lol. you are just jealous because you do not have those skills. you can not even understand what he was saying and reportray his words in a way that you can understand. yep, you are best suited as an mba or other flunky. enjoy your miserable bitter existence where many things happen but the methods and means are a deep dark mystery that nobody could ever understand. lol:)
Not all of the users of cell-phones are the younger generation who easily adapt to a complicated device.
WTF are you saying? That Microsoft's phone operating system product is easier to use than Android or IOS? Perhaps if you dig deep enough into Android's internals, it could be considered "complicated"... but IOS? Complicated?
Your view is demented or distorted if you believe what it appears that you are saying.
Indeed. I've said before and I'll say again, I think MS is finally ahead of the curve.
I have been wrong before but I am going to go out on a limb here (I would bet my life savings on it) and say that Microsoft is not even *in* the game. Sure, they are trying to be in it but they are not even really a competitor. They have absolutely no focus on the user/purchaser of their products. All of the their products are designed around Microsoft's needs, not the purchaser's needs; therefore, they will ALWAYS be a failure in all markets that they do not have a monopoly in (and will eventually lose their monopoly in the desktop operating system market).
Clients of Spamhaus use the information to block annoying e-mails offering discount Viagra or financial windfalls. But Mr. Kamphuis and other critics call Spamhaus a censor that judges what is or isn’t spam.
Unsolicited email is spam. It is not the content that makes it spam, it is the fact that it is unsolicited. Spammers never seem to address the unsolicited part of the argument.
When he learned of a newly-designed explosive device meant to be pass undetected through airport security to take down a U.S.-bound airliner, the informant volunteered for the mission and was given the device, which he then handed over to U.S. officials.
The underwear bomber in the article that you linked was NEVER a bomber or terrorist to begin with. He was an informant. The bomb was NOT a plot to sow the seeds of terror amongst the general public, it was the delivery of intelligence.
Is this "underwear bomber" the same one that was actually trying to blow up an airplane on its way from Amsterdam to America? What the fuck?
Ford was in favour of the bailouts, even though they didn't take them, because if GM and Chrysler had gone out of business then a lot of other companies that supplied parts to GM and Chrysler would also have gone out of business.
Perhaps I am missing something here...
So GM and Chrysler would die and stop making cars. The demand for cars would not change even a little bit as demand is consumer driven, not supply driven. So my question is this: Why would part suppliers go out of business if the same number of cars were needed?
Surely, I can see that there would be some disruptions of normal operations for the suppliers and that there would be chances for new suppliers to break into the business... but I fail to see a problem here.
RANT MODE Honestly, the status quo sucked and there should have been upheavals. I still refuse to ever buy an American car and I have colored other people's views concerning American vehicles too. These vehicles are absolutely terrible. They are designed strictly to garner as much profit for the manufacturer as possible.
Of course, that last statement seems to make perfect sense to you and most everyone else in this world; however, I would argue that the item being manufactured should be aimed at satisfying the consumer first and only then should a profitability analysis be performed. As it is, all we get are cars that are unreliable and zero fun to drive with stereos that are part of the engine control computer so that your only choice of stereo is one that the manufacturer provides so that they can get a 1000% profit margin off it and never be what you want out of a stereo.
You want All Wheel Drive? Why would anyone need that? You want a retractable top too? No, we will only offer that on our crappiest models. Audi is the _only_ auto manufacturer with a semi-reasonable lineup of AWD convertibles but Audis are overpriced and the ECU is programmed to be as non-fun as possible... and Audi is not even American! Meh. American Automakers are not even on the road map except possibly for trucks but now that Toyota and Nissan make reliable trucks, why even bother throwing American automakers that bone? Double meh to American automakers. It is a crime that they were prevented from failing.
American auto manufacturers should all just go out of business. END RANT MODE
I, and most any other semi-intelligent person, immediately saw the trollishness of the article. As someone else pointed out above, the assumption given that Google had ceded their position as "champion" and the inclusion of Microsoft in the list CLEARLY shows that the article was a troll.
User security training can NOT be implemented in a way that will mitigate the effects of insecure software. This is what you are arguing and it is correct.
