I think Putin knows full well that this task is not achievable, but wants to use it to shove someone out of their job in disgrace. I guess we'll find out who that is soon enough.
Oh, like he NEEDS an excuse?
No, sorry. I think Putin really is that ignorant and megalomaniacal.
He's getting old and will soon be irrelevant. Given the silly state of Russian succession politics, a power vacuum will form and there will be turmoil and generally unnecessary stupidness for several years. What a waste; that country has huge potential, but they can't figure out how to unleash it.
Perhaps Putin will have a nice Cerebral Hemorrhage. That seemed to be the typical Russian Retirement Method back in the Cold War days.
Perhaps any private key stores in the hands of ISPs or other Russian services may end up in the Russian government's hands. But what about all the self-signed communications, or communications signed by keys external to Russia?
One wonders whether this is just an attempt at a bluff, as in "We'll find your secret communications, Comrade!" or whether Putin and his advisers are is ignorant of the underlying mathematics and technology as so many governments in the West are? On the face of it, whoever wrote this law has absolutely no fucking idea how encryption works on the Internet.
I would bet the latter.
It's actually kind of refreshing to see a leader of a (former) SuperPower that is even more ignorant of technology than our own homegrown Overlords in the U.S.
And yet despite being armed to the teeth, he or she is terrified, simply terrified of a person in a t-shirt and shorts with a camera, or some dude who might be selling CD or single cigarettes.
That's because they have a "Bully" mindset.
And ya know whatcha see underneath when you scratch the surface of a Bully?
Hey, macs4all, I hope you realize I was just teasing you a while back when I pretended you were actually Tim Cook. You seem like a decent person and I hope you realize it wasn't personal.
I've actually been a Mac user for decades (I use three different platforms) and I just pick on Apple because they're an easy target for jokes. We good?
Uh, sure...;-)
The only people I REALLY wish would FOAD are the over the top ACs.
"I'll level with you: I'm a white guy who's over 50 in silicon valley. I'm the last guy they want on their payroll."
This idiotic line of reasoning will forever blow my mind. I'm an HVAC mechanic, and 50+ guys of any color are solid fucking gold in this business. They are walking encyclopedias. I'm newer, but whenever I'm around early in the morning at the shop and 2 of the older guys are bs-ing about problems they solved recently, I walk right over and listen, and they like my learning initiative, and they clue me in.
Silicon Valley is a fucking meat grinder.
HVAC isn't the Tech world. In our world, Age == Obsolescence, not Respect.
I work for a small (formerly family-owned) company.
That's one of the secrets, right there. Work in a place where the decision-makers actually reside and whom you will occasionally encounter, and you have a chance of being treated with respect. If "corporate" is in another town, all bets are off.
I second that. I work for a Mom and Pop ( literally) software consultancy. They truly do treat their employees like extended family, and bend over backwards to accommodate employees with family problems.
I could make more at another place; but there is something nice about not having to look over your shoulder nor having to keep your resume polished...
but the two-week rule is a widely accepted standard of workplace conduct.
when companies only offer you 'contract work' when you are over 50 (since its easier to fire you, being a protected age class if you are NOT fulltime) - and they walk your ass out right after the project is over, the days of company loyalty are ALSO LONG GONE.
I could care less about the company I work for. they could care less about me.
I hate that. I used to care. but they stopped, and so, I had to.
its just that simple.
This. so much this. I could have written your post myself
Where Linux shines is in making old PCs come to life again after having been saddled by Windows.
That USED to be the case; but I seem to remember people on Slashdot whining a couple of years back that Linux was getting too resource-hungry to run on old hardware.
Oh, and now most Linuces will apparently be dropping support for 32 bit x86 CPUs...
I'm not an Apple fanboy: if Linux or Windows ever got sufficiently better than OS X that I could justify changing ecosystems, I'd totally be open to considering it. Realistically, though, based on the last 20 years of watching their respective user interface development, I don't think that's likely to happen.
