A moderately competent machinist using those devilish tools and with blueprints pirated from evil hacker's sites on the internets could even create a perfect metal replica of an AR-15, or uranium-enrichment centrifugue!
Let's ban the screw-driver!
People are stupider in crowds if most of them would probably err the answer for a given question. If most of them would probably be right, it's best to go for majority vote than picking any of them randomly and asking the answer for the question.
Sir,
You've nailed the point. People are too worried about correcting the symptoms, even if it involves doing wrong things. Here in Brazil, there's huge support for a quite unconstitutional law that prohibits politicians under investigation to be candidates. The problem is, unless you've gone to trial, you're supposed to be innocent. What people should be questioning is why it takes so much time to condemn corrupt public agents.
Governments got their secrets, but the kind of secret a government has is the real problem, if only crooks involve themselves on the political process, if only crooks get elected, you've got crook's secrets, no matter how much you scream on twitter or Facebook.
Really, if you really want to change the government, you've got to seriously consider being part of the government, or at least thinking on supporting directly people you trust.
Electing a president is not enough, you've got to be part of lowest level, from city councils up.
You have a point when you tell there's a huge trust problem with our current governments, but I don't think wikileaks is the solution.
We've got watergate without wikileaks, we've got iran-contras denounced even before most people had internet connections. But we've had it all without a guy that blackmails governments and corporations.
See, we don't live in a democracy, it's a republic. We don't need systematic leaks, we need laws to protect the free press, we need people who are a lot more responsible before voting.
I find it funny that people that never bothers even to see what the congress is doing, that never bothers even to go voting, think that the solution for the problems caused by their lack of involvement is to fuck the institutions. Things are not like they are because there was no wikileaks, things are what they are because people think that posting some sarcastic quote on twitter is political participation.
Do you things to improve? Involve yourself locally first. Most bastards on the high echelons started their political careers on the city council level. So what? you go there and make sure people like you are represented on the city council. It takes work? it takes time? yes, it takes! But that's how a republic is supposed to work.
Those are wide claims you're making here.
Given that the propension to violence nowadays in the third world is no different from what it seemed to be in the past, would you mind if I asked you from some reasonable proofs to sustain your emotionally loaded rethorics?
Ok. They have AKs now instead of bows. But, when in history humans didn't fight most of their times?
Right on point. Most of the early constitutions were made to limit the power of state. World was coming from an age of absolute monarchies, so people were really afraid that their new governments would end up being as despotic as the ones they helped to overthrow.
Not to mention companies that spend a lot of money with VPN solutions with two factor authentication, and at the same time leave ssh outgoing unmonitored on their firewalls. In this scenario having remote access to your network is just a matter of issuing
ssh2 -R 1234:localhost:23 username@host
And now, all traffic which comes to port 1234 on the server (host) will be forwarded to port 23 on the client (localhost).
So, again, there's a lot of people out there using linux without actually knowing shit about security and how linux works. These people like to boost how secure they are just because they are using linux (even if their boxes and networks are badly configured and full of holes). Those people are lamers.
I've seen lots of companies using local authentication for their linux boxes, along with a supposedly secret root password configured in every machine. There are a lot of centralized directory and authentication options for linux. But, how much people use it? But, they do know how to setup Microsoft's Active Directory and setup clients to use it.
Linux has ACLs for some time know, something that is way better than the old permission schemes. But, again, I've never seen it widely deployed across a large network. ACLs are the default file permission scheme on Windows.
No to mention that lots of linux and servers desktop out there are not configured with a password on GRUB to avoid people booting into single mode and getting root credentials.
So, while linux is as corporate-security capable as windows under a administrative point of view, most corporations and system administrations are not aware of that. And even when they are, the tools for managing such things are not as straightforward to use as Active Directory;
Being less sucetible to exploits is not the whole game in security. It doesn't matter what is your operating system, a badly configured operating system is insecure no matter which kernel do you use. And at this point, ease of management becomes very important.
Hum... How do you think people debug the kernel with windows?
Of course the public that have to debug the windows kernel over a serial connection is the same demographics that need to debug the linux kernel (device driver authors)
I hate to tell it in such way, but your post tells me more of American's absolutely insane eating habits than anything else.
I think it's a bit rude to tell it, but eating only processed food, is expensive, and a sure way to lack a good nutrition and leading to problems such as what you have mentioned. I can't even fathom how do you manage to eat canned food.
