My video would be one showing me frustrated, angry, swearing a lot, and ultimately smashing my keyboard (last time I tried Ubuntu on a generic PC). It would end with me saying "fuck it" and installing Windows XP again. I doubt that would win.
Sounds like you had no clue what you were doing.
Ubuntu's brain-dead "easy install" fails terribly when it can't recognize a video card. Ironically, if he had tried a less-user friendly distro, he would have had less keyboard smashing as it would have gone into a perfectly usable ncurses install instead of making xorg reload every second.
But the recurring problem: how to explain this to a noob? They're sitting on this trojaned machine, actively using it, processing private data with it, and just don't seem to care (as long as the apparatus still does the job). Anyone know of a good way to explain it to a person like this, what the dangers are? Why they should desinfect / wipe the machine ASAP? What does it take to make them understand what it means "there's a trojan / backdoor on your machine"?
Or is this futile? Should you just wait until they get hit hard(er)? Bank account emptied, e-mail account hacked, game CD-key blocked etc.? Any ideas?
At work, you become the BOFH and take away people's machines. If you're not the sysadmin, you become the sysadmin's worst nightmare: the concerned helpful almost-IT guy, and rat on your coworkers "New Ticket opened: I think Jerry's machine is infected. It's bluescreening a lot". At dinner parties, tell the plebes your horror stories of how an entire department thought they were fine, but their computers were part of a botnet doing nuclear weapons research for North Korea. You couldn't wipe the machines because the CIA wanted to inspect the traffic, then they confiscated the HDDs for national security, so they're "wiped" now.
Unfortunately, only some people will get the message that botnets and viruses should be taken seriously. Most people will just think you're being a jerk.
Trojans, worms and viruses have been eliminating rivals for a long time. It's all part of the strategy to avoid being detected.
It's news because this is a botnet-building system, kind of like an IDE or compiler. It's not the final executable. So it's sort of like a fight between mingw and VC++, where each searches for executables created by the other. Or to put in in car parlance: it's like Ford factories making all Ford cars in such a way as to detect all Toyota cars and make their pedals stick somehow. I'm guessing that prior to this, search-and-destroy was implemented by the coder, not the compiler.
He said people do not use Tor because it is too slow.
Then he proposed making his own service slower by making the users do some stuff before seeing what they want to.
Then Tor will be the faster option.
Heck, ad-clicky version could be 2x faster, but people would still use Tor. I could set a connection up with Tor, go make a sandwich and come back, and read what I wanted, or I could set a connection up with ad-clicky proxy, go make a sandwich, come back, be forced to click a quiz, then read what I wanted. Which sounds better?
I like your thinking, but I'd like for the GIMP folks to do the rebranding. Just like Mozilla Browser became Seamonkey after Firefox came on the scene. I'd rather not see an Iceweasel fiasco.
Yes, this is *that* post. Just trying to keep it fresh in your mind. I use the GNU Image Manipulation Program all the time, and internally, I call it GIMP, and amongst friends in the know, I call it GIMP, but amongst people who are new to FOSS, I usually make an effort to use the full name. Every once in a while, I forget, and most people associate GIMP or "The GIMP" with Pulp Fiction these days, or worse, they've never seen Pulp Fiction because they would be offended by it, but they still know "The GIMP" through cultural allusions to that character, and thus are offended by any reference to GIMP.
Hell, I'd even take GIMPY (the GNU Image Manipulation Program for You), since that evokes a different, albeit still negative, emotional response.
The best suggestion I've heard is just drop GNU or make GNU separate from the acronym: IMP, GNU IMP.
It all smells a little like sour grapes to me. Boo hoo Apple won't tell *ME*, a member of the PRESS, things that I want to know! Therefore they must be absent! Yeah, that'll shame Apple into talking to you. Way to push them around.
Reporters pull this all the time. I didn't catch on until a friend of a friend was accused of something she didn't do. There was a media circus, and reporters started coming to her house and videotaping the "not answering the door". I'd seen segments like it before and was lulled into "Ooo, they have something to hide!", but in this case, I knew she was grieving so I finally started looking at journalists in the skeptical light they should be held.
