I thought a few years ago, there was a desktop friendly scheduler rejected because Linus thought the server environment was more important. The details escape me.
If it popped up in his taskbar, then it already installed and was running a program (at least under his local account). Let me guess, it mimicked a Java update request?
We had PC viruses spreading in the days of 5 1/4" floppies. We've had online viruses for 15 or 20 years now. This is not a NEW thing. If people, by 2010, haven't figured out that it's a bad idea to run random shit, then yes, they deserve what they get.
Some people, old and young alike, have only recently started using computers and aren't aware of the virus back-history that we know beyond a cursory "here be dragons" mention in the newspaper or television shows.
Yes, because it's impossible to educate yourself on any of this stuff. What we need is some kind of global information resource available to pretty much anyone, pretty much anywhere, that people could use to educate themselves.
one that doesn't trick people with fake AV scams, you mean.
work for the TSA. And then molest airline passengers. And children.
Parent got modded Troll for the priest comments, but the TSA comment might not be far off. On TV this morning (NBC Today Show), I saw the head of the TSA get grilled about the new pat downs, and Matt Lauer asked him about exemptions for children. The TSA head said they would not pat-down children aged 12 or younger. That means he thinks it's perfectly acceptable to molest children 13-17 as long as it's done in the name of airline security. If a TSA agent follows orders for the 13-17 year-old range, there's got to be something wrong with the agent. Radiation during puberty, molestation, or only taking land/sea vehicles for vacations: your children have a choice.
i'm not exactly seeing how this has Google owning their "physical" lives. these employees have the choice to live either in off-Google-campus housing, which might be far and/or expensive, or in this new housing. they can choose to work for Google, or they can seek employment somewhere else. indentured servitude this ain't. Google employees' freedom to contract hasn't been eroded in some way. i'd say the only negative factor in all this (and it is a significant one) is Google's gobbling up of previously independent communities. but even there, Google can't just take over peoples' homes and businesses, they have to purchase them just like everyone else.
call me when Google starts making work a contracted requirement for basic living necessities or builds unmaintained, dilapidated tenements, then there'll be something worrisome.
Not yet, but...
Come and work in silicon valley for $60,000. Your choices for housing: getting two roommates and sharing a 2 Bedroom apartment or living on Campus. No brainer! Of course, it's a great deal for you, and you'll graduate out, but ten years from now, new graduates coming into the company will earn less and pay more for the privilege, but still enough so that it seems like a great deal compared to housing off-campus. Except... there's only enough net income for a small amount of expendables. Maybe you want to buy fancy new computers to use that 10-gigabit line in your apartment. Maybe you can't afford a car because you like eating more than beans. As long as the company residences are just enough above board to not be classified as a "company store", then "keeping up with the joneses" will prevent the employees from leaving voluntarily, because it takes time and a little money to find a new job, and if you quit first, the company probably has a clause allowing them to kick you out of the housing.
Timothy hit it on the head on this one. Google probably owns the "souls" (online personalities) of its employees more than any country in the world. To own their physical lives too seems like a consolidation of too much power.
The thing I like about Unix is that everything is designed to give me more power. No "Oh, you can't do that because you might hose your computer." or "You can't have that because you could use it for hacking!". If I want something done, my computer damn well does it.
From this perspective, rejecting a package from a repository because it gives the user the wrong sort of power is an alien concept. Fortunately, the idea of open source is that something like this is never permanent - it lasts only until someone includes the package in a competing repository.
Since I tend not to trust 3rd party repositories, it means that it lasts until I switch to another distro.
"This isn't a tool to find vulnerabilities. It's a tool to exploit them once found."
How do you expect to test if someone can break into your system with SQLNinja without running it and attempting to break in? How do you plan on proving to upper management that there really is a vulnerability, and that your conjecture that you could break in is something more than mere conjecture?
How do you expect to test if someone can install a botnet on your servers via running IE as admin to visit porn sites unless you use IE on your servers as admin to visit porn sites?
"Robin Hood Airport is closed. You've got a week... otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!"
