I've read a variety of articles and seen a number of documentaries where the IRS has, in the US, frozen assets - all of them. That is not quite the same but there is no appeal and no real due process. Eventually, in the cases that I've read/heard about, they get access to their assets again but that process not only takes years but also incurs no penalties for the IRS. One particularly egregious case was a matter of a guy who owned a couple of restaurants on the East Coast. They pretty much ruined him and there's no recourse for him. If I recall correctly, he got access to his accounts at some point but, by then, it was all owed to other people, he was long since bankrupt, and his restaurants had been closed.
They seize and freeze accounts fairly often and for a variety of reasons. I'm sure some of them are justified and I'm sure that sometimes they are in error. But, it happens. We can argue that the US isn't a "free" country and I'd be inclined to disagree. I guess the point is that it happens, unfortunately.
Interesting... I wonder what (if as expected/hoped) quantum computing will do for this, as it's able to assume both states simultaneously - though, that'd be more like a solve vs. play. With those numbers, I'm not sure if it can be solved. These learning/adaptive processes, I wonder if they can be paired against each other (or themselves) and learn from playing each other? I'm guessing someone's already tried that. I did a quick Google and I didn't find anything about it. It's kind of obvious so I'm assuming someone is either working on it or already has and I'm just not seeing it.
Yeah, I'm not sure why folks talk about bringing them back to the surface except, maybe, some early efforts or something that's a curiosity or has huge value - like a giant chunk of gold. I've no idea what the final numbers will look like so I'm not even sure if there'd be a legit reason to even bring gold back to the planetary orbit or to the surface at all. I imagine it would take a huge decrease in cost in getting things into orbit before any of it became worth it to go get it. It has to be less expensive than the cost to put it and the equipment in orbit as well as the cost for the mineral(s). I guess the equipment cost could be amortized, hopefully.
This is talking about mining mineral resources as opposed to fossil fuels. I'm not sure how we're going to use the Sun to make in-ground resources more plentiful than they already are.:/
I mean, you don't *have* to read the summary or anything but it kind of helps. I suppose I could be misreading it but I decided to double-check my reading. I don't think I'm missing anything. I did not, of course, read the article. I'll read the summary but the article is right out. I am no heretic.
This should not be read as support for the idea of mining or as forgiveness for Deepwater. It's simply an observation...
I was on the beach just a little while ago. I'm in the Gulf. I've swum in it, I've eaten food from it, I have boated in it.
While it certainly was tragic and damaging, and should be prevented from recurring, it did not actually kill the Gulf and all the animals in the ecosystem. It was unacceptable, they were punished (but not nearly enough, in my opinion), and we need to take steps to make sure that it doesn't happen again.
Hmm... It's hard to state that without it reading like I'm supporting BP or even supporting mining the ocean. I am not - I'm sure as hell not suggesting we mine the ocean. I am saying, I guess, that we should avoid hyperbole. Things are not "fine" (or so I'm told) but they're not collapsing. The Gulf will survive this, this time.
If we can safely mine the ocean floor then I say go for it - so long as it does minimal damage to the oceanic environment and ecosystem. I have my doubts that it can do so safely but I am not an expert on ocean mining.
Who the hell assured you of such things and did they give you a specific time-frame in which those assurances would be met? I think it's safe to say that the two may very well result in technological and resource advances but giving a time-frame for that to happen in is rather silly. To compound that, why would someone tell you that it solved "all" resource problems? Even if it could, it won't do so immediately.
You should stop listening to idiots. I can't say that I've ever actually seen anyone state such things - not even on Slashdot. Not in the questions, the comments, ads, nope... I've not even seen it in the articles but I haven't actually read most of those.
I understand that these are very different things - Chess v. Go. Why is the math so difficult for Go? Is it math or computational resources or time or?
No, I'd say that's borderline schizo-paranoia and not an actual breach but an interception of data in transit. I'm sure you'll find whatever reasons you can possibly come up with to justify your angst and outrage. But no, I'd not call that a security incident, not even remotely. That doesn't excuse them sending the data in the clear but the data is not something you need to worry about. You can see the reports before you send them - or not. You don't even have to send them. To add to that, all current (known) transmissions are encrypted.
I know, it's terrible that the NSA slurped up the data but them slurping up the vendor ID on your USB device is the least of my concerns with the NSA's data molestation. No, I'd not call that a security incident. And no, no I'm using Linux - Lubuntu. If you're still using Windows then you're making the choice to do so. Stop it. Just stop it. If you don't like them, don't use them. If you're going to say that it's your work machine then, oh well? That's not your machine to be concerned with. It doesn't belong to you nor does the data on it belong to you and if your company insists on using it then that's their choice.
