Posts by asdf 6570 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Apr 2007
Actually happy with it other than the limited wireless range on the controller. The exclusives are more up my alley and best of all Xbox live makes it trivial to eternally mute all the retards that exist solely as targets for my L85A2. The search thing is annoying but I mostly just buy maybe 2 or 3 big name first person shooters (and play endlessly online) a year and those you can't miss.
Bought an Xbox One (got pissed PS3 would beep and reboot itself after an hour and wasn't rewarding Sony for out of warranty hardware failure). Remember an Xbox 360 game Battlestations pacific I enjoyed playing in the past. Granted it may well not work on the One (360 emulation is still hit or miss) but simply showing no results found when I search Battlestations (Eidos made two of them) is rather ridiculous. In fact its pretty amazing just how few 360 and even Xbox One games you can get to show up with search. Their Xbox One store is worse today than the PS3 store was three years ago. Didn't Microsoft spend billions a year on Bing R&D? Then again most divisions in Microsoft greatest competition is another division in Microsoft (the ultimate silo corporation). Nothing Microsoft likes sniping more than its own foot.
No fan of Samsung and own an iPhone but Apple would probably fight that the hardest. They are legendary for being ambiguous on how long they will support their products and allow you to stay in the cool kids club. Its one of the reasons why enterprise has such a love (VPs) and hate (IT) relationship with Apple.
A lesson Billy Boy Gates had to learn as well (his initial philanthropy was to give away copies of windows in first world schools). I would say Zuck is too big a douche bag to learn but in order to get an DUI in Albuquerque in the 1970s you would have had to be a douche nozzle of the first order which Gates was so maybe Zuck (who is still damn young) will learn with time or end up with a woman that does like Bill did.
You are correct that many over 30 don't use Google but because we tend to be able to understand the concept of privacy and use DuckDuckGo or disconnect.me to hit against Google search in Tails OS instead. Also note to young ones nobody gives a shit about pictures of your last meal or your fantasy football team.
>Did you know that VMS is still around, now in a dedicated organisation out of HP's grubby paws, with many of the original VMS developers back on the team in New England?
Hmm have to look into that. I assume they can't use the original VMS code as HP owns that so I would be interested to see how far they get off the ground even with a clean room version before HP tries to nuke them from orbit similar to Google and Oracle over java. I could definitely see an x86_64 version of OpenVMS hitting HP in the pocketbook as they try steer their customers to their inferior pricey shiny new solutions.
Yep and a quick perusal shows a large number of those are openssh/*ssl as well as other general *nix software like Xorg, as one would expect and would affect most other *nix systems as well. There have been a few in the OpenBSD kernel as well but far less than the Linux kernel. Still your last sentence is the key regardless of the system.
>If someone is able to run arbitrary code on your server
>You are already hosed
If only there was a multi user operating system shown to stand the test of time against all but a single handful of privilege escalation CVEs. You know like OpenVMS but not completely ruined by HP and Compaq before it. OpenBSD is probably your best bet in the open source world.
>God I hope (but doubt) it will become easier to block ads on Android soon.
Almost anyone reading this site probably has the skills for an easy fix for unrooted Android or even non jail broken IOS. Simply install privoxy on your router or some other dedicated computer on your home network and point the proxy on all your unrooted devices at it. Granted that only takes care of wifi at home but that is a huge help. You can also use the auto proxy url to http://ipad.speedmeup.net (works for all phones with proxy ability obviously) for anywhere else on wifi but then of course you are giving them your browser history by definition.
And OpenBSD is even more stable than FreeBSD with significantly less CVEs to its name. Got to love an *nix that whose base doesn't by default include hairball bash and whose default window manager current version was initially released nearly 15 years ago (once you audit code why change for change sake?). Of course there is that matter of hardware support and a much smaller ports universe but that is why there is a BSD for everyone lol.
I agree (edit: changed my post above so sorry if things seem out of context) I mean if a point helps your bottom line and is good PR then win win baby. Nothing like being on the side of privacy just as long as its not paid for by someone. I hope Apple (yeah privacy now costs a premium) is actually being the champion somewhat on this as its obvious Microsoft is apeing Google more than Apple these days. Yes Android can be very open and privacy friendly with know how but that sure isn't what Google and its ilk are delivering out of the box and under warranty (which tends to go away if you want privacy).
>Where I am is primarily Comcrap. As bad as they are, they are not pushing a cellphone plan down my throat. The speeds are more than adequate for my usage.
Yeah where I am at for me its Century Link DSL which is slow at 15 down and less than 1 up but its also less than $40 a month outside of a bundle so I don't complain too much. I would love faster but sure don't want to pay triple for it (what top cable data plan costs) I do hate how they charge a $2 a month fee for network maintenance added on to the $35 a month rate they advertise which is one thing most ISP do and one big thing the friggin FCC should clamp down on.
