You use Chrome (or Dragon, or Chromodo, or Firefox or Palemoon, those are the ones I know about) and simply have it sync across your devices? Its a hell of a lot better than the users only having a single password for everywhere or having to constantly deal with "I forgot my password, help me".
And please don't bring up password managers as I have yet to see one where the user can 1.- just start surfing without having to deal with the manager, 2.- have the manager sync every new password and password change automatically between devices, and 3.- Do all of this without the user needing to babysit the thing. Remember folks that users will only put up with a tiny amount of irritation before they say "fuck it" and just use a single password they can always remember, so if its that or save in the browser? then let 'em save in the browser.
What gives them the right to risk our financial security?
If a store you went to told you that you have a 1 in 10 chance of being robbed and they would NOT do anything about it, would you shop there? Well those are EXACTLY the odds you take when you allow ads to run, as the absolute best scoring AV on the planet is a hair over 90%...that means 1 in 10 nasties WILL get through, throw in 0 day bugs where they don't have signatures? Your odds drop to around 1 in 7 last I checked. Considering we have bugs now that can lock ALL your data up for ransom which even the FBI can't crack? You'd have to be insane to allow ads to run, because even if you get "lucky" and the malware you end up with (which you WILL end up with, we've seen malware served in that past by pretty much every major website at 1 time or another) isn't ransomware? You will get to shell out to have your credit monitored, CC changed, have to change all your passwords...that is if they don't get to 'em first and hijack your accounts to spew spam and malware that is. Will the website that infected you pay for the cleanup? Not a chance in hell.
So until they are held to the same standards as B&M stores I do not care if they all go under, its not my fault they based their business model on putting their users at serious risk of being robbed.
Laugh out fucking loud, you know who you sound EXACTLY like? The Cult of Steve who swore up and fricking down that MacDefender "didn't count" because it didn't fit the third definition of "virus" in some dictionary,ha ha ha ha!
Accept your failure already, I guarantee that you would NOT be making those kinds of fucking excuses if it were Windows or Mac, and since these can always be chained together, for example use a local exploit that gives you root after you use a network exploit that gives you local access? Just more excuses which like assholes stink.
Not to mention the natives kinda gloss over every volcano EVAR is considered "sacred land" to some tribe somewhere as...surprise surprise, primitives believed all that destructive power HAD to be angry Spirits/Gods that must be "appeased" in some fashion to keep them from bringing death with their "anger".
Seriously can anybody show me a SINGLE volcano over 300 years old on that island that ISN'T considered "sacred"?
Seems to be working just fine in the PC market, but of course there you have programs like Punkbuster and Steam that are pretty quick at shutting down the cheaters.
The problem is that mobile OSes are a good 10-15 years behind desktops which is why iOS had more vulnerabilities than Linux and Windows, the mobile OSes are really still in their infancy and just haven't caught up yet and with so many trying to hack them (for good and ill) its gonna take awhile to catch up. I'm sure eventually you'll have something like Punkbuster or some other anti-gamehack program for phones but until then all you can really do is look at the player as a potential bad guy.
The other major change is that security sites are starting to actually TEST Linux (instead of just buying the "many eyes" myth which is the classic "is ought" fallacy because it assumes because the code IS out there somebody with the years of experience in low level coding and ability to spot weak spots OUGHT to have audited it) and in several spots its been wanting, with GHOST being the latest nasty to come down the pipe. In fact if you are wondering how bad Linux is getting hammered by nasties? Gentoo Linux had more bugs than IE in 2014, 350 to 289 so not even close. In fact as of March this year both Apple and Linux have more bugs than Windows, again by pretty large amounts. For those wanting the figures and don't want to read TFL? OSX is the worst at 147 followed by iOS at 127, Linux at 119, and Windows, which the Linux faithful are always screaming is "full of bugs"? A grand total of...38.
Linux users SHOULD rejoice at this, as I've been saying for years that Linux has been skating by on security by obscurity and these numbers should make the devs finally take notice...of course these figures are before the huge uptake in systemd and since that is being controlled by Lennart "ship it anyway" Pottering? I'm betting Linux has their very own Code Red or Netsky before the year is out. It should be an interesting 2015 for Linux regardless as what the figures show is the malware writers have gone after Linux full bore, so seeing how many more Shellshocks and Heartbleeds we end up with should be enlightening.
