Wow. You really believe that, don't you? You honestly think people who buy children want to take the kids to Disneyland and buy them a pink pony. Could you send me $2000 so I can buy a child of my own? Honestly, I'm not lying.
WikiLeaks News 2014
In a stunning revelation Anonymous found information indicating the Dept. of Defense gathered information from its employees. Last year the DOD was outed by WikiLeaks News as having included a key logger on the Lightweight Portable Security Linux distribution, a live-cd mandated for all DOD employees for use on non-DOD PCs. Now our sources discovered keystroke records from over a million sessions on DOD computers. Another piece of software on the live CD transferred these sessions to DOD servers while the CD were used.
DOD officials were unavailable for comment.
Wow. You must be new to this world. Let me clue you in.
This system costs MONEY. That's the stuff your bank keeps telling you you don't have enough of. When a police force says it needs new equipment like this it means they want more money. As a matter of fact when any government or private organization or company says that they need new technology to do something, it is just code for GIVE US MORE MONEY. The theory that the new doohickey will provide some service is just the carrot.
So, we have a group (the police) who want a technology (iPhone scanner doohickey) that will provide a service (speed up identification). Money.
Law of unexpected consequences, when applied here, states that all you need to have this great service turn against users are:
1) A company that feels Apple's users pirate music (a reasonable assumption)
2) Lawyers at Apple who are unwilling to indemnify end users (as ALL corporate lawyers are want to do)
3) A judge who supports the 'rights' of corporations over the needs of users to access their music (a thing proven to exist)
4) and Greed
Since all of these things exist it is then a reasonable assumption that someone using an online music storage service would be putting themselves at risk. I don' see the paranoia.
Sure the Singularity and Computer Sentience cannot be far-off now.
Yay. A faster computer. I guess this is news for today but this is 'dog bites man' stuff. Tomorrow the sun will rise again and there will be a faster computer than this one.
Yawn
Yes yes. I see. Poor people are poor and rich people are some how to blame. Oh, those awful rich people! If only there was some way to get them to help out all of the poor people.
Wait, didn't you say you drank, in beer, the equivalent of a years wages of a local worker. But wouldn't that make you... rich? Wow, you're so right; that disparity thing is just...wow. I declare that the first world miners should get no more than the third world miners, or we should add up the miner's wages and average out the pay. There you go, problem solved. You, on the other hand, can just keep on being a big, fat, rich, beer-swilling pig.
The problem, oh bevie-guzzling first-worlder, is that the 'first world' is populated by people that the 'third world' would consider rich as kings and selfish as all get out. Some distant, untouchable 'they' are not the problem, you and I are the problem. Try living like a 'third worlder' in you own world and find out just what it is like. That would be unreliable power, bad water, crappy housing, horrible transportation, low-grade food, cheap clothing and draconian criminal interference -- for those keeping track at home.
We are the problem, not 'them'. Leave Africa alone.
Correct me if I'm wrong but there is some, oh let's call them "constitutional" issues with this.
First, entering the country illegally is a "crime".
Second, hiring someone who has entered the country illegally is also a "crime".
Third, being a citizen of the U.S.A. is not (so far) a crime and neither is looking for work.
So if the Feds want me to PROVE I'M INNOCENT OF A CRIME in order to get a job, that would be a violation of my constitutional rights.
Won't Be Done.
Nothing to see here. Move along, citizen.
Everything I've ever read tells me that I can't do anti-virus work from a single point of defense. That's like building a wall to stop and invasion; you can't possibly build enough of it to stop everything. First, route EVERYTHING coming in through a single gateway and put a virus scanner on that. Make sure it is updated as often as possible and remember to check it regularly. This is your castle guard. Second, take away as many rights as you can from your users. Keep stripping rights off until they complain, then ask them what single right ALL of them need back and give it to them. Not a 100% percent solution but you deal with people, not abstract ideas. This is like putting bars on windows and locks on doors. Third, install an AV solution that you can set to auto-download virus defs from a remote server. This is the guard at the door of every building. Fourth, and last, use a good stand-alone malware scanner to clean infected computers. We use MalwareBytes Malware Scanner. It is very effective and so simple a user can run it.:-) You won't stop everything but with all of these in place you'll stop most things. The one problem you will have are the laptops. Anyone with a laptop WILL be infected about once every six months. Its the price you pay.
