I use Arch, and decided to stick with ext4 for now--I don't want a filesystem that bleeding-edge, btrfs does not yet directly support swap files, and though my laptop has enough memory to fit a container ship or two (16 gibs, good god...) I'd still rather have one, both for resume and general swappy stuff if ever needed.
Personally I'd like file birth time support (and not just for btrfs) to jog my memory about the times I've made old stuff, but it seems I'd have to move to e.g. FreeBSD for that and I prefer the more-up-to-date-iness of Arch.
of course, then the issue would become how would people be able to comprehend how this bot works, if they don't read manuals, so we'd need a bot to help you read the manual for this bot, but...
The response to this "best troll / hack" will be a global manhunt for the tweeter, increased anti-hack protection for HFT systems, and complete ignorance of the real cure for this mess. (That, of course, would be the end of HFT and of trading-algorithms that rely on Twitter, now more than ever the easy-to-0wn InterNIC of social media. twttr's intruders might not get root, but this event proves a popular news service is close enough.)
Yup, sounds like a remarkably effective and easy plan. Many computers there have Windows "so [they] could be useful", and 5 will get ya 10 that they're not "Genuine" and also unpatched, so China can take control of them and send attacks through them (or just change the logs on the hacked PC to trace back to the compy of the unsuspecting Evil Capitalist Pig who said one too many bad words about their boss-slash-covert domestic spy on social_media_outlet). The CCP has Evidence(tm) to forced-labor the Pig, US businesses will block the foreign address as radioactive ("No Facebook for you!"), and the US gov gets free CISPA-approval ammo.
The campaign contributions and Job Creation(tm) that surely came with this thing would make any applicable politician say "LALALA I can't hear your legal quibbles over the rustles of ALL THE HIGH-VALUE RECTANGULAR LEAVES I SWEPT INTO MY CLOSET."
I think everyone involved did their best. The Russian gov isn't exactly trustworthy either, and without real evidence of prior harm from Tsarnaev it was Russia's word against his. Plus we would've screamed "thoughtcrime arrest!" if we heard the FBI just up and jailed the guy before he actually conspired to do things.
In any case, the younger's last-stand spot gives "going overboard" a different meaning...
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the crackpot breakthroughs get ignored in the business realm and die off, while the really game-changing ones get scooped up by Duracell and Big Oil and friends before they can ever be patented...and die off.
Quick! You can still lash two of your telescopes together with a belt, call it the Dual Decimeter Telescope, and buy ad time on WWE (who'll probably appreciate the TLA and give you a 1% discount).
...and "social media" is, like, the pinnacle of modern spam. Indie game developer? "Like us on Facebook for a chance to win Horse Armor!" Big news network? "Don't forget to follow our forecasts on twitter!" Celebrity? "Had #lunch with @CalvinKlein, you should #buyTheirStuff! I did! #shamelessplug #andthelunchtastedgood #LOLhashtags"
In short, SMW was banned for its very purpose--just not permanently enough.
Maybe the scientists currently on the DNA-decode job should bring in some reverse-engineers, or e.g. the MAME team, to figure out just how the decoding truly goes, since the "junk" seems to be used less as copyable data and more like arcane utility code. Interdisciplinary study and all that.
Except that, on IE, I've definitely had downloads SmartScreen'd (and even a few blocked by the same) on Windows 7 (and I forget if I did on Vista as well). Less-frequently downloaded stuff (like, say, MAME versions released within the day and obscure SourceForge stuff or whatnot) trigger dialogs as well, because SmartScreen takes note of what (.exes, in particular, but other stuff I think) gets downloaded, how often, and which of those get reported as unsafe.
The worst part of this will be that since Windows will be outsold by Apple, Microsoft will just say "make it even more like Apple, and Facebook! More Facebook! Wouldn't want Mr. Vader Fader Kid to beat us at phones too!"
If the studios do drag Google employees to trial for that, they'd probably argue they were Just Following Orders, due to the company mission. Not that the argument would save them, but takedown letters do have information and all...
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As long as they don't break +word searches in the name of The Social(tm), I guess it's an improvement over Google.
It's free and always will be.~
Nah, I'd expect another name that hammers home its Google-ness with two Gs in a row, like google grope.
Either CNET crossed his creepy line, or maybe he shouldn't have been doing some things in the first place.
Yes, it is indeed another shining example of Betteridge's law in action.
I use Arch, and decided to stick with ext4 for now--I don't want a filesystem that bleeding-edge, btrfs does not yet directly support swap files, and though my laptop has enough memory to fit a container ship or two (16 gibs, good god...) I'd still rather have one, both for resume and general swappy stuff if ever needed.