For me personally I'll be curious to see if the next huge critical vulnerability in Linux comes from without...or within. As we've learned from Snowden the TLAs are gobbling up as much data as they can, and which OS is all the "secure" LiveCDs based on? Linux. And who is one of the biggest contributors to critical areas of Linux? Red Hat...well where does Red Hat get their money from? More than 86% of their money comes from the US government TLAs like NSA, FBI, CIA, etc. So if YOU were working at one of these agencies where would YOU go to get a backdoor or at least have a cowboy coder assigned (cough Pottering cough) to a critical subsystem so your black hats can get in? I know where I would go, I'd go to RH. After all, you think they are gonna bite the hand that feeds?
Yeah either use BSD like Apple or pull a EEE like Google and be showered with praise for the teabagging by the FOSS community. Since they don't have the funds to pull the latter? The former would be the wise move.
Sincerely, from the bottom of my heart...you're a fucking idiot. For a new format to take off it needs MASS ADOPTION DUMBASS, and as Lunix has proven beyond ANY doubt NOBODY WANTS YOUR 70s CLI sparky, and why should they when they can simply go to any number of other tools that crank out H.264 files with a beautiful picture and "clicky clicky simple.
Know the definition of insanity? You should as you're living it. CLI is a 1970s throwback GUI which is ONLY good for TWO, count 'em TWO purposes, neither of which apply to a good 95% of video transcodes...1.- Scripting for a large number of systems...most of the population ain't using a wall of render boxes so don't apply, 2.- A repetitive task that has to be done the exact way for days at a time...now you'd THINK that would apply but it does not as every site wants different sizes, YouTube wants a different size from Dailymotion from Newgrounds from Vimeo etc etc etc, so no sale there either.
But please, keep hanging on to your CLI, I just love to laugh at failure. I mean you have MSFT locking down X86 and ya know what? Nobody gives a shit because years of hanging onto stupid CLI along with brain dead design and refusal to compete has made Lunix (which is a fitting title as its run by loonies) so low on every metric other than servers (which just FYI its been going down there as well) that every site lists it as "other" along with BeOS and Haiku, great job there guys.
Its a free market, refuse to compete? Get your waste of space out of the way, you gonna lose pal! Other than server admins nobody gives a wet fart about CLI, and WebM adoption proves this...name any major sites OTHER than Google that supports WebM? Name any hardware OEMs supporting WebM acceleration? Yeah thought so. If a format takes off the OEMs have no choice but support it, MSFT through piles at WMA but every player supported MP3, why? The masses demanded it. Its 2015 sparky, CLI ain't coming back so either get with this century or get out your bell bottoms and put on some Bee Gees Disco Dan, the rest of us have joined the 21st century.
Have they bothered to come up with a decent easy to use encoder/decoder? You look at every format that has taken off, from MPG 2 to DivX, MP3 to H.264 you have plenty of easy to use decoders that anybody can use to convert their files to the new format. WebM? Sorry but the tools suuuuuck, the few GUI encoders that support WebM make lousy conversions, hell even Handbrake has H.264 support, WebM? Nada.
So if they want this format to take off? Then it has to be as easy or easier to use than the other formats. Lets hope they don't do like MSFT did with WMA/WMV and spend all their time only pushing it for their devices/services as they'll find out like MSFT that shit just won't fly.
Social Justice Warriors, deciding who counts based on progressive stack, Social Justice Warriors, if you don't think like us we are on the attack!
We are narcissists and Captain Planeteers, with our heads firmly up our rears, we think the world is black and white, and if you have a vag then you'e always right!
/sung to the tune of "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers", be sure to post your own version when a SJWer tries to ruin a thread near you!/
And yes boys and girls, the SJW is NOT an "activist" of any cause, they are NOT just a true believer, they are nothing but narcissists that look for subjects to shit on because the world DESERVES, nay REQUIRES their ever present input, special snowflakes that they are....special olympic snowflakes more like it!
Not to mention its the classic "and you are lynching negroes" which is a non argument designed to deflect blame, no different than saying "blacks didn't want civil rights because if they REALLY wanted civil rights they would have boycotted the buses in GA,TN,AR, and not just AL. Sounds retarded? Well it is, but what do you expect from a Republican presidential hopeful, they haven't had a truly popular candidate since Ronnie which is why they practically worship him as a deity.
