Duh! Use a second computer, a laptop, plugged in at another location. Remotely access it with an encrypted connection to do your dirty work. The second computer should be running TrueCrypt, as per the advice already given here. Should the device become inaccessible, assume it is found and in the hands of authorities. Create another "criminal" laptop and place it at a different location. Don't go looking for the old laptop.
Haven't kids these days learned anything from watching TV?
If they had any actual evidence against him wouldn't they just come out and say it?
Not if their investigations was part of a wider, deeper project to root out Muslim terrorists hiding in the US, plotting their next attack innocent civilians.
Check out "Natural City". This movie is not a sequel of "Blade Runner", but the look of the city is there, the tech and the weird plot. If approached carefully, prequels and sequels could be very cool. And ripe for being turned into an on-line RPG.
If the guy had that important kind of data, then I would think that he would keep it and use it to blackmail money from other people far richer than he to truly get a pay day. I would take all of the drives, carefully store them somewhere non-obvious, and then blab ferociously how I destroyed the drives. The price for destroying evidence would seem to be far less than the actual crimes you are guilty of. The potential benefit to make sure the information didn't reach the public would be worth millions.
And if it were to be manned it wouldn't be a return trip so to allow for a sufficient genetic variation the crew needs to be at least 1600 individuals.
Otherwise the risk of genetic degradation would be too great.
Ah ha! That is why in the movie Pandorum, they had 1600 people on board. And here I thought they were just pulling a number out of thin air for a movie plot.
Um, the reason they are using telnet is because it's trivial to hack, in other words the headline should read "hackers hacking easiest to hack service on poorly configured machines, also water is wet, details at 11"
If I had a mod point, you would have it. This is so true. The hackers can only hack what you've left connected and unsecured. What happened to the policy of closing every port, then open up the one's you actually need.
I have the streaming + 1 DVD at-a-time plan. My cost went up a whole $1. This is all still far cheaper than driving to the rental store and paying what is now an outrageous price. $4 to rent a DVD? No way. My wife and I may go through 7 DVD's per month, but the streaming part is used on a daily basis. We canceled DirecTV years ago, so the kids couldn't watch Backyardigans anymore. Well, problem solved. The entire Voltron series? Got it. Macross series? Got it and the kids love it. They like giant, flying robots. The wife get to enjoy the TV series we have now with DirecTV gone. We are totally caught up on Psyche seasons 1 to 4. We are on season 3 of Monk, watching one episode a night. I've watched a few other series through to their ends that I always liked (like Farscape, highly under-appreciated).
Regarding the math in the original article...well, duh! Of course the postal service is more expensive.
NF does have recent movie available. I recently watched Inception via NF DVD. Now, if they could track down a DVD of "Leap of Faith", I would be happier. But, my DVD Q is full-up for 3 to 5 months of movie viewing.
Science. Religion. They are not a competition. Religion answers questions for us that Science cannot. Science answers questions for us that Religion doesn't address. Many famous scientists from bygone ages were devout believers in God, or Allah, or (insert other deity here), and yet made great strides to science. They didn't see the two as mutually exclusive. I blame arrogance and intellectual hubris for thinking that you can live without one or the other. Learn to accept both, and you will be a much happier person.
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Intel will drop VGA from their chipsets and this will be a boon for video card makers. Video card makers already cater to the those who need better video, or different ports, or more ports, or whatever. As long as monitors include a VGA port, card makers will, too. Intel has the luxury of being able to drop it. It will save them money. They also know that no one is being left behind thanks to card makers. It is a win for both sides.
All I'm saying is that it's a good thing EMS services don't operate under the same principal...
At least my area, EMS sends you a bill if you use their services. Local taxes support equipment purchases and maintenance. The EMS agents are volunteers. If you actually use the service, you get a bill later, which under most health insurances, is covered.
Sense vehicular motion (including vibration) and shut down the texting function while in motion.
That won't work. The phone exists in the car's frame of motion, and there fore, unless the car experiences a change in acceleration, the objects in the frame have no direct experience of speed.
...and the number of people still willing to pay it. The population of consumers have proven that no matter the price charged, the sheep will pay it. There is no incentive for them to keep prices down, or make the plans easy to understand or convenient for the consumer. All y'all with your smart phones are helping to perpetuate the problem. Until people stop subscribing and drop their phones, in other words, speak with their wallets, the mobile users will continue to be raped for more and more money. The solution is simple: stop paying the prices. At your next change, cancel your mobile phone subscription, put the phone away.
I buy Dell computers from the refurb market. They are cheap and plentiful. I love 'em! I have nearly 150 small form-factor systems and laptops. Because of the indecently low cost I get them, I keep spares on the shelf. I don't fix them, I just swap the HD to another box. The parts are easy to swap in and out and I have experienced a high level of up-time with all of my systems. GX150 were the first systems, then up to GX260/270/280. Now that those systems are leaving the refurb market, moving up to the GX520/620. There is nothing wrong with being a box-pusher. Someone has to make the boxes and that I will eventually buy off refurb.
I didn't know you could see into the future. Amazing!
Yup, amazing what one can learn by studying the past. Today's rail system is now primarily a means of conveying coal and your Hello Kitty lunch boxes.
When the car became common, people flocked to it. Passenger rail died. The only reason Amtrak exists is because the government props it up. Just like airlines killing Atlantic sea travel, rail is too expensive and the least desirable option to get anywhere, unless you live in a city.
Rail only makes sense when your population is centralizes in dense population centers.
Otherwise, this is all feel-good spending meant to ultimately prop up the unions that supported the current socialist regime.