By the way, my company runs Symantic Corporate. It catches maybe 90% of the stuff that sneaks through the portal.
This year my company froze every (salaried, non-management)worker's pay and stopped contributing to our 401Ks. I was also denied reimbursement for in-city travel expenses and given twice as many users to support and another ten systems. And yeah, I'm looking for another job, but I didn't quit. I like doing what I do, I like helping people and I like knowing enough about the systems that I can be the 'hero' once in a great while. Would I do it if I wasn't paid? Not full time. Neat even part time. But I would contribute something just because I like to help. What's the difference between taking on extra work without extra pay in a job and taking it on outside of your job?
In order to critique something you must have a baseline of what is correct and what is incorrect. The only thing incorrect in the linux/GNU OSes are coding bugs, not design features, and I think we have enough coders critiquing linux/GNU in that way. If the author wishes a community to criticize Linux, I think he should pick a distro and start there.
I have a home land line, a work land line (mandatory), a work cell, and a home cell. My wife has a cell and my daughter has a cell.
I can, depending on the caller ID (and I'm talking about reliable ones from people I know -- like my boss) have GC ring all of my phones, just my phones, just me work phones, just my home phones, my daughter's phone, or just about any combination I want.
Or no phone at all.
I suggest it for anyone who deals with clients and wants their number to remain the same after they leave a job. Get a GC number and put it on your business cards. Link up your cell and your desk phone. Leave the job, keep the cards, your clients may not even know the difference.
Sort of the flip side of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
The ISPs must Cooperate with the RIAA or face the possibility of being forced to do so by Congress. They will Criticize the RIAA methods and demands until public opinion has turned to the ISP's favor at which point they can ignore the wishes of the RIAA and Crush any further attempts to involve the ISPs in futile service-blocking schemes.
Broberg's reply would be that Volvo is working on the world's first accident-proof car.
I think you missed something important in that sentence. There is a world of difference between 'working on' and 'finishing'. For instance, if I say "scientists are 'working on' the ITER fusion reactor and will have all of the problems solved in the next twenty years" that doesn't mean fusion is on its way.
Christmas is the best time to release this piece of news, considering we are now in a season where we are asked to believe that the child of the sky god was born in a stable to a mother who never had sex. The alternative belief seems to be that a fat saint (who isn't even a saint) slides down every chimney in the world in one night delivering present to boys and girls, traveling in a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer.
After believing those two things, believing the RIAA won't be a problem.
I know this is all about the PC and we all know that as long as people have PCs somewhere there will always be mice and keyboards of some kind.
But look around. How many people have iPhones/iPods/knockoffs? How 'bout the new touch screen blackberries? Been to Redbox? Worked at a McDonald's? Its all touch screen. Computers in the wild (not home or work) are more likely to have a touch interface than not and hand-held computers (sorry 'phones') are all going that way.
Yes, there is undoubtedly a 'cyberwar' of some kind somewhere. It is most likely being fought by one group of 'intelligence' people against another group of 'intelligence' people.
In other words, there is no war, just a bunch of cyber-spooks playing spy.
I think we need to look at this from a lawyer's perspective. IANAL, but I think it might be easier to get a conviction on something like kiddie porn than on something like trafficking in stolen goods or illegally downloading 1000 songs.
Think Al Capone. Murder? Smuggling? Racketeering? Naw, just get him on income tax evasion.
Every post seems to assume a neanderthal would be some sub-normal freak. What if we clone him and he arrives with a 100 IQ and an average grasp of reality?
In short, what if 'he' is 'us'?
That would be a little awkward. Scientists couldn't really keep him locked in a lab for eighty years, could they?
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Wow. You really believe that, don't you? You honestly think people who buy children want to take the kids to Disneyland and buy them a pink pony. Could you send me $2000 so I can buy a child of my own? Honestly, I'm not lying.