Where you are incorrect is that security awareness training actually IS useful for the social aspect that secure software and processes can never fix.
Perhaps I am misreading your comments here. It seems to me that you are espousing the idea that educating people about dangers does not help in mitigating dangers.
If this is what you are arguing, I disagree.
There are dangers that no amount of technology can alleviate. It is true that educating all users about these dangers will not prevent all people from stumbling across these problems. It is also true that educating all users will prevent some users from stumbling across these problems. I conclude that minimizing risk is valuable enough to perform security awareness training for all users.
Example of a danger that can not be avoided: Phishing email from an internal attacker (another employee) asking for their logon credentials to a certain system.
I assert that training users to never expect anyone in the company to ask for their logon credentials will help in preventing this sort of attack. The attacker will not know who will report the incident and is less likely to even try it for fear of being discovered. It is also less likely that if the attacker does try it that the user targeted will fall for it.
In short, security awareness training is valuable but I agree that it is not a "patch" for broken systems (don't click on that URL). Would you agree?
Well then. Since I have heard nothing about these FEMA camps and find your claims so incredibly outrageous, I will not bother to search further. Why should I waste my time on fruitless searches that I do not believe in? Should I search on Google for medical experiments run by the government to create a race of zombies? How about any other of the millions of weird, batshit crazy conspiracy themes? If your story was true, you would have provided a link or two to reputable sources and then told me to search for more.
As it is, I can only assume that you are only rational while taking your meds. Just weird. I have read so many rational comments from you over the years and then BAM!, this hits. Very unsettling.
Freedom to do anything is limited by how your freedoms interact with others. You are free to practice martial arts. You are not free to practice martial arts on me without my consent.
The SSID database is not all that they did... they got the MACs of the machines of the network, even hardwired machines, they also logged the contents of all the IP traffic, mDNS names, NMB names, etc.
Creepy, but if it was all broadcast in the clear, I see no problems. Very creepy though.
If you've ever recorded static, you've recorded someone's wireless transmission.
No. That is not true. Static is the Cosmic Microwave Background and is present everywhere on this planet (and theoretically the entire universe). The CMB is the leftover from the Big Bang.
Apps need a standard user interface way to exit. Really.
I agree. That is not "their" philosophy though. Ah well.
Locking the Nexus homescreen to portrait is idiotic. Really.
Um, which Nexus? Regardless, of the two that I have owned, that was simply an option that you could set. Portrait/Landscape were both available. Install a different launcher if you are really unhappy.
MTP looks great on paper, in practice it is dog slow and buggy. Back to the drawing board please.
No idea. I always use USB mass storage. I have no idea what MTP buys me and what I am missing by not using it.
Maps crashes all the time. Surely you know that. Fix it.
Maps crashes all the time for you. For me, it is rock solid and has never once crashed. Perhaps you should be submitting bug reports? I would even go so far as to guess that it is your particular configuration or hardware that is at fault.
Pretending that Android is not Linux is intellectually dishonest.
Android is Android. It runs on top of the Linux kernel. Android is not a kernel therefore Android is not Linux. I am unsure what you are trying to say. They should be advertising that Android runs on the Linux kernel?
Support for unlocking and root access is still half hearted.
Again, I have absolutely no idea which Nexus devices that you have owned but the ones that I have owned, unlocking is extremely simple and even shows you a pretty little unlocked icon on boot to show you that it is unlocked. Unlocking is supported without having to resort to flashing special firmwares and such.
Root access? The phone is unlocked. Install a custom ROM if you are having a hard time getting root.
Android is not a community project. Fix that.
Android belongs to Google. You have no right to demand that they allow the community to determine its direction. They give you the source code so you can make it go in whatever direction you want for yourself. Here is a community that is doing just that: www.cyanogenmod.org/ Go party it up buddy.
I am not sure what else to say at this point. Your views are odd and out of synch with my experiences. Have a nice day (or whatever kind of day you desire).:)
Holy crap! Did someone hack your account or something? You used to seem so balanced and rational before and now this? WTF?
