woodman

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by woodman 10y ago
Are millennials so desperate for whats-old-is-new content that they're now reaching back to the 19th century for nihilism?
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by woodman 10y ago
What possible use for the additional information is there except for an appeal to authority (which isn't useful in technical discussions)?
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by woodman 10y ago
It sounds like you'd like a signal that allows one to more quickly switch off their brain, like network television prefixing party affiliation to politician's names. "Oh it is a R talking? Well as a D I can assume that every
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by woodman 10y ago
Stress can really put the zap on even those at their reproductive peak. It is a very common experience for men going through USMC bootcamp to not have a single erection in the 3 months they're there. Same story during combat operatio
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by woodman 10y ago
> Have you changed your mind about that? No. Unlike a rootkit, context really matters in the case of a backdoor - not so much the implementation means. BO is no more a backdoor than vnc or sshd. Now if Dell decides to secretly package
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by woodman 10y ago
I think that we're as close as we'll get to agreeing - the main contention being the "attacker" part. I'd describe Symantic's data protection product as a rootkit, regardless of who installed it. I'd say
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by woodman 10y ago
> ... whether added by the designer or by someone else. Your exception seems to hing on the word designer. I'd describe the individual responsible placing the backdoor as the designer. So if you place a modified version of /u
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by woodman 10y ago
Well I do appreciate you trying, but I disagree with you that it is pedantry that doesn't matter. This conversation is the best possible example of why we can't allow the corruption of previously well defined words - it causes co
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by woodman 10y ago
Well I guess we won't come to an agreement, because it seems that whatever reason you prefer a very loose definition. For example, you just couldn't help yourself in confusing the privilege escalation point: "...context with
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by woodman 10y ago
> A rootkit may require a root permission to install... This sort of phrasing is misleading. If your OS restricts security sensitive kernel functions to the root user (hint: 99% of OSes do), then it isn't "may" - it is &q
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by woodman 10y ago
A rootkit isn't for privilege escalation - you need root before you can install the rootkit. This is typically obtained through a privilege escalating exploit, the rootkit is for maintaining access and masking the attack.
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by woodman 10y ago
No, that is really wrong. Rootkits aren't for privilege escalation, see the paragraph immediately following your quote: "... an attacker can install it once they've obtained root or Administrator access." Calling BO a b
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by woodman 10y ago
No more weird and arbitrary than the motion of the pendulum itself. I think you're underestimating the human intelligence component of the system. Include in the dataset an additional variable for rope length, record the data for mul
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by woodman 10y ago
Eureqa uses (used? I haven't touched it in years) symbolic regression. Symbolic regression can certainly produce weird results, especially with low quality data, but I wouldn't rate it anywhere near classic ANNs in black-boxiness
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by woodman 10y ago
If you find a bottle of water to be that great an encumbrance, then you were never really going to walk or cycle anywhere. There are plenty of good reasons to drive somewhere, but cupholders isn't one of them.
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by woodman 10y ago
Good luck with that line of thought, few people want to be treated like a baby.
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by woodman 10y ago
> Where's the evidence... In the court filings described by the previously linked stories, one of which I quoted in the comment you just responded to. What do you think they were charging people with, intent to download cp.jpg? Ar
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by woodman 10y ago
I don't like that I'm paying the salary of people that spy on me, I'd really not like it if they were paid more than me. The USG dedicates very few resources to actual IT defense, the vast majority of the funding goes to att
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by woodman 10y ago
So you didn't read any of the stories linked in the comment you replied to? First one, top of the page: "...including more than 9,000 files that users could download directly from the FBI. Some of the images described in court fil
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by woodman 10y ago
Well shoot, you keep producing plausible explanations: so now he might be so narcissistic that he thinks the reason he can't find capable subordinates is because people are intimidated by his awesomeness.
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by woodman 10y ago
> ...and then kept the site online so they could make further arrests of people who viewed the site. > That's a massively different picture... No, it isn't. The USG treats every instance of child pornography as a separate o
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by woodman 10y ago
Wow, that is a stretch and reads like an advocacy of Bible skip code or Nostradamus predictions. So the best case scenario is that he doesn't understand conversational context? Well I stand corrected: he is either a liar, suffers fro
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by woodman 10y ago
There is no way that he doesn't know what the phrase means, nothing has ever not happened more than that story. "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." -- Mark Twain
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by woodman 10y ago
Ok, and then ten of your football hooligan buddies jump in. You are making a mistake in looking at it from a scenario based perspective - one can easily craft any scenario to fit their argument. Also, a ten cop dog pile could certainly ki
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by woodman 10y ago
Not on a large scale. Imagine what would happen if you ignored a cop's orders, and failed to recognize his authority as he continued to escalate force.
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by woodman 10y ago
>> Force is, ultimately, lethal violence. >I think you're overgeneralizing... The threat of violence only works when it is credible, and it is only credible when consistently applied. Cops will kill you if you frustrate them
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by woodman 10y ago
Beadm first appeared in Solaris, long before it hit FreeBSD (and then PC-BSD) - so the idea had been around for a while. The issue is fit and finish. Solaris had it tightly integrated and made full use of it. I haven't used PC-BSD f
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by woodman 10y ago
Yeah, out of the box FreeBSD just barely scratches the surface when it comes to ZFS - there is a lot of untapped potential. Same story with jails and vnet.
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by woodman 10y ago
> ... I couldn't care less if it existed on my desktop OS. Then you either don't know about snapshots, don't care about data integrity, or have a backup system in place and don't want to replace it with: zfs send
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by woodman 10y ago
> you seem to be confusing Microsoft with "the government" Actually, thanks to the third party doctrine and the regularity with which the government subpoenas tech companies, there is little functional difference - they are par

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