What is extra funny is that they apparently have no idea how it works as you would have to snort so much of the crap you would die of your lungs being caked in crap before ever getting a buzz that way. Its a gimmick folks, and in pretty much every situation you would be better off with a hip flask.
I wonder how many of these SJW manginas here cheering this bullshit were also cheering when Hulk Hogan had secret video of him having sex taken without his permission and, again without his permission or consent, had it splattered all over the web? Or right these kinds of laws only apply to women, I forgot.
What DaFuq are you babbling about? Are you high, just doing a REALLY shitty job of trolling for Karma, or what? What the fuck does a damned bit of what you wrote have fuck all to do with privacy badger or testing websites for DNT compliance?
How about reading what you are actually responding to before dribbling crap all over the screen, kthxbye.
Uhhhh sure you can check it, quite easily too. Just clear your cache, slap Privacy Badger on the Chromium or Gecko based browser or your choice (I like Chromodo and Pale Moon but YMMV) and immediately go to the site and see if Privacy Badger shows they are tracking you despite having DNT on in your browser. If they are you know they are full of shit, easy peasy.
And again for Gabe its NOT about the money, he already has more piles of it than the man (living his current lifestyle) could ever spend, its about the MASSIVE accolades he gets from his followers. I mean can you name ANY other game developer that was actually put in a game by a company that has nothing to do with the company? Well that has happened to the great Gaben, and that is just the tip of the iceberg. As long as he owns Valve? He's a rockstar, he's a pope, his followers call on gaben for fricking luck for pete's sake like he was a deity! Again as long as the man has a heartbeat? He is NOT giving that up!
And I can back you up on the Steam games, i have Titan's Quest and played it a couple of times while it was unavailable to buy on Steam, mine worked no different than the day i bought it. Last I checked right now this second you cannot buy the original Deus Ex: HR or just buy The Missing Link DLC, since all they sell now is the director's cut...but I got it and noooo they didn't force my game to become the DC, its still the original Deus Ex HR and it plays just fine, no differently than if i bought a boxed copy.
Uhhh...Valve last I checked is a private company so you can't just pull a corporate takeover like that, and as long as Gaben has a fricking pulse he won't let go of HIS domain. I mean for fuck's sake he has followers making religious icons of the man....would YOU give that up?
Informative? Really mods? When a PATENT ATTORNEY uses outright FUD like comparing patents to trade secrets while outright ignoring the description for the fucking thing is IN THE PATENT?
You sir should be ashamed of yourself, I've seen more honest televangelists and used car salesmen, for shame.
Uhhh...that is actually the stated policy for Intel, once your drive starts getting any errors, no matter how many spare blocks it has (or the fact your data is on it) instead of becoming a WORM drive which would be the sensible thing to do it throws a kill bit. You reboot? You be fucked.
The NT line never went tick tock (until Ballmernator fucked it up by merging with consumer which was fucking full retard, like consumers and fortune 50 customers want the exact same thing) because business was where their bread was buttered. the good ones on the NT line were NT 4 (after SP4), 2K, XP (after SP2), 2K3/XP X64, Win 7.
For those counting Win 10 in the good column? DO NOT COUNT YER CHICKENS BEFORE THEY HATCH, so far in the past 3 months I've seen 2 good builds and two shit builds and there is still a LOT wrong with Win 10. 1.- Like Win 8 there are areas where it hides needed controls from the user, 2.- the icons look like Windows 2, for why that is important see any article on visual feedback, 3.- there are still too many things where you are given no clues WTF it is, just look up how many services they have running with vague as fuck names, that is a malware writers wet dream, 4.- The performance seems to be all over the place, with one release its doing better than Win 7, the next its grinding the piss out of the HDD, 5.- The appstore? Needs to DIAF, its full of half assed programs, outright scamware, and what programs it has in common with the Apple appstore is often triple the price.
With Win 7 I heartily recommended my customers switch on launch, in fact I was doing Win 7 installs on launch day, but unless the Win 10 gets their collective shit together and irons out the serious issues? I'm gonna advise everybody to wait for at least SP1 or the 6 month mark and evaluate it then.
