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NeutronBoy commented on Fast food and obesity in developing countries nytimes.com/2017/10/02/he... · Posted by u/ezhil
Consuming 'less' in general is not an option.
Why?
I know a few years ago when I was working on a government procurement project for some software, the (very good) lawyers were very weary of any OSS included in the proprietary product we were buying. Their reasoning was, we were buying the product from the vendor. If the vendor had incorporated the OSS code into their product and it was found that they'd breached the license conditions, then we essentially lost the license to run the software - otherwise we'd be in breach as well. Not what you want when you're spending hundreds of millions on a project.
NeutronBoy commented on Google Unveils Tools to Increase Subscriptions for Publishers nytimes.com/2017/10/02/bu... · Posted by u/miiiiiike
Subscriptions are just the wrong model for news publishers. There's NO way I could possibly afford to subscribe to every news output I occasionally read news from, unless the subscriptions were so close to free as to be useless as a revenue source for the publisher. It's just not going to happen.
What we desperately need is a real, useful micro-payments model where you can pay per-article. I'd be happy to pay you a few cents, or a dollar, or whatever, for each of the 3 or 4 articles I read on your site per month. But I'm not buying a subscription just to read 3 or 4 articles. The economics just don't work.
> What we desperately need is a real, useful micro-payments model where you can pay per-article
The other side of the coin is that if you're a news organisation, "the economics just don't work" with micro payments. You can't fund a month long investigative report based on micropayments, even if it produces a prize-winning piece, if you don't have guaranteed income to support it. What happens if you spend the month investigating and don't find anything?
Micro-payment per-article will only encourage "safe" journalism - articles that you know will resonate with your readers, rather than controversial pieces or in-depth, resource intensive research.
where does someone find government contracts to bid on? you could be like the guys from War Dogs but instead of guns and ammo you trade code.
How does anyone knows there's something to bid on or do they only tell IBM? In that case it's hardly IBM's fault is it.
Most governments have public portals (or you have to register with your company details but it's basically open apart from that) that they post RF{I,T,Q}s on.
I'm kind of split on our current gray area about free speech on the web. It seems like the only way to do good moderation is if it's powered by actual people sitting behind computers and following a well-written policy. But tech companies have proven themselves totally unwilling to pay for that. I'd rather FB just said "we'll never pony up the wages necessary to moderate well so we're just going to make facebook a complete free speech zone."
> I'd rather FB just said "we'll never pony up the wages necessary to moderate well so we're just going to make facebook a complete free speech zone."
They were literally doing this! Then they got slammed for 'censorship', so they got rid of the moderators. Now they're in the position they are now.
NeutronBoy commented on Why competition in the politics industry is failing America [pdf] hbs.edu/competitiveness/D... · Posted by u/gpvos
You also have compulsory voting, yes?
Can you explicitly vote for nobody?
Yes.
Our compulsory voting is really "compulsory voting". It's "compulsory turn up to a polling station and get your name marked off". You can drop an empty ballot in the box, draw penises on it, or even just turn and walk out of the polling place.
Also, the OP underestimates the impact of the minor parties. While there are two major parties, one of them is a coalition between two parties (Liberals and the Nationals), and there's a significant block of smaller parties and independents that are big enough that when they vote together they can have a deciding vote on legislation.
NeutronBoy commented on Learn from your attackers – SSH HoneyPot robertputt.co.uk/learn-fr... · Posted by u/robputt
Security through obscurity is not the solution, though. Sooner or later someone does a port scan and finds that port. I've found that it's more efficient just to whitelist the IPs or subnets you might need and denying the rest.
Edit: I didn't mean changing the port is a bad thing. You can and should do it, and it will help a bit - just that it shouldn't be the only thing to rely on for your SSH security.
> Security through obscurity is not the solution, though
Security is about layers. Nothing is foolproof. It's about implementing layers of controls to reduce your attack surface to an acceptable level, with the trade-off that many controls increase the complexity of your setup or compromises the convenience for your users.
For example, for SSH, this probably includes
* changing the default port
* enforcing SSH key authentication
* enforcing passwords on SSH keys
* implementing fail2ban
* installing jump hosts for internal machines
* implementing a VPN rather than external facing hosts (and with that comes all the additional layers for the VPN)
* etc...
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