If a complete stranger (and Paul Chambers is a complete stranger for 99.999% of the world) posted the bomb threat on Twitter and you were inside the airport you would probably want to know whether it's a real threat.
Only if it was posted a week ago. Otherwise, SEP field is in full effect.
Well... if we are to follow THAT logic all catholic countries should be sterilized by nuclear weapons - just because of their religion's history of going to unprovoked "Crusades" i.e. raping/pillaging wars. No need to mention inquisition but I will. Inquisition.
I realize you're a Troll, but I feel pity and have a whole storehouse of food. GP was referring to core beliefs, not historical hypocrisy, and you selectively edited to make a strawman. The Inquisition and the Crusades had less to do with Christian/Catholic core beliefs, than violent Jihad does with Islam.
Internet cafe owners are forced to monitor customers' online activity and alert intelligence officials if they see anything critical of the militant group or that violates Hamas' stern interpretation of Islam.
Given how short the unboosted flight range of some of our jets is, maybe it could be used in a similar fashion for thirty second blitzes of heavy enemy entrenchments with support troops with battery packs following behind...
I envision the future, when an officer leads an offensive in battle armor: He raises his mono-filament vibro-saber, and yells "CHARGE" at the top of his lungs. Then he and his armored troops stand dead still as their support teams recharge them.
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I thought a few years ago, there was a desktop friendly scheduler rejected because Linus thought the server environment was more important. The details escape me.
prove me wrong
I go to the airport and refuse to be backscattered.
If it popped up in his taskbar, then it already installed and was running a program (at least under his local account). Let me guess, it mimicked a Java update request?
We had PC viruses spreading in the days of 5 1/4" floppies. We've had online viruses for 15 or 20 years now. This is not a NEW thing. If people, by 2010, haven't figured out that it's a bad idea to run random shit, then yes, they deserve what they get.
Some people, old and young alike, have only recently started using computers and aren't aware of the virus back-history that we know beyond a cursory "here be dragons" mention in the newspaper or television shows.
Apple's website says there's going to be a big announcement tomorrow.
I wonder what it could be.
Mobile Safari can now only buy webpages via iTunes? Would dovetail nicely with this thread.
I believe GP misspelled "Kif Kroker"
Yes, because it's impossible to educate yourself on any of this stuff. What we need is some kind of global information resource available to pretty much anyone, pretty much anywhere, that people could use to educate themselves.
one that doesn't trick people with fake AV scams, you mean.
what's SUOMI?
LAPP, short for lappilainen. Linus is a Finn (although I don't know if he's a laplander). http://translate.google.com/#fi|en|Suomi http://translate.google.com/#fi|en|Suomi
I was making a funny.
work for the TSA. And then molest airline passengers. And children.
Parent got modded Troll for the priest comments, but the TSA comment might not be far off. On TV this morning (NBC Today Show), I saw the head of the TSA get grilled about the new pat downs, and Matt Lauer asked him about exemptions for children. The TSA head said they would not pat-down children aged 12 or younger. That means he thinks it's perfectly acceptable to molest children 13-17 as long as it's done in the name of airline security. If a TSA agent follows orders for the 13-17 year-old range, there's got to be something wrong with the agent. Radiation during puberty, molestation, or only taking land/sea vehicles for vacations: your children have a choice.
i'm not exactly seeing how this has Google owning their "physical" lives. these employees have the choice to live either in off-Google-campus housing, which might be far and/or expensive, or in this new housing. they can choose to work for Google, or they can seek employment somewhere else. indentured servitude this ain't. Google employees' freedom to contract hasn't been eroded in some way. i'd say the only negative factor in all this (and it is a significant one) is Google's gobbling up of previously independent communities. but even there, Google can't just take over peoples' homes and businesses, they have to purchase them just like everyone else.
call me when Google starts making work a contracted requirement for basic living necessities or builds unmaintained, dilapidated tenements, then there'll be something worrisome.
Not yet, but...
