This is the first step to Comcast offering multiple tiers of data.
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Just as Microsoft did with their online storage, Comcast will eventually say that the extra $35 for unlimited is no longer valid. Now $35 gets you only an extra 200GB. If you want more, well there's $50 for 500GB, or $75 for 700GB, etc.
...OpenBSD is probably unbreachable but it's terribly useless as anything but a firewall; to use it as a general OS, you have to turn a lot of its security precautions off....
OpenBSD's security is not some superficial thing, it goes deep into the OS You don't just "turn it off", indeed some aspects of it cannot be turned off because some aspects of the security are the coding conventions used.
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To your comment about OpenBSD being useless for anything but a firewall, I've used OpenBSD on my notebook and it fits the job quite well.
Linus Torvalds:...Security of any system can never be perfect. So it always must be weighed against other priorities — such as speed, flexibility and ease of use — in a series of inherently nuanced trade-offs....
Fortunately, there are open source operating systems available where security is less of a trade-off and more of a priority, such as OpenBSD, where the developers maintain a laser focus on security.
If Mozilla were really concerned about security and privacy, that is where they would/should concentrate. Instead we see Pocket integration and other bloat.
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Where is DANE/TLSA DNSSEC support for TLS certs? Why do I need to install a plug-in to get that ability, but I don't need to install a plug-in for the bogus Pocket functionality?
Fortunately, at least the DNSSEC/TLSA Validator for Firefox works very well.
I wish I could say the say for the apparent bugfest that is the DKIM validation plug-in for Thunderbird. Again, Mozilla, where is the security focus in Thunderbird? Why do I need to install a buggy plug-in to get DKIM validation?
You will care about Firefox's declining marketshare once it goes below 10%. That threshold seems to be the point where a browser can affect Internet web standards, and Firefox is moving to the point where it will be irrelevant, standard-wise.
The deposition and testimony provided by Garry Norris - IBM's chief negotiator with Microsoft before and after the introduction of Windows 95 - has provided a cornucopia of fascinating evidence in the Microsoft trial. Much of it was previously unknown or unconfirmed.
His evidence showed how Microsoft effectively controlled IBM's PC hardware and software businesses by making the price of Windows considerably higher than for other comparable PC makers.
Mr Norris described in detail to Philip Malone, counsel for the Department of Justice, five cases where Microsoft had succeeded in modifying, or had attempted to influence, IBM's choice of...
Ever since outsourcing became a bad word in IT departments, the phrase "moving to the cloud" seems to have replaced it.
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I guess it is better public relations for corporations to lay off IT workers when apps are "moved to the cloud" than when the "datacenter is being outsourced".
Agilent was the core of HP's technology prowess back in the day. The part of HP that became Agilent was the part of HP that was the original and great HP.
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Once Agilent was split off, HP started its downward spiral.
I doubt if everyone who jumped aboard the systemd cargo ship really knew the journey they were in for. Some of those travelers started to regret their ticket purchase when sudo was eaten up by systemd. And others... well it will take a bit longer to realize their fate.
Pretty soon, the only information you'll be able to access via Siri is information that is owned or licensed by Apple. Gone will be the ability to access information on the public web because that will not promote Apple products.
The new site is slow as molasses. It takes about 10 to 15 seconds to load a page. The old site was nearly instantaneous to load. It ised to load as quickly as this weather site.
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The original incarnation of the new site was an abomination, a perfect example of the bad web design that is afflicting the web nowadays: poor font contrast, slow load times, excessive click requirements, etc. Basic current weather information required multiple clicks to access.
At least the current version of the new site eliminates the excessive clicking. But it is gawdawful slow.
I've been a member of the WU site for a few years (I'm grandfathered at $5 a year). I was thinking of punting the membership, but now I think I'll wait another year to see if IBM can fix the site's slowness and make it useful again.
...In worrying about finding the best choice, they accidentally pick what is by far the worst: nothing....
What is "accidental" and "worst" about picking nothing. To me that means that the person didn't really want/need the item in the first place, and the plethora of choices led the person to make the correct choice, ie., nothing.
OpenBSD's OpenNTPd with https constraints is mentioned in the Update section of one of the URLs cited in the summary. Constraints use the time in a https header to "constrain" the ntp time to reasonableness.
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A quick description of OpenNTPd's constraints is here.
Slashdot Mirror
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Just as Microsoft did with their online storage, Comcast will eventually say that the extra $35 for unlimited is no longer valid. Now $35 gets you only an extra 200GB. If you want more, well there's $50 for 500GB, or $75 for 700GB, etc.
