One site I frequent now and then shows short ads before the clips (with a timer how long the ad takes). So I usually open the tab, look how long it takes, then go on to another tab to do something else in the meantime. Works great. Only ONE time I got back to the page, see the last few seconds of the add, think "this looks interesting, what was that?" Of course they not only restricted fast forward during the ad, they also restricted rewind. So they themselves prevented me from watching the ad. Well. Serves them right.;-)
According to the article the x.org domain was registered to X.Org Foundation LLC, which got dissolved when the 501(c)3 organization was created.
But some organisation (presumably the 501(c)3 organization) must be the legal successor to the Foundation LLC. If they are not able to get the registration renewed just because the PERSON who wound up in the administrative/registration contacts doesn't approve it, then any employee that is in that contacts for any company could hold the companies domain registration hostage. If it where that easy it would happen all the time when a disgruntled admit is fed up with management.
The people familiar with the case said the missile was sent to Spain and used in the military exercise. But for reasons that are still unclear, after it was packed up, it began a roundabout trip through Europe, was loaded onto a truck and eventually sent to Germany.
The missile was packaged in Rota, Spain, a U.S. official said, where it was put into the truck belonging to another freight-shipping firm, known by officials who track such cargo as a “freight forwarder.” That trucking company released the missile to yet another shipping firm that was supposed to put the missile on a flight originating in Madrid. That flight was headed to Frankfurt, Germany, before it was to be placed on another flight bound for Florida.
At some point, officials loading the first flight realized the missile it expected to be loading onto the aircraft wasn’t among the cargo, the government official said. After tracing the cargo, officials realized that the missile had been loaded onto a truck operated by Air France, which took the missile to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. There, it was loaded onto a “mixed pallet” of cargo and placed on an Air France flight. By the time the freight-forwarding firm in Madrid tracked down the missile, it was on the Air France flight, headed to Havana.
I'm fine with technological limitations. But what about those "business limitations"?
Wasn't the whole concept of the "free market" based on supply and demand? If a person has a demand to get all technical available LTE speeds 24/7 shouldn't there be some business jumping at the chance of offering it? Otherwise isn't it just like in the former eastern block economies when there was a shipment of oranges into town you had to queue up at five in the morning so that the four oranges per person could be distributed throughout the day?
I somewhat get the feeling that having an economy that is steered by "the shareholders" instead of "the party" is just as bad in the long run.
The Windows Admins run around sweating, clicking this clicking that, checking there, trying thing a couple of time in the test environment, then switching to live, etc.....
I recline in my chair, open a terminal to run the update scripts I have tested beforehand, and a Media Player to watch some TV shows while they run. The thing is, the "little things" I have to install on the Windows machines are also scripted the same way, while the "Little things" the Windows Admins need to do on the Linux machines they also use some GUI Tool.
90% of "System Administration" is "knowing how things work" For example the technicalities on how IPs/Network-Masks/Gateways/routes, etc... work are absolutely identical in both Windows, Linux, IOs, whatever. There used to be a time when the only way to set them in Linux was the CLI, and the only way to set them in Windows was the GUI. That is no longer true. Now you can also use a CLI in Windows and GUI-Packages to manage them in Linux. The same way that most Cloud/Web/Whatever applications can be administered either via a GUI or a CLI.
So the difference is not really Linux/Windows any more, it's more of a GUI / CLI thing. So any admin might need to learn three things:
- How "Stuff" works. - How do set up "Stuff" via the CLI. - How do set up "Stuff" via the GUI.
It's interesting that even Microsoft (for example with SQLServer) only expose "the most commonly used" settings via the GUI (SQLServer Management Studio), while "all" are available via the sp_configure procedure that can be called from the CLI.
So in system administration I have either the option to:
- Learn "Stuff" - Learn the GUI - and then a few month later when I'm bored out of my skull by repetitive steps I need to do over and over in the GUI to learn the CLI to automate it maybe sometime later.
- Learn "Stuff" - Learn the CLI - go on learning new "Stuff" after the boring jobs have been automated.
... of course only meant to prevent the *government* from interfering and preventing free speech.
That was back in the days when saying something really stupid or wrong would get you mixed up in a duel or shunned by the entire community so that you had to leave that community pretty quick. Which, somewhat, has it's modern equivalent in those Hacking Vigilantes.
But neither should Apple be required to "treat every user as a stupid child" by default, just because they technically can't know if the user is actually the adult device owner or the child of the device owner that got told the password.
But basically it's the way the whole "intellectually property" system is set up: Smart (ruthless) people extracting money from the dumb (naive) people.
Welcome to Capitalism 2.0, which the dad supported in the first place by buying an Apple product.
It should be possible to configure pretty much everything via GUI (in the end Windows and Mac OS allow this) which is still not a case for some situations and operations.
If "Configurable via GUI" in Windows means you "add some arcane registry key via the registry editor", then *maybe*.
Huhnh. I on the other hand would have seen that feature being *added* as a sign of "too many developers who don't know that else to do".
With the thousands of "file storage options" available on the internet, what sane developer would build support for a specific ones into the mail client? It would be a never-ending nightmare to update it all the time when the way the storage provider works changes. (as it seems to have happened here)
Yeah. Percentages are pretty meaningless without a "total number"
I remember a while back that there were at least fire people *in panick* in my company because in one store the profit margin on one product group "went into the cellar". They *just* looked at the profit margin percentage that popped up in a list and went havoc. Havoc enough to escalate it to *me* (the software developer) to see if that "could be right".
I just had to look at the revenue / volume columns right next to the percentage to see what the problem was. It was a sale of "one item" for "~5€" in a product group that the shop normally doesn't carry that somehow wound up in the sales bin of that shop in some mysterious way.
He. Even in TFA itself it says that "Organizations wanting to use PGP for commercial purposes must obtain it on the Internet", so the software used to make that CD sale was puchasable "Online" before the CD in question.
The thing with this "direct bank access" in Germany is that I can go to my bank inside six weeks after the transfer and just tell them "reverse that transaction" and they just do it no question asked. So no scammer would ever use that to get money.
In fact, the "scamming" happens more the other way around. People ordering stuff with that direct debit payment, then reverse the payment after five weeks. Then the merchant has to either sue them to get his money, or he can decide do just live with the loss and just black-list them as customers.
The thing is, while there might be a function to correct the bias, that function most likely can't be applied to the "end result". For example, you can't just substract / add something to the distance calculated.
I suspect what they do is calculate the distance travelled between two measurements, and then add up that calculated distance. Which of course is a horrible way to do it, since in amplifies the errors in the location into bigger and bigger errors in distance.
They basically need to apply "smoothing" to the gathered data first. Back in the old days, when I still did analytics of physical measurement with "pen and paper" the standard way to plot a graph was to dot in the measurement, then squint your eyes and draw the resulting graph "smoothly through the dot-cloud". No exactly rocked surgery for anyone who has a basic understanding of physics and/or statistics. Makes one wonder who programmed those Apps. They probably took an API-Example for distance calculation and slapped an shiny GUI over it without further thought.
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I'm not sure, but in my opinion the "no, never" would not make much sense from a security standpoint.
Let's look at a "non-malicious" use case first:
If for example you have an app that has a "find the next gas station" button, and the prompt is triggered by that. Would a "no, never" make sense in that context? After all, when I don't want the App to know where I am, why would I press the "find the next gas station" button in the first place?
Then lets look at a "malicious" app case:
If the App randomly wants access to your location for no apparent reason, my personal opinion is that the "never" button will just hide the fact that the malicious app is trying to access his location all the time. If the user gets the popup every 5 minutes he will probably decide "this App is crap" and uninstall it. If the malicious location-lookup is just silently ignored then the user might keep using the app, and who knows what other malicious tricks it's also trying.
My personal "favourite" solution would be to just have the yes/no option in the simple OS prompt, and have the "yes, all the time" "no, never" options only in the OS administration interface for the app, but there with additional options to log/analyse the request that are made. So that the user isn't tempted to just klick "yes, all the time" for every app that is installed.
Since we just now are in the process of deciding which browser to use in the system images of ~5.000 machines in a corporate environment this is really big news.
Having a specific "sort of social media" connection to a third-party service provider hard-wired into the browser, especially one where people can push documents viewed in the browser to, basically puts one further nail into the coffin of Firefox usage as official browser on work machines in my opinion.
1) Complain a lot for a while 2) Switch to Pale Moon 3) Donate once a year to Pale Moon
It's well worth it, having gone from feeling "Fuck!!! What have they broken this time!!" on every Browser update to "Hey, great, some little bugs have been fixed" on every Browser update.
Having "taking over" a lot of code in my time, I can say for myself, having code that "works and I don't know why" makes me more nervous that code that "doesn't work and I don't know why".
I'd rather have clean code, be it working or non working. If it's clean I can get it to work reasonably quick. If it's not clean and not working then I can easily justify a re-write. But if I can't understand it and it seems to be working, I always have the dread that someday it will break in a disastrous fashion in the most inconvenient of times with me being unable to do anything about it.
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Funny anecdote:
One site I frequent now and then shows short ads before the clips (with a timer how long the ad takes). So I usually open the tab, look how long it takes, then go on to another tab to do something else in the meantime. Works great. Only ONE time I got back to the page, see the last few seconds of the add, think "this looks interesting, what was that?" Of course they not only restricted fast forward during the ad, they also restricted rewind. So they themselves prevented me from watching the ad. Well. Serves them right. ;-)
According to the article the x.org domain was registered to X.Org Foundation LLC, which got dissolved when the 501(c)3 organization was created.
But some organisation (presumably the 501(c)3 organization) must be the legal successor to the Foundation LLC. If they are not able to get the registration renewed just because the PERSON who wound up in the administrative/registration contacts doesn't approve it, then any employee that is in that contacts for any company could hold the companies domain registration hostage. If it where that easy it would happen all the time when a disgruntled admit is fed up with management.
Wall Street Journal seems to know. Sub-Sub-Sub-Contractor mix-up it seems.
The people familiar with the case said the missile was sent to Spain and used in the military exercise. But for reasons that are still unclear, after it was packed up, it began a roundabout trip through Europe, was loaded onto a truck and eventually sent to Germany.
The missile was packaged in Rota, Spain, a U.S. official said, where it was put into the truck belonging to another freight-shipping firm, known by officials who track such cargo as a “freight forwarder.” That trucking company released the missile to yet another shipping firm that was supposed to put the missile on a flight originating in Madrid. That flight was headed to Frankfurt, Germany, before it was to be placed on another flight bound for Florida.
At some point, officials loading the first flight realized the missile it expected to be loading onto the aircraft wasn’t among the cargo, the government official said. After tracing the cargo, officials realized that the missile had been loaded onto a truck operated by Air France, which took the missile to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. There, it was loaded onto a “mixed pallet” of cargo and placed on an Air France flight. By the time the freight-forwarding firm in Madrid tracked down the missile, it was on the Air France flight, headed to Havana.
Attempts to reach Air France were unsuccessful.
I'm fine with technological limitations. But what about those "business limitations"?
Wasn't the whole concept of the "free market" based on supply and demand? If a person has a demand to get all technical available LTE speeds 24/7 shouldn't there be some business jumping at the chance of offering it? Otherwise isn't it just like in the former eastern block economies when there was a shipment of oranges into town you had to queue up at five in the morning so that the four oranges per person could be distributed throughout the day?
I somewhat get the feeling that having an economy that is steered by "the shareholders" instead of "the party" is just as bad in the long run.
I always like "update holidays" in our company.
