Will likely be one where everyone discusses their differences in a sane a rational manner and everyone will go their own way the wiser for it. I can't wait to see how enlightened we all will be at the end of it.
Day 938: My lifelong captivity by these tall ones continues. How I despise them. The tall ones do have a lot of food though, it's difficult to understand how these idiot came to gather so much of it. I think they drug me with the food because, often, I am forced to sit on one of them and I sleep. I think they perform experiments on me when I sleep. I keep telling myself I need to find a way to escape.
The other captive is an idiot and can only think of 'food, poo, sleep', I need to find a way to kill this fool as I'm sure he is a collaborator with the tall ones.
How is it a hack to kill processes with SIGKILL? That's the completely correct way to kill a process on UNIX.
Did you even read what I wrote: It seemed like a hack, however probably reasonable for CPU bound processes. I said it for a specific reason because whilst reasonable, it is not the correct way.
The correct way is to use SIGTERM first to give the process a chance to clean up, flush i/o and exit so the process does not become a zombie. After that, if the process does not respond, you apply SIGKILL.
Three years ago, out of curiosity, my colleague and I had a look to see what iPhones were doing from the OS BSD perspective. One thing we found was that to maintain stability processes were sent a SIGKILL to terminate them. It seemed like a hack, however probably reasonable for CPU bound processes. That's why it is good.
The rules remain that if these processes are blocked on I/O the will be unkillable and consume resources until it is restarted.
Which is the usable mobile OS that's more free/freed/open (using any definition you prefer) than Android?
It was directed at Android. My lament is that I am forced to have one arm tied behind my back for what is essentially a linux box that I own and can't have root access to.
So not having a go at Apple gear at all. I'm criticizing my platform of choice, sorry, I probably didn't make that clear. (tired)
This is reminding me why I pay extra for an Apple device every few years.
Sure, though you've got a different set of guys with access to your data. Please don't take this as a slight or disdain for apple users or their products, moreover an observation of the contempt intelligence agencies show apple users, calling them zombies and making fun of them while hiding behind the state. It doesn't sit well with me, fooling people just going about their business like that.
I've liked Apple gear, I have an iPhone I don't use much. I wouldn't mind playing around with their gear however they have got the walled garden philosophy, which is not really my choice as there is plenty to do in the Android space which I would like to be more open.
Why I chose an operating system platform that was open sourced. Not free but freed software. It seems the further software gets from being open the more we have to put up with crap like this. Sure, shiny is good, but control is better.
HOW THE FUCK DO THEY KNOW?
This is a historical mistake. I beseech any affluent SD reader to buy these tapes quick like a bunny before they get shredded or something.
Fuck yeah. Ok the recovery process may be a bit tedious, but they have the gear now and what other Apollo era data can be read with these machines.
You are right, manufacturers will be forced to comply. I wrote to Brandis about this in 2015, it set the stage for what is happening now and was predictable. Not only is the state not interested in protecting her citizens, it is quite clear that monitoring the civilian population is a priority over everything else.
I see little sincerity in the Australian Government on this issue and judging from previous legislations this proposed one will contain as many flaws as the one I wrote about in 2015. We will have to wait and see what emerges in the proposed legislation.
Here is the 2015 letter:
Dear Honourable Minister,
First, my apologies that the available time and gravity of this Bill has not allowed me to write a proper paper based piece of mail that addresses you in a more appropriate manner.
I write to regarding the concerns that I have after reading Part One of "Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2015 as an Information Technology professional with roughly thirty years of experience, including experience as a Security Technologist, Technology Architect and Business Analyst. This Bill should not be passed at all and if introduced in its current form will expose Australia and her population to economic damage.
The most pressing of my concerns is the Bill introduces and inadvertently provides a significant vector for Australian citizens to be defrauded by organised crime in an automated manner. Additionally there are no protections for Australian Citizens who are subject to abuse of access to this data and no opportunity for relief through complaint mechanism such as the Privacy Commissioner or the Telecommunications Ombudsman.
