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Comment Really? (Score 1) 66

* including 3D printing,
Nope. wont change my life or work. For the things I am involved in it is either too expensive, or already relevant.

* embedded systems
Nope. changed my life already. I saw how the analog chips which we used in the end of the 90s for signal processing became obsolete and unavailable/expensive (-> Burr Brown being bough by TI) Not a new tech at all.

* and evolving Web APIs
Oh yeah, because that going to mache such a big difference

Comment Wow (Score 1) 226

Being a web programmer is the same as brein able to enter University?

I mean dont get me wrong, i appreciate people who early in their life know what to to and do that well, even if there is is no academic education involved.

But somehow i dount that such people will be the main participants in such "bootcamps".

Comment Re:Nope (Score 3, Informative) 91

Fascist? Nope.

Your Employer provides with tools and guidelines. if something is not explicitly allowed, then it is your responsibility to check if it is according to the rules of the company. Giving up the control over data usually is not acceptable.

If you use tools which essentially give up the control over the data to any third party (as you do in evernote), possibly even with terms and conditions which have zero accountability of the service provider, just because you like a service because it is "practical and free".

These "practical and free" services would be where i as attacker would start targeted attacks.

Comment Nonsense (Score 1) 260

Let's clearly separate the cases

a) You are an institution which is powerful/rich enough to build (AFAIU they were talking about the raw metals here) operate a isotope enrichment plant, breeder reactors, and compose these to a *working* nuclear device (Ahem even countries like North Korea or Iran take a while for this): It's very likely that you were able to contact sellers of these required equipment without the internet (and doing so via the internet may get you on a list of the NSA to watch)

b) You are a terrorist organisation with a moderate amount (~0.5-1B Dollar), but no backing infrastructure: Good luck in powering up the centrifuges without anybody noticing; you have to buy the plutonium directly.

Comment Responsiiblity (Score 1) 126

If you are an decently qualidied Adminsitrator, then you always conciously choose between the following:

a) You customize/install/update/recompile/patch the software you need on your own time. Usually you do thos when the service availability is absolutely critical and at the same time no out of the box solution exists

b) You use an "out of the box" solution. This solution should be supported, and used within its nominal use case.

Ubuntu very clearly states that Universe packages may - at best - only receive a minimal quality check at the distibution release and are patched by maintainers, which are not necessarily authors of the software nor employees of ubunut. As such their time which they may spend to predictably react to problems is limited, and, if anything in their life changes they just have to stop doing anything for the package without further warning - if the packge is important enogh for you, donate money to the maintainer and pay him.

I appreciate that the author loudly raises his concers, but i think anybody running an unsupported port of an program is responsible for himself. Pulling the pckage is not good. I for my part run any service for myself (file sharing etc) on a machine which only shows a single port for a vpn to the outside world. If something other than a security problem in the VPN software apprears, i would prefer to contunue using (and reinstalling) the packages which I chose.

If I run SW which faces the internet, then if fix it myself

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