Let your family decide what they want to do with your data. Write down all of your passwords (if you're like me, you've got about a dozen) along with your usual accounts on a piece of paper and put them in a safety deposit box. When you pass and they go through your deposit box, they'll come across your credentials and decide what they'd like to do with your digital data. Some people would like to read it, others would prefer not to.
This strategy has an added bonus; if they ever come across a site that you belonged to, they've got a login that'll probably work.
"[...]and 97% less complexity than traditional servers."
Wait, what? How in the world did they measure this? I'm seriously curious as to this dubious number.
Stop them? Microsoft helped the Samba team. Microsoft even uses the samba torture testing framework internally for their own products as I understand it. The torture tests catch crap that their own testing wouldn't since it tries to send packets that Windows clients would never send.
The EU is still a bit angry at Microsoft (remember when they had to release all of the documentation on their implementation of the SMB protocol?) and they don't need to be stoking that flame.
Also, if these things works like the Phalanx missile defense system, you have to prioritize your shots because the gun needs to pivot (on up to three axis) to line up the shot. You could wait for two missiles to be closer so you have to adjust your gun less, but it might mean you lose the chance to hit another missile.
AFAIK, it basically works like a disk scheduler in your OS; you optimize to get as much as you can with the least amount of mechanical movement (since you can crunch numbers faster than the mechanical part can move).
Yeah, I got a Spanish keyboard down at Walmart. I think it was $12. I touch type, so it was a deal. It also screws with anyone that tries to use the desktop that it's on.
Meh. The keyboard that I'm using (Kensington, FWIW) is "water proof"; it has two holes in the bottom where liquids that are spilled into the keys can drain out. It also (in theory) dries quickly after a cleaning because of these holes. Best $15 keyboard I bought in college.
Could you point me to those registry changes? I've been fighting with Sickbooks to get limited users (read: users, not super users or admins) to run Quickbooks. I used the settings that Intuit specified, but no go. Then I created a domain group "quickbooks users" and gave them full ownership of all the folders and registry keys that they should need. No joy. Now all "quickbooks users" are super users on their local machine.
Still won't allow them to do the update that it bugs the users about ever couple of weeks when they decide to push a new release that doesn't fix anything you need and breaks more stuff you do need. The installer fails citing that the user isn't an admin (why not check this before you nag them?). It doesn't check the permissions, it just fails when it does the GID check.
Quickbooks is the only software I've ever seen that makes you trash your box just to get it to mostly run. Bonus points for it insisting on installing an old version of Flash. I've been dealing with this stuff since the 2005 or 2003 version. It's maddening and I want to switch to XTuple Postbooks ( xtuple.com). It's open source and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux ( source forge page). Unfortunately, no one is going to want to make that switch since they know Quickbooks.
So, what you're saying is that they have to fear 1.) being held accountable and 2.) losing money as a result. History seems to indicate that this will not be the case, but hope springs eternal.
BTW, welcome to the US, we're not quite as bad as the rest of the world thinks we are.:)
Ugh. Then he's going to have to learn to use CPAN, etc. Perl is cool enough, but it took me a while to get a good environment up and running. Then again, I've had the same problems with Java/C/C++/etc.
This is interesting. It's the first time I've heard of such a setup. How exactly do you have this setup in iptables? Is it just a chain that you jump to on the first port and return from on the last knocked port?
I have no idea how they expect to burn so many CPU cycles doing real time computation and keeping a bright-in-daylight screen on while having decent battery life on a device so small that it fits on glasses frames. The idea is cool, but I think we need a breakthrough in battery technology to support these Google Glasses.
Part of scientific endeavor is getting it wrong, and testing again to make sure. It seems like the mistakes that happened were minor, technical, and easy to miss. It would be a very different manner if the problems had been from operational carelessness or intentional fabrication, but I can't actually see any wrongdoing here.
Usually when you see something like this, it's a case of someone who has been on the chopping block for a while. This was probably just the mishap that others were waiting for to call for his resignation. I've seen it a few times.
You were asked a question, so was TheRaven64. Answer it. You too TheRaven64. I am curious myself now on what either of you have done. I've seen apk's list before he has put up when confronted by lesser mortals around here. Match or exceed it.
I have patches in Samba and there is a patch in Linux-3.4 based on a patch I wrote a while ago that was picked up by Red Hat. Every modern Linux distro ships code that I wrote.
As to your prevarications and easily seen thru smokescreen facades? Why don't you just telegraph your b.s. and methods you use to use your alternate registered sockpuppet accounts TheRaven64. Others here do it like tomhudson = Barbara, not Barbie, and have been caught in it. Do you think you're suddenly defending TheRaven64 fools us not? Not.