Have you ever thought about eating vegetables? If you do, you could even support small scale local farming, thus, generating more jobs, depending less on fuel to transport processed food.
I agree that, of course, Brazil has not the same standard of living as the US, but definitely, our cities are not rotting (on the contrary, we are slowly improving), and even our poor have access to a healthy nutrition with vegetables and fresh foods.
Our biggest health problem nowadays is obesity. And that obesity has been caused exactly because we started mimicking your eating standards.
Putting it on other terms If you could go back to 1960 with a dozen humble 386's, loaded with the OS, compiler, and full of manuals, you'd be absurdly rich selling it to the powers of that age. Or you'd be instakilled. Either way, the mortgage would no longer be a problem to you.
May I add that as a Brazilian I am deeply disgusted with you, the Americans, having stop exporting jobs for us and had instead sent all of them to China. Actually, not only the jobs, but the technology, the services, the whole fucking thing.
We never had nukes pointed at you. China had/has.
IMHO, you deserve what you have now by your poor choice of partners.
Read GP's entire post before running over his/her dead body with your SUV. He clearly mentioned that money is not a good way to measure the fittest.
And of course, your example is a bit extreme and doesn't invalidate the former argument. Remember, nature indeed play dices, we are talking about probabilities, marginal issues and trends here, not black and white things.
Don't accuse me! I am not mother nature.
Hi Tom Cruise. Didn't know you surfed Slashdot. Did you got rid of your xenus? I think, those auditing sessions must be a bitch. But of course, it's way better than having to deal with ignorant psychiatrics, isn't it? Btw, Nicole still looks hot, doesn't her?
You're assuming computing platforms are a commoditty. Here in Brasil, some government branches have the opposite policy. And I think it's fair. It's a strategical decision of buyers if they will stick to Open Source, Closed Source or if they will always consider both alternatives.
Open Source is as commercial as Closed Source. You have real money involved in it, it's just a different product offering.
It's funny that people insist on always bidding, when "smallest price" is some of the reasons most software consultancies have so shoddy practices as hiring the cheapest clowns on town and allocating them as programmers, which, by the way, leads to bad results, which in turn created the lucrative and useless industry of certifications, maturity models and so on.
Windows has it's problems, but it has it's strengths also, just like windows or Mac OS X. A large part of Linux development is funded by companies who are competing with microsoft or that perceived Microsoft overwhelming power on the Desktop Operating Systems and their entries on the server market as threat to some part of her business.
For the bad or the worse, Microsoft had some genuine innovations, being XMLHttpRequest one of the most recents. For the bad or the worse, Microsoft consolidated the market of PC computers enough to make them serious blow on IBM, which was a even worse dominant power.
And for the programmers here over 30 years old, well, I am pretty sure a healthy lot of them got their first jobs on programming on the them relatively cheap Wintel programming, which was cheap enough so small business could afford have their custom systems.
NT, although plagued by bad drivers and it's sheer complexity for programmers, has some good ideas on its kernel and the services provided by the OS. COM was a component model that spawned lots of childs (even bastard ones like EJB), being one of the mostable examples of it XPCOM on mozilla. Eliminating Microsoft all-together would be a loss for the market. Not that we should give'em free reign. But we should not put customers on judicial chains either. Linux doesn't need it to succeed. And I am not even sure if we really want a Linux only world, as much as I don't think a Windows only world.
I am for having checks on the power of powerful companies like Microsoft. But I think that we also want to put checks on Apple, IBM, Oracle and any other company powerful enough to impose themselves as the only alternative on some markets.
I find it utterly funny when people whose jobs depend on the content their companies serve over the internet feel happy with the virtual monopoly google has over search. I feel it funny, because google already has power enough to get money over the content YOU produce, just because they are the only viable way to customers get to YOUR site. I am all for having some kind of ongoing perpetual cold war between google, because while there is competition on that space, content providers will be able to get better deals with online advertising. If all your trafic comes from google, you're bond to accept whatever are their prices for running their adds. If your traffic comes from Google, Bing and whatever else in different proportions, you're in a way better position on negoating with them when it comes to how to share the pie.
People should stop seeing the world in terms of black and white and start seeing that corporations do what is best for their bottom line. Currently IBM supports Open Source, but because it leverages their services offering and offload the costs of having to do their own development of operating systems for all their machines, and it keeps them independent from Microsoft. It's all about business.