When did they go "full consumer" anyway? In some places they still have a monopoly on graphics design and print publishing. The reason I am so familiar with Apple in the first place is due to the fact that I spent some time at a local news paper where the production team was 100% Apple gear. But perhaps you're right... Apple doesn't care about business. It's just that business cared about Apple.
Right on. I've seen more Apple computers in Businesses and Schools (both places which Apple neglects by not providing good corporate tools [at least ARD and SSH exist]) than in any home environment.
Heh, i'd give it a couple months to fail before saying jobs made a mistake, maybe there's hordes of ravening fans dreaming of a slightly larger iphone.
Big is the new small. I, for one, welcome our new giant cell-phone wielding overlords, and remind them that as a sysadmin, I can be useful in providing computer infrastructure for their new computerized Bulletin Board Systems.
Sigh, when do people get it.
With the iphone, ipod and ipad, you do not buy a full fledged computational platform... you only rent a seat in a theatre.
They're having trouble "getting it" because the iPhone really *is* a full fledged computational platform. Even the masses know this (Because Steve Jobs said so in the announcement). When something is counter-intuitive, it takes a long time before people will accept the truth. People will expect the iPhone OS to be as open as other OSes for at least a few more year, but will eventually throw it in the rubbish bin of computational history. The iPad will serve to accelerate this because in the mind of the consumer, "it's not a phone, a computer, and will do what my other computers do, but hand-held". When we've been driving cars for the last X generations, if someone comes out with a new car that has a governor on it limiting speed to 10MPH, expect some people to be fooled into thinking it's a real car. Because it is. Only "Better(TM)".
That's why it's important to combine this app with two others: a Taser app, and a donut-hole-dispensing app. Can't have training with punishment and reward!
Is this a device intended for cops? A taser for reward, and only mere donut holes (not the whole donut) for punishment?
For the Verizon customers, your analogy would be like this: when they started going to your restaurant you had no problem selling veal, dogmeat, dolphinburgers, baby seal, etc., and they loved your restaurant. But one day you stopped selling those things they loved and now they have no place to go to get it. The other restaurants just don't make it the same as you used to make it.
Add to this: His restaurant uses an amusement park funny-money system, and you must buy in one or two-year increments. You're allowed to go to the other restaurant (there's only one other in town, and they'll stop serving soon too), but you'll have worthless funny-money that only you can redeem.
If the government doesn't grant itself exclusive rights to photos produced by federal employees as part of their job responsibilities, then what incentive will the government or its employees have, to produce photos as part of their job responsibilities?! They need exclusive rights in order to recoup their investment without competing with knockoffs.
I sincerely hope you're going for ironical subtle humor, because the government's incentive to publish photos is... to publish photos. They were _Asking_ for them to be used in things other than the Flicker pages.
of the remaining 5%, 95% of that is also SPAM, or malicious or something? We already know about SPAM percentages, so I assume this is measuring something new, like non-automated emails contain huge amounts of things that people consider SPAM.
Agree. Just a little muscle spasm in my back was enough to drop me to my knees in an instant. It's like you forget how to walk when you feel enough instant pain.
Otherwise, you can just shoot from the hip and cut a lot of unnecessary motion out of it.
????
Shooting yourself in the foot was always easier than pretty much anything else. Wasn't really mentioned in TFA.
Assuming you're serious... imagine your holster isn't tied to your thigh, only a leather strap to the belt, so your gun can be pivoted up and fired while still holstered. Fast, but inaccurate unless practiced.
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My video would be one showing me frustrated, angry, swearing a lot, and ultimately smashing my keyboard (last time I tried Ubuntu on a generic PC). It would end with me saying "fuck it" and installing Windows XP again. I doubt that would win.
Sounds like you had no clue what you were doing.
Ubuntu's brain-dead "easy install" fails terribly when it can't recognize a video card. Ironically, if he had tried a less-user friendly distro, he would have had less keyboard smashing as it would have gone into a perfectly usable ncurses install instead of making xorg reload every second.
