I use Win7 it as game-launcher and for MS-Office. For the first I will not consider Win10 before 2020 when Wion7 security patches will end. For the second, I can confine it into a VM (with Win7 or Win10) after 2020 or run Office in Wine, probably in a VM as well, this trash is insecure as hell...
Well, Fiorina was obviously inexperienced and used management-"techniques" (for example, "shoot the messenger") that are known to be extremely bad ("shoot the messenger" has been known to be fatal for, say, only a few 1000 years). I wonder whether the board did not understand they needed somebody competent or whether they though she was. In both cases, the people even more incompetent than Fiorina (if that is possible) were the members of the board.
And so we have a driver that violated 3 (!) safety measures. It is no surprise he got killed with that. Technology can to only so much to compensate for stupid.
Indeed. The whole thing was a freak accident that will not repeat after the software has been adjusted. It took an incompetent driver (in two regards) and very special circumstances to happen in the first place. Criticizing Tesla for this is stupid, and I suspect its competitors are very much behind this campaign.
Same here. And Vulcan looks like it could fix a lot of the remaining issues with gaming on Linux. Engines based on Vulcan should become pretty popular as the same developers can then target Windows, Linux, Android, etc. without having to learn a new engine.
I think mobile gaming will, in the end, be the end of Windows-centric game development. And as soon as that has happened, there is no reason to stay on Windows anymore.
There is also the little question of the anti-trust implications. The EU alone could already severely punish them if caught.
Also, one wonders what they would have to break in addition to make Steam hard or impossible to use. Conceptionally, it is just a network-connected bit of user-installed software, much like a web-browser, for example. I think the only credible attack is that they would pay/coerce many game developers and publishers to only publish in the Windows-Store. That will probably fail miserably.
My point is that both more secure alternatives (which have however consistently failed to materialize in any real-world deployed form, and the whole idea of anonymous networking is now something like 20 years old) and improving TOR security are both valid options. Given that TOR is already there and works and its weak points are already pretty well understood, the second seems to be the by far better option. Also note that the TOR project has long since said that hidden services need work, but that they would need funding/donations for that.
So this recent attack is not really much of a surprise and it was discovered as part of the ongoing attempts to make hidden services more secure. Also note that the known attacks on high-profile hidden services (Freedom Hosting, Silk Road, etc.) were not successful attacks against the hidden services, but attacks against the Firefox browser for users that did run old TOR browser bundles with known vulnerabilities, exploits against server software run on top of a hidden service and user and administrator errors. There is actually no evidence at this time that any hidden service was successfully attacked on TOR-level. What probably can be done with the current attack is identification of the hidden services and their addresses (but not where they run) and then try direct attacks on the server-software (web-server, etc.) running there. Having a TOR hidden service does not excuse you from making it secure against these conventional attacks.
Telling people to move away from TOR at this time is not really a good idea. Telling them to be careful and explaining what can get them attacked successfully is something that actually helps.
You really have no clue what is going on. Fascinating.
In the same venue: Cars are insecure (they crash on occasion and kill people), food is insecure, water is insecure. According to your logic we need to drop all these.
This is a beautiful piece of social engineering by those who want TOR to go away. Well played.
Indeed. It is a classical attack: Make people mistrust the secure tools and have them use less secure tools instead. Works on many people, unfortunately.
So basically failed terror-management. Pathetic. Incidentally, we do know absolutely nothing about whether there is an "afterlife" or a next life waiting for us. We do know that some people use stories about one to defraud us (most religions, but also the Cryo-Freeze people and the "upload into computer" people and the like), but that does say nothing about the validity of the idea itself.
Kurzweil is not only a moron, his "accomplishments" are fake. Hint: Do not look up "Kurzweil", look up the things he claims to have invented. Just another fraudster living big because of stupid fanbois.
It does not. The problem is on your side and it is invalid assumption of truth of certain things that are most decidedly not proven to be true. Just like any other religious fundamentalist.
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I use Win7 it as game-launcher and for MS-Office. For the first I will not consider Win10 before 2020 when Wion7 security patches will end. For the second, I can confine it into a VM (with Win7 or Win10) after 2020 or run Office in Wine, probably in a VM as well, this trash is insecure as hell...
Do you know a way to get that one? So far it is the only one I would even consider buying. Same for my employer (small business, but still).