WikiLeaks News 2014 In a stunning revelation Anonymous found information indicating the Dept. of Defense gathered information from its employees. Last year the DOD was outed by WikiLeaks News as having included a key logger on the Lightweight Portable Security Linux distribution, a live-cd mandated for all DOD employees for use on non-DOD PCs. Now our sources discovered keystroke records from over a million sessions on DOD computers. Another piece of software on the live CD transferred these sessions to DOD servers while the CD were used. DOD officials were unavailable for comment.
Wow. You must be new to this world. Let me clue you in. This system costs MONEY. That's the stuff your bank keeps telling you you don't have enough of. When a police force says it needs new equipment like this it means they want more money. As a matter of fact when any government or private organization or company says that they need new technology to do something, it is just code for GIVE US MORE MONEY. The theory that the new doohickey will provide some service is just the carrot. So, we have a group (the police) who want a technology (iPhone scanner doohickey) that will provide a service (speed up identification). Money.
Wait, you mean it's all a joke? NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!11111!!!!!
Law of unexpected consequences, when applied here, states that all you need to have this great service turn against users are:
1) A company that feels Apple's users pirate music (a reasonable assumption)
2) Lawyers at Apple who are unwilling to indemnify end users (as ALL corporate lawyers are want to do)
3) A judge who supports the 'rights' of corporations over the needs of users to access their music (a thing proven to exist)
4) and Greed
Since all of these things exist it is then a reasonable assumption that someone using an online music storage service would be putting themselves at risk. I don' see the paranoia.
Sure the Singularity and Computer Sentience cannot be far-off now. Yay. A faster computer. I guess this is news for today but this is 'dog bites man' stuff. Tomorrow the sun will rise again and there will be a faster computer than this one. Yawn
Because when viruses are illegal only criminals will have viruses!
Yes yes. I see. Poor people are poor and rich people are some how to blame. Oh, those awful rich people! If only there was some way to get them to help out all of the poor people. Wait, didn't you say you drank, in beer, the equivalent of a years wages of a local worker. But wouldn't that make you ... rich? Wow, you're so right; that disparity thing is just...wow. I declare that the first world miners should get no more than the third world miners, or we should add up the miner's wages and average out the pay. There you go, problem solved. You, on the other hand, can just keep on being a big, fat, rich, beer-swilling pig.
The problem, oh bevie-guzzling first-worlder, is that the 'first world' is populated by people that the 'third world' would consider rich as kings and selfish as all get out. Some distant, untouchable 'they' are not the problem, you and I are the problem. Try living like a 'third worlder' in you own world and find out just what it is like. That would be unreliable power, bad water, crappy housing, horrible transportation, low-grade food, cheap clothing and draconian criminal interference -- for those keeping track at home.
We are the problem, not 'them'. Leave Africa alone.
This is why we need a good, reliable HERF gun. "Honest your honor, I never touched it. It must have been defective." End of story.
Close, they'll stop looking when the data they find matches the person they WANT to put away.
FIRST COP: "This one has an 88% match."
SECOND COP: "This one has a 75% match AND he's a sex offender."
FIRST COP: "BINGO!"
Correct me if I'm wrong but there is some, oh let's call them "constitutional" issues with this. First, entering the country illegally is a "crime". Second, hiring someone who has entered the country illegally is also a "crime". Third, being a citizen of the U.S.A. is not (so far) a crime and neither is looking for work. So if the Feds want me to PROVE I'M INNOCENT OF A CRIME in order to get a job, that would be a violation of my constitutional rights. Won't Be Done. Nothing to see here. Move along, citizen.
Everything I've ever read tells me that I can't do anti-virus work from a single point of defense. That's like building a wall to stop and invasion; you can't possibly build enough of it to stop everything. :-)
First, route EVERYTHING coming in through a single gateway and put a virus scanner on that. Make sure it is updated as often as possible and remember to check it regularly. This is your castle guard.
Second, take away as many rights as you can from your users. Keep stripping rights off until they complain, then ask them what single right ALL of them need back and give it to them. Not a 100% percent solution but you deal with people, not abstract ideas. This is like putting bars on windows and locks on doors.
Third, install an AV solution that you can set to auto-download virus defs from a remote server. This is the guard at the door of every building.
Fourth, and last, use a good stand-alone malware scanner to clean infected computers. We use MalwareBytes Malware Scanner. It is very effective and so simple a user can run it.
