People talking about the wonders of open source should do an experiment where they personally actually fix some little thing in one open source project.
Hm. Back when I decided to build my own Linux based computer from source code, I did a lot of tweaking to the sources for a lot of the software that I decided to run. It was not terribly hard and it made the entire user experience amazingly awesome.
Now I am just pissed off. What with the removal of the ability to ctl-alt-backspace out of X (yes, i can add it back in) and "systemD integration" (yes, I can currently avoid it entirely) and other such nonsense like Gnome going off the deep end (nothing I can do about that but fork it), why even bother with Linux anymore? There is way too much to tweak and fix now. Stuff that should NOT NEED to be tweaked and fixed when it was already working.
Microsoft got serious about security a decade ago when it became obvious that their customers cared about security, and made it a company-wide priority.
ROFLMAO. I could go on and on for hours about how pathetic Microsoft Security is but instead, I will not bore you and just talk about the one that is the largest pain in my rear right now: It is titled Windows Credential Theft.
Yes, the geniuses at Microsoft decided that leaving Domain Admin credentials laying about on any average workstation is not a huge problem. It is not like just anyone has access to the computer after all and it is not like having your entire domain compromised is a huge deal...
Seriously. Caching Domain Admin credentials. On a workstation... Serious about security? It is to laugh. These clowns would not know security if it walked up and introduced itself.
To make ubiquitous interception of all traffic less feasible.
Sure, there is nothing here other than people voicing their opinions which will likely get them put on some watch-list, but that is not what is important.
What is important is improving the security of communication overall, not just any one specific communication.
Science doesn't disprove God so much as start by assuming God doesn't exist, and operate within the boundaries of what we can actually demonstrate (which will never be God).
No no no, unless you mean that Science assumes that flying spaghetti monsters don't exist as well as pink unicorns and leprechauns.
No Science just does not include anything until it is proven. Science does not exclude anything until it is disproved (why isn't disproven a word?).
It's a welcome for any other nation, friend or foe, to likewise intercept, datamine and correlate online behavior for building profiles on American citizens.
I pretty much agreed with most of what you said; however, the little gem I quoted above is something I have a problem with:
There are no rules or other obligations concerning non-US groups and/or entities from spying on me, collating data, or building profiles; therefore, I fully expect such behavior, even from supposedly friendly entities. I would even hope that the NSA and other American entities would be helping to protect me against such nastiness. Instead, what we have here is the NSA not only NOT helping me, they are doing it themselves! WTF, over.
Would not recommend, if for no other reason than the average person would either wreck something trying to get it apart, or not be able to get it all back together again afterwards.
Hm. If the device is already not working and it is outside of warranty, there really are no other choices. The device will be thrown away anyways if this step is not taken so what is the harm?
Honestly though, I am unsure what this baking thing is doing to help. As you pointed out, it is not anywhere near hot enough to melt the solder. Hm.
If it works, more power to the person doing it. Better than throwing it away I suppose.
So Social Security, Medicare, and Federal Pensions (collectively over half the budget) are conservative programs now?
Who cares what label is put on them? The real issue is that those programs were ALREADY PAID FOR. Congress stole the money with some sleight-of-hand back in the 80s and now here we are all yelling and screaming about how the government wastes so much money paying for all the fucking old people and by the way, why didn't they just work and save like I am doing now?
That is all bullshit. Social Security and Medicare were paid for and funded until all of the money was outright stolen. If you don't like paying for Social Security and Medicare because it will not be around when you and I retire, then go blame some dead politicians. They stole it and spent it.
Although I have generic sympathy for people being dicked around by an uncaring corporation, we're talking drunk drivers here. According to MADD, each year, Drunk drivers kill just over 10,000 Americans.
Except that those stats are a lie.
A taxi gives a drunk a ride home but on the way, someone on a cell phone in a GMC Yukon misses a stop sign and T-bones the taxi. Alcohol related fatality.
Someone runs a red light and hits another car. Guy who just drank a beer to stop and render assistance. Police report mentions the good samaritan. Alcohol related fatality.
A drunk is driving home. Manages to maintain speed and lane discipline. Car coming the other way that was not well maintained blows a rear tire and ends up cartwheeling onto the drunk person car killing them. Alcohol related fatality.