This is a debacle from start to finish. A complete waste of tax-player money. The project cost, once the unions are involved, will certainly balloon to $20B. The locations will be cherry-picked based on politics and won't ultimately serve the people that could really use it. It won't relieve road congestion and the airlines won't be affected. Our dependence on oil won't be touched. The problem with trains is that the track only goes to one specific destination. What if the town you want to go to isn't on that line? You will end up driving. The vast majority of the American population doesn't live in a city. They live in rural urban areas, being forced to pay for a train system that will never make a profit, just like Amtrak. Americans love their cars. We have big roads and lots of them. And that is the way we like it.
Flash is installed on too many devices, doing too many things to truly die. Will it lose popularity and become a quiet, background thing? Yes. In this day and age of computing, nothing ever really dies. OS/2 and AmigaOS live on, because nothing has to die anymore. COBOL, hated by millions of programmers, lives on, despite reportedly better languages for the task of data processing. The computer world has plenty of examples in the realm of hardware. The RS232 serial port will not die! Die, I tell you! Die! I should not have to worry about baud rates and stop bits in this modern era!
as opposed to those who are satisfied with the theory that life evolved from inorganic chemical compounds, totally by chance, with a series of ininitely improbable events occurring in the right sequence over and over and over again.
What a lovely caricature you've constructed there. Secondly, just like most crappy caricatures of biological evolution you also seem to conveniently gloss over the major role that natural selection plays which is not random.
There is more to measuring compatibility than naming off an office productivity app. Far more insidious is the business apps that run local and have no Mac or Linux counter part. These apps are legion, because those corporations aren't software companies, so they write one version...for Windows. Where I work, the computing landscape is littered with these apps. For accounting. For sales. For engineering. For manufacturing. I have to support every MS OS in one form or another because of this. A one-off app here for Win95, another there written for DOS. A normal day in the office for me.
Ultimately, the compatibility these kids are missing out on in the name of coolness is that they are unprepared for how business function computer-wise. I have to deal with these "Apple Idiots" on a regular basis who are so enamored with the "Apple Way", but have zero clue that 99% of the business apps out there, only run on Windows.
"But, you could run them under emulation!"
Why? Why, when I could just run actual Windows and reduce my support complexity?
Check out the list of the top CAD/CAE/CAM packages and what OS they support. Windows. Windows. Windows. Windows. Etc.
If all you do is word processing, some personal spreadsheets and browse the internet, have your Mac. You've just paid far more money for a machine than you needed to, and deserve what you get.
Besides, real geeks have one of everything and never settle for just one system. THAT is so yesterday. "Oh, you only own a mac? That is so sad."
There many reasons why one would want to get rid of a book, like say, when you have too many and you want to make room for other things. And maybe your local library doesn't carry the geeky type books you target. A store like Half-Priced books is a testament to the fact that many people get rid of the books they buy. The eBook era is great in that is frees up the need for trees, but due to the way DRM works, you are stuck with the ebook for all eternity. Unless, of course, Amazon decides to take the book away from you.
I don't buy DRM-laden e-anything. It must be a DRM-free MP3 or PDF. Am I a thief looking to redistribute it? No. But I like having the freedom to move the file from one computer to the next with me. Or giving it to a friend and deleting it off my system -- which I do. DRM only hurts honest people who don't care to seek out the DRM-cracking programs.
The way Amazon is selling the eBooks, they aren't cheaper (to address another responder), and it is more akin to a license that can be revoked without any warning to you.
We consumers are stuck in either case. Authors looking to insure that only NEW copies can be bought, or publishers keeping the lion's share of a books price.
eBooks aren't being priced to be benefit the consumer.
Honestly, I don't get this. If you live in the middle of nowhere, you have a point. But good libraries will have virtually any book worth reading, or at least the vast majority (including tech books), and its freeeeeeeeee.
So if you don't plan on keeping the book, why buy it in the first place? And if you're not sure, borrow it first, then buy it.
I mean, i understand this DOES remove an option from you, but most of the time, that option was worthless in the first place.
Shados, you've bought a book, then?
And think about what you just wrote...libraries lend books. Does your library lend out eBooks?
I imagine that many of the authors that this greatly effects are the ones that do this as a full-time job. If no one buys their books NEW, then they see no money, or maybe no future book deal. The profit margin approaches 100% after enough time and copies have sold. This allows the good authors to write full-time and not have to worry about asking if we want fries with our order. Book sales trail off after release, so the most money is to be made in that first year, though some books enjoy a long life of sales popularity. So, good for the authors.
This is a very bad deal for consumers, in the end. My copy of "Nothing: The History of Zero" was a fun read. Now that I am done with it, I can give it to a friend, sell it, trade it in at Half-Priced Books, etc. In this way, I can recoup some of my cost. And the book can be purchased and resold many times, profits staying in the hands of the seller each time. The author makes nothing. The DRM on the eBooks prevents you from selling it, or giving it away.
Thus, in a sly maneuver to make big publishing look like evil bastards (not a difficult task), the authors conveniently and quietly take control of book distribution and remove the freedom of the consumer to control the end product themselves. This is bad. Very bad.
Thus, I am conflicted. Yay for getting what you deserve to be paid. Boo for limiting my ability to resell the book.
I've seen Compiz, and I must admit that a user like me simply not impressed by the bells and whistles. I use my computer to get stuff done. I want the primary interface to get to my apps to stay out of the way and NOT take up the memory I would rather my apps have. In Windows, I set the performance options to maximum performance. Yes, I turn off all of the animations and -- as I see it -- completely unnecessary visual effects. I use my computer for the apps, not to waste time with pretty-pretty icons, swoopy sound effects and transparents fade-ins/outs. For me, it is about the utility of the device. I want the OS to be stable and do its job efficiently. Just get me to my applications and leave my CPU to making my app faster.
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Duh! