As long as you remember
a "crime" is only what the government say it is ....
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But running WSL on my Win10 machine means I can drop into a shell at will and either do something on my machine (so no need to learn Powershell) or ssh into any number of my Ubuntu servers seamlessly.
Yes, there is puTTY. But that is so clunky it could only be a Windows app.
My last job needed an asset management tool. With fuck all budget I spun up a Debian VM on their hypervisor (no licence) installed a LAMP stack, got SnipeIT working and everyone happy until the boss learned we'd gone "non Windows" and insisted it was shifted to a cloud subscription service.
One quote later, and all of a sudden it was staying.
The 60's security model in Linux and Windows
firstly old doesn't mean bad. Just look at Roman trowels to see how good design simply can't be improved.
secondly, Linux was built on the Unix security model where everything is a file and has it's own security descriptors. Just being at a console ("root" or "admin") doesn't automatically make you an administrator.
Yes, they have tried to retro-fit this level of security to windows. But as last years printer driver snafu showed, it'll never be 100%.
All of which said it's entirely possible to build a pawnable linux box if you wanted to. But it would take more work than you'd think.
If it can be proven that more than 5% of Twitter accounts are dud (and I would be amazed if they weren't) then surely the value of advertising on Twitter (/Facebook/name-a-"social"-platform) nosedives ?
Or to be more precise, why am I paying $x to reach x% of a real audience when it should be $x/(100-fakes)% or something ?
Also I suspect that Twitters heyday is long gone. It has nowhere to grow, and a lot of ground to lose to the Next Big Thing.
So they're choosing the tech industry, and all digital business activity, as the plaything they're going to sacrifice to make their debating society point about being different just for the sake of it
Why not ? They've already fucked the farmers and fishermen - who actually voted for this clusterfuck.
How much care do you think they will show a tech sector that was 100% opposed to Brexit from the off ?
for leaving the EU ..
"those nasty rules"
And indeed they were spot on. Imagine not being able to eat radioactive food because of some pencil jockey in Brussels removing our freedoms.
Now free of the tyranny of rules Fukoshima Fries (that cook themselves I believe) are on the UK menu.
I have spent the last 20 years in vain, pointing out that the only correct word in "Artificial Intelligence"is "artificial". I have yet to see any "AI" that isn't just sophisticated (or not so sophisticated) pattern matching.
Stories like this just prove my point.
has been to embarrass big companies. And even that is now waning (I've thrown a few shitballs at shit companies that have left them for all to see).
My memory was that it was a thing to allow people to SMS to forums, and as such unique.
If it's not doing that anymore, what's it for ?
So the problem is "just" a lack of technical knowledge ?
Or (prepares hard hat) is it less the technical knowledge, and more the technical knowledge that is able to negotiate the byzantine kernel development process ?
Not the greatest advert for Linux then.
Surprised MS hasn't taken ownership of this. What with their linux for windows project.
Isn't one of the whole fricking points about "open source" that anyone can pick it up and develop (or at the very least) maintain it ? So it shouldn't kill a project if the author(s) go AWOL (or given the names, MIA) ????
What exactly is needed apart from the source code here ?
I understand why some projects die because there's no resource to advance them. But that doesn't seem to be the case here.
is fucking amazing at picking data from noise.
There's an oft-cited experiment where someone reads a corrupted text to another person who corrects it in real time and when I say real time, I mean <30ms lag.
Alternatively there's another experiment which uses TDM to reduce the data in a flow of speech to c. 10% and it's still intelligible
Human speech has evolved over millions of years and has helped us not need power, speed or strength when it comes to bodies.
Why does everyone feel the need to roll their own, and then get surprised it's shit ?
See also: phone number, postcode, name validation routines.
And for an industry that chokes on standards and TLAs WTF isn't there an RFC or IEEE or ISO standard on password generation (i.e. complexity rules), storage (i.e. as a hash) and recovery procedures (only via an already verified channel).
Like what I wanted 20 years ago.
When LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook et al started out, I created some bogus accounts so I could get an understanding. Those accounts have gone on to lead a far more interesting life than me.
Given that I haven't used them for years, the endless parade of emails I get from "people who know me" etc etc does really underscore how the value of these platform is slowly, but inevitably, sinking to zero.
What to do when we want to look at our computing history in a live fashion? We can archive all the current software and run in a (complex) future sandbox.
it suddenly dawned on that this is probably what nature has been doing for billions of years ....
Where's my noble prize ?
About 11:00-12:00am Saturday I noticed my GM had "gone funny" and wasn't updating my position.
Worked fine today.
Oh,. and WTF did they remove the speed limits when driving feature ? The ONE feature that HERE has and Google didn't for years. Then they did, tricked me into switching and removed it.
And do you know how crap Android Auto is without Google Maps as the default navigation app ?
Unless I built it and run it any communication system is compromised.
Right. Now we've established that, how do we proceed ?
Obviously by adding a layer of encryption around whatever the network will be sending.
In olden days, spies would happily use postcards to exchange secrets. The fact that intelligence agencies on both sides never twigged (?) seems reason enough to bear it in mind.
Obviously non receipt of an expected postcard was in itself a message.