I am using linux since the times of the early red hat versions. As Linux gets more complicated and has more features, it also gets its share of problems. Every complex system will do, unless we devise a significant different way of programming, where we are able to prove our programs to be correct, instead of
In my experience, most people who disable automatic on windows updates are people using bootleg copies of windows, because of WGA.
You see: the guy has a patched WGA, and them decides to disable Automatic Updates for fear of having a new and improved WGA which will get him.
Of course, nobody actually forces you to use windows unless you've bought a machine where it was bundled an paid as part of the price, so bootleg user well deserve it, as there are plenty of high quality open source and free-as-in-beer-and-as-in-thomas-jefferson--and-thoureau-tocqueville Operating Systems out there.
I use windows 7 and Linux daily, but at least I have a technet subscription bought specifically so I could have access to MS operating systems and servers for the purpose of development and experimentation.
Specially when you consider that this data is central to testing hypothesis that are of uttermost public interest.
People talk all the time about the interest of traditional energy companies. Know what? they are very well positioned in market and capital terms to use alternative energy forms. They have the customers, the distribution channels, years of expertise selling energy. It wouldn't be too implausible to think on Exxon thriving on an hidrogen or biofuels economy, or german's E-on generating most of their power from winds. They are not that attached to oil, they are rather interested in profits, come where they come from.
On the other side, you have derivative traders, eager to leverage yet another commodity (carbon credits) on their portfolios, you know, they would trade options on a nuclear war happening if they could. Short of that, carbon credits is just another huge opportunity to trade.
I am not telling that climate change is incorrect. I am just remembering that a theory is only correct while it's not rebutted or superseded by another theory that explains facts better. Not showing the data that support the models only serves to feed doubt in a theory that appears to be correct.
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A moderately competent machinist using those devilish tools and with blueprints pirated from evil hacker's sites on the internets could even create a perfect metal replica of an AR-15, or uranium-enrichment centrifugue! Let's ban the screw-driver!
Hey, I just discovered a fast and easy way to generate really big prime numbers using.. &*#@&*$IUIUI# .......
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People are stupider in crowds if most of them would probably err the answer for a given question. If most of them would probably be right, it's best to go for majority vote than picking any of them randomly and asking the answer for the question.
Sir, You've nailed the point. People are too worried about correcting the symptoms, even if it involves doing wrong things. Here in Brazil, there's huge support for a quite unconstitutional law that prohibits politicians under investigation to be candidates. The problem is, unless you've gone to trial, you're supposed to be innocent. What people should be questioning is why it takes so much time to condemn corrupt public agents. Governments got their secrets, but the kind of secret a government has is the real problem, if only crooks involve themselves on the political process, if only crooks get elected, you've got crook's secrets, no matter how much you scream on twitter or Facebook. Really, if you really want to change the government, you've got to seriously consider being part of the government, or at least thinking on supporting directly people you trust. Electing a president is not enough, you've got to be part of lowest level, from city councils up.
You have a point when you tell there's a huge trust problem with our current governments, but I don't think wikileaks is the solution. We've got watergate without wikileaks, we've got iran-contras denounced even before most people had internet connections. But we've had it all without a guy that blackmails governments and corporations. See, we don't live in a democracy, it's a republic. We don't need systematic leaks, we need laws to protect the free press, we need people who are a lot more responsible before voting. I find it funny that people that never bothers even to see what the congress is doing, that never bothers even to go voting, think that the solution for the problems caused by their lack of involvement is to fuck the institutions. Things are not like they are because there was no wikileaks, things are what they are because people think that posting some sarcastic quote on twitter is political participation. Do you things to improve? Involve yourself locally first. Most bastards on the high echelons started their political careers on the city council level. So what? you go there and make sure people like you are represented on the city council. It takes work? it takes time? yes, it takes! But that's how a republic is supposed to work.
Those are wide claims you're making here. Given that the propension to violence nowadays in the third world is no different from what it seemed to be in the past, would you mind if I asked you from some reasonable proofs to sustain your emotionally loaded rethorics? Ok. They have AKs now instead of bows. But, when in history humans didn't fight most of their times?
Right on point. Most of the early constitutions were made to limit the power of state. World was coming from an age of absolute monarchies, so people were really afraid that their new governments would end up being as despotic as the ones they helped to overthrow.
mod parent funny.