Go buy a Mac. Wipe the drive on what you have and install any Linux distro out there. Either way, no, that's not even remotely a security incident. There's no loss of security. Now, if it were the forced telemetry that they're doing now and it was in the clear, then I'd say it was a security incident. You did not lose any security (nor did Microsoft) because the NSA slurped up your USB vendor ID.
My home is in New England. (I'm at a *house* in Florida that I own.) In New England, we're Anderson people!
I probably should have been a bit more clear, actually. I do have Windows installed on my phone. I actually picked it up because a/.er mentioned it. I've been pretty happy with it but I don't use it for much other than to make calls, send text messages, write a quick email, and browse the web. It has all the apps I'd want and then some. There are apps in the store - there just aren't a bunch of garbage apps - from what I've noticed. However, I don't really have many installed as I mostly just use my phone's stock applications.
Yup. It's odd but it's true. I have a Windows phone and I like it.
That works too. Though I think they'd consider capitalizing it at that point?
"You're right, in a way; The field of..."
That's the thing about English - there are often many ways to write and all of them are correct. Some prefer some styles and others prefer another. I'm a fan of the "Harvard Comma." Oddly, sometimes called the "Oxford Comma." I've seen (but not memorized) many different style guides. For a brief time, I was a freelance journalist. That style is much, much different than others. I had absolutely zero formal training but it was something that fit my schedule as I was in school at the time.
I'd also add that I am not, by any means, an expert. The grammarians stopped correcting me because I am grateful for the correction and point out that I'm constantly trying to improve my writing skills. The results, judge them as you will, are here to share. I've actually spent a lot of time learning how to be more grammatically correct than I used to be. There was a time where my writing was of a much lower quality. It's not something to be proud of, I guess, but I am fairly satisfied with my improvements.
Totally different mentality between them and you or I. It makes me think it's a social construct. It's more widely seen in areas where they don't (at least nominally) quite have the same level of protections afforded by their constitution and/or are acclimated to living in an area where corruption is more wide-scale.
The behavior/belief or expression is similar to what you see from the Americans who say things like, "If you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to worry about. I'm glad that they're doing this to keep us safe." It's not exactly the same but it is similar. I guess it's not really unexpected when you are in a country where you're regularly stopped on the street and asked to produce documentation, pay a bribe, or things like that nature - and from people who are the authorities.
I've not spent any real time in Brazil but I've been in South America quite a bit and it's not uncommon to have authorities with road-blocks and asking for documentation. I don't know how corrupt Brazil is - I've only been once and that was strictly tourist stuff for a festival. I've never gotten out and about beyond tourist areas, the hotel, the beach, and things like that. I can speak more about Mexico, Peru, and Chile and maybe a bit about Argentina as I've spent more time in those countries. Corruption is wide-spread and pretty open - and accepted.
So, I guess it's not really unexpected or surprising for them to say something like that and to think like that. They're used to the police being corrupt and overstepping their boundaries. This is rather trivial compared to them shaking down a local businessman or chasing the gay, homeless, or trans people out of the sewers with gasoline and a match - and then shooting them as they escape.
Microsoft has been collecting this information for years and years. At this point, we've no known security incidents involving the data collected via telemetry. It could have been compromised and they not told us but that's a bit unlikely. At any rate, they've been collecting metrics, in one form or another, since the XP days. They're certainly collecting more now but they do have a history of keeping that data to themselves - at least publicly. And no, I'm posting this from Lubuntu, not a Windows computer. I don't have any computers with Windows installed.
It looks like it is going to go through. I'm going to be cautious and ride it out for the time being. I've got a hardware firewall with logs and I can run Wireshark. I'll have to see where it goes but I hope to keep using it. I do not want to have to change my browser - I've been using Opera for a very, very long time. If I do end up having to change things, it'll probably be to Chromium.
That'd be kind of neat. I've done jack and squat for any web work as of late. I am supposed to be involved on a project with a friend of mine (a competition of sorts) but he's asked for an extension to our start date. I should probably be using this time to pick up some skills and refresh my memory.
Yeah, that OEM version of Server 2008 and 2012 comes with Dell stuff on and thousands of them get activated on a single IP address. Boy, that OEM version of Office has to be really... Wait, no, that OEM version of Office is the same as as any other version of Office. Hint: Anyone buying Server 2012 isn't sending it out to to have OEM stuff removed, same for 2008.