The Windows Admins run around sweating, clicking this clicking that, checking there, trying thing a couple of time in the test environment, then switching to live, etc.....
I recline in my chair, open a terminal to run the update scripts I have tested beforehand, and a Media Player to watch some TV shows while they run. The thing is, the "little things" I have to install on the Windows machines are also scripted the same way, while the "Little things" the Windows Admins need to do on the Linux machines they also use some GUI Tool.
90% of "System Administration" is "knowing how things work" For example the technicalities on how IPs/Network-Masks/Gateways/routes, etc... work are absolutely identical in both Windows, Linux, IOs, whatever. There used to be a time when the only way to set them in Linux was the CLI, and the only way to set them in Windows was the GUI. That is no longer true. Now you can also use a CLI in Windows and GUI-Packages to manage them in Linux. The same way that most Cloud/Web/Whatever applications can be administered either via a GUI or a CLI.
So the difference is not really Linux/Windows any more, it's more of a GUI / CLI thing. So any admin might need to learn three things:
- How "Stuff" works.
- How do set up "Stuff" via the CLI.
- How do set up "Stuff" via the GUI.
It's interesting that even Microsoft (for example with SQLServer) only expose "the most commonly used" settings via the GUI (SQLServer Management Studio), while "all" are available via the sp_configure procedure that can be called from the CLI.
So in system administration I have either the option to:
- Learn "Stuff"
- Learn the GUI
- and then a few month later when I'm bored out of my skull by repetitive steps I need to do over and over in the GUI to learn the CLI to automate it maybe sometime later.
- Learn "Stuff"
- Learn the CLI
- go on learning new "Stuff" after the boring jobs have been automated.
... of course only meant to prevent the *government* from interfering and preventing free speech.
That was back in the days when saying something really stupid or wrong would get you mixed up in a duel or shunned by the entire community so that you had to leave that community pretty quick. Which, somewhat, has it's modern equivalent in those Hacking Vigilantes.
But neither should Apple be required to "treat every user as a stupid child" by default, just because they technically can't know if the user is actually the adult device owner or the child of the device owner that got told the password.
But basically it's the way the whole "intellectually property" system is set up: Smart (ruthless) people extracting money from the dumb (naive) people.
Welcome to Capitalism 2.0, which the dad supported in the first place by buying an Apple product.
Where words fail, you need an Euler Diagram. Now we would just need to add ESA there somehow... ;-)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
... to other OSes.
For example:
It should be possible to configure pretty much everything via GUI (in the end Windows and Mac OS allow this) which is still not a case for some situations and operations.
If "Configurable via GUI" in Windows means you "add some arcane registry key via the registry editor", then *maybe*.
But WATCH OUT!!! before you take that step back. Or you might get hit by a distracted walking skyrocket.
Huhnh. I on the other hand would have seen that feature being *added* as a sign of "too many developers who don't know that else to do".
With the thousands of "file storage options" available on the internet, what sane developer would build support for a specific ones into the mail client? It would be a never-ending nightmare to update it all the time when the way the storage provider works changes. (as it seems to have happened here)
Wires can be cut.
... and radio can be jammed....
But Firefox releases are easy. They just have to run a script that randomly deletes some core features, and they are done.
Yeah. Percentages are pretty meaningless without a "total number"
I remember a while back that there were at least fire people *in panick* in my company because in one store the profit margin on one product group "went into the cellar". They *just* looked at the profit margin percentage that popped up in a list and went havoc. Havoc enough to escalate it to *me* (the software developer) to see if that "could be right".
I just had to look at the revenue / volume columns right next to the percentage to see what the problem was. It was a sale of "one item" for "~5€" in a product group that the shop normally doesn't carry that somehow wound up in the sales bin of that shop in some mysterious way.
He. Even in TFA itself it says that "Organizations wanting to use PGP for commercial purposes must obtain it on the Internet", so the software used to make that CD sale was puchasable "Online" before the CD in question.
