Let's take a look at the most used one, and see how many pages of serious security vulnerabilities it has. Many of them allow arbitrary code execution...
Being paranoid about government surveillance does not mean your rights are violated.
With Snowden's and Shadow Brokers' revelations, being paranoid about government surveillance means you underestimate the extent of 4th Amendment violations less than the general population.
Why not? That's just 5-6 bananas. When I buy them, after splitting with the family the usual share is 3 or so, and they get devoured pretty much instantly -- eating a bit more wouldn't even make you engorged.
As to that 100 grams of parsley? 554 mg of potassium. Oops.
What's wrong with a bit of potassium, that's hardly above what you'd get from a bunch of bananas?
On the other hand, you can eat a sprig or two of parsley, but anything more and you'll puke it out.
As to the your 'ten times sounds like a "figure of speech"' slight: [snip] I count twenty items (aside from the sugar ones).
Newsflash: bananas do also include all the items you mentioned. They also contain gold, arsenic and plenty of other substances, at well above homeopathic levels.
Comparing the counts is meaningless, you'd have to dig up the equivalent data for bananas, and compare the contents. And take the usual dosage in mind: a serving of bananas is 3 (0.5kg), a serving of parsley is like 5 leaves (won't even trigger a kitchen scale).
Let's assume that parsley indeed has ten times the nutrients as bananas -- it really sounds like a figure of speech. Now, eat a kilogram of bananas. Then 100 grams of parsley. Oops...
Yeah - windows has no way to run vms, you'd have to use physical partitions for some reason.
Windows as a host can run VMs, but it really sucks when it comes to managing them. Even the basics you take for granted on Unix, like dd, scp, rsync, are missing, and don't work well if you try anyway. On the other hand, even without any external tools, with nothing but basic qemu+btrfs, on Linux you get thin provisioning, discard, snapshots, deduplication, O(changes) backup, and so on, out of the box.
Writing software IN a vm for Windows seems bizarrely painful.
It's strictly less painful than writing outside a VM.
I get that windows has problems but keeping a clean windows system for visual studio (when I'm doing that) is simply not a problem.
Try when an external component you're using has two versions that can't be installed in parallel, and you need the old one for some projects, and the new one for others (including preparing upgrades). On an Unix system you'd either fix the component yourself and upstream your changes, or at least install the other version in a chroot. On Windows, there's no reasonable way to do so without VMs.
if its too much burden to finger print drivers then maybe they shouldn't be in the local market
I really applaud Uber here, and everyone who objects to fingerprinting. If you commit a felony, then I may agree with fingerprinting you, but driving a car is not a crime. Get the government thugs the hell away from my fingers!
"another example of the legislature circumventing local control to allow corporations to profit at the expense of public safety."
As opposed to taxi mafia bribing the legislature to profit at the expense of the public?
Uber might have its flaws, but they're strictly better than taxi corporations (for everyone who's not a member of the taxi mafia, doesn't profit from selling medallions/etc, and doesn't get bribes^Wcampaign donation from said mafia).
Are these posters active in the workforce? Every relevant office in the world uses windows.
My last job where I interacted with any office workers (sales, accountants) ended 5 years ago. It looks like such software has mostly moved inside the browser, too, which trades local deployment problems (a nightmare!) for browser incompatibility issues (MSIE being mostly dead, this seems to be a solved issue). I'm not a web developer, either.
And in rare cases when I have to test something on Windows, it's the very reason I keep a Windows VM! And more importantly, not just one but a whole array of them. Assuming your company has only 10, 7 and XP, you'd need three physical computers for that task (Windows is notoriously bad for having multiple versions on partitions on the same computer). I, on the other hand, just turn on the relevant VM -- often multiple ones at the same time. And when Windows inevitably fucks itself up, I revert to earlier state with a single command.
Even in that job in the past where I wrote Windows software, I did it in VMs on a Linux host, for the above reasons.
Windows has degraded so badly I don't think anyone competent should run it outside a VM for any purpose other than badly-made games anymore.
On the other hand, I don't watch TV at all, nor do I play AAA games, so I'm rather ill informed about today's DRM. As for games, everything I've tried recently works fine in wine with issues restricted to details like:
* gamepad not detected (around half of gamepad-using games, workaround: can emulate keyboard)
* insists on the wrong monitor if fullscreen (actually less frequent than on real Windows)
* sound gets choppy after a few hours, need to restart the game to fix (one game)
As the above issues are way less drastic than what people say about wine, I guess that problems people have are not wine's fault but rather the result of semi-intentional sabotage by DRM that AAA junk tends to be infested with.
Sooooo... These guys are upset that the Feds followed the law and got a warrant???