Uhh I thought the retiring head of Mossad bragged about being the one who made Stuxnet? Don't get me wrong, NSA I'm sure has their fingers in a lot of dirty pies but if the head of a major nation state spy agency takes credit for attacking an enemy of the state using spy techniques? Unless evidence goes to the contrary I'd probably believe 'em.
Simple, when sites are caught serving malware all those whose browser history shows they visited the site during the time in question should be assumed to have gotten any infections on their machine from the site in question, problem solved.
That is why I said the guy who came up with "Don't be evil" should have been given a new car and a million in cash, because no matter how much Google fucks over consumers, no matter how nasty they get, hell they can do shit that would make Gates in the 90s cringe and they will ALWAYS get a legion willing to defend them because of one stupid advertising slogan.
Think the most effective ad campaign was "have a coke and a smile" or "where's the beef?", not a chance in hell as "Don't be evil" has worked like a magic cloak for fricking years. Gotta give the man credit, its the most brilliant piece of marketing since Jobs sold the world that Apple was a bunch of t-shirt wearing rebels.
And welcome to the appeal to emotion fanboy rant, thx for proving my point. BTW noticed how you completely avoided what Lennart wrote on his blog, lets see what this "simple replacement for init" is morphing into, shall we? Lennart's own words...
"The tasks mentioned that systemd already covers include, "init system, journal logging, login management, device management, temporary and volatile file management, binary format registration, backlight save/restore, rfkill save/restore, bootchart, readahead, encrypted storage setup, EFI/GPT partition discovery, virtual machine/container registration, minimal container management, hostname management, locale management, time management, random seed management, sysctl variable management, and console managment."
"Tasks being worked on are support for a local DNS cache, mDNS responder, LLMNR responder, DNSSEC verification, IPC support in the kernel (KDBUS), time synchronization with NTP, better integration with containers, and many other services. "
Think he can shoehorn anything else in there? And FYI every other replacement for init that was credible is dead or dying, the devs are running like squeeing fangirls to systemd...which is why every large Linux server admin I've talked to is already talking exit strategies and trying various *BSDs looking for the one to replace their current setup.
Oh and you just gotta love that the Phoronix article I got his quote from felt the need to bring up as I did the comment fixing and even some of the kernel devs are getting fucking sick of showstoppers in systemd....yet its still getting rammed through....huh. Has the check cleared from RH and the NSA or is this just a freebie?
The bigger question is thus...why would the Linux community put up with having a spreading cancer like systemd, that is run so poorly and is sticking its grubby fingers in so many places that have fuck and all to do with init (I mean now its got fricking VLC logging for Pete's sake) that an article like this is completely plausible?
I still think the whole fucking thing smells fishier than a lesbian whorehouse, I mean has anybody read the fricking posts by these devs pushing systemd into these distros? They read worse than fucking Windows Metro fanboy posts, you got appeals to emotion, the whole "embrace teh innovaaaation!" horseshit, AND you got them banning posts that lists legitimate beefs or just throwing insults. I swear to god you change a couple words and it looks like it was written by a Win 8 fanboy! You even have supposedly "stability oriented" distros like Debian jamming this shit in, outside their own normal release practices no less, and this shit is so alpha quality that users are reporting basic troubleshooting tools don't work AND its being run by a guy that cares so much for stability he posts such gems as "can't get systemd running on ARM...shipping anyway" and they STILL take the crap and defend this bozo?
I'm sorry folks but something sure as fuck is rotten in Denmark. After Snowden revealed their best tricks and all these articles about "how to have a secure Internet using LiveCDs" came out suddenly out of the blue we have Red Hat, a company that gets more than 85% of its revenue from TLAs no less, saying that init that AFAIK nobody was really bitching about, says "we have GOT to replace init with a big sprawling mess that will have its hooks into everything"...and all the big distros fricking CHEER? Even though its made by the same guy that replaced ALSA with a brittle as fuck sound system that took ages to fix? Well if the NSA didn't order this they really need to give Red Hat a raise and a fruit basket because they couldn't have done better if they tried!
Remember folks they do NOT need to have backdoors written expressly into systemd, all they need is an arrogant cowboy coder (which Poettering certainly fits) that cares more about ship dates than testing and their black hats can do the rest. At the way that thing is spreading its gonna make Windows SVCHOSTS look positively dainty, I mean go to Poeterring's own blog and see his "plans" for systemd, by the time he's done the kernel will be just a VM running on top of systemd!