The thing with this "direct bank access" in Germany is that I can go to my bank inside six weeks after the transfer and just tell them "reverse that transaction" and they just do it no question asked. So no scammer would ever use that to get money.
In fact, the "scamming" happens more the other way around. People ordering stuff with that direct debit payment, then reverse the payment after five weeks. Then the merchant has to either sue them to get his money, or he can decide do just live with the loss and just black-list them as customers.
The thing is, while there might be a function to correct the bias, that function most likely can't be applied to the "end result". For example, you can't just substract / add something to the distance calculated.
I suspect what they do is calculate the distance travelled between two measurements, and then add up that calculated distance. Which of course is a horrible way to do it, since in amplifies the errors in the location into bigger and bigger errors in distance.
They basically need to apply "smoothing" to the gathered data first. Back in the old days, when I still did analytics of physical measurement with "pen and paper" the standard way to plot a graph was to dot in the measurement, then squint your eyes and draw the resulting graph "smoothly through the dot-cloud". No exactly rocked surgery for anyone who has a basic understanding of physics and/or statistics. Makes one wonder who programmed those Apps. They probably took an API-Example for distance calculation and slapped an shiny GUI over it without further thought.
Hehehe. Either you just insulted all the intelligent boxes-of-rocks out there, or Moonchild is really fast to listen to users.
On the Pale Moon home page, RIGHT under the big Download Button it states:
Having trouble with the web installer or looking for other download options like an off-line installer, a package for a different operating system, Atom builds or portable version? Check the download menu at the top of this page!
I'm not sure, but in my opinion the "no, never" would not make much sense from a security standpoint.
Let's look at a "non-malicious" use case first:
If for example you have an app that has a "find the next gas station" button, and the prompt is triggered by that.
Would a "no, never" make sense in that context? After all, when I don't want the App to know where I am, why would I press the "find the next gas station" button in the first place?
Then lets look at a "malicious" app case:
If the App randomly wants access to your location for no apparent reason, my personal opinion is that the "never" button will just hide the fact that the malicious app is trying to access his location all the time. If the user gets the popup every 5 minutes he will probably decide "this App is crap" and uninstall it. If the malicious location-lookup is just silently ignored then the user might keep using the app, and who knows what other malicious tricks it's also trying.
My personal "favourite" solution would be to just have the yes/no option in the simple OS prompt, and have the "yes, all the time" "no, never" options only in the OS administration interface for the app, but there with additional options to log/analyse the request that are made. So that the user isn't tempted to just klick "yes, all the time" for every app that is installed.
Since we just now are in the process of deciding which browser to use in the system images of ~5.000 machines in a corporate environment this is really big news.
Having a specific "sort of social media" connection to a third-party service provider hard-wired into the browser, especially one where people can push documents viewed in the browser to, basically puts one further nail into the coffin of Firefox usage as official browser on work machines in my opinion.
Yep. Pale Moon has been my default browser for two years now.
It's also going to be the default browser in our corporate system images when we roll them out next year.
Well, if it comes to Firefox, I did:
1) Complain a lot for a while
2) Switch to Pale Moon
3) Donate once a year to Pale Moon
It's well worth it, having gone from feeling "Fuck!!! What have they broken this time!!" on every Browser update to "Hey, great, some little bugs have been fixed" on every Browser update.
Basically the same way electronics is inherently analog unless you really go out of your way to make it digital.
There are lies, damned lies, and the Internet. -Winston Churchill
Having "taking over" a lot of code in my time, I can say for myself, having code that "works and I don't know why" makes me more nervous that code that "doesn't work and I don't know why".
I'd rather have clean code, be it working or non working. If it's clean I can get it to work reasonably quick. If it's not clean and not working then I can easily justify a re-write. But if I can't understand it and it seems to be working, I always have the dread that someday it will break in a disastrous fashion in the most inconvenient of times with me being unable to do anything about it.