Oh no. Mod TFA funny.
No! mod Elaine Cioni funny (didn't find the 'freak' mod option)
Not to mention companies that spend a lot of money with VPN solutions with two factor authentication, and at the same time leave ssh outgoing unmonitored on their firewalls.
In this scenario having remote access to your network is just a matter of issuing
ssh2 -R 1234:localhost:23 username@host
And now, all traffic which comes to port 1234 on the server (host) will be forwarded to port 23 on the client (localhost).
So, again, there's a lot of people out there using linux without actually knowing shit about security and how linux works. These people like to boost how secure they are just because they are using linux (even if their boxes and networks are badly configured and full of holes). Those people are lamers.
Consider this:
I've seen lots of companies using local authentication for their linux boxes, along with a supposedly secret root password configured in every machine. There are a lot of centralized directory and authentication options for linux. But, how much people use it? But, they do know how to setup Microsoft's Active Directory and setup clients to use it.
Linux has ACLs for some time know, something that is way better than the old permission schemes. But, again, I've never seen it widely deployed across a large network. ACLs are the default file permission scheme on Windows.
No to mention that lots of linux and servers desktop out there are not configured with a password on GRUB to avoid people booting into single mode and getting root credentials.
So, while linux is as corporate-security capable as windows under a administrative point of view, most corporations and system administrations are not aware of that. And even when they are, the tools for managing such things are not as straightforward to use as Active Directory;
Being less sucetible to exploits is not the whole game in security. It doesn't matter what is your operating system, a badly configured operating system is insecure no matter which kernel do you use. And at this point, ease of management becomes very important.
Hum...
How do you think people debug the kernel with windows?
Of course the public that have to debug the windows kernel over a serial connection is the same demographics that need to debug the linux kernel (device driver authors)
netbook! can you read it? do you know what a netbook is?
I hate to tell it in such way, but your post tells me more of American's absolutely insane eating habits than anything else.
I think it's a bit rude to tell it, but eating only processed food, is expensive, and a sure way to lack a good nutrition and leading to problems such as what you have mentioned. I can't even fathom how do you manage to eat canned food.
Have you ever thought about eating vegetables? If you do, you could even support small scale local farming, thus, generating more jobs, depending less on fuel to transport processed food.
I agree that, of course, Brazil has not the same standard of living as the US, but definitely, our cities are not rotting (on the contrary, we are slowly improving), and even our poor have access to a healthy nutrition with vegetables and fresh foods.
Our biggest health problem nowadays is obesity. And that obesity has been caused exactly because we started mimicking your eating standards.
Putting it on other terms
If you could go back to 1960 with a dozen humble 386's, loaded with the OS, compiler, and full of manuals, you'd be absurdly rich selling it to the powers of that age. Or you'd be instakilled. Either way, the mortgage would no longer be a problem to you.
May I add that as a Brazilian I am deeply disgusted with you, the Americans, having stop exporting jobs for us and had instead sent all of them to China. Actually, not only the jobs, but the technology, the services, the whole fucking thing.
We never had nukes pointed at you. China had/has.
IMHO, you deserve what you have now by your poor choice of partners.
Read GP's entire post before running over his/her dead body with your SUV. He clearly mentioned that money is not a good way to measure the fittest. And of course, your example is a bit extreme and doesn't invalidate the former argument. Remember, nature indeed play dices, we are talking about probabilities, marginal issues and trends here, not black and white things. Don't accuse me! I am not mother nature.
Ouch. My bad. I am really fucking sorry.
Of course. You're posting on slashdot. Otherwise you wouldn't have a clue of what it is, unless they wrote "pussy";.
Hi Tom Cruise. Didn't know you surfed Slashdot.
Did you got rid of your xenus? I think, those auditing sessions must be a bitch. But of course, it's way better than having to deal with ignorant psychiatrics, isn't it?
Btw, Nicole still looks hot, doesn't her?
No. She didn't. despite what the voices told ya, she didn't try to kill you.
Open Source is as commercial as Closed Source. You have real money involved in it, it's just a different product offering.
It's funny that people insist on always bidding, when "smallest price" is some of the reasons most software consultancies have so shoddy practices as hiring the cheapest clowns on town and allocating them as programmers, which, by the way, leads to bad results, which in turn created the lucrative and useless industry of certifications, maturity models and so on.
Windows has it's problems, but it has it's strengths also, just like windows or Mac OS X. A large part of Linux development is funded by companies who are competing with microsoft or that perceived Microsoft overwhelming power on the Desktop Operating Systems and their entries on the server market as threat to some part of her business.
For the bad or the worse, Microsoft had some genuine innovations, being XMLHttpRequest one of the most recents. For the bad or the worse, Microsoft consolidated the market of PC computers enough to make them serious blow on IBM, which was a even worse dominant power.
And for the programmers here over 30 years old, well, I am pretty sure a healthy lot of them got their first jobs on programming on the them relatively cheap Wintel programming, which was cheap enough so small business could afford have their custom systems.
NT, although plagued by bad drivers and it's sheer complexity for programmers, has some good ideas on its kernel and the services provided by the OS. COM was a component model that spawned lots of childs (even bastard ones like EJB), being one of the mostable examples of it XPCOM on mozilla. Eliminating Microsoft all-together would be a loss for the market. Not that we should give'em free reign. But we should not put customers on judicial chains either. Linux doesn't need it to succeed. And I am not even sure if we really want a Linux only world, as much as I don't think a Windows only world.
I am for having checks on the power of powerful companies like Microsoft. But I think that we also want to put checks on Apple, IBM, Oracle and any other company powerful enough to impose themselves as the only alternative on some markets.
I find it utterly funny when people whose jobs depend on the content their companies serve over the internet feel happy with the virtual monopoly google has over search. I feel it funny, because google already has power enough to get money over the content YOU produce, just because they are the only viable way to customers get to YOUR site. I am all for having some kind of ongoing perpetual cold war between google, because while there is competition on that space, content providers will be able to get better deals with online advertising. If all your trafic comes from google, you're bond to accept whatever are their prices for running their adds. If your traffic comes from Google, Bing and whatever else in different proportions, you're in a way better position on negoating with them when it comes to how to share the pie.
People should stop seeing the world in terms of black and white and start seeing that corporations do what is best for their bottom line. Currently IBM supports Open Source, but because it leverages their services offering and offload the costs of having to do their own development of operating systems for all their machines, and it keeps them independent from Microsoft. It's all about business.
I am using linux since the times of the early red hat versions. As Linux gets more complicated and has more features, it also gets its share of problems. Every complex system will do, unless we devise a significant different way of programming, where we are able to prove our programs to be correct, instead of
And sharp nails.
In my experience, most people who disable automatic on windows updates are people using bootleg copies of windows, because of WGA. You see: the guy has a patched WGA, and them decides to disable Automatic Updates for fear of having a new and improved WGA which will get him. Of course, nobody actually forces you to use windows unless you've bought a machine where it was bundled an paid as part of the price, so bootleg user well deserve it, as there are plenty of high quality open source and free-as-in-beer-and-as-in-thomas-jefferson--and-thoureau-tocqueville Operating Systems out there. I use windows 7 and Linux daily, but at least I have a technet subscription bought specifically so I could have access to MS operating systems and servers for the purpose of development and experimentation.
Specially when you consider that this data is central to testing hypothesis that are of uttermost public interest.
People talk all the time about the interest of traditional energy companies. Know what? they are very well positioned in market and capital terms to use alternative energy forms. They have the customers, the distribution channels, years of expertise selling energy. It wouldn't be too implausible to think on Exxon thriving on an hidrogen or biofuels economy, or german's E-on generating most of their power from winds. They are not that attached to oil, they are rather interested in profits, come where they come from.
On the other side, you have derivative traders, eager to leverage yet another commodity (carbon credits) on their portfolios, you know, they would trade options on a nuclear war happening if they could. Short of that, carbon credits is just another huge opportunity to trade.
I am not telling that climate change is incorrect. I am just remembering that a theory is only correct while it's not rebutted or superseded by another theory that explains facts better. Not showing the data that support the models only serves to feed doubt in a theory that appears to be correct.
Open firefox with a blank window on windows 7, open process explorer. about 35MB.
Now, open gmail
100 MB....
do nothing, javascript garbage collector kicks in.... 70MB
Let gmail or any other ajax app who has a loop continuosly checking against a server running for hours.
Chat with integrated gtalk, open some google documents.....
Most javascript implementations have some memory leaks. With time those leaks add up.
Now, try writing the javascript engine with a managed, garbage collected language. Ping me if you survive the experience.