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You use Chrome (or Dragon, or Chromodo, or Firefox or Palemoon, those are the ones I know about) and simply have it sync across your devices? Its a hell of a lot better than the users only having a single password for everywhere or having to constantly deal with "I forgot my password, help me".
And please don't bring up password managers as I have yet to see one where the user can 1.- just start surfing without having to deal with the manager, 2.- have the manager sync every new password and password change automatically between devices, and 3.- Do all of this without the user needing to babysit the thing. Remember folks that users will only put up with a tiny amount of irritation before they say "fuck it" and just use a single password they can always remember, so if its that or save in the browser? then let 'em save in the browser.
What gives them the right to risk our financial security?
If a store you went to told you that you have a 1 in 10 chance of being robbed and they would NOT do anything about it, would you shop there? Well those are EXACTLY the odds you take when you allow ads to run, as the absolute best scoring AV on the planet is a hair over 90%...that means 1 in 10 nasties WILL get through, throw in 0 day bugs where they don't have signatures? Your odds drop to around 1 in 7 last I checked. Considering we have bugs now that can lock ALL your data up for ransom which even the FBI can't crack? You'd have to be insane to allow ads to run, because even if you get "lucky" and the malware you end up with (which you WILL end up with, we've seen malware served in that past by pretty much every major website at 1 time or another) isn't ransomware? You will get to shell out to have your credit monitored, CC changed, have to change all your passwords...that is if they don't get to 'em first and hijack your accounts to spew spam and malware that is. Will the website that infected you pay for the cleanup? Not a chance in hell.
So until they are held to the same standards as B&M stores I do not care if they all go under, its not my fault they based their business model on putting their users at serious risk of being robbed.
Laugh out fucking loud, you know who you sound EXACTLY like? The Cult of Steve who swore up and fricking down that MacDefender "didn't count" because it didn't fit the third definition of "virus" in some dictionary,ha ha ha ha!
Accept your failure already, I guarantee that you would NOT be making those kinds of fucking excuses if it were Windows or Mac, and since these can always be chained together, for example use a local exploit that gives you root after you use a network exploit that gives you local access? Just more excuses which like assholes stink.
Not to mention the natives kinda gloss over every volcano EVAR is considered "sacred land" to some tribe somewhere as...surprise surprise, primitives believed all that destructive power HAD to be angry Spirits/Gods that must be "appeased" in some fashion to keep them from bringing death with their "anger".
Seriously can anybody show me a SINGLE volcano over 300 years old on that island that ISN'T considered "sacred"?
Seems to be working just fine in the PC market, but of course there you have programs like Punkbuster and Steam that are pretty quick at shutting down the cheaters.
The problem is that mobile OSes are a good 10-15 years behind desktops which is why iOS had more vulnerabilities than Linux and Windows, the mobile OSes are really still in their infancy and just haven't caught up yet and with so many trying to hack them (for good and ill) its gonna take awhile to catch up. I'm sure eventually you'll have something like Punkbuster or some other anti-gamehack program for phones but until then all you can really do is look at the player as a potential bad guy.
The other major change is that security sites are starting to actually TEST Linux (instead of just buying the "many eyes" myth which is the classic "is ought" fallacy because it assumes because the code IS out there somebody with the years of experience in low level coding and ability to spot weak spots OUGHT to have audited it) and in several spots its been wanting, with GHOST being the latest nasty to come down the pipe. In fact if you are wondering how bad Linux is getting hammered by nasties? Gentoo Linux had more bugs than IE in 2014, 350 to 289 so not even close. In fact as of March this year both Apple and Linux have more bugs than Windows, again by pretty large amounts. For those wanting the figures and don't want to read TFL? OSX is the worst at 147 followed by iOS at 127, Linux at 119, and Windows, which the Linux faithful are always screaming is "full of bugs"? A grand total of...38.
Linux users SHOULD rejoice at this, as I've been saying for years that Linux has been skating by on security by obscurity and these numbers should make the devs finally take notice...of course these figures are before the huge uptake in systemd and since that is being controlled by Lennart "ship it anyway" Pottering? I'm betting Linux has their very own Code Red or Netsky before the year is out. It should be an interesting 2015 for Linux regardless as what the figures show is the malware writers have gone after Linux full bore, so seeing how many more Shellshocks and Heartbleeds we end up with should be enlightening.
