This article is what happens to your mind when you watch mainstream media and believe what they say.
If you believe you are a certain way, you will be treated that way. Change your own perception and you change (your) world.
By focusing on what you dont like, you are living the reality you dont like.
I love all girls in tech by the way. Without them, office would be very boring. Some are pretty, some are cool, some are annoying. Because they are people, and thats what people are.
I'm not sure this is specific to the tech industry. Right or wrong, I think that "be competent at [job] and pretty/sexy/funny/personable" pressure is something a lot of women feel in a lot of jobs. I think a lot of times, that pressure is more imagined, or self-inflicted, than real.
As a not particularly attractive, introvert, female developer who has been rather successful in my career, I don't feel like I've missed out on any opportunities because of those traits.... and if I have, they're probably people I wouldn't want to work with, anyway.
You dont need a shrink, you just need to find yourself.
Sounds like you have been looking very much outside yourself when you should look inside instead. You seem focused on intelligence, IQ, and knowledge. All of those are likely to make you more depressed since you are not meant to be a robot. :)
If it doesnt, then I guess US providers are fine. Otherwise I would pick another country where the government cant simply tell your ISP to give them your data.
It does concern me actually, RamNode is operating elsewhere if I recall correctly. And there is a great smaller VPS provider operating in italy called prometheus (I think).
I would host here in Chile, but we don't have VPS providers here.
Question.. if an offshore VPS provider has servers in the U.S. can the offshore VPS's be taken for search and seizure by U.S. Government simply because part of their business operates within U.S. borders?
The good old "privacy is already dead" argument doesnt make sense to me.
If privacy is dead, why do organizations keep secrets from their staff? Why doesnt the public have full insight into everything the government and the military does? Why are there secrets?
How come we cant see the people who watch us on the streets, but they can see us?
The code for SELinux that's in both GNU/Linux distributions and Android are all open source, and anybody can go and review the code or change it.
The existence of Linux on the desktop doesn't remove the threat of having NSA code built into your processor, but if you honestly believe SELinux is a backdoor then feel free to point out where in the source code the backdoor is located instead of spreading FUD for no reason. SELinux has nothing to do with what the article is talking about, that is, having malicious firmware baked into the processor at the hardware level.
Because Linus signed off on it. To get that complex change into the kernel, the NSA had to convince Linus that it's a good idea, which can be a next-to-impossible task. I trust him to review the code more than I trust myself.
Linus doesn't review everything. He delegates and trusts.
That's tangential, though. More importantly, I expect NSA contributions to be poured over because the NSA isn't highly trusted, and it would make a great mailing list post to say "The NSA has a backdoor in our code here, here, and here."
Many eyes and a suspect contributor make all backdoors shallow.
SElinux is just policy based MAC you can clearly see what the source is doing. Not everything the NSA does is totally evil, sometimes they actually do what they are supposed to do, which is secure US infrastructure and that includes open source projects. SEAndroid is also a good project, and the NSA is just like any other security specialist who likes to work with open software and rejects blackboxes. At least your intel agency gives you something in return, mine spies on us and gives us nothing.
They wouldn't need to purposely sabotage the linux kernel anyways it's like 15+ million lines of code they can easily review and find bugs as a homework assignment in first year internal classes on offensive exploitation.
While this is possible, I believe it'd be extremely unlikely.
Let's say they indeed decided to include something in the code submitted. It's an open source project, and it is a just matter of when someone will catch that. Once someone catch that, it gives them nothing but material evidence that they are up for something there. (and for that matter, it's not that every Linux users will have SELinux enabled to begin with.)
Exactly, so it's not so productive for NSA to tinker with SELinux just to get their trojan in the gate.
IMNO, hardware backdoor on the processors is a bit skeptical, though. I'm no expert on this but I don't know how easy to even exploit this type of backdoor without an assistance from the OS kernel. (Which MS might have implemented somehow.)
If properly done in hardware, it needs no help from anything. Think about CPU "data breakpoints" - breakpoints that trigger if a specified if a specific value gets written to a specific range.
It's really a no-brainer to make such breakpoints that watch data in memory or registers that will be triggered by (e.g.) just processing a specific DNS packet.
Yeah, I suppose. I thought it'd be a bit more challenging to get the data out. I suppose they could do drop and retrieve, or attach some air-interface, etc.
Once they have root, they can use the existing resources just like you would a regular PC, but chances are they would load their own micro-kernel to do the dirty work.
Diablo 3 is a lot better than I expected. Its a lot of fun bashing mobs in co-op mode with your friends. While its the same maps on all difficulty levels, there are random mobs and encounters quite often, and it never gets old finding nice items to sell on AH.
The only problem is that inferno is too difficult at the moment. Patch 1.03 will adjust the monster damage by about 25%. Right now, you cant kill elites with a melee character. In fact, you die to normal mobs very often because of their huge damage output. So people stay on Hell and play that content instead, which is not really intended. Inferno is supposed to be hard but doable, not impossible. Right now only ranged characters with the best gear can play that difficulty level.
Overall, I love the game and will play it for many more weeks or even months. I will never use the real money AH though. :)
Everyone knows that the best work comes when you are free to create something you believe in and that you have a real desire to create.
The problem is combining that desire with capitalism where someone wants to get rich from your ideas, and with a minimum of costs.
Googles most successful products such as Gmail and the search engine was created as small, experimental products, born from the brains of people who were NOT under strict deadlines and pressure to perform. The brain works much better under those conditions, and so does creativity and thinking outside the box.
Today we see the influence of managers and bosses in the way Google ignores privacy. That was probably never part of the vision the product creators had when they put their products together.
Because despite all human hubris, we are pretty much in the dark ages. When we have learned how to sustain ourselves without raping the planet, then maybe we can at least be called civilized. Although still a very primitive species.
Humans dont like viewing themselves as primitive and limited, but we very much are. We are unaware of the alien species constantly being around us, we think 90% of the DNA is "junk" because we dont understand what it does, we call space "empty" because we dont see whats there, etc.
Its all very much based on hubris and ego. Very very primitive. I often feel like Im watching a society that is completely nuts. Valuing paper more than the planet that is giving us life every second of every day (!).
Everything is primitive, in that it is the origin for the things to come. The way I think of the situation is that our species and its civilization are frightfully young, with all the arrogance and naïveté that entails. Here's hoping we're not the kind of teenager that kills ourselves by crashing the family car.
If you believe you are a certain way, you will be treated that way. Change your own perception and you change (your) world.
By focusing on what you dont like, you are living the reality you dont like.
I love all girls in tech by the way. Without them, office would be very boring. Some are pretty, some are cool, some are annoying. Because they are people, and thats what people are.