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There's a good discussion here.
...OpenBSD is probably unbreachable but it's terribly useless as anything but a firewall; to use it as a general OS, you have to turn a lot of its security precautions off....
OpenBSD's security is not some superficial thing, it goes deep into the OS You don't just "turn it off", indeed some aspects of it cannot be turned off because some aspects of the security are the coding conventions used.
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To your comment about OpenBSD being useless for anything but a firewall, I've used OpenBSD on my notebook and it fits the job quite well.
Linus Torvalds: ...Security of any system can never be perfect. So it always must be weighed against other priorities — such as speed, flexibility and ease of use — in a series of inherently nuanced trade-offs....
Fortunately, there are open source operating systems available where security is less of a trade-off and more of a priority, such as OpenBSD, where the developers maintain a laser focus on security.
I was talking about the Windows As A Service comments made by Microsoft executives.
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Why should anyone believe them when they say "no"?
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Where is DANE/TLSA DNSSEC support for TLS certs? Why do I need to install a plug-in to get that ability, but I don't need to install a plug-in for the bogus Pocket functionality?
Fortunately, at least the DNSSEC/TLSA Validator for Firefox works very well.
I wish I could say the say for the apparent bugfest that is the DKIM validation plug-in for Thunderbird. Again, Mozilla, where is the security focus in Thunderbird? Why do I need to install a buggy plug-in to get DKIM validation?
You will care about Firefox's declining marketshare once it goes below 10%. That threshold seems to be the point where a browser can affect Internet web standards, and Firefox is moving to the point where it will be irrelevant, standard-wise.
It looks like the current marketshare is under 12% and in a decline.
The deposition and testimony provided by Garry Norris - IBM's chief negotiator with Microsoft before and after the introduction of Windows 95 - has provided a cornucopia of fascinating evidence in the Microsoft trial. Much of it was previously unknown or unconfirmed. His evidence showed how Microsoft effectively controlled IBM's PC hardware and software businesses by making the price of Windows considerably higher than for other comparable PC makers. Mr Norris described in detail to Philip Malone, counsel for the Department of Justice, five cases where Microsoft had succeeded in modifying, or had attempted to influence, IBM's choice of ...
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I guess it is better public relations for corporations to lay off IT workers when apps are "moved to the cloud" than when the "datacenter is being outsourced".
Why do I have this nagging feeling that will be less of going boldly?
If CBS had any confidence in the series, they'd give it a spot in their television lineup, instead of only streaming it.
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The current handling of the series does not bode well for going boldly, indeed, it's more of a going timidly, toe in the water type of thing.
...subsequent episodes will appear on CBS's online platform, "All Access."...
Looks like I won't be able to see the show, because all I have here is an old TV antenna clinging to the side of the chimney....
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Such code is the result of coders who rely on the compiler too much, and their brains too little.
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"You and I learned C when it was programmers, not compilers, which had to be intelligent."
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Once Agilent was split off, HP started its downward spiral.
I doubt if everyone who jumped aboard the systemd cargo ship really knew the journey they were in for. Some of those travelers started to regret their ticket purchase when sudo was eaten up by systemd. And others... well it will take a bit longer to realize their fate.
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The transformation is nearly complete.
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The original incarnation of the new site was an abomination, a perfect example of the bad web design that is afflicting the web nowadays: poor font contrast, slow load times, excessive click requirements, etc. Basic current weather information required multiple clicks to access.
At least the current version of the new site eliminates the excessive clicking. But it is gawdawful slow.
I've been a member of the WU site for a few years (I'm grandfathered at $5 a year). I was thinking of punting the membership, but now I think I'll wait another year to see if IBM can fix the site's slowness and make it useful again.
It looks like Oracle are taking that they bought with Sun's ZFS and applying it to memory hardware.
Don't go after the tools being used, go after those who use the tools.
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Law enforcement needs to follow the money....
Spam the Amazon book reviews with tons of reviews -> receive lots of free books as a result of that spamming -> sell the free books -> $$$
...In worrying about finding the best choice, they accidentally pick what is by far the worst: nothing....
What is "accidental" and "worst" about picking nothing. To me that means that the person didn't really want/need the item in the first place, and the plethora of choices led the person to make the correct choice, ie., nothing.
Isn't Eric Raymond in the middle of a major rewrite of the NTP software, with emphasis on security?
You're probably thinking of ntimed.
Recent Vulnerabilities --- October 2015 NTP Security Vulnerability Announcement (Medium)
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A quick description of OpenNTPd's constraints is here.