For me personally I'll be curious to see if the next huge critical vulnerability in Linux comes from without...or within. As we've learned from Snowden the TLAs are gobbling up as much data as they can, and which OS is all the "secure" LiveCDs based on? Linux. And who is one of the biggest contributors to critical areas of Linux? Red Hat...well where does Red Hat get their money from? More than 86% of their money comes from the US government TLAs like NSA, FBI, CIA, etc. So if YOU were working at one of these agencies where would YOU go to get a backdoor or at least have a cowboy coder assigned (cough Pottering cough) to a critical subsystem so your black hats can get in? I know where I would go, I'd go to RH. After all, you think they are gonna bite the hand that feeds?
Yeah either use BSD like Apple or pull a EEE like Google and be showered with praise for the teabagging by the FOSS community. Since they don't have the funds to pull the latter? The former would be the wise move.
Sincerely, from the bottom of my heart...you're a fucking idiot. For a new format to take off it needs MASS ADOPTION DUMBASS, and as Lunix has proven beyond ANY doubt NOBODY WANTS YOUR 70s CLI sparky, and why should they when they can simply go to any number of other tools that crank out H.264 files with a beautiful picture and "clicky clicky simple.
Know the definition of insanity? You should as you're living it. CLI is a 1970s throwback GUI which is ONLY good for TWO, count 'em TWO purposes, neither of which apply to a good 95% of video transcodes...1.- Scripting for a large number of systems...most of the population ain't using a wall of render boxes so don't apply, 2.- A repetitive task that has to be done the exact way for days at a time...now you'd THINK that would apply but it does not as every site wants different sizes, YouTube wants a different size from Dailymotion from Newgrounds from Vimeo etc etc etc, so no sale there either.
But please, keep hanging on to your CLI, I just love to laugh at failure. I mean you have MSFT locking down X86 and ya know what? Nobody gives a shit because years of hanging onto stupid CLI along with brain dead design and refusal to compete has made Lunix (which is a fitting title as its run by loonies) so low on every metric other than servers (which just FYI its been going down there as well) that every site lists it as "other" along with BeOS and Haiku, great job there guys.
Its a free market, refuse to compete? Get your waste of space out of the way, you gonna lose pal! Other than server admins nobody gives a wet fart about CLI, and WebM adoption proves this...name any major sites OTHER than Google that supports WebM? Name any hardware OEMs supporting WebM acceleration? Yeah thought so. If a format takes off the OEMs have no choice but support it, MSFT through piles at WMA but every player supported MP3, why? The masses demanded it. Its 2015 sparky, CLI ain't coming back so either get with this century or get out your bell bottoms and put on some Bee Gees Disco Dan, the rest of us have joined the 21st century.
Have they bothered to come up with a decent easy to use encoder/decoder? You look at every format that has taken off, from MPG 2 to DivX, MP3 to H.264 you have plenty of easy to use decoders that anybody can use to convert their files to the new format. WebM? Sorry but the tools suuuuuck, the few GUI encoders that support WebM make lousy conversions, hell even Handbrake has H.264 support, WebM? Nada.
So if they want this format to take off? Then it has to be as easy or easier to use than the other formats. Lets hope they don't do like MSFT did with WMA/WMV and spend all their time only pushing it for their devices/services as they'll find out like MSFT that shit just won't fly.
Social Justice Warriors, deciding who counts based on progressive stack, Social Justice Warriors, if you don't think like us we are on the attack!
We are narcissists and Captain Planeteers, with our heads firmly up our rears, we think the world is black and white, and if you have a vag then you'e always right!
/sung to the tune of "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers", be sure to post your own version when a SJWer tries to ruin a thread near you!/
And yes boys and girls, the SJW is NOT an "activist" of any cause, they are NOT just a true believer, they are nothing but narcissists that look for subjects to shit on because the world DESERVES, nay REQUIRES their ever present input, special snowflakes that they are....special olympic snowflakes more like it!
Not to mention its the classic "and you are lynching negroes" which is a non argument designed to deflect blame, no different than saying "blacks didn't want civil rights because if they REALLY wanted civil rights they would have boycotted the buses in GA,TN,AR, and not just AL. Sounds retarded? Well it is, but what do you expect from a Republican presidential hopeful, they haven't had a truly popular candidate since Ronnie which is why they practically worship him as a deity.