But the recurring problem: how to explain this to a noob? They're sitting on this trojaned machine, actively using it, processing private data with it, and just don't seem to care (as long as the apparatus still does the job). Anyone know of a good way to explain it to a person like this, what the dangers are? Why they should desinfect / wipe the machine ASAP? What does it take to make them understand what it means "there's a trojan / backdoor on your machine"? Or is this futile? Should you just wait until they get hit hard(er)? Bank account emptied, e-mail account hacked, game CD-key blocked etc.? Any ideas?
At work, you become the BOFH and take away people's machines. If you're not the sysadmin, you become the sysadmin's worst nightmare: the concerned helpful almost-IT guy, and rat on your coworkers "New Ticket opened: I think Jerry's machine is infected. It's bluescreening a lot". At dinner parties, tell the plebes your horror stories of how an entire department thought they were fine, but their computers were part of a botnet doing nuclear weapons research for North Korea. You couldn't wipe the machines because the CIA wanted to inspect the traffic, then they confiscated the HDDs for national security, so they're "wiped" now.
Unfortunately, only some people will get the message that botnets and viruses should be taken seriously. Most people will just think you're being a jerk.
Trojans, worms and viruses have been eliminating rivals for a long time. It's all part of the strategy to avoid being detected.
It's news because this is a botnet-building system, kind of like an IDE or compiler. It's not the final executable. So it's sort of like a fight between mingw and VC++, where each searches for executables created by the other. Or to put in in car parlance: it's like Ford factories making all Ford cars in such a way as to detect all Toyota cars and make their pedals stick somehow. I'm guessing that prior to this, search-and-destroy was implemented by the coder, not the compiler.
He said people do not use Tor because it is too slow. Then he proposed making his own service slower by making the users do some stuff before seeing what they want to. Then Tor will be the faster option.
Heck, ad-clicky version could be 2x faster, but people would still use Tor. I could set a connection up with Tor, go make a sandwich and come back, and read what I wanted, or I could set a connection up with ad-clicky proxy, go make a sandwich, come back, be forced to click a quiz, then read what I wanted. Which sounds better?
I like your thinking, but I'd like for the GIMP folks to do the rebranding. Just like Mozilla Browser became Seamonkey after Firefox came on the scene. I'd rather not see an Iceweasel fiasco.
Or System Shock 1 & 2 which Bioshock was supposedly originally going to be a continuation of.
Yes, this is *that* post. Just trying to keep it fresh in your mind. I use the GNU Image Manipulation Program all the time, and internally, I call it GIMP, and amongst friends in the know, I call it GIMP, but amongst people who are new to FOSS, I usually make an effort to use the full name. Every once in a while, I forget, and most people associate GIMP or "The GIMP" with Pulp Fiction these days, or worse, they've never seen Pulp Fiction because they would be offended by it, but they still know "The GIMP" through cultural allusions to that character, and thus are offended by any reference to GIMP.
Hell, I'd even take GIMPY (the GNU Image Manipulation Program for You), since that evokes a different, albeit still negative, emotional response.
The best suggestion I've heard is just drop GNU or make GNU separate from the acronym: IMP, GNU IMP.
It all smells a little like sour grapes to me. Boo hoo Apple won't tell *ME*, a member of the PRESS, things that I want to know! Therefore they must be absent! Yeah, that'll shame Apple into talking to you. Way to push them around.
Reporters pull this all the time. I didn't catch on until a friend of a friend was accused of something she didn't do. There was a media circus, and reporters started coming to her house and videotaping the "not answering the door". I'd seen segments like it before and was lulled into "Ooo, they have something to hide!", but in this case, I knew she was grieving so I finally started looking at journalists in the skeptical light they should be held.
When did they go "full consumer" anyway? In some places they still have a monopoly on graphics design and print publishing. The reason I am so familiar with Apple in the first place is due to the fact that I spent some time at a local news paper where the production team was 100% Apple gear. But perhaps you're right... Apple doesn't care about business. It's just that business cared about Apple.
Right on. I've seen more Apple computers in Businesses and Schools (both places which Apple neglects by not providing good corporate tools [at least ARD and SSH exist]) than in any home environment.
