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by siffland 8y ago
They were trying to be l33t......
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by siffland 8y ago
If you are into conspiracy theory's and such, then you can question if google and NSA really have a partnership and PRISM and mass surveillance and all that stuff, then question if the images are tainted or whatnot. I am not saying it
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by siffland 8y ago
As i recall it takes 2 people to physically launch an ICBM from either a bunker or a sub (simultaneous key turns). The other delivery method is a bomber, not sure what is takes to arm those.
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by siffland 8y ago
I have to run STIGs all the time on 450+ linux systems being a Linux Admin and all. STIGs are a good starting point, however the word guidance is in their acronym for a reason. Other security has to be considered. At our facility we have
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by siffland 8y ago
It depends if they truly open source their stuff, or if they just do their newest items. Their definition of open source and ours might be different as well. I would take everything with a grain of salt until it is truly open sourced and t
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by siffland 8y ago
What is awesome with FreeBSD is when you can do a rm -Rf /var/db/pkg/* /usr/local/* /usr/ports/distfiles/* reboot the system and all the non OS packages (installed via ports and package
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by siffland 8y ago
"There is no less information about BSD than "Linux", it is simply that BSD has no advertisement or companies behind pushing it.." Which is ironic since huge companies like netflix, sony, citrix, netapp and others make a
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by siffland 8y ago
FreeBSD is an entire operating system. Linux is just a kernel used in hundreds of different distros. It is correct that they are both UNIX like derivatives. FreeBSD is based on the BSD license, Linux on the GPL (this is important if you
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by siffland 8y ago
Support for FreeBSD 8 ended sometime in 2015, FreeBSD 11 did not come out until mid 2016 and if it was a recent update i can see why the huge jump could cause update issues. The answer to what caused your issue was most likely in the UPDAT
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by siffland 8y ago
You are correct it was mechanical, I was just drawing a connection that mandatory recalls exist for issues the auto industry is use to (I.E. mechanical), but nothing exists to track and force updates to software issues (like a CVE database,
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by siffland 8y ago
There is a lot of great technical discussions here of ways to possibly solve the issue. The real problem points back to the lackluster security the auto industry is used to. Only if some sort of accountability or software security testing
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by siffland 8y ago
My thoughts exactly, This should be geeky cool, but a little out of touch with reality (could just be my reality). Even the line about being Tesla and making it an "affordable" $135, I have a wife and three daughters, even at tha
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by siffland 9y ago
Then they charge you for all luggage like the air planes. While plastering you with targeted ads. I dont know what the future is going to look like more...idiocracy or black mirror. Right now you can get in your car turn off your phone and
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by siffland 9y ago
Amen. Like always it is all about the Benjamin's. They are a for profit business. The best thing you can do is switch to another service with better rates. Most people wont do that. I currently give $38 a month to 19 creators ($2 each,
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by siffland 9y ago
I would switch to Google fiber in an instance if available. They just data mine. I don't think They throttle. We have time warner and AT&T. That is it. How is that for competition. At least in 4 years this president will be voted
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by siffland 9y ago
Wonder how well they will do with flooded roads. Will they turn around and not drown. My significant other is a lyft driver, the other night she had a drunk rider and he became unresponsive. And fell on the flood of the van. She had to stop