Those statistics suck balls and have a political agenda to them. Try doing some REAL research and find out how many fatalities are caused by drunks, not just having alcohol related in some way, regardless of how far-fetched.
Can't do the real research? Of course not. Police departments will lie to you about such issues because the drunk driving problem is no longer that big of a problem. But making sure it appears to be a problem allows them to do all sorts of gestapo tactics like road blocks and pulling people out of their cars.
Complaining that the latest Disney Princess movie didn't have the same set of elements that made No Country for Old Men appealing sort of misses the point.
What an awesome juxtaposition. It is a shame it is too long for a.sig heh.:)
Given the variety of types of equipment and roles needed by the modern armed forces, I wonder if it makes sense to have different services rather than a combined armed forces.
You fail to realize that by keeping the combatant commands separate, you avoid or reduce the Julius Caesar/Rubicon issue.
Kids should be excited to go to school. They should be dreading the long boring summer.
Rote memorization along with having classes slowed down to accommodate the slowest 20% of kids just makes school into one long evil hell that should be burned with fire to ensure it never exists again.
It is amazing that there are ever any technological advances at all.
P85D.... drooooooool. I want. Now that there is an AWD version, these cars appear to be as desirable as a Mercedes Benz E63 AMG S 4matic. They cost about the same.
Yeah, you gotta kind of wonder why everyone is trying to shoehorn all concepts into a HTTP paradigm. It is almost like they do not understand the internet, tcp, etc... or is hypertext really just THAT valuable?
Hm. Was about to click submit then I realized that people actually just might be considering hypertext to be that valuable. Well, not hypertext itself but the cross-platform nature of it.
When you write a graphical program for a BSD system, it uses completely different libraries than for an OS X program. Then there is Windows. Win32,.Net, it does not matter, the programming is of a radically different mindset. Computing truly is balkanized and that is why the contorted gymnastics with HTTP exist.
*sigh* Apparently there are no people strong enough to stand up and say it should be a particular way who are not also greedy and/or power-driven.
Wow it seems like you have given this a lot of thought. You are not a bird, grow up.
Is there some aspect of my life that might be improved if I forgot my childhood dreams and flights of fancy? If so, I can not think of what might be improved. By all measures, I am quite successful at living life.
On the other hand, one has to wonder what motivated you to try and be critical... perhaps you are jealous of my freedom?
I am not trying to support or advance the OPs argument here, but what I did was just not buy any of those systems. Any fool, or non-fool, can easily see that the "service" is easy to disrupt. The worst part about that is the weakness was put in, on purpose, to try and ensure greater profits for the company selling that stuff.
Are there better alternatives? No. The wise thing to do at this point is to just not buy any consoles at all (does the current Nintendo console suffer from this same weakness?)
No, they spent 10 years simplifying things like scanning for wireless access points, detecting the encryption type, and storing credentials. Or setting up routing over Bluetooth. Or configuring and switching between different types of VPNs. Or bridging between multiple interfaces. And having a little icon in your system tray that you can right-click on to do it all.
It took 10 years to do THAT? It acts like they have spent maybe 3 months throwing together some cheap Python scripts that they do not understand. It is a buggy, terrible, network access denying, piece of crap abortion from the pits of hell.
It may have its warts, but it does what it says on the box.
It absolutely does not do what it "says on the box". I have _never_ had a Linux box have usable networking when NetworkManager was installed. God that piece of crap needs to burn in hell. Forever. It is the most horrible abortion I have seen attached to a Linux box. At least PulseAudio, the next worst abortion works sometimes, now. NetworkManager never works.
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People talking about the wonders of open source should do an experiment where they personally actually fix some little thing in one open source project.
Hm. Back when I decided to build my own Linux based computer from source code, I did a lot of tweaking to the sources for a lot of the software that I decided to run. It was not terribly hard and it made the entire user experience amazingly awesome.
Now I am just pissed off. What with the removal of the ability to ctl-alt-backspace out of X (yes, i can add it back in) and "systemD integration" (yes, I can currently avoid it entirely) and other such nonsense like Gnome going off the deep end (nothing I can do about that but fork it), why even bother with Linux anymore? There is way too much to tweak and fix now. Stuff that should NOT NEED to be tweaked and fixed when it was already working.