Have you ever been right? Seriously, ever? What is this *real* world of yours? Nobody, and I do mean nobody, is sending out an OEM Server 2012 box (all using the same keys or a few limited keys) to get DELL stuff removed from it. Nobody. Not even YOU are that inept.
I should add that I'm not just thinking about collegiate education but high school as well. And, really, how much do we need to teach 'em? Do we teach them how to work out the answers or do we teach them where to go find the answers? Obviously, others would opt to go learn to work them out - but does everybody need to be able to figure out the number of square inches for a piece of plywood - or do they need to know how to Google for that information should they have to find out?
Chances are, if someone's paying someone to do their work - they're not actually going to ever be doing that work themselves but will be paying others to do it for them. Rich Kid Bob's not going to need much in the way of math classes. Why not teach him to bargain and get the best price for the work to be completed? He'll learn to source quality work at reasonable prices. Poor Kid Ralph, he's not going to be able to pay - but he'll still have to have the work done so he learns to do it himself. He can sell his work to Rich Kid Bob which helps him improve his skills and upward mobility.
Is Poor Kid Bob going to need those history classes? Suzie wants to be a journalist when she grows up. He can bargain with her and do her math homework while she does his history. Or, perhaps, they can just go online and get the answers which shows that they don't actually know them BUT that they know how to find that information if they need to.
I don't think it's nearly as insane as it looks at first blush. It's a rather pragmatic approach to the changing needs of society. Given the ubiquity of information and connectivity, what competencies are we training for? Something, somewhere in that direction, and probably with more tracks (like engineering, health, administrative, business, construction, welding/fabrication, plumbing, etc) might actually work. I get that it sounds preposterous but I think that's because we've become so acclimated to doing things the way we have been doing them.
Well, I noticed it a little while ago when I updated. (I use the repo and have the three channels, beta, dev, and stable loaded.)
It's pretty fast, it's seemingly faster than uBlock but it's important to note that (I'm pretty sure) it's only blocking ads. It doesn't block scripts, trackers, and things like that. It just blocks ads.
I can't say that I'm unimpressed. It's good for what it is - I've not actually seen an ad with it running and I have everything else turned off. I've only been browsing with it for a little while so I'm not sure how well it will work out. It's bound to filter down to beta and stable, it's good enough for most people's needs. At least that's my initial impression.
I haven't really read much about it, as in how it's doing it. I'm pretty sure that they've been working on this for a while with their Turbo and SurfEasy looking to find ways to reduce bandwidth. It's not easily refined. There's an exceptions list, I deleted all of them first thing. One of them was Forbes. That's really the only settings that it has. Opera used to have a neat feature where you could right click on an image and block that image forever - it'd work for ads as well. That does not appear to be coming back with this.
10 MB file created, encrypted, mailed, sent to/dev/null. Recipient encrypts it again, mails to next person, sent to/dev/null. Daisy chain it so more people can participate. Every third (or so) time it's encrypted, the next one gets deleted and a new 10 MB random file is generated. Have it go in circles BUT also have it 'cross-fire' so that it's sending data to random participants. Get more than 1 file moving around. Make it tit-easy and let people join/participate. It can all be done over email.
It doesn't need to be done over email, there are other options but they like email so that's probably the best choice. It can support expansion just by one of the many, many ways to host mailing lists. Let people rate-limit how many they send, maybe allow for scheduling. It seems like it'd be pretty damned easy to do this - and it doesn't even need to be directly on your ISP's subnet.
Yeah, I have to login manually each time but it's not too bad. It eats the CSS here and doesn't display well at all. It won't load the mobile site but I bet it'd be just fine for a bunch of things.
The trouble is, more and more sites are starting to rely on some scripting if you want full functionality or any functionality at all.
This does, however, bring back some fond memories.
I think it could use some decorative things - like CSS guessing, fit text to width, SSL support, and the likes. By the way, this and the last were sent in this.
Nifty, thanks. There's a Lynx critter that supports a mouse, a little. I want to say elinks or something? I dunno. That was just a little too mundane but it actually let me stay logged in to Slashdot.
Indeed. It is fast. Ugly as all hell but it compiled nicely enough. It threw a few errors and I needed to get the FLTK as that wasn't installed. Slashdot is somehow uglier than normal.
I don't know about better. A bunch of shrunken heads would be kind of awesome. And, if you've never tried uMatrix, give it a spin. *nods*
I'm actually really, really satisfied with it. Sometimes I don't even bother with uBlock. I just use a live USB OS and keep things in RAM. I do that a lot, oddly. I don't really store any data locally so it's maybe five minutes to get things up to a good browsing experience. I should probably do a few roll-my owns with persistent storage.
