This may be true, but it can still cause issues for people.

At a company I worked at the legal team vetoed using this software (despite all of the design team offering to use it to save the company money).

Why did legal say no? The name could "be construed as a sign of a negative work environment for those who may be physically disable or handicapped".
In plain english, the name could be used as lawsuit bait.

So the gimp team can either change the name, or accept that the entire business world will never be willing to pay for support for this software.

Which is really sad, because they could easily be making a hefty profit from training and support for businesses. If the name wasn't a legal liability.

That would be a $30 fee for each jurisdiction, not one $30 fee for every agency worldwide.

So, $30 from every local law enforcement branch.

There are 14,614 county and city agencies in the US, not including federal.
source: FBI.GOV

Total potential income $438,420 PER MONTH from just the USA

I'd say his argument stands.

Informative my ass.

Then do you mind commenting on these videos for me?

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These videos reflect the noise levels of the turbine installations I've seen. (texas mostly)
Lots of low frequency noise at average wind speeds above 5mph.

I hear a lot of people swearing these things are silent, but personal experience+lots of videos and recordings online show that there can be a measurable amount of noise, even at longer distances.

Perhaps there are a set of specific conditions that have to be met (humidity, air pressure, etc.) but you can't possibly claim that all of these examples are just statistical outliers.

That is a different camera showing the exact same failure.

Not true.

That turbine was located in a 5 turbine installation in hornslet denmark.

The main gear assembly failed, and the brake was destroyed.

here is a translation of the actual engineering report for the failure.

The report also includes information about a second failure within 2 days, both caused by the same +130km/hr winds.

Yup. screen is already available on everything I use (and has been for a decade), from the crappy residential grade router at my mothers to the servers at client shops. Tmux, not so much.

Bad example.
Taking a shit can be a method of non-violent protest.
It just depends on where you're shitting.

(sigh)
Fine, you're awesome, incredible, and one of the most accomplished programmers the world has ever seen.

I don't care, and it doesn't negate anything that I said.

You act like a dick with low self esteem who likes to blow his own horn on other peoples web sites.
No one cares what you have done when we can look at and test the actual information you are presenting, so quit with the self promotion.

I wasn't being condescending, nor was I trying to be insulting.
Instead I was simply pointing out that while you've got a few good ideas, your presentation of it is crap.

You have the exact same information that you've been presenting for over a decade splattered all over the internet in anonymous posts and articles referenced by people who saw the potential in what you're trying to push.

However, you've been resting on your laurels instead of actually becoming an important reference for the industry.

Knowledgeable professionals already know how to lock down UAC.
Most of them do it using GPO's instead of registry edits, and about 90% of what you've been shouting about is referenced in at least 3 of the books I have on the shelf for my techs to reference.

You aren't trying to bring this to the attention of people like me.
You need to reach the MCSE/A+ certified "technicians" out there doing 95% of the day to day maintenance.
Instead you waste your days being a jackass on slashdot.

So, feel free to ignore my advice and continue attacking people who try to tell you things.
I'm not going to waste time of breath shouting at someone who has decided that the entire rest of the world must be wrong.


As for your personal attacks on my experience, have fun.
I don't need random strangers to pat me on the back and puff up my ego.
I get more than enough of that from the customers and other IT professionals who call me when they have a problem they can't solve.

Eldorel

I'm going to leave my uid on this so you can't just dismiss it as another troll.


DEAR APK,
I've already had to scroll past this same post twice IN THIS THREAD ALONE.

You have copy/pasted the exact same set of directions to just about every security related article for the past several months.
We've all already seen it, and it's just wasting space.

If you want to inform new people, fine.

Put together your own web site, post all of these directions in a single place where you can keep them up to date, and post a link WHEN IT"S RELEVANT, AS PART OF A POST THAT HAS DIRECT BEARING ON THE DISCUSSION AT HAND.

No one cares who else thinks your idea is nifty, and trying to pat yourself on the back/inflate your ego here on slashdot just irritates those of us with mod points.



You want to get the word out? Great! Here's what you need to do.

1) Write up a step by step paper with these directions, include .REG files with the settings ready to be merged, and possibly even simple scripts to implement the changes.