You won't stop everything but with all of these in place you'll stop most things. The one problem you will have are the laptops. Anyone with a laptop WILL be infected about once every six months. Its the price you pay.
By the way, my company runs Symantic Corporate. It catches maybe 90% of the stuff that sneaks through the portal.
Ring!
This year my company froze every (salaried, non-management)worker's pay and stopped contributing to our 401Ks. I was also denied reimbursement for in-city travel expenses and given twice as many users to support and another ten systems. And yeah, I'm looking for another job, but I didn't quit.
I like doing what I do, I like helping people and I like knowing enough about the systems that I can be the 'hero' once in a great while. Would I do it if I wasn't paid? Not full time. Neat even part time. But I would contribute something just because I like to help.
What's the difference between taking on extra work without extra pay in a job and taking it on outside of your job?
In order to critique something you must have a baseline of what is correct and what is incorrect. The only thing incorrect in the linux/GNU OSes are coding bugs, not design features, and I think we have enough coders critiquing linux/GNU in that way. If the author wishes a community to criticize Linux, I think he should pick a distro and start there.
I have a home land line, a work land line (mandatory), a work cell, and a home cell. My wife has a cell and my daughter has a cell.
I can, depending on the caller ID (and I'm talking about reliable ones from people I know -- like my boss) have GC ring all of my phones, just my phones, just me work phones, just my home phones, my daughter's phone, or just about any combination I want.
Or no phone at all.
I suggest it for anyone who deals with clients and wants their number to remain the same after they leave a job. Get a GC number and put it on your business cards. Link up your cell and your desk phone. Leave the job, keep the cards, your clients may not even know the difference.
It has always been a good service.
Sort of the flip side of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
The ISPs must Cooperate with the RIAA or face the possibility of being forced to do so by Congress. They will Criticize the RIAA methods and demands until public opinion has turned to the ISP's favor at which point they can ignore the wishes of the RIAA and Crush any further attempts to involve the ISPs in futile service-blocking schemes.
Cooperate, Criticize, Crush.
Try it, you might like it.
Bloody British! I think CST is what, 6 hours behind GMT? I think not so much in the US.
How long would it take to hard-hack a WiFi AP to look like a GoodVibes (tm) device? Two birds, one stone, so to speak.
Broberg's reply would be that Volvo is working on the world's first accident-proof car.
I think you missed something important in that sentence. There is a world of difference between 'working on' and 'finishing'. For instance, if I say "scientists are 'working on' the ITER fusion reactor and will have all of the problems solved in the next twenty years" that doesn't mean fusion is on its way.
Christmas is the best time to release this piece of news, considering we are now in a season where we are asked to believe that the child of the sky god was born in a stable to a mother who never had sex. The alternative belief seems to be that a fat saint (who isn't even a saint) slides down every chimney in the world in one night delivering present to boys and girls, traveling in a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer.
After believing those two things, believing the RIAA won't be a problem.
I know this is all about the PC and we all know that as long as people have PCs somewhere there will always be mice and keyboards of some kind.
But look around. How many people have iPhones/iPods/knockoffs? How 'bout the new touch screen blackberries? Been to Redbox? Worked at a McDonald's? Its all touch screen. Computers in the wild (not home or work) are more likely to have a touch interface than not and hand-held computers (sorry 'phones') are all going that way.
Yes, there is undoubtedly a 'cyberwar' of some kind somewhere. It is most likely being fought by one group of 'intelligence' people against another group of 'intelligence' people.
In other words, there is no war, just a bunch of cyber-spooks playing spy.
Oh, they want more money, too.
I think we need to look at this from a lawyer's perspective. IANAL, but I think it might be easier to get a conviction on something like kiddie porn than on something like trafficking in stolen goods or illegally downloading 1000 songs.
Think Al Capone. Murder? Smuggling? Racketeering? Naw, just get him on income tax evasion.
Every post seems to assume a neanderthal would be some sub-normal freak. What if we clone him and he arrives with a 100 IQ and an average grasp of reality?
In short, what if 'he' is 'us'?
That would be a little awkward. Scientists couldn't really keep him locked in a lab for eighty years, could they?