Microsoft got serious about security a decade ago when it became obvious that their customers cared about security, and made it a company-wide priority.
ROFLMAO. I could go on and on for hours about how pathetic Microsoft Security is but instead, I will not bore you and just talk about the one that is the largest pain in my rear right now: It is titled Windows Credential Theft.
Yes, the geniuses at Microsoft decided that leaving Domain Admin credentials laying about on any average workstation is not a huge problem. It is not like just anyone has access to the computer after all and it is not like having your entire domain compromised is a huge deal...
Seriously. Caching Domain Admin credentials. On a workstation... Serious about security? It is to laugh. These clowns would not know security if it walked up and introduced itself.
To what end should slashdot secure itself?
To make ubiquitous interception of all traffic less feasible.
Sure, there is nothing here other than people voicing their opinions which will likely get them put on some watch-list, but that is not what is important.
What is important is improving the security of communication overall, not just any one specific communication.
They are currently assuming that encrypted traffic is something they should target so if everything's encrypted... viola.
Why is everyone talking about stringed instruments lately? Is it the spell-checker feature gone mad? Turn it off and viola! Everything is fixed?
Voila my friend. Voila. :)
Science doesn't disprove God so much as start by assuming God doesn't exist, and operate within the boundaries of what we can actually demonstrate (which will never be God).
No no no, unless you mean that Science assumes that flying spaghetti monsters don't exist as well as pink unicorns and leprechauns.
No Science just does not include anything until it is proven. Science does not exclude anything until it is disproved (why isn't disproven a word?).
It's a welcome for any other nation, friend or foe, to likewise intercept, datamine and correlate online behavior for building profiles on American citizens.
I pretty much agreed with most of what you said; however, the little gem I quoted above is something I have a problem with:
There are no rules or other obligations concerning non-US groups and/or entities from spying on me, collating data, or building profiles; therefore, I fully expect such behavior, even from supposedly friendly entities. I would even hope that the NSA and other American entities would be helping to protect me against such nastiness. Instead, what we have here is the NSA not only NOT helping me, they are doing it themselves! WTF, over.
Never mind that we cruelly froze an innocent guy to death...
You would think that this is when they would have realized that they had overstepped their mandate.
Would not recommend, if for no other reason than the average person would either wreck something trying to get it apart, or not be able to get it all back together again afterwards.
Hm. If the device is already not working and it is outside of warranty, there really are no other choices. The device will be thrown away anyways if this step is not taken so what is the harm?
Honestly though, I am unsure what this baking thing is doing to help. As you pointed out, it is not anywhere near hot enough to melt the solder. Hm.
If it works, more power to the person doing it. Better than throwing it away I suppose.
So Social Security, Medicare, and Federal Pensions (collectively over half the budget) are conservative programs now?
Who cares what label is put on them? The real issue is that those programs were ALREADY PAID FOR. Congress stole the money with some sleight-of-hand back in the 80s and now here we are all yelling and screaming about how the government wastes so much money paying for all the fucking old people and by the way, why didn't they just work and save like I am doing now?
That is all bullshit. Social Security and Medicare were paid for and funded until all of the money was outright stolen. If you don't like paying for Social Security and Medicare because it will not be around when you and I retire, then go blame some dead politicians. They stole it and spent it.
Although I have generic sympathy for people being dicked around by an uncaring corporation, we're talking drunk drivers here. According to MADD, each year, Drunk drivers kill just over 10,000 Americans.
Except that those stats are a lie.
A taxi gives a drunk a ride home but on the way, someone on a cell phone in a GMC Yukon misses a stop sign and T-bones the taxi. Alcohol related fatality.
Someone runs a red light and hits another car. Guy who just drank a beer to stop and render assistance. Police report mentions the good samaritan. Alcohol related fatality.
A drunk is driving home. Manages to maintain speed and lane discipline. Car coming the other way that was not well maintained blows a rear tire and ends up cartwheeling onto the drunk person car killing them. Alcohol related fatality.