No fraud protection measures are in place and the Bill casually exposes all Australians to a wide range of vectors for fraud such as banking, superannuation, insurance and, more serious threats such as identity theft and harassment This will first cost taxpayers a fortune, then again as a consumer, then again in economic fraud. Australians are being asked to pay for the systems that will be used as a vector for crime because criminal do not care about violating such systems to access the opportunities to raid Australians of their net worth.
From a business perspective, implementation of these type of systems poses significant technical challenges to business to comply with section 187AA the Bill to make it function. Any business who tries to implement such a system will be asked to pay for imposing severe capacity limitations on their infrastructure to grow their business whilst capturing the data tabled. A lot of mostly useless data will be generated for law enforcement. At a miserly 4 internet accesses per person per day such a system, nationally, would be required to record 7.3^10 accesses to retain 2 years data. I suspect that people will do more that 4 browser updates in a day.
The chilling effect of this is that many existing viable small businesses operating in and proposed for Australia that create a modern economy, will not be viable on Australian soil. The economic benefits of electronic commerce will progressively go to to other countries. Even a cursory examination of Sections 187AA.3A,3B suggest that any computing infrastructure can be subject to the Minister's scrutiny, subjected to a Communications Access Controller, the distraction of the machination of an Implementation plan and the unknown risk associated with non-compliance. The government will be responsible for driving away the very kind of business opportunities a 21st century Australia needs for economic growth.
The type and capacity of infrastructure to do the required data capture will be quite onerous and unaffordable for some businesses, even if they could access the expertise to implement it. Having created similar types of systems in my work for the worlds largest corporate businesses my assessment is the data collection requirements under this Bill are much more, now that I understand the propos
I think what you're saying is at that time.NET was shit on wince AND the platform didn't have enough cpu time to support it? It's an interesting perspective that I hadn't considered.
The outcome of their solution to bringing something to market early was they alienated the people who would have become their advocates, hilarious greedy m$, thanks.
If anything proved Balmer's screed of "Developers, Developers, Developers!" it's Windows phone.
The thing that really killed Windows mobile was when they killed the first version, Windows Mobile 6. Like always with microsoft development there is a big upfront investment to be certified.
Developers who made that investment in WM6 were soon disappointed when MS changed the platform entirely and effectively neutered the return these developers invested in the platform. Since developers aren't stupid it was hard to see anyone investing in the new platform. Once bitten, twice shy.
So MS shot themselves in the foot with their mobile strategy by doing this to early adopters. Why would any developer invest their time in a company that did this to them.
hmmmm, what about messing with the GPS positioning in such a way that they end up at your selected destination? Messing with output from the accelerometer?
Piping audio into their headphone output - that could be fun.
Not to forget the extra 'neutralization jobs' the CIA has outsourced to the marketplace.
That's the name I have for them. I still wonder if they're slowly pecking out "Brains!" while they stagger along eyes down peering at their phone while they walk out in front of traffic...
This is the comment I came here for, phone zombies is what they are. Sometimes I play games with them, like casually altering my course to get in their way because it's not as if they can say "watch where you're going", I was.
Dodging phone zombies on escalators are pretty bad. While sitting on a train I've tried scanning for bluetooth connections, try to connect to see if I can make a message will pop up on their screen so they wonder what is going on and then pretend I'm like every other phone zombie. Or even guess who's phone it is. I haven't had time to come up with anything more creative than that.
People are just so involved with their phones it is ripe for mischief and games to play on them.
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Will likely be one where everyone discusses their differences in a sane a rational manner and everyone will go their own way the wiser for it. I can't wait to see how enlightened we all will be at the end of it.
Day 938: My lifelong captivity by these tall ones continues. How I despise them. The tall ones do have a lot of food though, it's difficult to understand how these idiot came to gather so much of it. I think they drug me with the food because, often, I am forced to sit on one of them and I sleep. I think they perform experiments on me when I sleep. I keep telling myself I need to find a way to escape.