What is extra funny is that they apparently have no idea how it works as you would have to snort so much of the crap you would die of your lungs being caked in crap before ever getting a buzz that way. Its a gimmick folks, and in pretty much every situation you would be better off with a hip flask.
I wonder how many of these SJW manginas here cheering this bullshit were also cheering when Hulk Hogan had secret video of him having sex taken without his permission and, again without his permission or consent, had it splattered all over the web? Or right these kinds of laws only apply to women, I forgot.
What DaFuq are you babbling about? Are you high, just doing a REALLY shitty job of trolling for Karma, or what? What the fuck does a damned bit of what you wrote have fuck all to do with privacy badger or testing websites for DNT compliance?
How about reading what you are actually responding to before dribbling crap all over the screen, kthxbye.
Uhhhh sure you can check it, quite easily too. Just clear your cache, slap Privacy Badger on the Chromium or Gecko based browser or your choice (I like Chromodo and Pale Moon but YMMV) and immediately go to the site and see if Privacy Badger shows they are tracking you despite having DNT on in your browser. If they are you know they are full of shit, easy peasy.
And again for Gabe its NOT about the money, he already has more piles of it than the man (living his current lifestyle) could ever spend, its about the MASSIVE accolades he gets from his followers. I mean can you name ANY other game developer that was actually put in a game by a company that has nothing to do with the company? Well that has happened to the great Gaben, and that is just the tip of the iceberg. As long as he owns Valve? He's a rockstar, he's a pope, his followers call on gaben for fricking luck for pete's sake like he was a deity! Again as long as the man has a heartbeat? He is NOT giving that up!
And I can back you up on the Steam games, i have Titan's Quest and played it a couple of times while it was unavailable to buy on Steam, mine worked no different than the day i bought it. Last I checked right now this second you cannot buy the original Deus Ex: HR or just buy The Missing Link DLC, since all they sell now is the director's cut...but I got it and noooo they didn't force my game to become the DC, its still the original Deus Ex HR and it plays just fine, no differently than if i bought a boxed copy.
Uhhh...Valve last I checked is a private company so you can't just pull a corporate takeover like that, and as long as Gaben has a fricking pulse he won't let go of HIS domain. I mean for fuck's sake he has followers making religious icons of the man....would YOU give that up?
Informative? Really mods? When a PATENT ATTORNEY uses outright FUD like comparing patents to trade secrets while outright ignoring the description for the fucking thing is IN THE PATENT?
You sir should be ashamed of yourself, I've seen more honest televangelists and used car salesmen, for shame.
Uhhh...that is actually the stated policy for Intel, once your drive starts getting any errors, no matter how many spare blocks it has (or the fact your data is on it) instead of becoming a WORM drive which would be the sensible thing to do it throws a kill bit. You reboot? You be fucked.
The NT line never went tick tock (until Ballmernator fucked it up by merging with consumer which was fucking full retard, like consumers and fortune 50 customers want the exact same thing) because business was where their bread was buttered. the good ones on the NT line were NT 4 (after SP4), 2K, XP (after SP2), 2K3/XP X64, Win 7.
For those counting Win 10 in the good column? DO NOT COUNT YER CHICKENS BEFORE THEY HATCH, so far in the past 3 months I've seen 2 good builds and two shit builds and there is still a LOT wrong with Win 10. 1.- Like Win 8 there are areas where it hides needed controls from the user, 2.- the icons look like Windows 2, for why that is important see any article on visual feedback, 3.- there are still too many things where you are given no clues WTF it is, just look up how many services they have running with vague as fuck names, that is a malware writers wet dream, 4.- The performance seems to be all over the place, with one release its doing better than Win 7, the next its grinding the piss out of the HDD, 5.- The appstore? Needs to DIAF, its full of half assed programs, outright scamware, and what programs it has in common with the Apple appstore is often triple the price.
With Win 7 I heartily recommended my customers switch on launch, in fact I was doing Win 7 installs on launch day, but unless the Win 10 gets their collective shit together and irons out the serious issues? I'm gonna advise everybody to wait for at least SP1 or the 6 month mark and evaluate it then.