Except we were promised these things won't be used except for matters of national security.
Also, Stingrays have no way to selectively MitM only the target, so they spy (in violation of the 4th Amendment) on every single innocent person in a large radius.
There's one small detail here, though: there are two keys: one, the "Microsoft Windows Production PCA" is used to sign Windows only, while the other, "Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA" is the one they for antitrust reasons "kindly" allow certain biggest distributions to be signed with. Inclusion of the former is mandatory, while the other OEMs merely "should consider including".
Doesn't sound that ominous yet? Then recall what the way Windows is sold: there's a ridiculously high official price no one pays, and "volume discounts" every single mainstream PC maker gets, negotiated under strict non-disclosure. You can bet that when the time is ripe, all the makers will suddenly fail to include the UEFI CA key (as losing the volume discounts would effectively put them out of business).
And even while the UEFI CA key lasts, you lose the main reason to use Linux rather than some proprietary kernel: there's no way you can edit the kernel, install a non-distro version, build your own modules, etc. You no longer can insert unsigned modules, kexec an unsigned kernel, use a number of facilities that could be used to gain control over your own machine.
And what's the gain for you? Precisely nothing! A thief can still install Windows on a stolen machine, someone who wants your data can boot Windows (or, for now, one of the "blessed" distros). The UEFI CA doesn't sign particular kernel builds but distro signing keys, so you can be assured every three letter agency of US, Russia, China and any other country Microsoft wants to sell their software in do have such a signing key. Thus, the malware the thugs use against your machine on the border will also boot fine.
Ie, "Secure" Boot is strictly negative for you unless you can remove all keys not under your control.
Yeah, I really wish Flash was available as a reasonable stand-alone executable that actually works.
This way, we'd have all the good Flash content still working; that on the web Flash degenerated into a tool for DRMing videos hurts what I consider legitimate uses. And those would be nice to have the same way we have NES emulators.
Especially if it's portable -- somehow every dev around me talks about jumping the x86 ship for arm64, where nothing Adobe exists.
In this case, it's worth putting emphasis on the ocean of piss being, using Roman terms, not a cloaca (sewerage) but an ammonia factory. Ie, it's not waste that they're trying to get rid of, but the very way they earn money.
Manning was and is clearly a man. Has XY chromosomes, full set of male equipment, and so on.
I love the combination of absolute certainty and imprecision.
Every single remaining physical characteristic that differ between men and women. All he has towards feminity is his delusion.
Dressing up as a doctor doesn't make you one, neither does claiming you're one.
The only issues he has are mental.
The brain is part of biology.
That you can be sold a computer advertised as a "Windows" vs "Mac" one, doesn't make software a part of hardware. And Manning has 100% male hardware.
That's he's one of biggest heroes of this generation, doesn't make him any less delusional. And what's remarkable, unlike most people doing things out of conviction, his delusion is completely orthogonal to his heroic deed.
No, their actions were a brutal but much needed outing the NSA as the enemy. They are sitting on many, many more exploits, and Microsoft was caught purposefully introducing backdoors for NSA before (like, say, the _NSAKEY signing key).
Patching this particular exploit would have no lasting effect.
While there are borderline cases (human genetic code puts the worst imaginable Visual Basic spaghetti code to shame, it's that buggy), Manning was and is clearly a man. Has XY chromosomes, full set of male equipment, and so on. The only issues he has are mental.
And until he actually changes his gender (current technology to do so is iffy at best), he remains a man.
Multiple vendors sell servers with 64TB RAM already, and expanding further was blocked by the lack of 5-level paging. Patches to do so have been floating on LKML for a while, thus hardware that can do that should be well past prototype stage.
On the other hand, all patches I've seen are for x86, and this is arm64, so I'm apparently missing something.
they only way forward for me was running a USB hub to allow switching between computers piled on my desk and keeping my old XP box at the ready in case there was some critical app to which I had lost the installation. media that I needed.
You do know that you can have XP in a virtual machine, don't you? Or for that matter, other obsolete OSes such as 7 and 10.
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Yes, you'd get 53% of daily requirement of vitamin A had you consume 100g of parsley. My point is, eating that much is not humanly possible.
We're comparing a condiment you eat in tiny amounts with a fruit typically eaten in bulk.
good libraries for reading and writing XML
Let's take a look at the most used one, and see how many pages of serious security vulnerabilities it has. Many of them allow arbitrary code execution...
There is no reason to have malformed XML in 2017.
FTFY: There is no reason to have XML in 2017.
Being paranoid about government surveillance does not mean your rights are violated.
With Snowden's and Shadow Brokers' revelations, being paranoid about government surveillance means you underestimate the extent of 4th Amendment violations less than the general population.