So you would agree with my assessment that OS X/macOS has, at this time, the hands-down best desktop UI overall?
Yup, sure am. I find it odd that somebody would have a problem with that on a site that constantly rails against privacy invasions. Isn't anonymity key to privacy?
Normally, yes. But on Slashdot, Anonymity seems to be mostly used as a Flaming/Trolling/Ad Hominem Attack Tool.
What kind of administration do you do that would let you do meaningful work on a 5 inch screen? I'm not trying to be snide here... I'm just thinking about all the things I do, and virtually none of them are so simple that I could do that work on a miniscule mobile device.
Some kind of GUI front end with pre-configured for various common tasks?
Sounds like he's "Admin-ing" some consumer-level networking and peripheral equipment.
IANAA (I am not an Admin), but it seems like one would use VNC to Admin. a Server, rather than a Web Application. And there are several nice VNC/RDP clients for iOS. I use "Jump", personally.
But you're right: regardless of the OS involved, Admin-ing on a mobile screen is, um, challenging.
Well, yeah, but lets be blunt here, by the fact that you decide to call yourself "macs4all" you're also probably physically incapable of being objective about anything if Apple is involved. I prefer Android but would never call myself "Android4All".
Ok, while we're being blunt: You're nothing but an Anonymous Coward.
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Free upgrades to Linux, BSD or whatever flavor will be available for quite some time longer.
As will the free macOS upgrades.
Come now. If Trump wins, he'll put Putin to shame on how dumb a Western leader can actually be.
You could be right on that one.
Good thing the FBI is looking for a new department head.
Unfortunately, they aren't.
endless supply of tasty, tasty unicorn-scented donuts
Um, those aren't unicorn-scented donuts that that unicorn is dropping...
So why is he pretending to be stupid?
Perhaps he's been in power too long and it's beginning to mess with his sanity like it happened to many other dictators before him?
Perhaps it's just the first symptoms of Polonium poisoning.
We can only hope.
I think Putin knows full well that this task is not achievable, but wants to use it to shove someone out of their job in disgrace. I guess we'll find out who that is soon enough.
Oh, like he NEEDS an excuse?
No, sorry. I think Putin really is that ignorant and megalomaniacal.
He's getting old and will soon be irrelevant. Given the silly state of Russian succession politics, a power vacuum will form and there will be turmoil and generally unnecessary stupidness for several years. What a waste; that country has huge potential, but they can't figure out how to unleash it.
Perhaps Putin will have a nice Cerebral Hemorrhage. That seemed to be the typical Russian Retirement Method back in the Cold War days.
Perhaps any private key stores in the hands of ISPs or other Russian services may end up in the Russian government's hands. But what about all the self-signed communications, or communications signed by keys external to Russia?
One wonders whether this is just an attempt at a bluff, as in "We'll find your secret communications, Comrade!" or whether Putin and his advisers are is ignorant of the underlying mathematics and technology as so many governments in the West are? On the face of it, whoever wrote this law has absolutely no fucking idea how encryption works on the Internet.
I would bet the latter.
It's actually kind of refreshing to see a leader of a (former) SuperPower that is even more ignorant of technology than our own homegrown Overlords in the U.S.
I know, but Apple's threatened lawsuits, so I'm backpedaling.
So I guess I need to register "TheFakeTimCook" as a user ID? ;-)
Hah, joke's on you, that actually is Tim Cook's Slashdot account!
Now if it was only connected to Tim Cook's bank account...
So you think the federal government is going to use tanks
Oh! how quickly we forget...
And yet despite being armed to the teeth, he or she is terrified, simply terrified of a person in a t-shirt and shorts with a camera, or some dude who might be selling CD or single cigarettes.
That's because they have a "Bully" mindset.
And ya know whatcha see underneath when you scratch the surface of a Bully?
A scared little child.
Explains a lot, doesn't it?
Hey, macs4all, I hope you realize I was just teasing you a while back when I pretended you were actually Tim Cook. You seem like a decent person and I hope you realize it wasn't personal.