Those statistics suck balls and have a political agenda to them. Try doing some REAL research and find out how many fatalities are caused by drunks, not just having alcohol related in some way, regardless of how far-fetched.
Can't do the real research? Of course not. Police departments will lie to you about such issues because the drunk driving problem is no longer that big of a problem. But making sure it appears to be a problem allows them to do all sorts of gestapo tactics like road blocks and pulling people out of their cars.
Complaining that the latest Disney Princess movie didn't have the same set of elements that made No Country for Old Men appealing sort of misses the point.
What an awesome juxtaposition. It is a shame it is too long for a .sig heh. :)
Given the variety of types of equipment and roles needed by the modern armed forces, I wonder if it makes sense to have different services rather than a combined armed forces.
You fail to realize that by keeping the combatant commands separate, you avoid or reduce the Julius Caesar/Rubicon issue.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R... for details.
Those who forget, or do not study history, are doomed to repeat it.
LOL, you beat me to it... but you are forgetting the Navy. We are more than just your taxi drivers. ;)
To this day, I keep a slide rule in the garage. The batteries on those things seem to last forever.
That was back when they made REAL batteries. Nowadays, the batteries have to be RoHS compliant and the quality suffers. ;)
Kids should be excited to go to school. They should be dreading the long boring summer.
Rote memorization along with having classes slowed down to accommodate the slowest 20% of kids just makes school into one long evil hell that should be burned with fire to ensure it never exists again.
It is amazing that there are ever any technological advances at all.
P85D.... drooooooool. I want. Now that there is an AWD version, these cars appear to be as desirable as a Mercedes Benz E63 AMG S 4matic. They cost about the same.
Yeah, you gotta kind of wonder why everyone is trying to shoehorn all concepts into a HTTP paradigm. It is almost like they do not understand the internet, tcp, etc... or is hypertext really just THAT valuable?
Hm. Was about to click submit then I realized that people actually just might be considering hypertext to be that valuable. Well, not hypertext itself but the cross-platform nature of it.
When you write a graphical program for a BSD system, it uses completely different libraries than for an OS X program. Then there is Windows. Win32, .Net, it does not matter, the programming is of a radically different mindset. Computing truly is balkanized and that is why the contorted gymnastics with HTTP exist.
*sigh* Apparently there are no people strong enough to stand up and say it should be a particular way who are not also greedy and/or power-driven.
Wow it seems like you have given this a lot of thought. You are not a bird, grow up.
Is there some aspect of my life that might be improved if I forgot my childhood dreams and flights of fancy? If so, I can not think of what might be improved. By all measures, I am quite successful at living life.
On the other hand, one has to wonder what motivated you to try and be critical... perhaps you are jealous of my freedom?
Fair enough. I understand what you are trying to say now.
I am not trying to support or advance the OPs argument here, but what I did was just not buy any of those systems. Any fool, or non-fool, can easily see that the "service" is easy to disrupt. The worst part about that is the weakness was put in, on purpose, to try and ensure greater profits for the company selling that stuff.
Are there better alternatives? No. The wise thing to do at this point is to just not buy any consoles at all (does the current Nintendo console suffer from this same weakness?)
A couple of scripts could get you the same functionality in a MUCH more reliable manner that does not negatively affect millions of Linux users.
No, they spent 10 years simplifying things like scanning for wireless access points, detecting the encryption type, and storing credentials. Or setting up routing over Bluetooth. Or configuring and switching between different types of VPNs. Or bridging between multiple interfaces. And having a little icon in your system tray that you can right-click on to do it all.
It took 10 years to do THAT? It acts like they have spent maybe 3 months throwing together some cheap Python scripts that they do not understand. It is a buggy, terrible, network access denying, piece of crap abortion from the pits of hell.
It may have its warts, but it does what it says on the box.
It absolutely does not do what it "says on the box". I have _never_ had a Linux box have usable networking when NetworkManager was installed. God that piece of crap needs to burn in hell. Forever. It is the most horrible abortion I have seen attached to a Linux box. At least PulseAudio, the next worst abortion works sometimes, now. NetworkManager never works.
the issue is now exasperated.
Not being a pedant, just trying to be helpful: The word that you are looking for is exacerbated.
The last paragraph speaks thunderously loud.