Let's assume for a moment that your account was not hacked and that you are rational... do you have any evidence to show anyone else that what you are saying is true? While I am not terribly surprised that they might have APCs since disaster zones and whacked survivalists may cause some concern for safety of personnel, I would be more interested in proof of "needing permission to go to the bathroom" and "inability to leave FEMA camps".
How did you find out about this stuff? Were you wandering around in the backwoods and stumble across such a camp? Were you able to hear the "prisoners" begging to go to the bathroom?
Did all cell phones get taken away from these prisoners? If not, do you have video or audio recordings proving any of this? Do the relatives of the prisoners in these camps not care and not report anything to anyone?
Secondly, 'belief' in the Big Bang is different from belief in God...
Anyone who believes in the Big Bang is an idiot. I know that the Big Bang is the most likely explanation for what we see from what we know. That is all. No belief required. No sacred cows need to be slaughtered when new information and theories come to light.
Hm. I read his question differently. I read it more like: Why would I need three copies if there is no DRM protection since I can make backups and reinstall whenever I like?
I guess it is possible that he was asking in such a manner because he intended to distribute it widely. That is normally how I interpret other people's actions... however, that is not how I interpreted this one.
Hm. If you buy a smartphone in America, it will be tied to a certain carrier. If you buy an international version of a phone (highly recommended) then it will still have stock "firmware" on it. Either way, yes, you do have to have a google account (you can create one just for that purpose) in order to "start" your phone the first time.
If you buy an international version and verify that you are buying from a company that does not lock their bootloaders (Samsung currently, or any Google Nexus phones), then you can install a custom "ROM" or "firmware" on it before ever really using it. If the bootloader is locked, there is usually a way to get around that but be prepared for some "work".
The closest you can get to a pure (compiled from source without manufacturer or carrier additions) ROM is Cyanogenmod. Available at www.cyanogenmod.org/
If you install Cynogenmod and do NOT install Google Apps (aka GApps), then you can use your phone without ever creating a Google account. That of course also implies no Google Play store but you can install apps from other repositories and they will work fine. If you add GApps and do sign up for the Google Play store, you are not required to add your credit card info but you are prompted for it. No biggie, just decline.
Once you choose an international model of phone to purchase, I would highly recommend going to forum.xda-developers.com/ and reading the FAQs and such concerning the specific model that you are looking at BEFORE you buy it. It is... enlightening. You will get warnings about any pitfalls etc concerning rooting, unlocking, SIM unlocking, etc so you will know if you need to avoid that model of phone or how much effort will be required to get it into the shape you want it.
In short, there is a way to use an Android based phone without giving in to the All-Seeing-Eye but it will require some work on your part since the default path is to expose yourself.
Seriously, it isn't worth your effort - especially if you want something reliable.
Huh? Maybe they just want to do it because it is possible? Kind of like climbing a mountain...
There are professionals who can build you a proper cluster
And how did those professionals become professionals? How did they learn the pitfalls about building clusters? What happened to learning something yourself because it is possible?
*sigh* Just like the "scientists" who recently discovered that people with different values have... different values. I despair.
I remember when nerds here were willing to do all kinds of crazy things, even if they were not a good long term solution. Maybe we all just grew old and crotchety or something:P
Actually, I suspect it is the young risk-averse special snowflakes that are all saying to throw money at it. D'oh.
The whole point of this story is to stir up the sexism shrieker shitstorm. You take that aspect out, and there's no reason for it to be posted.
I completely and utterly (vehemently so) disagree. You take that aspect out and it has even more of a reason to be posted: Dad hacks game ROM for kid. THAT is what this site is about. That IS News for Nerds.
We should be arguing over which hex editor was used and such, not the sexist aspect.
So your argument is that prestigious journals started with prestige and that no open access journal can ever start with prestige therefore, no open access journal can ever be prestigious.
Got it. Carry on. You are not someone who will be changing the world.
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lol. you are just jealous because you do not have those skills. you can not even understand what he was saying and reportray his words in a way that you can understand. yep, you are best suited as an mba or other flunky. enjoy your miserable bitter existence where many things happen but the methods and means are a deep dark mystery that nobody could ever understand. lol :)
Not all of the users of cell-phones are the younger generation who easily adapt to a complicated device.