Err... We're not the ones with cookie notification laws, a right to be forgotten, and strange laws on how you can and can not collect information. I know it's fun to bash the US but that doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to me.
It's a little flaky. I was not an MP. I was a chaster/escort (transportation office) and we had a bunch of civilians on-base. One was drunk and belligerent and wanted to fight a bunch of Marines. He was initially detained by an MP. The MP loses authority when they step off the base with a civilian. The guy and I spent a few hours together while he was my prisoner. I waited for the locals to arrive. I filled out some transfer paperwork. They took my prisoner with them after I confirmed their ID and orders. If they'd not been arresting him, we'd have just dumped him out at the gate. Sorry buddy, I can't take you any further than this.
Meh, he was harmless. I guess he'd always wanted to be a Marine but got into some trouble right out of high school and ended up a felon. It's one of the few instances where I booked and detained. I was entirely accountable for him once I accepted him as my prisoner. In the old days, if you were an escort/chaser and your prisoner got away, you served his time. It was not like that in my day. That was way back in the 60s that that ended. This would have been about 30 years ago when I had my only chance to observe/partake in anything of that nature.
No worries, I got him to the bathroom and some food and water and I might have managed to let him have a beer out of his backpack before we went inside but I'm not admitting to anything. He even got a smoke. I had to keep him isolated and it was 1-on-1 observation status, 24/7 if needed. I found him a television to watch, uncuffed him the rest of the way, and found a deck of cards so we could play cribbage. It's not nearly as exciting as one might think. He was just sloppy/crying drunk. No biggie and no idea what happened t him. I know none of use were in a position to press charges but the MPs might have been able to. I assume he hit the drunk-tank and left the next morning.
At any rate, the point of that is that it's a little vague at times. I had them detained (not legally arrested - I don't think) and I was active service, the MPs were active duty, etc... We housed him in our facility, fed him our food, and entertained him. I'm pretty sure that counts as law-enforcement. I know MPs have not stood idle while regular police had issues. I do not know how the UCMJ deals with that.
Depends, even back then, on the base and current security levels. If they want to stop you, they can and will stop you. They used to stop us back in the day and I lived on base. This used to vary some but now it's a PIO state. I think it's called PIO. It has been a lot of years. Positive Identification Only. Not only are you going to stop, you're going to show valid ID now. Else, you're not getting on the base. I'm not even sure if the president would be allowed on base without someone showing some paperwork. Then again, they'll know the president is coming long before he gets there.
I repeat myself but you can save a lot of time and effort just by using uMatrix. Seriously, it does all that and it's tiny as all hell. It's like an old-school software firewall except it's just for your browser. And it is awesome. Err... I've collected a bunch of people who've tried it and claimed to like it. I'm on a mission!
Actually, I'm not even remotely affiliated and I don't particularly care what you use but I've seen you post before and you seem reasonably sane. So, I figure you *really* might want to take a look at it.
I discovered a new feature the other day. I used to export and save my configurations. Now? I don't have to - but I can. I just enable cloud mode and it goes through the same process that does the bookmarking if you're signed into the server to allow that. Opera lets you encrypt the syncing with your own key. I can't speak for the other browsers. Even if they didn't, I'd opt to share that data. (I don't mind sharing data, I mind data being collected without my consent.)
Anyhow, there's a Firefox version of uMatrix now. I've never tried it. It looks the same. It should function the same. There's a slight learning curve but you'll be fine. I've exported my settings and filters and whatnot and have let others use them to get an idea of what it can do.
He's the guy that makes uBlock Origin and HTTP Switchboard, they're all really similar and you can accomplish much of the same tasks with all of them. I don't need to run uBlock but I do. Why? It hides the spaces the ads went a little better and I use uBlock as a poor-idiot's Stylish by adding filters to get rid of shit I don't want to see on a per-element basis. I don't have to do that - but I can.
If you're curious, just search your browser's extension/add-on page for uMatrix. The source is up on GitHub if you want to view it. The guy's pretty cool. I don't want to be specific but I sent him an email offering to donate a decent sum of money for one-man project. I didn't want anything in return. I was just trying to thank him. He declined and pointed to an updated FAQ. He does *not* accept donations or anything of the sort. (It also passes my "new extension Wireshark and firewall logs" test with flying colors. I've seen zero packets that could not be accounted for - not even encrypted streams.)