Excellent example 2
Excellent example 1
Fixing stupid by throwing facts at those affected is known to not work.
Protip: You are an AC with zero standing and zero credibility. There is no need to prove you wrong.
Unfortunately, that seems to be backed by significant real-world evidence.
Well, Fiorina was obviously inexperienced and used management-"techniques" (for example, "shoot the messenger") that are known to be extremely bad ("shoot the messenger" has been known to be fatal for, say, only a few 1000 years). I wonder whether the board did not understand they needed somebody competent or whether they though she was. In both cases, the people even more incompetent than Fiorina (if that is possible) were the members of the board.
And a BAD sports team will be BAD because of BAD players. Your point?
And so we have a driver that violated 3 (!) safety measures. It is no surprise he got killed with that. Technology can to only so much to compensate for stupid.
Indeed. The whole thing was a freak accident that will not repeat after the software has been adjusted. It took an incompetent driver (in two regards) and very special circumstances to happen in the first place. Criticizing Tesla for this is stupid, and I suspect its competitors are very much behind this campaign.
Same here. And Vulcan looks like it could fix a lot of the remaining issues with gaming on Linux. Engines based on Vulcan should become pretty popular as the same developers can then target Windows, Linux, Android, etc. without having to learn a new engine.
I think mobile gaming will, in the end, be the end of Windows-centric game development. And as soon as that has happened, there is no reason to stay on Windows anymore.
There is also the little question of the anti-trust implications. The EU alone could already severely punish them if caught.
Also, one wonders what they would have to break in addition to make Steam hard or impossible to use. Conceptionally, it is just a network-connected bit of user-installed software, much like a web-browser, for example. I think the only credible attack is that they would pay/coerce many game developers and publishers to only publish in the Windows-Store. That will probably fail miserably.
My point is that both more secure alternatives (which have however consistently failed to materialize in any real-world deployed form, and the whole idea of anonymous networking is now something like 20 years old) and improving TOR security are both valid options. Given that TOR is already there and works and its weak points are already pretty well understood, the second seems to be the by far better option. Also note that the TOR project has long since said that hidden services need work, but that they would need funding/donations for that.
So this recent attack is not really much of a surprise and it was discovered as part of the ongoing attempts to make hidden services more secure. Also note that the known attacks on high-profile hidden services (Freedom Hosting, Silk Road, etc.) were not successful attacks against the hidden services, but attacks against the Firefox browser for users that did run old TOR browser bundles with known vulnerabilities, exploits against server software run on top of a hidden service and user and administrator errors. There is actually no evidence at this time that any hidden service was successfully attacked on TOR-level. What probably can be done with the current attack is identification of the hidden services and their addresses (but not where they run) and then try direct attacks on the server-software (web-server, etc.) running there. Having a TOR hidden service does not excuse you from making it secure against these conventional attacks.
Telling people to move away from TOR at this time is not really a good idea. Telling them to be careful and explaining what can get them attacked successfully is something that actually helps.
Hehehe, nice! I think you are right. And if these two came up with it, we _know_ that it is a religion-surrogate.
You really have no clue what is going on. Fascinating.
In the same venue: Cars are insecure (they crash on occasion and kill people), food is insecure, water is insecure. According to your logic we need to drop all these.
That is because all alternatives are much, much worse.
This is a beautiful piece of social engineering by those who want TOR to go away. Well played.
Indeed. It is a classical attack: Make people mistrust the secure tools and have them use less secure tools instead. Works on many people, unfortunately.
There is a sucker born every minute...
So basically failed terror-management. Pathetic. Incidentally, we do know absolutely nothing about whether there is an "afterlife" or a next life waiting for us. We do know that some people use stories about one to defraud us (most religions, but also the Cryo-Freeze people and the "upload into computer" people and the like), but that does say nothing about the validity of the idea itself.
Kurzweil is not only a moron, his "accomplishments" are fake. Hint: Do not look up "Kurzweil", look up the things he claims to have invented. Just another fraudster living big because of stupid fanbois.
Here is a hint: The problem is on your side. And it cannot be fixed.
Oh, he didn't make it to more than a B.S.? Figures. The rest are political things, no reflection on skills or insights.
Like some cults wait for the world to end?
It does not. The problem is on your side and it is invalid assumption of truth of certain things that are most decidedly not proven to be true. Just like any other religious fundamentalist.