WTF are you saying? That Microsoft's phone operating system product is easier to use than Android or IOS? Perhaps if you dig deep enough into Android's internals, it could be considered "complicated"... but IOS? Complicated?
Your view is demented or distorted if you believe what it appears that you are saying.
Indeed. I've said before and I'll say again, I think MS is finally ahead of the curve.
I have been wrong before but I am going to go out on a limb here (I would bet my life savings on it) and say that Microsoft is not even *in* the game. Sure, they are trying to be in it but they are not even really a competitor. They have absolutely no focus on the user/purchaser of their products. All of the their products are designed around Microsoft's needs, not the purchaser's needs; therefore, they will ALWAYS be a failure in all markets that they do not have a monopoly in (and will eventually lose their monopoly in the desktop operating system market).
Clients of Spamhaus use the information to block annoying e-mails offering discount Viagra or financial windfalls. But Mr. Kamphuis and other critics call Spamhaus a censor that judges what is or isn’t spam.
Unsolicited email is spam. It is not the content that makes it spam, it is the fact that it is unsolicited. Spammers never seem to address the unsolicited part of the argument.
When he learned of a newly-designed explosive device meant to be pass undetected through airport security to take down a U.S.-bound airliner, the informant volunteered for the mission and was given the device, which he then handed over to U.S. officials.
The underwear bomber in the article that you linked was NEVER a bomber or terrorist to begin with. He was an informant. The bomb was NOT a plot to sow the seeds of terror amongst the general public, it was the delivery of intelligence.
Is this "underwear bomber" the same one that was actually trying to blow up an airplane on its way from Amsterdam to America? What the fuck?
Ford was in favour of the bailouts, even though they didn't take them, because if GM and Chrysler had gone out of business then a lot of other companies that supplied parts to GM and Chrysler would also have gone out of business.
Perhaps I am missing something here...
So GM and Chrysler would die and stop making cars. The demand for cars would not change even a little bit as demand is consumer driven, not supply driven. So my question is this: Why would part suppliers go out of business if the same number of cars were needed?
Surely, I can see that there would be some disruptions of normal operations for the suppliers and that there would be chances for new suppliers to break into the business... but I fail to see a problem here.
RANT MODE
Honestly, the status quo sucked and there should have been upheavals. I still refuse to ever buy an American car and I have colored other people's views concerning American vehicles too. These vehicles are absolutely terrible. They are designed strictly to garner as much profit for the manufacturer as possible.
Of course, that last statement seems to make perfect sense to you and most everyone else in this world; however, I would argue that the item being manufactured should be aimed at satisfying the consumer first and only then should a profitability analysis be performed. As it is, all we get are cars that are unreliable and zero fun to drive with stereos that are part of the engine control computer so that your only choice of stereo is one that the manufacturer provides so that they can get a 1000% profit margin off it and never be what you want out of a stereo.
You want All Wheel Drive? Why would anyone need that? You want a retractable top too? No, we will only offer that on our crappiest models. Audi is the _only_ auto manufacturer with a semi-reasonable lineup of AWD convertibles but Audis are overpriced and the ECU is programmed to be as non-fun as possible... and Audi is not even American! Meh. American Automakers are not even on the road map except possibly for trucks but now that Toyota and Nissan make reliable trucks, why even bother throwing American automakers that bone? Double meh to American automakers. It is a crime that they were prevented from failing.
American auto manufacturers should all just go out of business.
END RANT MODE
I, and most any other semi-intelligent person, immediately saw the trollishness of the article. As someone else pointed out above, the assumption given that Google had ceded their position as "champion" and the inclusion of Microsoft in the list CLEARLY shows that the article was a troll.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Fine. Perhaps the first person should not have taken an eye to begin with.
Erm, partially correct.
User security training can NOT be implemented in a way that will mitigate the effects of insecure software. This is what you are arguing and it is correct.
Where you are incorrect is that security awareness training actually IS useful for the social aspect that secure software and processes can never fix.
