And for those that can't resist visiting, maybe someone can screen scrap the front page and post it hourly to some other site so the "addicted ones" can at least monitor/. but not send it valuable traffic.
OK so maybe not a tech cost but a ridiculous train ticket fee in some countries that I just don't get. Say there is a train journey from station A to C, and you must change to a different line at B. Example tickets:
A to C (not leaving the station at B) = $6
A to B, exit, enter again then B to C = $8 ($4 each leg)
How and why should exiting and rentering the station at B cost $2?
Japan has the best costing since you pay for the distance you travel. Simple, effective!
It's a sad day when a simple, fully documented (in FF it's History > Recently Closed Tabs), keyboard shortcut appears as a newsworthy post on the front page of one of the geekiest websites on the web. Is there an emote for a double facepalm?
I use DDG because [a] it's simply not Google, [b] the CEO posts on slashdot, [c] they're clear about what they do and don't do, and [d] they have a cool bow-tie wearing duck as their mascot!
Also, how long until there are "plausible deniability" plugins for browsers that randomly browse the internet for you while you sleep? Increase the noise to signal ratio FTW!
What a brilliantly written post. I've always had a problem with the [distance] / [fuel used] metric but couldn't explain why. Now I understand why, and you saved me a fairly useless upgrade cost to my SSD! Now if only/. would increase the [modpoints] / [user] ratio.....
About 14 mins into this ted talk (http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word.html), the presentation shows some pretty sophisticated ways of analyzing such connections.
"Furthermore, Curry said when a highly anticipated game was refused classification, two things could happen â" interest in the game would actually increase, and people would still get the game via importation or piracy."
Having made the switch to Linux myself a few years ago, I often face problems with getting peripherals to work well - easily. Anyone tried getting the G15 keyboard macro keys working easily? This is not what I call easy. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LogitechG15 I persisted because I want to support FOSS, but I can easily understand that if government departments and companies are faced with similar issues, they probably don't care about FOSS - they focus on budgets and the costs involved in support.
Until the desktop industry embraces Linux in the same way the hobbyists do, this issue is a major roadblock.
You wanna know why there is so much piracy? it is because developers are retarded! As another poster recently said it is like the entire games industry has decided that Buggati roadsters are the ONLY way to go, and they are cranking out games that are $60+ in a world economy that is so dead I'm surprised peasant revolts aren't breaking out.
The developers of Machinarium are certainly not asking for much dollar wise for a game that, bang-per-buck, it's completely worth it.
A friend put me onto the game. She bought it specifically to play in Linux but found that it was missing from the CD version of the game.
She emailed the supplier, showed proof that it was purchased, and within a couple of hours was sent a download link.
That level of great customer service from an independent developer, plus how cool the game looks - I had my credit card out in seconds!
It's fantastic to see justice served anytime, especially if you were able to get some answers about past break-ins, retrieve more stolen goods etc. Also good to know that people listened and increased security levels and changed processes - a positive outcome. But if a stolen laptop was insured and could be encrypted and hardware locked, I would suspect most petty thefts would not be worth the efforts you went to, even if it doesn't seem like too much effort from your perspective.
And just to address irving47's comment ("leave the keys in the ignition as long as you have insurance.") - yes, sort of; it's more like those "honeypot" cars cops use to catch thieves, leaving the keys in but with a recording and tracking device installed. That way the scum you mention would get caught and punished but your real OS would be safe.
Have to agree AC. With encryption and a good hardware level password, the stolen laptop would be almost useless to the thieves, even making it hard to sell it. The process would become more like/
1) Purchase new replacement from insurance process
2) Restore from a backup and move on!
If you _REALLY_ wanted to see "vigilante" style justice served in the case of such thefts, partition the drive as follows. One partition is a securely encrypted OS that you use. The other is Windows. Set the default to automatically boot Windows and load it up with backdoors, keyloggers, automatic webcam capture to web etc like people have already described.
After struggling with F-Spot, I got fed up and switched to Picasa - never looked back. Yes it's using WINE, it's not open source, and it probably reports stats back to Google, but its so fraking fast compared to anything native to Linux, it leaves them for dust! This new Shotwell? Well, I'll give it a shot.
you make some very good points. i was about to post a similar objection (i.e. that the android model is similar to shareware / freeware and the black hats can exploit that so it's "caveat emptor") but your post stopped me in my tracks. i still abhor the iphone marketing model. maybe something like a peer-review process could solve this...
Can someone PLEASE un-mod / re-mod anagama's post??? He has totally misinformed Slashdot about a fantastic answer to the original question by going to.com and NOT.org. It looks like he didn't even visit scroogle.com because it's damn obvious it's not a privacy related site. Well, ok it features private parts but that's stretching the joke.
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And for those that can't resist visiting, maybe someone can screen scrap the front page and post it hourly to some other site so the "addicted ones" can at least monitor /. but not send it valuable traffic.
Here is the crux of the problem. Who is "we"? Because it certainly doesn't seem to be the slashdot community, that's for sure!
Actually, all the PINs were decrypted and available quite a while ago.
OK so maybe not a tech cost but a ridiculous train ticket fee in some countries that I just don't get. Say there is a train journey from station A to C, and you must change to a different line at B. Example tickets:
A to C (not leaving the station at B) = $6
A to B, exit, enter again then B to C = $8 ($4 each leg)
How and why should exiting and rentering the station at B cost $2?