What does this even mean? Do you still think I'm TheRaven64? Was the fact that we speak different dialects of English not enough? Do you really believe that someone would go through the trouble of running two accounts (registered hundreds of thousand users apart) using two dialects of a language just to screw with you? I assure you that no one cares that much.
I'm not TheRaven64. Among other ways to tell (uids, posts, etc...), he's English and I'm American. You can tell by this (old) post : http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2563666&cid=38310690. He spells it "vapour" and I spell it "vapor".
Hehe, it sounds better than what that troll APK is doing to you right now. He does know who you are and what you've accomplished, yes? I am slightly amused, just not in the way APK was intending...
Sony is so stupid it hurts sometimes. It's like they do everything they can to sabotage themselves. How many times can they shoot themselves in the foot and stay in business? I imagine a few more since they've got some cash in the bank, but this just isn't sustainable.
Men and women are different, and generally manage in different ways, but saying is one better than the other is silly. Depends on the job, the situation, and who they are managing; and really, I think the individual makes all the difference.
Congratulations, you win the Politically Correctness Award for the most Politically Correct comment discussing a Politically Correct interpretation of a Politically Correct study.
Leaked: Police Plan to Raid The Pirate Bay
ErnestoMarch 9, 2012131 raid,
More than half a decade after Swedish police officers first raided The Pirate Bay, there is talk that a second police raid against the world’s most famous torrent site is in the planning. The Pirate Bay team has learned that local authorities have acquired warrants to take action against the site, and expect that both servers and the new.se domain name may be targeted soon.
In the spring of 2006 a team of 65 Swedish police personnel entered a datacenter in Stockholm. The officers were tasked with shutting down the largest threat to the entertainment industry at the time – The Pirate Bay’s servers.
The raid eventually led to the conviction of four people connected to The Pirate Bay, but the site itself remained online.
Today, the Pirate Bay team has informed TorrentFreak that a second raid is being prepared by the Swedish authorities. The site’s operators, who are well-connected in multiple ways, learned that a team of Swedish investigators is gearing up to move against the site in the future.
The suspicions were also made public by The Pirate Bay a few minutes ago.
“The Swedish district attorney Fredrik Ingblad initiated a new investigation into The Pirate Bay back in 2010. Information has been leaked to us every now and then by multiple sources, almost on a regular basis. It’s an interesting read,” the Pirate Bay crew notes.
“We can certainly understand why WikiLeaks wished to be hosted in Sweden, since so much data leaks there. The reason that we get the leaks is usually that the whistleblowers do not agree with what is going on. Something that the governments should have in mind – even your own people do not agree.”
The Pirate Bay team confirmed to TorrentFreak that the announcement is no prank. The authorities have obtained warrants to snoop around in sensitive places and two known anti-piracy prosecutors, Frederick Ingblad and Henrik Rasmusson, are said to be involved.
Employing a little psychological warfare aimed at putting the investigators off-balance, the Pirate Bay team has chosen to make the news public to make the authorities aware that they are not the only ones being watched.
According to The Pirate Bay team they aren’t doing anything illegal, but nonetheless they noticed that the investigation intensified after the site’s recent move to a.SE domain. “Since our recent move to a.SE domain the investigation has been cranked up a notch. We think that the investigation is interesting considering nothing that TPB does is illegal,” they say. “Rather we find it interesting that a country like Sweden is being so abused by lobbyists and that this can be kept up. They’re using scare tactics, putting pressure on the wrong people, like providers and users. All out of fear from the big country in the west, and with an admiration for their big fancy wallets.” Behind the scenes The Pirate Bay team is working hard to ensure that the site will remain online in the event that servers, domain names and Internet routes are cut off. In this regard The Pirate Bay has learned a valuable lesson from its former operators. Those who are aware of the site’s history know that without a few essential keystrokes in May 2006, The Pirate Bay may not have been here today. When Pirate Bay founder TiAMO heard that something was amiss, he decided to make a full backup of the site before heading off to the datacenter, where he was greeted by dozens of police officers.
TiAMO’s decision to start a backup of the site is probably the most pivotal moment in the site’s history. Because of this backup the Pirate Bay team were able to resurrect the site within three days. If there hadn’t have been a recent backup, things may have turned out quite differently. It was a close call at the time, and a defining moment in the history of the site. The dete
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Let your family decide what they want to do with your data. Write down all of your passwords (if you're like me, you've got about a dozen) along with your usual accounts on a piece of paper and put them in a safety deposit box. When you pass and they go through your deposit box, they'll come across your credentials and decide what they'd like to do with your digital data. Some people would like to read it, others would prefer not to.
This strategy has an added bonus; if they ever come across a site that you belonged to, they've got a login that'll probably work.
"[...]and 97% less complexity than traditional servers."
Wait, what? How in the world did they measure this? I'm seriously curious as to this dubious number.
You also get video over HDMI with this setup?
Stop them? Microsoft helped the Samba team. Microsoft even uses the samba torture testing framework internally for their own products as I understand it. The torture tests catch crap that their own testing wouldn't since it tries to send packets that Windows clients would never send.
The EU is still a bit angry at Microsoft (remember when they had to release all of the documentation on their implementation of the SMB protocol?) and they don't need to be stoking that flame.
Studies have been done; the people that pay the least always complain the most.
Also, if these things works like the Phalanx missile defense system, you have to prioritize your shots because the gun needs to pivot (on up to three axis) to line up the shot. You could wait for two missiles to be closer so you have to adjust your gun less, but it might mean you lose the chance to hit another missile.
AFAIK, it basically works like a disk scheduler in your OS; you optimize to get as much as you can with the least amount of mechanical movement (since you can crunch numbers faster than the mechanical part can move).
Looks like I'm going to be enjoying beer and Twinkies if we ever have a nuclear war. No worries; it's sustained me thus far.
Yeah, I got a Spanish keyboard down at Walmart. I think it was $12. I touch type, so it was a deal. It also screws with anyone that tries to use the desktop that it's on.
Meh. The keyboard that I'm using (Kensington, FWIW) is "water proof"; it has two holes in the bottom where liquids that are spilled into the keys can drain out. It also (in theory) dries quickly after a cleaning because of these holes. Best $15 keyboard I bought in college.
Could you point me to those registry changes? I've been fighting with Sickbooks to get limited users (read: users, not super users or admins) to run Quickbooks. I used the settings that Intuit specified, but no go. Then I created a domain group "quickbooks users" and gave them full ownership of all the folders and registry keys that they should need. No joy. Now all "quickbooks users" are super users on their local machine.
Still won't allow them to do the update that it bugs the users about ever couple of weeks when they decide to push a new release that doesn't fix anything you need and breaks more stuff you do need. The installer fails citing that the user isn't an admin (why not check this before you nag them?). It doesn't check the permissions, it just fails when it does the GID check.
Quickbooks is the only software I've ever seen that makes you trash your box just to get it to mostly run. Bonus points for it insisting on installing an old version of Flash. I've been dealing with this stuff since the 2005 or 2003 version. It's maddening and I want to switch to XTuple Postbooks ( xtuple.com). It's open source and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux ( source forge page). Unfortunately, no one is going to want to make that switch since they know Quickbooks.
Any LiveCD with chntpasswd(8) should do the trick. Choose one that only gives you a command line (Trinity, IIRC) and memory won't be a problem.
So, what you're saying is that they have to fear 1.) being held accountable and 2.) losing money as a result. History seems to indicate that this will not be the case, but hope springs eternal.
:)
BTW, welcome to the US, we're not quite as bad as the rest of the world thinks we are.
Ugh. Then he's going to have to learn to use CPAN, etc. Perl is cool enough, but it took me a while to get a good environment up and running. Then again, I've had the same problems with Java/C/C++/etc.
This is interesting. It's the first time I've heard of such a setup. How exactly do you have this setup in iptables? Is it just a chain that you jump to on the first port and return from on the last knocked port?
I have no idea how they expect to burn so many CPU cycles doing real time computation and keeping a bright-in-daylight screen on while having decent battery life on a device so small that it fits on glasses frames. The idea is cool, but I think we need a breakthrough in battery technology to support these Google Glasses.
Part of scientific endeavor is getting it wrong, and testing again to make sure. It seems like the mistakes that happened were minor, technical, and easy to miss. It would be a very different manner if the problems had been from operational carelessness or intentional fabrication, but I can't actually see any wrongdoing here.
Usually when you see something like this, it's a case of someone who has been on the chopping block for a while. This was probably just the mishap that others were waiting for to call for his resignation. I've seen it a few times.
You were asked a question, so was TheRaven64. Answer it. You too TheRaven64. I am curious myself now on what either of you have done. I've seen apk's list before he has put up when confronted by lesser mortals around here. Match or exceed it.
I have patches in Samba and there is a patch in Linux-3.4 based on a patch I wrote a while ago that was picked up by Red Hat. Every modern Linux distro ships code that I wrote.
As to your prevarications and easily seen thru smokescreen facades? Why don't you just telegraph your b.s. and methods you use to use your alternate registered sockpuppet accounts TheRaven64. Others here do it like tomhudson = Barbara, not Barbie, and have been caught in it. Do you think you're suddenly defending TheRaven64 fools us not? Not.
What does this even mean? Do you still think I'm TheRaven64? Was the fact that we speak different dialects of English not enough? Do you really believe that someone would go through the trouble of running two accounts (registered hundreds of thousand users apart) using two dialects of a language just to screw with you? I assure you that no one cares that much.
I'm not TheRaven64. Among other ways to tell (uids, posts, etc...), he's English and I'm American. You can tell by this (old) post : http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2563666&cid=38310690. He spells it "vapour" and I spell it "vapor".
Hehe, it sounds better than what that troll APK is doing to you right now. He does know who you are and what you've accomplished, yes? I am slightly amused, just not in the way APK was intending...
Sony is so stupid it hurts sometimes. It's like they do everything they can to sabotage themselves. How many times can they shoot themselves in the foot and stay in business? I imagine a few more since they've got some cash in the bank, but this just isn't sustainable.
Men and women are different, and generally manage in different ways, but saying is one better than the other is silly. Depends on the job, the situation, and who they are managing; and really, I think the individual makes all the difference.
Congratulations, you win the Politically Correctness Award for the most Politically Correct comment discussing a Politically Correct interpretation of a Politically Correct study.
With Political Correctness, everybody wins!
So, what does GP win?
When standards get entrenched, they get entrenched hard.
QFT.
More than half a decade after Swedish police officers first raided The Pirate Bay, there is talk that a second police raid against the world’s most famous torrent site is in the planning. The Pirate Bay team has learned that local authorities have acquired warrants to take action against the site, and expect that both servers and the new
In the spring of 2006 a team of 65 Swedish police personnel entered a datacenter in Stockholm. The officers were tasked with shutting down the largest threat to the entertainment industry at the time – The Pirate Bay’s servers.
The raid eventually led to the conviction of four people connected to The Pirate Bay, but the site itself remained online.
Today, the Pirate Bay team has informed TorrentFreak that a second raid is being prepared by the Swedish authorities. The site’s operators, who are well-connected in multiple ways, learned that a team of Swedish investigators is gearing up to move against the site in the future. The suspicions were also made public by The Pirate Bay a few minutes ago. “The Swedish district attorney Fredrik Ingblad initiated a new investigation into The Pirate Bay back in 2010. Information has been leaked to us every now and then by multiple sources, almost on a regular basis. It’s an interesting read,” the Pirate Bay crew notes. “We can certainly understand why WikiLeaks wished to be hosted in Sweden, since so much data leaks there. The reason that we get the leaks is usually that the whistleblowers do not agree with what is going on. Something that the governments should have in mind – even your own people do not agree.” The Pirate Bay team confirmed to TorrentFreak that the announcement is no prank. The authorities have obtained warrants to snoop around in sensitive places and two known anti-piracy prosecutors, Frederick Ingblad and Henrik Rasmusson, are said to be involved. Employing a little psychological warfare aimed at putting the investigators off-balance, the Pirate Bay team has chosen to make the news public to make the authorities aware that they are not the only ones being watched. According to The Pirate Bay team they aren’t doing anything illegal, but nonetheless they noticed that the investigation intensified after the site’s recent move to a .SE domain. “Since our recent move to a .SE domain the investigation has been cranked up a notch. We think that the investigation is interesting considering nothing that TPB does is illegal,” they say. “Rather we find it interesting that a country like Sweden is being so abused by lobbyists and that this can be kept up. They’re using scare tactics, putting pressure on the wrong people, like providers and users. All out of fear from the big country in the west, and with an admiration for their big fancy wallets.” Behind the scenes The Pirate Bay team is working hard to ensure that the site will remain online in the event that servers, domain names and Internet routes are cut off. In this regard The Pirate Bay has learned a valuable lesson from its former operators. Those who are aware of the site’s history know that without a few essential keystrokes in May 2006, The Pirate Bay may not have been here today. When Pirate Bay founder TiAMO heard that something was amiss, he decided to make a full backup of the site before heading off to the datacenter, where he was greeted by dozens of police officers.
TiAMO’s decision to start a backup of the site is probably the most pivotal moment in the site’s history. Because of this backup the Pirate Bay team were able to resurrect the site within three days. If there hadn’t have been a recent backup, things may have turned out quite differently. It was a close call at the time, and a defining moment in the history of the site. The dete
I run Linux. I'm the president of my local LUG. I have patches in Samba. Just because I think that saying "M$" looks childish doesn't make me a shill.
A bit off topic, but please stop referring to Microsoft as "M$". It looks really childish and makes people think you're a troll.