Perhaps I am misreading your comments here. It seems to me that you are espousing the idea that educating people about dangers does not help in mitigating dangers.
If this is what you are arguing, I disagree.
There are dangers that no amount of technology can alleviate. It is true that educating all users about these dangers will not prevent all people from stumbling across these problems. It is also true that educating all users will prevent some users from stumbling across these problems. I conclude that minimizing risk is valuable enough to perform security awareness training for all users.
Example of a danger that can not be avoided: Phishing email from an internal attacker (another employee) asking for their logon credentials to a certain system.
I assert that training users to never expect anyone in the company to ask for their logon credentials will help in preventing this sort of attack. The attacker will not know who will report the incident and is less likely to even try it for fear of being discovered. It is also less likely that if the attacker does try it that the user targeted will fall for it.
In short, security awareness training is valuable but I agree that it is not a "patch" for broken systems (don't click on that URL). Would you agree?
Well then. Since I have heard nothing about these FEMA camps and find your claims so incredibly outrageous, I will not bother to search further. Why should I waste my time on fruitless searches that I do not believe in? Should I search on Google for medical experiments run by the government to create a race of zombies? How about any other of the millions of weird, batshit crazy conspiracy themes? If your story was true, you would have provided a link or two to reputable sources and then told me to search for more.
As it is, I can only assume that you are only rational while taking your meds. Just weird. I have read so many rational comments from you over the years and then BAM!, this hits. Very unsettling.
Freedom to do anything is limited by how your freedoms interact with others. You are free to practice martial arts. You are not free to practice martial arts on me without my consent.
The SSID database is not all that they did... they got the MACs of the machines of the network, even hardwired machines, they also logged the contents of all the IP traffic, mDNS names, NMB names, etc.
Creepy, but if it was all broadcast in the clear, I see no problems. Very creepy though.
If you've ever recorded static, you've recorded someone's wireless transmission.
No. That is not true. Static is the Cosmic Microwave Background and is present everywhere on this planet (and theoretically the entire universe). The CMB is the leftover from the Big Bang.
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/5264/is-x-noise-on-tv-due-to-big-bangs-background-radiation
I wanted to link to NASA but for some reason, it is not resolving for me currently. Very weird. http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/cobe_background.html
Apps need a standard user interface way to exit. Really.
I agree. That is not "their" philosophy though. Ah well.
Locking the Nexus homescreen to portrait is idiotic. Really.
Um, which Nexus? Regardless, of the two that I have owned, that was simply an option that you could set. Portrait/Landscape were both available. Install a different launcher if you are really unhappy.
MTP looks great on paper, in practice it is dog slow and buggy. Back to the drawing board please.
No idea. I always use USB mass storage. I have no idea what MTP buys me and what I am missing by not using it.
Maps crashes all the time. Surely you know that. Fix it.
Maps crashes all the time for you. For me, it is rock solid and has never once crashed. Perhaps you should be submitting bug reports? I would even go so far as to guess that it is your particular configuration or hardware that is at fault.
Pretending that Android is not Linux is intellectually dishonest.
Android is Android. It runs on top of the Linux kernel. Android is not a kernel therefore Android is not Linux. I am unsure what you are trying to say. They should be advertising that Android runs on the Linux kernel?
Support for unlocking and root access is still half hearted.
Again, I have absolutely no idea which Nexus devices that you have owned but the ones that I have owned, unlocking is extremely simple and even shows you a pretty little unlocked icon on boot to show you that it is unlocked. Unlocking is supported without having to resort to flashing special firmwares and such.
Root access? The phone is unlocked. Install a custom ROM if you are having a hard time getting root.
Android is not a community project. Fix that.
Android belongs to Google. You have no right to demand that they allow the community to determine its direction. They give you the source code so you can make it go in whatever direction you want for yourself. Here is a community that is doing just that: www.cyanogenmod.org/ Go party it up buddy.
I am not sure what else to say at this point. Your views are odd and out of synch with my experiences. Have a nice day (or whatever kind of day you desire). :)
Holy crap! Did someone hack your account or something? You used to seem so balanced and rational before and now this? WTF?