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I've read a variety of articles and seen a number of documentaries where the IRS has, in the US, frozen assets - all of them. That is not quite the same but there is no appeal and no real due process. Eventually, in the cases that I've read/heard about, they get access to their assets again but that process not only takes years but also incurs no penalties for the IRS. One particularly egregious case was a matter of a guy who owned a couple of restaurants on the East Coast. They pretty much ruined him and there's no recourse for him. If I recall correctly, he got access to his accounts at some point but, by then, it was all owed to other people, he was long since bankrupt, and his restaurants had been closed.
They seize and freeze accounts fairly often and for a variety of reasons. I'm sure some of them are justified and I'm sure that sometimes they are in error. But, it happens. We can argue that the US isn't a "free" country and I'd be inclined to disagree. I guess the point is that it happens, unfortunately.
Interesting... I wonder what (if as expected/hoped) quantum computing will do for this, as it's able to assume both states simultaneously - though, that'd be more like a solve vs. play. With those numbers, I'm not sure if it can be solved. These learning/adaptive processes, I wonder if they can be paired against each other (or themselves) and learn from playing each other? I'm guessing someone's already tried that. I did a quick Google and I didn't find anything about it. It's kind of obvious so I'm assuming someone is either working on it or already has and I'm just not seeing it.
Yeah, I'm not sure why folks talk about bringing them back to the surface except, maybe, some early efforts or something that's a curiosity or has huge value - like a giant chunk of gold. I've no idea what the final numbers will look like so I'm not even sure if there'd be a legit reason to even bring gold back to the planetary orbit or to the surface at all. I imagine it would take a huge decrease in cost in getting things into orbit before any of it became worth it to go get it. It has to be less expensive than the cost to put it and the equipment in orbit as well as the cost for the mineral(s). I guess the equipment cost could be amortized, hopefully.
This is talking about mining mineral resources as opposed to fossil fuels. I'm not sure how we're going to use the Sun to make in-ground resources more plentiful than they already are. :/
I mean, you don't *have* to read the summary or anything but it kind of helps. I suppose I could be misreading it but I decided to double-check my reading. I don't think I'm missing anything. I did not, of course, read the article. I'll read the summary but the article is right out. I am no heretic.
This should not be read as support for the idea of mining or as forgiveness for Deepwater. It's simply an observation...
I was on the beach just a little while ago. I'm in the Gulf. I've swum in it, I've eaten food from it, I have boated in it.
While it certainly was tragic and damaging, and should be prevented from recurring, it did not actually kill the Gulf and all the animals in the ecosystem. It was unacceptable, they were punished (but not nearly enough, in my opinion), and we need to take steps to make sure that it doesn't happen again.
Hmm... It's hard to state that without it reading like I'm supporting BP or even supporting mining the ocean. I am not - I'm sure as hell not suggesting we mine the ocean. I am saying, I guess, that we should avoid hyperbole. Things are not "fine" (or so I'm told) but they're not collapsing. The Gulf will survive this, this time.
If we can safely mine the ocean floor then I say go for it - so long as it does minimal damage to the oceanic environment and ecosystem. I have my doubts that it can do so safely but I am not an expert on ocean mining.
Who the hell assured you of such things and did they give you a specific time-frame in which those assurances would be met? I think it's safe to say that the two may very well result in technological and resource advances but giving a time-frame for that to happen in is rather silly. To compound that, why would someone tell you that it solved "all" resource problems? Even if it could, it won't do so immediately.
You should stop listening to idiots. I can't say that I've ever actually seen anyone state such things - not even on Slashdot. Not in the questions, the comments, ads, nope... I've not even seen it in the articles but I haven't actually read most of those.
I understand that these are very different things - Chess v. Go. Why is the math so difficult for Go? Is it math or computational resources or time or?
No, I'd say that's borderline schizo-paranoia and not an actual breach but an interception of data in transit. I'm sure you'll find whatever reasons you can possibly come up with to justify your angst and outrage. But no, I'd not call that a security incident, not even remotely. That doesn't excuse them sending the data in the clear but the data is not something you need to worry about. You can see the reports before you send them - or not. You don't even have to send them. To add to that, all current (known) transmissions are encrypted.
I know, it's terrible that the NSA slurped up the data but them slurping up the vendor ID on your USB device is the least of my concerns with the NSA's data molestation. No, I'd not call that a security incident. And no, no I'm using Linux - Lubuntu. If you're still using Windows then you're making the choice to do so. Stop it. Just stop it. If you don't like them, don't use them. If you're going to say that it's your work machine then, oh well? That's not your machine to be concerned with. It doesn't belong to you nor does the data on it belong to you and if your company insists on using it then that's their choice.