Personally I'd like file birth time support (and not just for btrfs) to jog my memory about the times I've made old stuff, but it seems I'd have to move to e.g. FreeBSD for that and I prefer the more-up-to-date-iness of Arch.
You vile soulless lapdog! Those Civil Protection jackboots must be disobeyed as often as possible!
No, that's simple. Just shrug the details off as "intellectual property" and everyone will be both convinced that it works and scared to make anything similar.
The response to this "best troll / hack" will be a global manhunt for the tweeter, increased anti-hack protection for HFT systems, and complete ignorance of the real cure for this mess. (That, of course, would be the end of HFT and of trading-algorithms that rely on Twitter, now more than ever the easy-to-0wn InterNIC of social media. twttr's intruders might not get root, but this event proves a popular news service is close enough.)
Yup, sounds like a remarkably effective and easy plan. Many computers there have Windows "so [they] could be useful", and 5 will get ya 10 that they're not "Genuine" and also unpatched, so China can take control of them and send attacks through them (or just change the logs on the hacked PC to trace back to the compy of the unsuspecting Evil Capitalist Pig who said one too many bad words about their boss-slash-covert domestic spy on social_media_outlet). The CCP has Evidence(tm) to forced-labor the Pig, US businesses will block the foreign address as radioactive ("No Facebook for you!"), and the US gov gets free CISPA-approval ammo.
Now that's US-China diplomacy!
China is a wonderfully clean and healthy place, as long as you don't breathe.
The campaign contributions and Job Creation(tm) that surely came with this thing would make any applicable politician say "LALALA I can't hear your legal quibbles over the rustles of ALL THE HIGH-VALUE RECTANGULAR LEAVES I SWEPT INTO MY CLOSET."
As an added bonus, "The United States attorney for the district of Massachusetts, Carmen Ortiz, said at the news conference that the authorities had invoked a public safety exception and delayed reading the Miranda warning to the arrested suspect." Whee. I guess the Boat Man* will become Swartz's ferry man too...
*Hmm. Has Mega Man had a Boat Man to fight yet?
I think everyone involved did their best. The Russian gov isn't exactly trustworthy either, and without real evidence of prior harm from Tsarnaev it was Russia's word against his. Plus we would've screamed "thoughtcrime arrest!" if we heard the FBI just up and jailed the guy before he actually conspired to do things.
In any case, the younger's last-stand spot gives "going overboard" a different meaning...
Or maybe that's why they're a billion dollar company. :)
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the crackpot breakthroughs get ignored in the business realm and die off, while the really game-changing ones get scooped up by Duracell and Big Oil and friends before they can ever be patented...and die off.
Quick! You can still lash two of your telescopes together with a belt, call it the Dual Decimeter Telescope, and buy ad time on WWE (who'll probably appreciate the TLA and give you a 1% discount).
Make your friends see stars--give them a DDT(tm).
...and "social media" is, like, the pinnacle of modern spam. Indie game developer? "Like us on Facebook for a chance to win Horse Armor!" Big news network? "Don't forget to follow our forecasts on twitter!" Celebrity? "Had #lunch with @CalvinKlein, you should #buyTheirStuff! I did! #shamelessplug #andthelunchtastedgood #LOLhashtags"
In short, SMW was banned for its very purpose--just not permanently enough.
...for now.
Maybe the scientists currently on the DNA-decode job should bring in some reverse-engineers, or e.g. the MAME team, to figure out just how the decoding truly goes, since the "junk" seems to be used less as copyable data and more like arcane utility code. Interdisciplinary study and all that.
Except that, on IE, I've definitely had downloads SmartScreen'd (and even a few blocked by the same) on Windows 7 (and I forget if I did on Vista as well). Less-frequently downloaded stuff (like, say, MAME versions released within the day and obscure SourceForge stuff or whatnot) trigger dialogs as well, because SmartScreen takes note of what (.exes, in particular, but other stuff I think) gets downloaded, how often, and which of those get reported as unsafe.
The worst part of this will be that since Windows will be outsold by Apple, Microsoft will just say "make it even more like Apple, and Facebook! More Facebook! Wouldn't want Mr. Vader Fader Kid to beat us at phones too!"
If the studios do drag Google employees to trial for that, they'd probably argue they were Just Following Orders, due to the company mission. Not that the argument would save them, but takedown letters do have information and all...
Also, that pesky "alcohol" thing.
The h hasn't disappeared!
See? It was merely moved to the last word of GP's subject, doubtless by the unshakeable will and inestimable power of Cthulhu.