Let's assume for a moment that your account was not hacked and that you are rational... do you have any evidence to show anyone else that what you are saying is true? While I am not terribly surprised that they might have APCs since disaster zones and whacked survivalists may cause some concern for safety of personnel, I would be more interested in proof of "needing permission to go to the bathroom" and "inability to leave FEMA camps".
How did you find out about this stuff? Were you wandering around in the backwoods and stumble across such a camp? Were you able to hear the "prisoners" begging to go to the bathroom?
Did all cell phones get taken away from these prisoners? If not, do you have video or audio recordings proving any of this? Do the relatives of the prisoners in these camps not care and not report anything to anyone?
Just fucking weird. Very very weird.
Secondly, 'belief' in the Big Bang is different from belief in God...
Anyone who believes in the Big Bang is an idiot. I know that the Big Bang is the most likely explanation for what we see from what we know. That is all. No belief required. No sacred cows need to be slaughtered when new information and theories come to light.
Hm. I read his question differently. I read it more like: Why would I need three copies if there is no DRM protection since I can make backups and reinstall whenever I like?
I guess it is possible that he was asking in such a manner because he intended to distribute it widely. That is normally how I interpret other people's actions... however, that is not how I interpreted this one.
Droidwall. It is not an ad blocking application but it can be used to block ads. it is a firewall of sorts for your handset.
Regards
Hm. If you buy a smartphone in America, it will be tied to a certain carrier. If you buy an international version of a phone (highly recommended) then it will still have stock "firmware" on it. Either way, yes, you do have to have a google account (you can create one just for that purpose) in order to "start" your phone the first time.
If you buy an international version and verify that you are buying from a company that does not lock their bootloaders (Samsung currently, or any Google Nexus phones), then you can install a custom "ROM" or "firmware" on it before ever really using it. If the bootloader is locked, there is usually a way to get around that but be prepared for some "work".
The closest you can get to a pure (compiled from source without manufacturer or carrier additions) ROM is Cyanogenmod. Available at www.cyanogenmod.org/
If you install Cynogenmod and do NOT install Google Apps (aka GApps), then you can use your phone without ever creating a Google account. That of course also implies no Google Play store but you can install apps from other repositories and they will work fine. If you add GApps and do sign up for the Google Play store, you are not required to add your credit card info but you are prompted for it. No biggie, just decline.
Once you choose an international model of phone to purchase, I would highly recommend going to forum.xda-developers.com/ and reading the FAQs and such concerning the specific model that you are looking at BEFORE you buy it. It is... enlightening. You will get warnings about any pitfalls etc concerning rooting, unlocking, SIM unlocking, etc so you will know if you need to avoid that model of phone or how much effort will be required to get it into the shape you want it.
In short, there is a way to use an Android based phone without giving in to the All-Seeing-Eye but it will require some work on your part since the default path is to expose yourself.
Good luck.
Jesus fuck, are there really people this fucking clueless?
Yes; although some are just trolls.
Seriously, it isn't worth your effort - especially if you want something reliable.
Huh? Maybe they just want to do it because it is possible? Kind of like climbing a mountain...
There are professionals who can build you a proper cluster
And how did those professionals become professionals? How did they learn the pitfalls about building clusters? What happened to learning something yourself because it is possible?
*sigh* Just like the "scientists" who recently discovered that people with different values have... different values. I despair.
I remember when nerds here were willing to do all kinds of crazy things, even if they were not a good long term solution. Maybe we all just grew old and crotchety or something :P
Actually, I suspect it is the young risk-averse special snowflakes that are all saying to throw money at it. D'oh.
The whole point of this story is to stir up the sexism shrieker shitstorm. You take that aspect out, and there's no reason for it to be posted.
I completely and utterly (vehemently so) disagree. You take that aspect out and it has even more of a reason to be posted: Dad hacks game ROM for kid. THAT is what this site is about. That IS News for Nerds.
We should be arguing over which hex editor was used and such, not the sexist aspect.
So your argument is that prestigious journals started with prestige and that no open access journal can ever start with prestige therefore, no open access journal can ever be prestigious.
Got it. Carry on. You are not someone who will be changing the world.