2) Get a native english speaker to act as editor for your paper, to avoid the hard to parse portions of your manner of communicating, and then hammer out the exact meaning you want to convey.

3) THEN, send your paper to people who are willing to test this out. Get people in the industry to help you iron out the problems, and then update your web page again.


After you have something more useful than 2 pages of random registry keys people will start talking about your idea. They will find problems (broken programs, headaches, etc.) and then you can fix them.


But again, POSTING THE SAME CRAP TO SLASHDOT 10 TIMES A DAY IS ONLY GOING TO GET YOU IGNORED AS ANOTHER CRACKPOT TRYING TO SELL SOMETHING.
Also, go register an actual slashdot account. Posting AC doesn't help your image.

Good luck.



Feel free to send me a rough draft of your paper if you ever get around to writing it. (consider this your first newsletter subscription)

Eldorel

OK, screw my mod points. I have to comment on this.

There is a big difference between a virus or trojan that takes advantage of a flaw in the operating system and one that relies on brute forcing the password to a privileged user account or tricking a user into handing over the password directly.


I support networks for a living, and we also deal with lots of small businesses and residential systems.
The single biggest infection vector on any operating system is third party browser plugins such as flash or java.
However, when one of our linux users has a java virus, it only gets access to their user directory. A simple reboot stops the virus, because all of the Home directories have the execute bit disabled.
A quick follow up scan once a week with avg for linux or clamav, and they are no longer infected.

Yes, There are a few nasty rootkits that use privilege escalation, but on linux those are few and far between.
To quote the link YOU posted,

On windows, we have to deal with executable files dropped into 20 different locations, a few hundred ways for a virus to execute at startup, and ways for the virus to easily hid itself behind processes that are supposed to be there.
(hello svchost.exe, how many viruses did you execute today?


I really wish you people would stop trying to compare apples to elephants, and start looking at things in a more reasonable method.

Here, I'll start by making a nice little table.

Problem: ............... Mac/Windows ..... Linux (desktop) .... Linux (server)
Stupid users ............... YES .......... YES.................... YES
Java Viruses ............... YES .......... YES.................... NO
Flash Viruses .............. YES .......... YES ................... NO
Brute Force Password ........YES .......... YES.................... YES
Users install Random crap ...YES .......... NO..................... NO
Use admin pass frequently .. YES .......... Maybe.................. NO

Feel free to add more to this table, but just this much makes my point.
EVERYTHING IS VULNERABLE TO STUPID AND BADLY TRAINED USERS/ADMINS.


In my experience, Linux distros respond faster to discovered threats and mitigate actual compromises better than WIndows or MacOSX.
Linux distros also usually don't train users to do things that are known to be dangerous, such as downloading and executing unknown/untrusted binaries.
NOR does linux require a huge financial investment in order to have code vetted, signed off and added to the repositories.

Ironically, this is exactly what facebook started out as.
An .edu email address was required to register for the first couple of years, and the entire system was designed to facilitate inter-class communication between students and professors.

Then they added the "friend" feature, non students started trying to register, Zuckerberg got greedy, and things went downhill from there.

Really? Which five?
The only ones I saw on our ballot were Dem, Rep, Green and Libertarian....

Also, is there any way to establish which parties are on enough ballots before the vote?
It would be nice to be able to avoid the mathmatically screwed candidates ahead of time.

"Blacklisting never works".

feel free to google that phrase if you want references, but there are too many possible attackers out there to blacklist them all.
One will get through.

While there are more than two parties, the simple fact is that no third party candidate has even been on the ballot in every district in the past 20 years.

I've already talked about this in other threads over the past few years, but here it is again.
Last presidential election I was asked to leave my voting district after asking for a write in vote because the candidate I wanted was not available.

I even called the police department about it, expecting to have an officer preset to insure I didn't "disturb the peace".
Instead I was told to just vote for one of the people on the ballot and play nice.

How can we get anyone through the system that isn't a republican or democrat if they aren't allowed on the ballot, on TV, and aren't even allowed to participate in the "Open Debates" in places like ohio?

Voting against someone implies voting for someone else.

All i'm seeing is the same shit sandwich with different kinds of bread.


Sorry, not hungry.