> Nothing coming out of M$ can be trusted anymore, not one program.
Which is a shame because flat ass millennial web 3.0 look aside Windows 10 is actually really decent (check my post history to see how rarely I give M$ even faint praise). Figures they finally get their shit together and then decide to ruin it by going full Google with the spyware. Fuck their SaaS only CEO. Makes you almost miss monkey boy Ballmer.
Who offers AOSP under warranty? Perhaps Amazon offers Android without GApps forced on you under warranty but it will just be replaced with their privacy busting apps. Samsung apps are just as bad except according to the eStar app put out by those Purdue researchers its apps drain the batteries far worse than Google's.
CVE counts tend to relate more to what platform security researchers are paying attention too as opposed to the security of said platform. Was Android included? That would be my guess of number one OS wise considering the raw number of devices running it world wide.
Android under warranty is a double sucker's bet because you are almost always stuck without recourse to all of Google's lovely spyware Trojan horse software. Best part of cyanogenmod is telling Google Hangouts to fuck off proper and not even having a frigging google account on the phone leaking out your privacy.
The one thing that can be said for Android is the ability to be able to go completely open source with F-Droid is its one big advantage over iOS. But that generally requires voiding the warranty and does require frequent rom flashing (to get latest patches, etc) and is not really an option for a non nerd. Still its perfect for a non-work spare older mobile. Android under warranty is a sucker's bet. Better to ebay an unlocked Android or get an iPhone under warranty.
Tails OS iso LiveCD in Virtualbox VM (both are free software to download and what I used Edge for) in seamless (unity) mode for web browsing for me. That way if you get infected by anything (not as likely on cutdown Linux instance) its sandboxed in VM and gone next time you reboot as VM runs off read only iso. Only mild pain is once a month or so having to download new 1 gig Tails OS iso (security updates, etc). Also get the added bonus of nearly untraceable private browsing (especially if you tell windows to encrypt your host swap file and clear on shutdown).
>C _enables_ you to do such thing.
Well to be devil's advocate it practically guarantees on any complex code base with successive generations of programmers of varying competence (the norm in corporate enterprise) it will be done multiple times and several may never get caught as a code review may be done half ass by an even more incompetent dev and QA departments are almost always considered nothing but a cost and staffed often with people who struggle to turn a computer on (to reduce costs). A smug C++ 12 dev would mention that smart pointers give the benefits of both worlds but again with the corporate environments love of cheap freshouts and parochial management other much more creative exploits will be generated even if this simple one is eliminated with business rules and processes. What was the point again? Oh yeah groups of people are retarded and generally dumber than their dumbest cog.
Not denying flying sucks donkey balls but so does that drive and pretty much all travel around the northeast corridor of the US which is why I say most of the people that live there have never lived anywhere else. Their ancestors never wandered far from the boat that dropped them off and so now they are genetically disposed to live in overpriced tiny houses/apartments/studios with millions of other similar disposed ants.
Ok I admit not nice to throw poop and I will be the first to admit you have an impossible job, to make it secure to access Microsoft protocols and plumbing. I also understand this a necessary evil for many people but it sure doesn't mean much like the swiss cheese code that is bash, Samba isn't yet another piece of software I am removing from any *nix box I touch. Ports 135 to 139 are like the glory holes of tcp/ip. Being a Samba developer is probably like being a condom maker forced to used latex that has been in the sun too long.
CMS web sites are the diseased prostitutes of internet servers in general. Wordpress is even worse. A big bag of hurt that makes even Java and Flash look secure by comparison. I do see your point how context matters but being as I am not responsible for any internet facing servers I tend to be much more worried about desktop security (mostly mine).
Wow look at this
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0240
As I said risky to put in a base system and even worse it looks like most Linux distros run smbd as root after all. Yuck. Proving once again Linux is more like Windows than it likes to admit.
Edit: wow Samba is an even bigger POS than I realized.
Running Samba is slightly different to running apache or mysql.
When you connect to the web server all processes are run as user www-data, when you connect to mysqld all processes are run as user mysql.
But when you connect to samba a new process is forked with your user credentials. Only root can fork processes as other users.
It is correct that samba is running as root.
Samba is all userland though I believe which means it only gets root if compromised if you are dumb enough to run it as root. That said Samba is probably one of the riskier software packages in general you can install on *nix box (Linux distros tends to include it by default which says a lot about Linux but I digress).
>all too easy for the Supreme Court to note that it is an issue for Congress to resolve, not it.
Which may be true but basically every other aspect of government is having to carry Congress water (executive, judicial even the Fed) because the US political system is an alpha version of Democracy/Republic that has broken down completely (after all we didn't even setup our broke ass system in Japan after WW2 because we couldn't afford for them to fail). What's funny is I bet a significant number of Americans think virtually nobody else in the world uses our political system because of American exceptionalism and that God won't allow it.
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