No one eats a kilogram of bananas
Why not? That's just 5-6 bananas. When I buy them, after splitting with the family the usual share is 3 or so, and they get devoured pretty much instantly -- eating a bit more wouldn't even make you engorged.
As to that 100 grams of parsley? 554 mg of potassium. Oops.
What's wrong with a bit of potassium, that's hardly above what you'd get from a bunch of bananas?
On the other hand, you can eat a sprig or two of parsley, but anything more and you'll puke it out.
As to the your 'ten times sounds like a "figure of speech"' slight:
[snip]
I count twenty items (aside from the sugar ones).
Newsflash: bananas do also include all the items you mentioned. They also contain gold, arsenic and plenty of other substances, at well above homeopathic levels.
Comparing the counts is meaningless, you'd have to dig up the equivalent data for bananas, and compare the contents. And take the usual dosage in mind: a serving of bananas is 3 (0.5kg), a serving of parsley is like 5 leaves (won't even trigger a kitchen scale).
For $1500 I can get an awesome MacBook Pro
You can get a MacBook Pro, but an awesome one? In an alternate reality, perhaps.
Let's assume that parsley indeed has ten times the nutrients as bananas -- it really sounds like a figure of speech. Now, eat a kilogram of bananas. Then 100 grams of parsley. Oops...
Yeah - windows has no way to run vms, you'd have to use physical partitions for some reason.
Windows as a host can run VMs, but it really sucks when it comes to managing them. Even the basics you take for granted on Unix, like dd, scp, rsync, are missing, and don't work well if you try anyway. On the other hand, even without any external tools, with nothing but basic qemu+btrfs, on Linux you get thin provisioning, discard, snapshots, deduplication, O(changes) backup, and so on, out of the box.
Writing software IN a vm for Windows seems bizarrely painful.
It's strictly less painful than writing outside a VM.
I get that windows has problems but keeping a clean windows system for visual studio (when I'm doing that) is simply not a problem.
Try when an external component you're using has two versions that can't be installed in parallel, and you need the old one for some projects, and the new one for others (including preparing upgrades). On an Unix system you'd either fix the component yourself and upstream your changes, or at least install the other version in a chroot. On Windows, there's no reasonable way to do so without VMs.
It's Monday morning, what the hell are you doing not on 4.12-rc2 yet? Got some state open that prevents you from rebooting?
if its too much burden to finger print drivers then maybe they shouldn't be in the local market
I really applaud Uber here, and everyone who objects to fingerprinting. If you commit a felony, then I may agree with fingerprinting you, but driving a car is not a crime. Get the government thugs the hell away from my fingers!
"another example of the legislature circumventing local control to allow corporations to profit at the expense of public safety."
As opposed to taxi mafia bribing the legislature to profit at the expense of the public?
Uber might have its flaws, but they're strictly better than taxi corporations (for everyone who's not a member of the taxi mafia, doesn't profit from selling medallions/etc, and doesn't get bribes^Wcampaign donation from said mafia).
Are these posters active in the workforce? Every relevant office in the world uses windows.
My last job where I interacted with any office workers (sales, accountants) ended 5 years ago. It looks like such software has mostly moved inside the browser, too, which trades local deployment problems (a nightmare!) for browser incompatibility issues (MSIE being mostly dead, this seems to be a solved issue). I'm not a web developer, either.
And in rare cases when I have to test something on Windows, it's the very reason I keep a Windows VM! And more importantly, not just one but a whole array of them. Assuming your company has only 10, 7 and XP, you'd need three physical computers for that task (Windows is notoriously bad for having multiple versions on partitions on the same computer). I, on the other hand, just turn on the relevant VM -- often multiple ones at the same time. And when Windows inevitably fucks itself up, I revert to earlier state with a single command.
Even in that job in the past where I wrote Windows software, I did it in VMs on a Linux host, for the above reasons.
Windows has degraded so badly I don't think anyone competent should run it outside a VM for any purpose other than badly-made games anymore.
On the other hand, I don't watch TV at all, nor do I play AAA games, so I'm rather ill informed about today's DRM. As for games, everything I've tried recently works fine in wine with issues restricted to details like:
As the above issues are way less drastic than what people say about wine, I guess that problems people have are not wine's fault but rather the result of semi-intentional sabotage by DRM that AAA junk tends to be infested with.
Sooooo... These guys are upset that the Feds followed the law and got a warrant???
Except we were promised these things won't be used except for matters of national security.
Also, Stingrays have no way to selectively MitM only the target, so they spy (in violation of the 4th Amendment) on every single innocent person in a large radius.
