I'm betting his colleague isn't running under an admin account. Auto updates don't do jack without admin privs (although there is a new daemon in 13[?] that will run in the background as admin to do updates).
The concepts of property ownership and "love of liquid property" are not one and the same unless you believe that love implies ownership of the thing loved instead of subservience to the thing loved.
Unless you watched the last two seconds. Sometimes there's a third, even deeper, level and that one is the same as the top surface. It's Billy's sing along blog. Dr. Horrible was just a means to an unrealized end.
Nobody in their right mind runs javascript from random sites any more
Nobody cares except computer security professionals. Sure, I run noscript, adblock, and requestpolicy in FF, but no one else I know does unless I force them. Tons of sysadmins and low-level techs in the IT field don't even bother or know why they should care. So people who should have a clue are still running javascript (and flash, pdfs, and random exploit laden images from web ads) from random sites. What do you think that means about non-IT folk? They're all doing it, and only changing the browser defaults will do anything about it.
If they refuse to stock a book because of its content they are censoring that content within their store. Do you ever self-censor yourself when talking to people? Did the government force you to do that via mind control? If not, then not all censorship is government-caused. Nor is it universal (I doubt you censor the same things around your mother as you do around your friends).
Because it's censorship. Apple is censoring the content.
People keep throwing around the word "censorship" like they think they know what it means, but it's obvious they don't. Censorship is when the government restricts your speech. Even if every single one of her claims is true, she is not being censored.
No, censorship is when anyone (government, media, newspaper delivery boy) restricts dissemination of information that they object to people knowing (tiananmen square, acta, letters from the newspaper company about not giving delivery boys tips). When government does it, it's government censorship.
The same tenuous correlation that I posted. Am I sleeping with everyone whose profile I look at? Anyone whose profile I look at? If someone doesn't use Facebook regularly, then suddenly adds one friend, and looks only at that friend's profile repeatedly, and they constantly post cryptic stuff to each others' walls, then yeah, something's up (but not necessarily sex even then).
Try ddrescue for the copy attempts. It's quite nice, and has the added benefit of not causing filesystem metadata writes to the bad drive. A little slower than attempting to copy just the files though.
Regardless of any merits? They broke multimonitor support ( I have four monitors and only two work, but I got four task bars in the first monitor). They broke all the useful widgets. And their response to legitimate criticisms was "you're holding it wrong".
Yes. I'm not artificially restricted to one day. If I use a program once every six months, but can't remember that it changed its name from gaim to pidgin, a nice graphical program menu where communications programs are grouped helps me remember. Or what if I want to use a new program? Should I be restricted to only the programs I happen to know the names of?
Deadbolted doors at regular intervals. Bottom of the stairs, top of the stairs, end of the hall, every bedroom. Get time on your side (or force them to be noisy as heck). Especially time enough to wake up. I don't know many people that can wake from REM sleep and be 100% in thinking or perceiving.
Remember, that line didn't even work out for Vader and he had Star Destroyers and millions of clone troopers at his command.
No he didn't. By "A New Hope", all of the clone troopers were dead or in retirement homes (they had their aging accelerated). The Storm Troopers were standard grunts hired from a thousand colony planets. Kenobi thinks they're the super precise shooting clones he remembers, but he's wrong. The only surviving clone is Boba Fett.
5. Loudly shout "What the &@$^ man, you're killing her. Stop it!" Then if he continues, try 3 or 4. Snapping the cop out of his Hulk rage might be all that's needed.
How about you install cygwin, then do this:
cd ~ ;
find . -type f -exec shred {} \;
Hopefully, that gets the "application data" directory and other hidden directories.
Still not good enough. NTFS is a journaling filesystem. From shred's man page:
CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption: that
the file system overwrites data in place. This is the traditional way
to do things, but many modern file system designs do not satisfy this
assumption. The following are examples of file systems on which shred
is not effective, or is not guaranteed to be effective in all file sys-
tem modes:
* log-structured or journaled file systems, such as those supplied with AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3, etc.)
* file systems that write redundant data and carry on even if some
writes fail, such as RAID-based file systems
* file systems that make snapshots, such as Network Appliance's NFS
server
* file systems that cache in temporary locations, such as NFS
version 3 clients
* compressed file systems
You could also dd a huge file in place to fill up most of the free HDD space, leaving only a few MB, then shred it (and let the logfiles thrash the remaining free space), but you never know what might be in temp files that you didn't think to erase, or in the pagefile.sys
If you really want to toast everything, run a Linux live CD and shred the disk device.
This is the only truly secure option (besides destroying the HDD)
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I'm betting his colleague isn't running under an admin account. Auto updates don't do jack without admin privs (although there is a new daemon in 13[?] that will run in the background as admin to do updates).
Firefox popping up the "Upgrade now!" window every five minutes irritates the hell out of me. If I say no, stop freaking asking me. No means no!
"Fifty no's and a yes means yes" - 007, Family Guy
Perhaps, but it would have been in reference to being a geek (in the traditional, not modern, sense).
The concepts of property ownership and "love of liquid property" are not one and the same unless you believe that love implies ownership of the thing loved instead of subservience to the thing loved.