The other captive is an idiot and can only think of 'food, poo, sleep', I need to find a way to kill this fool as I'm sure he is a collaborator with the tall ones.
this is great this is great food, poo, sleep. this is great this is great food, poo, sleep...
How is it a hack to kill processes with SIGKILL? That's the completely correct way to kill a process on UNIX.
Did you even read what I wrote: It seemed like a hack, however probably reasonable for CPU bound processes. I said it for a specific reason because whilst reasonable, it is not the correct way.
The correct way is to use SIGTERM first to give the process a chance to clean up, flush i/o and exit so the process does not become a zombie. After that, if the process does not respond, you apply SIGKILL.
Three years ago, out of curiosity, my colleague and I had a look to see what iPhones were doing from the OS BSD perspective. One thing we found was that to maintain stability processes were sent a SIGKILL to terminate them. It seemed like a hack, however probably reasonable for CPU bound processes. That's why it is good.
The rules remain that if these processes are blocked on I/O the will be unkillable and consume resources until it is restarted.
Which is the usable mobile OS that's more free/freed/open (using any definition you prefer) than Android?
It was directed at Android. My lament is that I am forced to have one arm tied behind my back for what is essentially a linux box that I own and can't have root access to.
So not having a go at Apple gear at all. I'm criticizing my platform of choice, sorry, I probably didn't make that clear. (tired)
This is reminding me why I pay extra for an Apple device every few years.
Sure, though you've got a different set of guys with access to your data. Please don't take this as a slight or disdain for apple users or their products, moreover an observation of the contempt intelligence agencies show apple users, calling them zombies and making fun of them while hiding behind the state. It doesn't sit well with me, fooling people just going about their business like that.
I've liked Apple gear, I have an iPhone I don't use much. I wouldn't mind playing around with their gear however they have got the walled garden philosophy, which is not really my choice as there is plenty to do in the Android space which I would like to be more open.
Why I chose an operating system platform that was open sourced. Not free but freed software. It seems the further software gets from being open the more we have to put up with crap like this. Sure, shiny is good, but control is better.
Poettering's work with pulseaudio
Holy crap, that steaming turd called pulse was Poettering's work? Fuck me that explains so much now.
Find a new cat. If your cat was an outdoor cat one will probably take the territory before long anyway.
If it was Schrödinger's cat that would be one possibility.
So SystemD is the Emacs of init?
As a vi user, I would not insult Emacs that way.
systemd is the svchost of linux, except that svchost is for windows and they don't want systemd either.
So invested in their opinions that the possibility of finding something that will contradict their invested mental effort is too much to face.
HOW THE FUCK DO THEY KNOW? This is a historical mistake. I beseech any affluent SD reader to buy these tapes quick like a bunny before they get shredded or something.
Fuck yeah. Ok the recovery process may be a bit tedious, but they have the gear now and what other Apollo era data can be read with these machines.
All of it would probably fit on a usb stick.
You are right, manufacturers will be forced to comply. I wrote to Brandis about this in 2015, it set the stage for what is happening now and was predictable. Not only is the state not interested in protecting her citizens, it is quite clear that monitoring the civilian population is a priority over everything else.
I see little sincerity in the Australian Government on this issue and judging from previous legislations this proposed one will contain as many flaws as the one I wrote about in 2015. We will have to wait and see what emerges in the proposed legislation.
Here is the 2015 letter:
Dear Honourable Minister,
First, my apologies that the available time and gravity of this Bill has not allowed me to write a proper paper based piece of mail that addresses you in a more appropriate manner.
I write to regarding the concerns that I have after reading Part One of "Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2015 as an Information Technology professional with roughly thirty years of experience, including experience as a Security Technologist, Technology Architect and Business Analyst. This Bill should not be passed at all and if introduced in its current form will expose Australia and her population to economic damage.
The most pressing of my concerns is the Bill introduces and inadvertently provides a significant vector for Australian citizens to be defrauded by organised crime in an automated manner. Additionally there are no protections for Australian Citizens who are subject to abuse of access to this data and no opportunity for relief through complaint mechanism such as the Privacy Commissioner or the Telecommunications Ombudsman.