Japan has the best costing since you pay for the distance you travel. Simple, effective!
It's a sad day when a simple, fully documented (in FF it's History > Recently Closed Tabs), keyboard shortcut appears as a newsworthy post on the front page of one of the geekiest websites on the web. Is there an emote for a double facepalm?
So what is this referring to then? "Background Wi-Fi location still runs even when Wi-Fi is turned off" From here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_Bean_(operating_system)#Android_4.3_Jelly_Bean_.28API_level_18.29
Not saying this validates the use of the script but you can hide commands from your history very easily: http://www.thegeekylinux.com/2011/04/how-to-hide-command-from-commandline.html.
I use DDG because [a] it's simply not Google, [b] the CEO posts on slashdot, [c] they're clear about what they do and don't do, and [d] they have a cool bow-tie wearing duck as their mascot!
... such as "TGF-B" (sorry, /. can not display "beta")
TGF-B: FTFY (well, at least linked to a site that can display "beta"!
I had ajax.googleapis.com still blocked and the site loaded fine. Just had to allow asus.com. Seems AC didn't check properly.
Also, how long until there are "plausible deniability" plugins for browsers that randomly browse the internet for you while you sleep? Increase the noise to signal ratio FTW!
And the "odd / chemical" village is shown as the "Nice Village" :-)
http://wikimapia.org/#lat=40.1131328&lon=93.9937019&z=13&l=0&m=w
From what I understand 11.10 won't have that option. So what are the gnome 2 fanboiz gonna do then?!
What a brilliantly written post. I've always had a problem with the [distance] / [fuel used] metric but couldn't explain why. Now I understand why, and you saved me a fairly useless upgrade cost to my SSD! Now if only /. would increase the [modpoints] / [user] ratio.....
About 14 mins into this ted talk (http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word.html), the presentation shows some pretty sophisticated ways of analyzing such connections.
From TFA:
"Furthermore, Curry said when a highly anticipated game was refused classification, two things could happen â" interest in the game would actually increase, and people would still get the game via importation or piracy."
Will. They. Ever. Learn.?
Anyone tried getting the G15 keyboard macro keys working easily? This is not what I call easy. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LogitechG15
I persisted because I want to support FOSS, but I can easily understand that if government departments and companies are faced with similar issues, they probably don't care about FOSS - they focus on budgets and the costs involved in support.
Until the desktop industry embraces Linux in the same way the hobbyists do, this issue is a major roadblock.
You wanna know why there is so much piracy? it is because developers are retarded! As another poster recently said it is like the entire games industry has decided that Buggati roadsters are the ONLY way to go, and they are cranking out games that are $60+ in a world economy that is so dead I'm surprised peasant revolts aren't breaking out.
The developers of Machinarium are certainly not asking for much dollar wise for a game that, bang-per-buck, it's completely worth it.
A friend put me onto the game. She bought it specifically to play in Linux but found that it was missing from the CD version of the game.
She emailed the supplier, showed proof that it was purchased, and within a couple of hours was sent a download link.
That level of great customer service from an independent developer, plus how cool the game looks - I had my credit card out in seconds!
It's fantastic to see justice served anytime, especially if you were able to get some answers about past break-ins, retrieve more stolen goods etc. Also good to know that people listened and increased security levels and changed processes - a positive outcome. But if a stolen laptop was insured and could be encrypted and hardware locked, I would suspect most petty thefts would not be worth the efforts you went to, even if it doesn't seem like too much effort from your perspective.
And just to address irving47's comment ("leave the keys in the ignition as long as you have insurance.") - yes, sort of; it's more like those "honeypot" cars cops use to catch thieves, leaving the keys in but with a recording and tracking device installed. That way the scum you mention would get caught and punished but your real OS would be safe.
Have to agree AC. With encryption and a good hardware level password, the stolen laptop would be almost useless to the thieves, even making it hard to sell it. The process would become more like/
1) Purchase new replacement from insurance process
2) Restore from a backup and move on!
If you _REALLY_ wanted to see "vigilante" style justice served in the case of such thefts, partition the drive as follows. One partition is a securely encrypted OS that you use. The other is Windows. Set the default to automatically boot Windows and load it up with backdoors, keyloggers, automatic webcam capture to web etc like people have already described.
After struggling with F-Spot, I got fed up and switched to Picasa - never looked back. Yes it's using WINE, it's not open source, and it probably reports stats back to Google, but its so fraking fast compared to anything native to Linux, it leaves them for dust! This new Shotwell? Well, I'll give it a shot.
I wonder what pro-gamer kids involved in this do for fun?
you make some very good points. i was about to post a similar objection (i.e. that the android model is similar to shareware / freeware and the black hats can exploit that so it's "caveat emptor") but your post stopped me in my tracks. i still abhor the iphone marketing model. maybe something like a peer-review process could solve this...
Can someone PLEASE un-mod / re-mod anagama's post??? He has totally misinformed Slashdot about a fantastic answer to the original question by going to .com and NOT .org. It looks like he didn't even visit scroogle.com because it's damn obvious it's not a privacy related site. Well, ok it features private parts but that's stretching the joke.