Go buy a Mac. Wipe the drive on what you have and install any Linux distro out there. Either way, no, that's not even remotely a security incident. There's no loss of security. Now, if it were the forced telemetry that they're doing now and it was in the clear, then I'd say it was a security incident. You did not lose any security (nor did Microsoft) because the NSA slurped up your USB vendor ID.
My home is in New England. (I'm at a *house* in Florida that I own.) In New England, we're Anderson people!
I probably should have been a bit more clear, actually. I do have Windows installed on my phone. I actually picked it up because a /.er mentioned it. I've been pretty happy with it but I don't use it for much other than to make calls, send text messages, write a quick email, and browse the web. It has all the apps I'd want and then some. There are apps in the store - there just aren't a bunch of garbage apps - from what I've noticed. However, I don't really have many installed as I mostly just use my phone's stock applications.
Yup. It's odd but it's true. I have a Windows phone and I like it.
That works too. Though I think they'd consider capitalizing it at that point?
"You're right, in a way; The field of..."
That's the thing about English - there are often many ways to write and all of them are correct. Some prefer some styles and others prefer another. I'm a fan of the "Harvard Comma." Oddly, sometimes called the "Oxford Comma." I've seen (but not memorized) many different style guides. For a brief time, I was a freelance journalist. That style is much, much different than others. I had absolutely zero formal training but it was something that fit my schedule as I was in school at the time.
I'd also add that I am not, by any means, an expert. The grammarians stopped correcting me because I am grateful for the correction and point out that I'm constantly trying to improve my writing skills. The results, judge them as you will, are here to share. I've actually spent a lot of time learning how to be more grammatically correct than I used to be. There was a time where my writing was of a much lower quality. It's not something to be proud of, I guess, but I am fairly satisfied with my improvements.
Totally different mentality between them and you or I. It makes me think it's a social construct. It's more widely seen in areas where they don't (at least nominally) quite have the same level of protections afforded by their constitution and/or are acclimated to living in an area where corruption is more wide-scale.
The behavior/belief or expression is similar to what you see from the Americans who say things like, "If you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to worry about. I'm glad that they're doing this to keep us safe." It's not exactly the same but it is similar. I guess it's not really unexpected when you are in a country where you're regularly stopped on the street and asked to produce documentation, pay a bribe, or things like that nature - and from people who are the authorities.
I've not spent any real time in Brazil but I've been in South America quite a bit and it's not uncommon to have authorities with road-blocks and asking for documentation. I don't know how corrupt Brazil is - I've only been once and that was strictly tourist stuff for a festival. I've never gotten out and about beyond tourist areas, the hotel, the beach, and things like that. I can speak more about Mexico, Peru, and Chile and maybe a bit about Argentina as I've spent more time in those countries. Corruption is wide-spread and pretty open - and accepted.
So, I guess it's not really unexpected or surprising for them to say something like that and to think like that. They're used to the police being corrupt and overstepping their boundaries. This is rather trivial compared to them shaking down a local businessman or chasing the gay, homeless, or trans people out of the sewers with gasoline and a match - and then shooting them as they escape.
Microsoft has been collecting this information for years and years. At this point, we've no known security incidents involving the data collected via telemetry. It could have been compromised and they not told us but that's a bit unlikely. At any rate, they've been collecting metrics, in one form or another, since the XP days. They're certainly collecting more now but they do have a history of keeping that data to themselves - at least publicly. And no, I'm posting this from Lubuntu, not a Windows computer. I don't have any computers with Windows installed.
It looks like it is going to go through. I'm going to be cautious and ride it out for the time being. I've got a hardware firewall with logs and I can run Wireshark. I'll have to see where it goes but I hope to keep using it. I do not want to have to change my browser - I've been using Opera for a very, very long time. If I do end up having to change things, it'll probably be to Chromium.
That'd be kind of neat. I've done jack and squat for any web work as of late. I am supposed to be involved on a project with a friend of mine (a competition of sorts) but he's asked for an extension to our start date. I should probably be using this time to pick up some skills and refresh my memory.
Yeah, that OEM version of Server 2008 and 2012 comes with Dell stuff on and thousands of them get activated on a single IP address. Boy, that OEM version of Office has to be really... Wait, no, that OEM version of Office is the same as as any other version of Office. Hint: Anyone buying Server 2012 isn't sending it out to to have OEM stuff removed, same for 2008.