Come and work in silicon valley for $60,000. Your choices for housing: getting two roommates and sharing a 2 Bedroom apartment or living on Campus. No brainer! Of course, it's a great deal for you, and you'll graduate out, but ten years from now, new graduates coming into the company will earn less and pay more for the privilege, but still enough so that it seems like a great deal compared to housing off-campus. Except... there's only enough net income for a small amount of expendables. Maybe you want to buy fancy new computers to use that 10-gigabit line in your apartment. Maybe you can't afford a car because you like eating more than beans. As long as the company residences are just enough above board to not be classified as a "company store", then "keeping up with the joneses" will prevent the employees from leaving voluntarily, because it takes time and a little money to find a new job, and if you quit first, the company probably has a clause allowing them to kick you out of the housing.
I see no comments! Is everyone reading the article?
Timothy hit it on the head on this one. Google probably owns the "souls" (online personalities) of its employees more than any country in the world. To own their physical lives too seems like a consolidation of too much power.
Linux Apache PostgreSQL PHP. This was Linus' goal all along. Expect SUOMI soon after.
But I like using O's OO.o
It's pronounced aauggggggh; in the back of the throat.
Please provide a list of all terrorists caught by TSA to date. Thanks.
The UK head of Terror. That's all I know offhand.
Does he have a daughter getting married soon? I have a wish I'd like granted.
The thing I like about Unix is that everything is designed to give me more power. No "Oh, you can't do that because you might hose your computer." or "You can't have that because you could use it for hacking!". If I want something done, my computer damn well does it.
From this perspective, rejecting a package from a repository because it gives the user the wrong sort of power is an alien concept. Fortunately, the idea of open source is that something like this is never permanent - it lasts only until someone includes the package in a competing repository.
Since I tend not to trust 3rd party repositories, it means that it lasts until I switch to another distro.
How do you expect to test if someone can break into your system with SQLNinja without running it and attempting to break in? How do you plan on proving to upper management that there really is a vulnerability, and that your conjecture that you could break in is something more than mere conjecture?
How do you expect to test if someone can install a botnet on your servers via running IE as admin to visit porn sites unless you use IE on your servers as admin to visit porn sites?
"Robin Hood Airport is closed. You've got a week... otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!"
If a complete stranger (and Paul Chambers is a complete stranger for 99.999% of the world) posted the bomb threat on Twitter and you were inside the airport you would probably want to know whether it's a real threat.
Only if it was posted a week ago. Otherwise, SEP field is in full effect.
That is a truly excellent idea! Pastafarians should automatically grant sainthood to anyone who has been persecuted by organized religion.
Like Martin Luther? Like Mohammed? Like Jesus? Like... just about anyone who made a marked change in their current society's view of the Divine?
I'm afraid I can't take you seriously if you think that Hamas is thing restricting freedom from the Palestenians.
I'm afraid I can't take you seriously if you think that it's a binary issue. Because the Israelis are doing bad things, Hamas must be pure and good?
If they don't change their popular core beliefs you will always have problems with them: http://www.tawfikhamid.com/abcs-test-for-radical-islam/
Well... if we are to follow THAT logic all catholic countries should be sterilized by nuclear weapons - just because of their religion's history of going to unprovoked "Crusades" i.e. raping/pillaging wars. No need to mention inquisition but I will. Inquisition.
I realize you're a Troll, but I feel pity and have a whole storehouse of food. GP was referring to core beliefs, not historical hypocrisy, and you selectively edited to make a strawman. The Inquisition and the Crusades had less to do with Christian/Catholic core beliefs, than violent Jihad does with Islam.
Internet cafe owners are forced to monitor customers' online activity and alert intelligence officials if they see anything critical of the militant group or that violates Hamas' stern interpretation of Islam.
And now they have Firesheep to make it easier.
CDE will always mean Common Desktop Environment to me.
Hear, hear! Of course I was always an openwindows fan since CDE rendered so slowly on our sparc lx's.
Given how short the unboosted flight range of some of our jets is, maybe it could be used in a similar fashion for thirty second blitzes of heavy enemy entrenchments with support troops with battery packs following behind...
I envision the future, when an officer leads an offensive in battle armor: He raises his mono-filament vibro-saber, and yells "CHARGE" at the top of his lungs. Then he and his armored troops stand dead still as their support teams recharge them.