An extra thank you from me. Apparently I've been unwittingly been spreading lies about mobile safari on my iPhone. It can search within a webpage!
That's why GP is asking for more capitalism.
Unless you watched the last two seconds. Sometimes there's a third, even deeper, level and that one is the same as the top surface. It's Billy's sing along blog. Dr. Horrible was just a means to an unrealized end.
You're modded as funny, but we already have a version where Frodo pushes Gollum (instead of Gollum dancing happily to the edge).
Nobody in their right mind runs javascript from random sites any more
Nobody cares except computer security professionals. Sure, I run noscript, adblock, and requestpolicy in FF, but no one else I know does unless I force them. Tons of sysadmins and low-level techs in the IT field don't even bother or know why they should care. So people who should have a clue are still running javascript (and flash, pdfs, and random exploit laden images from web ads) from random sites. What do you think that means about non-IT folk? They're all doing it, and only changing the browser defaults will do anything about it.
If they refuse to stock a book because of its content they are censoring that content within their store. Do you ever self-censor yourself when talking to people? Did the government force you to do that via mind control? If not, then not all censorship is government-caused. Nor is it universal (I doubt you censor the same things around your mother as you do around your friends).
How on earth is this censorship [...]?
Because it's censorship. Apple is censoring the content.
People keep throwing around the word "censorship" like they think they know what it means, but it's obvious they don't. Censorship is when the government restricts your speech. Even if every single one of her claims is true, she is not being censored.
No, censorship is when anyone (government, media, newspaper delivery boy) restricts dissemination of information that they object to people knowing (tiananmen square, acta, letters from the newspaper company about not giving delivery boys tips). When government does it, it's government censorship.
The same tenuous correlation that I posted. Am I sleeping with everyone whose profile I look at? Anyone whose profile I look at? If someone doesn't use Facebook regularly, then suddenly adds one friend, and looks only at that friend's profile repeatedly, and they constantly post cryptic stuff to each others' walls, then yeah, something's up (but not necessarily sex even then).
A lot of adulterers use cars to get to their rendezvous. If your SO drives a car...
You think people will pay for something that they already get for free* from the government?
*or pay for via taxes, depending on your point of view
Try ddrescue for the copy attempts. It's quite nice, and has the added benefit of not causing filesystem metadata writes to the bad drive. A little slower than attempting to copy just the files though.
Regardless of any merits? They broke multimonitor support ( I have four monitors and only two work, but I got four task bars in the first monitor). They broke all the useful widgets. And their response to legitimate criticisms was "you're holding it wrong".
Yes. I'm not artificially restricted to one day. If I use a program once every six months, but can't remember that it changed its name from gaim to pidgin, a nice graphical program menu where communications programs are grouped helps me remember. Or what if I want to use a new program? Should I be restricted to only the programs I happen to know the names of?
The end users can say if gnome3 is better or worse than gnome2 (and have!). I'm using xfce until gnome and kde get their acts together (if ever).
Am I posting AC in my sleep?
Deadbolted doors at regular intervals. Bottom of the stairs, top of the stairs, end of the hall, every bedroom. Get time on your side (or force them to be noisy as heck). Especially time enough to wake up. I don't know many people that can wake from REM sleep and be 100% in thinking or perceiving.
My nightstand doesn't have drawers. :)
It just sits next to your bed all night ...with no pants on?!
Remember, that line didn't even work out for Vader and he had Star Destroyers and millions of clone troopers at his command.
No he didn't. By "A New Hope", all of the clone troopers were dead or in retirement homes (they had their aging accelerated). The Storm Troopers were standard grunts hired from a thousand colony planets. Kenobi thinks they're the super precise shooting clones he remembers, but he's wrong. The only surviving clone is Boba Fett.
5. Loudly shout "What the &@$^ man, you're killing her. Stop it!" Then if he continues, try 3 or 4. Snapping the cop out of his Hulk rage might be all that's needed.
How about you install cygwin, then do this: cd ~ ; find . -type f -exec shred {} \; Hopefully, that gets the "application data" directory and other hidden directories.
Still not good enough. NTFS is a journaling filesystem. From shred's man page:
CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption: that the file system overwrites data in place. This is the traditional way to do things, but many modern file system designs do not satisfy this assumption. The following are examples of file systems on which shred is not effective, or is not guaranteed to be effective in all file sys- tem modes:
* log-structured or journaled file systems, such as those supplied with AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3, etc.)
* file systems that write redundant data and carry on even if some writes fail, such as RAID-based file systems
* file systems that make snapshots, such as Network Appliance's NFS server
* file systems that cache in temporary locations, such as NFS version 3 clients
* compressed file systems
You could also dd a huge file in place to fill up most of the free HDD space, leaving only a few MB, then shred it (and let the logfiles thrash the remaining free space), but you never know what might be in temp files that you didn't think to erase, or in the pagefile.sys
If you really want to toast everything, run a Linux live CD and shred the disk device.
This is the only truly secure option (besides destroying the HDD)
not everyone uses roaming profiles or desktop backups.