There's one small detail here, though: there are two keys: one, the "Microsoft Windows Production PCA" is used to sign Windows only, while the other, "Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA" is the one they for antitrust reasons "kindly" allow certain biggest distributions to be signed with. Inclusion of the former is mandatory, while the other OEMs merely "should consider including".
Doesn't sound that ominous yet? Then recall what the way Windows is sold: there's a ridiculously high official price no one pays, and "volume discounts" every single mainstream PC maker gets, negotiated under strict non-disclosure. You can bet that when the time is ripe, all the makers will suddenly fail to include the UEFI CA key (as losing the volume discounts would effectively put them out of business).
And even while the UEFI CA key lasts, you lose the main reason to use Linux rather than some proprietary kernel: there's no way you can edit the kernel, install a non-distro version, build your own modules, etc. You no longer can insert unsigned modules, kexec an unsigned kernel, use a number of facilities that could be used to gain control over your own machine.
And what's the gain for you? Precisely nothing! A thief can still install Windows on a stolen machine, someone who wants your data can boot Windows (or, for now, one of the "blessed" distros). The UEFI CA doesn't sign particular kernel builds but distro signing keys, so you can be assured every three letter agency of US, Russia, China and any other country Microsoft wants to sell their software in do have such a signing key. Thus, the malware the thugs use against your machine on the border will also boot fine.
Ie, "Secure" Boot is strictly negative for you unless you can remove all keys not under your control.
Yeah, I really wish Flash was available as a reasonable stand-alone executable that actually works.
This way, we'd have all the good Flash content still working; that on the web Flash degenerated into a tool for DRMing videos hurts what I consider legitimate uses. And those would be nice to have the same way we have NES emulators.
Especially if it's portable -- somehow every dev around me talks about jumping the x86 ship for arm64, where nothing Adobe exists.
There's a large corpus of games, animations, and so on, written in Flash. Unlike DRM and advertising, those are actually useful.
From an ocean of piss
In this case, it's worth putting emphasis on the ocean of piss being, using Roman terms, not a cloaca (sewerage) but an ammonia factory. Ie, it's not waste that they're trying to get rid of, but the very way they earn money.
Manning was and is clearly a man. Has XY chromosomes, full set of male equipment, and so on.
I love the combination of absolute certainty and imprecision.
Every single remaining physical characteristic that differ between men and women. All he has towards feminity is his delusion.
Dressing up as a doctor doesn't make you one, neither does claiming you're one.
The only issues he has are mental.
The brain is part of biology.
That you can be sold a computer advertised as a "Windows" vs "Mac" one, doesn't make software a part of hardware. And Manning has 100% male hardware.
That's he's one of biggest heroes of this generation, doesn't make him any less delusional. And what's remarkable, unlike most people doing things out of conviction, his delusion is completely orthogonal to his heroic deed.
Ending the war is simple - the "rebels" should surrender.
'Cuz Assad will refrain from killing them, jailing the rest and taking the remnants of their possessions, right?
No, their actions were a brutal but much needed outing the NSA as the enemy. They are sitting on many, many more exploits, and Microsoft was caught purposefully introducing backdoors for NSA before (like, say, the _NSAKEY signing key).
Patching this particular exploit would have no lasting effect.
"Loser pays" makes sense only if someone who's obviously in the right has a chance of winning against a company with an army of lawyers.
While there are borderline cases (human genetic code puts the worst imaginable Visual Basic spaghetti code to shame, it's that buggy), Manning was and is clearly a man. Has XY chromosomes, full set of male equipment, and so on. The only issues he has are mental.
And until he actually changes his gender (current technology to do so is iffy at best), he remains a man.
Does it run Linux? That's the first question.
Only.
The second, is this like 10 years out?
Multiple vendors sell servers with 64TB RAM already, and expanding further was blocked by the lack of 5-level paging. Patches to do so have been floating on LKML for a while, thus hardware that can do that should be well past prototype stage.
On the other hand, all patches I've seen are for x86, and this is arm64, so I'm apparently missing something.
Can you port a complete XP image, apps and all, into a VM? Or do you need to do a clean install of XP?
It varies, heavily. There's no telling whether it will work or go into a reboot loop.
And there is the point of having enough resources on the new box to run a VM
Cheapest bottom-of-the-dumpster machine you can get now has way more oomph than what's needed to run an XP VM.
a VM Manager is something that can cost coin
There's a number of gratis and free ones.
setting one up is yet another skill to learn
Not much comparing to that needed for running XP today.
they only way forward for me was running a USB hub to allow switching between computers piled on my desk and keeping my old XP box at the ready in case there was some critical app to which I had lost the installation. media that I needed.
You do know that you can have XP in a virtual machine, don't you? Or for that matter, other obsolete OSes such as 7 and 10.