Heh, i'd give it a couple months to fail before saying jobs made a mistake, maybe there's hordes of ravening fans dreaming of a slightly larger iphone.
Big is the new small. I, for one, welcome our new giant cell-phone wielding overlords, and remind them that as a sysadmin, I can be useful in providing computer infrastructure for their new computerized Bulletin Board Systems.
Sigh, when do people get it.
With the iphone, ipod and ipad, you do not buy a full fledged computational platform... you only rent a seat in a theatre.
They're having trouble "getting it" because the iPhone really *is* a full fledged computational platform. Even the masses know this (Because Steve Jobs said so in the announcement). When something is counter-intuitive, it takes a long time before people will accept the truth. People will expect the iPhone OS to be as open as other OSes for at least a few more year, but will eventually throw it in the rubbish bin of computational history. The iPad will serve to accelerate this because in the mind of the consumer, "it's not a phone, a computer, and will do what my other computers do, but hand-held". When we've been driving cars for the last X generations, if someone comes out with a new car that has a governor on it limiting speed to 10MPH, expect some people to be fooled into thinking it's a real car. Because it is. Only "Better(TM)".
That's why it's important to combine this app with two others: a Taser app, and a donut-hole-dispensing app. Can't have training with punishment and reward!
Is this a device intended for cops? A taser for reward, and only mere donut holes (not the whole donut) for punishment?
For the Verizon customers, your analogy would be like this: when they started going to your restaurant you had no problem selling veal, dogmeat, dolphinburgers, baby seal, etc., and they loved your restaurant. But one day you stopped selling those things they loved and now they have no place to go to get it. The other restaurants just don't make it the same as you used to make it.
Add to this: His restaurant uses an amusement park funny-money system, and you must buy in one or two-year increments. You're allowed to go to the other restaurant (there's only one other in town, and they'll stop serving soon too), but you'll have worthless funny-money that only you can redeem.
I've been exclusively reading Slashdot news all day, and not even one is remotely interesting enough to *hurk* *ack* *ug.*
Perhaps he was dictating?
please tell me you really are joking.
otherwise, leave this place and never come back.
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There, fixed that for you.
Obama, can't even pronounce "Corpsman" correctly.
The guy was a "corpseman", one of those guys from Monty Python and the Holy Grail who would yell "Bring out yer dead!"
I was going to mod you down, but there was no "-1 OMG WHY ARE YOU USING ALL CAPS? MY EYES ARE BLEEDING" selection.
...if this were all down to poor programming done by Indian outsourcers?
Only if it were the exact same people, or their friends or family. India has a large population.
Please do the needful!
There are different different types of ways to do the needful. Be careful what you wish for.
If the government doesn't grant itself exclusive rights to photos produced by federal employees as part of their job responsibilities, then what incentive will the government or its employees have, to produce photos as part of their job responsibilities?! They need exclusive rights in order to recoup their investment without competing with knockoffs.
I sincerely hope you're going for ironical subtle humor, because the government's incentive to publish photos is... to publish photos. They were _Asking_ for them to be used in things other than the Flicker pages.
I'm a prince from the far lands of absurdistan and would like to ask if you would like to [insert random passage of text here]
You'll have a better chance of getting me to insert something if you said you were a princess.
I'm sorry, that's Valentine's day anticipation talking.
of the remaining 5%, 95% of that is also SPAM, or malicious or something? We already know about SPAM percentages, so I assume this is measuring something new, like non-automated emails contain huge amounts of things that people consider SPAM.
Agree. Just a little muscle spasm in my back was enough to drop me to my knees in an instant. It's like you forget how to walk when you feel enough instant pain.
Except as far as I can tell from the advisory, the files are read only.
Including local account password files. A little brute-force comparisons, and they've got administrator. Hopefully SMB's not open.
Otherwise, you can just shoot from the hip and cut a lot of unnecessary motion out of it.
???? Shooting yourself in the foot was always easier than pretty much anything else. Wasn't really mentioned in TFA.
Assuming you're serious... imagine your holster isn't tied to your thigh, only a leather strap to the belt, so your gun can be pivoted up and fired while still holstered. Fast, but inaccurate unless practiced.