Have you ever been right? Seriously, ever? What is this *real* world of yours? Nobody, and I do mean nobody, is sending out an OEM Server 2012 box (all using the same keys or a few limited keys) to get DELL stuff removed from it. Nobody. Not even YOU are that inept.
I should add that I'm not just thinking about collegiate education but high school as well. And, really, how much do we need to teach 'em? Do we teach them how to work out the answers or do we teach them where to go find the answers? Obviously, others would opt to go learn to work them out - but does everybody need to be able to figure out the number of square inches for a piece of plywood - or do they need to know how to Google for that information should they have to find out?
Chances are, if someone's paying someone to do their work - they're not actually going to ever be doing that work themselves but will be paying others to do it for them. Rich Kid Bob's not going to need much in the way of math classes. Why not teach him to bargain and get the best price for the work to be completed? He'll learn to source quality work at reasonable prices. Poor Kid Ralph, he's not going to be able to pay - but he'll still have to have the work done so he learns to do it himself. He can sell his work to Rich Kid Bob which helps him improve his skills and upward mobility.
Is Poor Kid Bob going to need those history classes? Suzie wants to be a journalist when she grows up. He can bargain with her and do her math homework while she does his history. Or, perhaps, they can just go online and get the answers which shows that they don't actually know them BUT that they know how to find that information if they need to.
I don't think it's nearly as insane as it looks at first blush. It's a rather pragmatic approach to the changing needs of society. Given the ubiquity of information and connectivity, what competencies are we training for? Something, somewhere in that direction, and probably with more tracks (like engineering, health, administrative, business, construction, welding/fabrication, plumbing, etc) might actually work. I get that it sounds preposterous but I think that's because we've become so acclimated to doing things the way we have been doing them.
Well, I noticed it a little while ago when I updated. (I use the repo and have the three channels, beta, dev, and stable loaded.)
It's pretty fast, it's seemingly faster than uBlock but it's important to note that (I'm pretty sure) it's only blocking ads. It doesn't block scripts, trackers, and things like that. It just blocks ads.
I can't say that I'm unimpressed. It's good for what it is - I've not actually seen an ad with it running and I have everything else turned off. I've only been browsing with it for a little while so I'm not sure how well it will work out. It's bound to filter down to beta and stable, it's good enough for most people's needs. At least that's my initial impression.
I haven't really read much about it, as in how it's doing it. I'm pretty sure that they've been working on this for a while with their Turbo and SurfEasy looking to find ways to reduce bandwidth. It's not easily refined. There's an exceptions list, I deleted all of them first thing. One of them was Forbes. That's really the only settings that it has. Opera used to have a neat feature where you could right click on an image and block that image forever - it'd work for ads as well. That does not appear to be coming back with this.
Hmm... I like this idea.
10 MB file created, encrypted, mailed, sent to /dev/null. /dev/null.
Recipient encrypts it again, mails to next person, sent to
Daisy chain it so more people can participate.
Every third (or so) time it's encrypted, the next one gets deleted and a new 10 MB random file is generated.
Have it go in circles BUT also have it 'cross-fire' so that it's sending data to random participants.
Get more than 1 file moving around.
Make it tit-easy and let people join/participate.
It can all be done over email.
It doesn't need to be done over email, there are other options but they like email so that's probably the best choice. It can support expansion just by one of the many, many ways to host mailing lists. Let people rate-limit how many they send, maybe allow for scheduling. It seems like it'd be pretty damned easy to do this - and it doesn't even need to be directly on your ISP's subnet.
Yeah, I have to login manually each time but it's not too bad. It eats the CSS here and doesn't display well at all. It won't load the mobile site but I bet it'd be just fine for a bunch of things.
The trouble is, more and more sites are starting to rely on some scripting if you want full functionality or any functionality at all.
This does, however, bring back some fond memories.
I think it could use some decorative things - like CSS guessing, fit text to width, SSL support, and the likes. By the way, this and the last were sent in this.
Nifty, thanks. There's a Lynx critter that supports a mouse, a little. I want to say elinks or something? I dunno. That was just a little too mundane but it actually let me stay logged in to Slashdot.
Indeed. It is fast. Ugly as all hell but it compiled nicely enough. It threw a few errors and I needed to get the FLTK as that wasn't installed. Slashdot is somehow uglier than normal.
I don't know about better. A bunch of shrunken heads would be kind of awesome. And, if you've never tried uMatrix, give it a spin. *nods*
I'm actually really, really satisfied with it. Sometimes I don't even bother with uBlock. I just use a live USB OS and keep things in RAM. I do that a lot, oddly. I don't really store any data locally so it's maybe five minutes to get things up to a good browsing experience. I should probably do a few roll-my owns with persistent storage.
