thats by default, on some version i tried quickly last year (didnt like it), you can probably set a sudo password, but if its still the default, most wont.
with ubuntu, last time i looked, you gave certain users sudo access. theres no root account, no root/su password. so having a user account with sudo access is equivalent to having root. you just type 'sudo ', or 'sudo/bin/sh' for a root shell.
root gives them full control over your system, they can set daemons to run at startup, mess with system files, delete/modify every users files & any other file they want, run services on privileged ports (1024), install trojans, rootkits, delete/modify log files, and anything else they want.
a root compromised means a full system rebuild. reformatting all drives & reinstalling from trusted media & the last known good backups. you cant trust anything on the system, or any backups taken since the hack. you might not even know the date of the hack, nevermind how they got in, or what they did, if they cleaned the logs.
if a normal user account gets hacked & you're sure root hasnt been compromised, you could just delete the user, fix the vulnerability & restore the files from backups. you still have the log files, which will help give clues to how & when you were hacked.
having your user account hacked is obviously very bad, but if they get root, its as bad as it gets, even on a single user system.
btw, if your personal files mean a lot to you, you should take regular backups.
high ranking government officials & the super rich would never appear on such a database. just like they dont here in the uk, even if they get arrested.
obviously rapists & murderers are going to need a weapon. i'd argue that having a gun makes it much easier for a relatively normal person to become a murderer. i mentioned that hardened criminals & gangsters still need weapons, thats obvious, but i was talking about thieves & burglars in particular, here (where there is gun control), its very rare for a burglar or car thief to be armed. we also have a fraction of the murder rate of the us.
you're also much less likely to miss with an uzi or ak, than with a revolver, are you sure you could get the first shots in (and clean head shots) against a gang with automatic weapons, or even 2 people, before they killed you?
there is also an arms race between police & criminals as you point out.
it also stops petty criminals from needing guns, obviously it wont stop hardened gangsters & serial killers, but most criminals arent. your common or garden thief/burglar doesnt need a gun & wont risk the extra jail time, if law abiding people dont carry guns. if everyone has a gun, every criminal needs a bigger/better gun than the average, it starts a criminal arms race.
you can get good solar panels for heating water, quite cheap. you can even diy one. they're much more efficient than solar panels for generating electricity.
'it's hardly a bad thing to prepare for the future when you're purchasing a computer.'
yes it is, it costs you extra money & hardware comes down in price quickly, if you buy a high end cpu now that you wont use for another year, you're wasting your money. in a years time your high end cpu will be mid range & a lot cheaper, so it'd probably be cheaper to buy a mid range or budget cpu now, then another one in a years time. then you can get a bit of money back for the old one on ebay too.
here in the uk a positive breathalyser result means you have to have a more accurate blood test at the police station. a positive breath test is not enough for a conviction here, because they are inaccurate.
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its much lower latency.
thats by default, on some version i tried quickly last year (didnt like it), you can probably set a sudo password, but if its still the default, most wont.
with ubuntu, last time i looked, you gave certain users sudo access. theres no root account, no root/su password. so having a user account with sudo access is equivalent to having root. you just type 'sudo ', or 'sudo /bin/sh' for a root shell.
root gives them full control over your system, they can set daemons to run at startup, mess with system files, delete/modify every users files & any other file they want, run services on privileged ports (1024), install trojans, rootkits, delete/modify log files, and anything else they want.
a root compromised means a full system rebuild. reformatting all drives & reinstalling from trusted media & the last known good backups. you cant trust anything on the system, or any backups taken since the hack. you might not even know the date of the hack, nevermind how they got in, or what they did, if they cleaned the logs.
if a normal user account gets hacked & you're sure root hasnt been compromised, you could just delete the user, fix the vulnerability & restore the files from backups. you still have the log files, which will help give clues to how & when you were hacked.
having your user account hacked is obviously very bad, but if they get root, its as bad as it gets, even on a single user system.
btw, if your personal files mean a lot to you, you should take regular backups.
high ranking government officials & the super rich would never appear on such a database. just like they dont here in the uk, even if they get arrested.
obviously rapists & murderers are going to need a weapon. i'd argue that having a gun makes it much easier for a relatively normal person to become a murderer. i mentioned that hardened criminals & gangsters still need weapons, thats obvious, but i was talking about thieves & burglars in particular, here (where there is gun control), its very rare for a burglar or car thief to be armed. we also have a fraction of the murder rate of the us.
you're also much less likely to miss with an uzi or ak, than with a revolver, are you sure you could get the first shots in (and clean head shots) against a gang with automatic weapons, or even 2 people, before they killed you?
there is also an arms race between police & criminals as you point out.
it also stops petty criminals from needing guns, obviously it wont stop hardened gangsters & serial killers, but most criminals arent. your common or garden thief/burglar doesnt need a gun & wont risk the extra jail time, if law abiding people dont carry guns. if everyone has a gun, every criminal needs a bigger/better gun than the average, it starts a criminal arms race.
you can get good solar panels for heating water, quite cheap. you can even diy one. they're much more efficient than solar panels for generating electricity.
sorry, but pc world dont target geeks, they target people that don't know any geeks at all & have more money than sense.
i'm amazed that a pc world customer had heard of linux, nevermind installed it.
cns depressants can be pretty entertaining
c is a high level language.
'it's hardly a bad thing to prepare for the future when you're purchasing a computer.'
yes it is, it costs you extra money & hardware comes down in price quickly, if you buy a high end cpu now that you wont use for another year, you're wasting your money. in a years time your high end cpu will be mid range & a lot cheaper, so it'd probably be cheaper to buy a mid range or budget cpu now, then another one in a years time. then you can get a bit of money back for the old one on ebay too.
the government already has all that data (and more), but it is worth quite a lot to spammers.
here in the uk a positive breathalyser result means you have to have a more accurate blood test at the police station. a positive breath test is not enough for a conviction here, because they are inaccurate.
as well as socialists, communists & other political opponents.
please don't believe any story in the daily mail, its the worst of the uk newspapers (and they are a bad bunch).
sorry, but making up blank cards is cheap & easy, any common criminal can do it
haemoglobin is the english spelling, hemoglobin is the american spelling. the article is from the bbc.
but who is he supposed to vote for? and what changes would they make?
'Do people honestly think that Life on Earth would be the same right now if we had seen a President Gore or President Kerry?'
YES. especially if it was president kerry.
what major differences do you think there would've been?
like vietnam did?
they are defective by design, to make election fraud easier for their customers.
why not just have them entirely funded by bribes?
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yeah, the author is obviously doomed to failure.