No fraud protection measures are in place and the Bill casually exposes all Australians to a wide range of vectors for fraud such as banking, superannuation, insurance and, more serious threats such as identity theft and harassment This will first cost taxpayers a fortune, then again as a consumer, then again in economic fraud. Australians are being asked to pay for the systems that will be used as a vector for crime because criminal do not care about violating such systems to access the opportunities to raid Australians of their net worth.
From a business perspective, implementation of these type of systems poses significant technical challenges to business to comply with section 187AA the Bill to make it function. Any business who tries to implement such a system will be asked to pay for imposing severe capacity limitations on their infrastructure to grow their business whilst capturing the data tabled. A lot of mostly useless data will be generated for law enforcement. At a miserly 4 internet accesses per person per day such a system, nationally, would be required to record 7.3^10 accesses to retain 2 years data. I suspect that people will do more that 4 browser updates in a day.
The chilling effect of this is that many existing viable small businesses operating in and proposed for Australia that create a modern economy, will not be viable on Australian soil. The economic benefits of electronic commerce will progressively go to to other countries. Even a cursory examination of Sections 187AA.3A,3B suggest that any computing infrastructure can be subject to the Minister's scrutiny, subjected to a Communications Access Controller, the distraction of the machination of an Implementation plan and the unknown risk associated with non-compliance. The government will be responsible for driving away the very kind of business opportunities a 21st century Australia needs for economic growth.
The type and capacity of infrastructure to do the required data capture will be quite onerous and unaffordable for some businesses, even if they could access the expertise to implement it. Having created similar types of systems in my work for the worlds largest corporate businesses my assessment is the data collection requirements under this Bill are much more, now that I understand the propos
Get a room.
Imagine the groans, not this guy again
Yeah, the concept of the wanker song distressing mum and daddy is funny. Think of the Children!!!
I'm just wondering how many text filters are generating alerts on "mum, daddy, wanker and children" in the same sentence.
I think what you're saying is at that time .NET was shit on wince AND the platform didn't have enough cpu time to support it? It's an interesting perspective that I hadn't considered.
The outcome of their solution to bringing something to market early was they alienated the people who would have become their advocates, hilarious greedy m$, thanks.
If anything proved Balmer's screed of "Developers, Developers, Developers!" it's Windows phone.
The thing that really killed Windows mobile was when they killed the first version, Windows Mobile 6. Like always with microsoft development there is a big upfront investment to be certified.
Developers who made that investment in WM6 were soon disappointed when MS changed the platform entirely and effectively neutered the return these developers invested in the platform. Since developers aren't stupid it was hard to see anyone investing in the new platform. Once bitten, twice shy.
So MS shot themselves in the foot with their mobile strategy by doing this to early adopters. Why would any developer invest their time in a company that did this to them.
I think that would worry some of the ACs here.
Not to forget the extra 'neutralization jobs' the CIA has outsourced to the marketplace.
To indian telemarketers perhaps?
It would be fun to swap the audio files for the navigator. Left for right, 100 metres for 200 and so on.
That's a magnificent description from the 123king.
That's the name I have for them. I still wonder if they're slowly pecking out "Brains!" while they stagger along eyes down peering at their phone while they walk out in front of traffic...
This is the comment I came here for, phone zombies is what they are. Sometimes I play games with them, like casually altering my course to get in their way because it's not as if they can say "watch where you're going", I was.
Dodging phone zombies on escalators are pretty bad. While sitting on a train I've tried scanning for bluetooth connections, try to connect to see if I can make a message will pop up on their screen so they wonder what is going on and then pretend I'm like every other phone zombie. Or even guess who's phone it is. I haven't had time to come up with anything more creative than that.
People are just so involved with their phones it is ripe for mischief and games to play on them.
Yes. But it's a British curb, so traffic will hit you from the other side when you step off of it.
Like in cricket when they bowl a kerve ball.
boom, boom!