Err... We're not the ones with cookie notification laws, a right to be forgotten, and strange laws on how you can and can not collect information. I know it's fun to bash the US but that doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to me.
It's a little flaky. I was not an MP. I was a chaster/escort (transportation office) and we had a bunch of civilians on-base. One was drunk and belligerent and wanted to fight a bunch of Marines. He was initially detained by an MP. The MP loses authority when they step off the base with a civilian. The guy and I spent a few hours together while he was my prisoner. I waited for the locals to arrive. I filled out some transfer paperwork. They took my prisoner with them after I confirmed their ID and orders. If they'd not been arresting him, we'd have just dumped him out at the gate. Sorry buddy, I can't take you any further than this.
Meh, he was harmless. I guess he'd always wanted to be a Marine but got into some trouble right out of high school and ended up a felon. It's one of the few instances where I booked and detained. I was entirely accountable for him once I accepted him as my prisoner. In the old days, if you were an escort/chaser and your prisoner got away, you served his time. It was not like that in my day. That was way back in the 60s that that ended. This would have been about 30 years ago when I had my only chance to observe/partake in anything of that nature.
No worries, I got him to the bathroom and some food and water and I might have managed to let him have a beer out of his backpack before we went inside but I'm not admitting to anything. He even got a smoke. I had to keep him isolated and it was 1-on-1 observation status, 24/7 if needed. I found him a television to watch, uncuffed him the rest of the way, and found a deck of cards so we could play cribbage. It's not nearly as exciting as one might think. He was just sloppy/crying drunk. No biggie and no idea what happened t him. I know none of use were in a position to press charges but the MPs might have been able to. I assume he hit the drunk-tank and left the next morning.
At any rate, the point of that is that it's a little vague at times. I had them detained (not legally arrested - I don't think) and I was active service, the MPs were active duty, etc... We housed him in our facility, fed him our food, and entertained him. I'm pretty sure that counts as law-enforcement. I know MPs have not stood idle while regular police had issues. I do not know how the UCMJ deals with that.
Depends, even back then, on the base and current security levels. If they want to stop you, they can and will stop you. They used to stop us back in the day and I lived on base. This used to vary some but now it's a PIO state. I think it's called PIO. It has been a lot of years. Positive Identification Only. Not only are you going to stop, you're going to show valid ID now. Else, you're not getting on the base. I'm not even sure if the president would be allowed on base without someone showing some paperwork. Then again, they'll know the president is coming long before he gets there.
I repeat myself but you can save a lot of time and effort just by using uMatrix. Seriously, it does all that and it's tiny as all hell. It's like an old-school software firewall except it's just for your browser. And it is awesome. Err... I've collected a bunch of people who've tried it and claimed to like it. I'm on a mission!
Actually, I'm not even remotely affiliated and I don't particularly care what you use but I've seen you post before and you seem reasonably sane. So, I figure you *really* might want to take a look at it.
I discovered a new feature the other day. I used to export and save my configurations. Now? I don't have to - but I can. I just enable cloud mode and it goes through the same process that does the bookmarking if you're signed into the server to allow that. Opera lets you encrypt the syncing with your own key. I can't speak for the other browsers. Even if they didn't, I'd opt to share that data. (I don't mind sharing data, I mind data being collected without my consent.)
Anyhow, there's a Firefox version of uMatrix now. I've never tried it. It looks the same. It should function the same. There's a slight learning curve but you'll be fine. I've exported my settings and filters and whatnot and have let others use them to get an idea of what it can do.
He's the guy that makes uBlock Origin and HTTP Switchboard, they're all really similar and you can accomplish much of the same tasks with all of them. I don't need to run uBlock but I do. Why? It hides the spaces the ads went a little better and I use uBlock as a poor-idiot's Stylish by adding filters to get rid of shit I don't want to see on a per-element basis. I don't have to do that - but I can.
If you're curious, just search your browser's extension/add-on page for uMatrix. The source is up on GitHub if you want to view it. The guy's pretty cool. I don't want to be specific but I sent him an email offering to donate a decent sum of money for one-man project. I didn't want anything in return. I was just trying to thank him. He declined and pointed to an updated FAQ. He does *not* accept donations or anything of the sort. (It also passes my "new extension Wireshark and firewall logs" test with flying colors. I've seen zero packets that could not be accounted for - not even encrypted streams.)