. It probably won't hack you. It's just designed that way, crafted by decades of doctorates, trial and errorred in a multibillion dollar industry. That model of a homunculus in your head is probably correct. You aren't even gonna be affected by this advertisement. After all, if you could be affected by the advertisment, then it would mean you are a human. And humans clearly aren't affected by those, just as long as they are strong willed and intelligent. No, no study has ever shown that correlation, but trust us.
This advertisement will just hack you. It will create a sense of fear, and offer to calm you. It will create a sense of dissatisfaction, and attempt to satisfy it. Were you hungry? Did you have a need to eat? Here's a picture of some food. And people enjoying food. I'm sure that has no affect on you. Here's a picture of a willing mate, a happy family, some offspring. Certainly you aren't some emotional wet robot that is subject to this.
I'll just put all this ball of mind poison right here. It won't pop up, pop under, be boring, be annoying, ring bells, have a fake close key, stutter, install a toolbar, or anything else.
No, this is a good ad.
It just hacks *you*.
Especially if you don't think that's possible. Please don't think that's possible, or you might question this whole thing.
The word "material" is there precisely to prevent overreach like this. The vague "support" would allow for ideological supporters to be put behind bars, hence it is qualified. If this doesn't get shut down, it becomes a law that means "fuck the people because we say so".
I was free and clear until I decided I wanted a Linked In. I knew that would put a picture of me up, but I figured the dubious loss of that would be made up for by the dubious gain of having a Linked In.
Eh, yes and no. I mean, would that work on YOU? You're some guy, you have a drone, some mafia dude comes up and starts making threats. Would you go ahead and commit a felony on his behalf?
Much more likely is, your neighbor down the street runs into some trouble, his friend knows a guy, helps him out of a tough spot. He's mostly paid back, then he gets a visit. He can't go to the cops without screwing over his friends and himself, and he can focus more on the small carrot instead of the big stick. I don't think the threat would need to be said or honestly even implied.
Err, the about:config -> dom.battery setting. True in firefox, false in TOR.