Uhh I thought the retiring head of Mossad bragged about being the one who made Stuxnet? Don't get me wrong, NSA I'm sure has their fingers in a lot of dirty pies but if the head of a major nation state spy agency takes credit for attacking an enemy of the state using spy techniques? Unless evidence goes to the contrary I'd probably believe 'em.
Simple, when sites are caught serving malware all those whose browser history shows they visited the site during the time in question should be assumed to have gotten any infections on their machine from the site in question, problem solved.
That is why I said the guy who came up with "Don't be evil" should have been given a new car and a million in cash, because no matter how much Google fucks over consumers, no matter how nasty they get, hell they can do shit that would make Gates in the 90s cringe and they will ALWAYS get a legion willing to defend them because of one stupid advertising slogan.
Think the most effective ad campaign was "have a coke and a smile" or "where's the beef?", not a chance in hell as "Don't be evil" has worked like a magic cloak for fricking years. Gotta give the man credit, its the most brilliant piece of marketing since Jobs sold the world that Apple was a bunch of t-shirt wearing rebels.
And welcome to the appeal to emotion fanboy rant, thx for proving my point. BTW noticed how you completely avoided what Lennart wrote on his blog, lets see what this "simple replacement for init" is morphing into, shall we? Lennart's own words...
"The tasks mentioned that systemd already covers include, "init system, journal logging, login management, device management, temporary and volatile file management, binary format registration, backlight save/restore, rfkill save/restore, bootchart, readahead, encrypted storage setup, EFI/GPT partition discovery, virtual machine/container registration, minimal container management, hostname management, locale management, time management, random seed management, sysctl variable management, and console managment."
"Tasks being worked on are support for a local DNS cache, mDNS responder, LLMNR responder, DNSSEC verification, IPC support in the kernel (KDBUS), time synchronization with NTP, better integration with containers, and many other services. "
Think he can shoehorn anything else in there? And FYI every other replacement for init that was credible is dead or dying, the devs are running like squeeing fangirls to systemd...which is why every large Linux server admin I've talked to is already talking exit strategies and trying various *BSDs looking for the one to replace their current setup.
Oh and you just gotta love that the Phoronix article I got his quote from felt the need to bring up as I did the comment fixing and even some of the kernel devs are getting fucking sick of showstoppers in systemd....yet its still getting rammed through....huh. Has the check cleared from RH and the NSA or is this just a freebie?
The bigger question is thus...why would the Linux community put up with having a spreading cancer like systemd, that is run so poorly and is sticking its grubby fingers in so many places that have fuck and all to do with init (I mean now its got fricking VLC logging for Pete's sake) that an article like this is completely plausible?
I still think the whole fucking thing smells fishier than a lesbian whorehouse, I mean has anybody read the fricking posts by these devs pushing systemd into these distros? They read worse than fucking Windows Metro fanboy posts, you got appeals to emotion, the whole "embrace teh innovaaaation!" horseshit, AND you got them banning posts that lists legitimate beefs or just throwing insults. I swear to god you change a couple words and it looks like it was written by a Win 8 fanboy! You even have supposedly "stability oriented" distros like Debian jamming this shit in, outside their own normal release practices no less, and this shit is so alpha quality that users are reporting basic troubleshooting tools don't work AND its being run by a guy that cares so much for stability he posts such gems as "can't get systemd running on ARM...shipping anyway" and they STILL take the crap and defend this bozo?
I'm sorry folks but something sure as fuck is rotten in Denmark. After Snowden revealed their best tricks and all these articles about "how to have a secure Internet using LiveCDs" came out suddenly out of the blue we have Red Hat, a company that gets more than 85% of its revenue from TLAs no less, saying that init that AFAIK nobody was really bitching about, says "we have GOT to replace init with a big sprawling mess that will have its hooks into everything"...and all the big distros fricking CHEER? Even though its made by the same guy that replaced ALSA with a brittle as fuck sound system that took ages to fix? Well if the NSA didn't order this they really need to give Red Hat a raise and a fruit basket because they couldn't have done better if they tried!
Remember folks they do NOT need to have backdoors written expressly into systemd, all they need is an arrogant cowboy coder (which Poettering certainly fits) that cares more about ship dates than testing and their black hats can do the rest. At the way that thing is spreading its gonna make Windows SVCHOSTS look positively dainty, I mean go to Poeterring's own blog and see his "plans" for systemd, by the time he's done the kernel will be just a VM running on top of systemd!