I've actually been a Mac user for decades (I use three different platforms) and I just pick on Apple because they're an easy target for jokes. We good?
Uh, sure... ;-)
The only people I REALLY wish would FOAD are the over the top ACs.
But, we're good.
"I'll level with you: I'm a white guy who's over 50 in silicon valley. I'm the last guy they want on their payroll."
This idiotic line of reasoning will forever blow my mind. I'm an HVAC mechanic, and 50+ guys of any color are solid fucking gold in this business. They are walking encyclopedias. I'm newer, but whenever I'm around early in the morning at the shop and 2 of the older guys are bs-ing about problems they solved recently, I walk right over and listen, and they like my learning initiative, and they clue me in.
Silicon Valley is a fucking meat grinder.
HVAC isn't the Tech world. In our world, Age == Obsolescence, not Respect.
That's one of the secrets, right there. Work in a place where the decision-makers actually reside and whom you will occasionally encounter, and you have a chance of being treated with respect. If "corporate" is in another town, all bets are off.
I second that. I work for a Mom and Pop ( literally) software consultancy. They truly do treat their employees like extended family, and bend over backwards to accommodate employees with family problems.
I could make more at another place; but there is something nice about not having to look over your shoulder nor having to keep your resume polished...
but the two-week rule is a widely accepted standard of workplace conduct.
when companies only offer you 'contract work' when you are over 50 (since its easier to fire you, being a protected age class if you are NOT fulltime) - and they walk your ass out right after the project is over, the days of company loyalty are ALSO LONG GONE.
I could care less about the company I work for. they could care less about me.
I hate that. I used to care. but they stopped, and so, I had to.
its just that simple.
This. so much this. I could have written your post myself
No
I wasn't talking to you, COWARD.
It's still free
True, for limited values of "it".
Where Linux shines is in making old PCs come to life again after having been saddled by Windows.
That USED to be the case; but I seem to remember people on Slashdot whining a couple of years back that Linux was getting too resource-hungry to run on old hardware.
Oh, and now most Linuces will apparently be dropping support for 32 bit x86 CPUs...
So which is it?
Didn't your mother ever teach you, "if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all"?
You must be new here.
;-)
Oh, and it wasn't bile. But it may have been another yellow bodily fluid...
I'm not an Apple fanboy: if Linux or Windows ever got sufficiently better than OS X that I could justify changing ecosystems, I'd totally be open to considering it. Realistically, though, based on the last 20 years of watching their respective user interface development, I don't think that's likely to happen.
So you would agree with my assessment that OS X/macOS has, at this time, the hands-down best desktop UI overall?
Yup, sure am. I find it odd that somebody would have a problem with that on a site that constantly rails against privacy invasions. Isn't anonymity key to privacy?
Normally, yes. But on Slashdot, Anonymity seems to be mostly used as a Flaming/Trolling/Ad Hominem Attack Tool.
What kind of administration do you do that would let you do meaningful work on a 5 inch screen? I'm not trying to be snide here... I'm just thinking about all the things I do, and virtually none of them are so simple that I could do that work on a miniscule mobile device.
Some kind of GUI front end with pre-configured for various common tasks?
Sounds like he's "Admin-ing" some consumer-level networking and peripheral equipment.
IANAA (I am not an Admin), but it seems like one would use VNC to Admin. a Server, rather than a Web Application. And there are several nice VNC/RDP clients for iOS. I use "Jump", personally.
But you're right: regardless of the OS involved, Admin-ing on a mobile screen is, um, challenging.
Well, yeah, but lets be blunt here, by the fact that you decide to call yourself "macs4all" you're also probably physically incapable of being objective about anything if Apple is involved. I prefer Android but would never call myself "Android4All".
Ok, while we're being blunt: You're nothing but an Anonymous Coward.
It's still free.
Yes, they offer a dumbed-down "Community" version that, for certain use cases is Free.
But XCode is Free. Not just SOME of it. ALL of it.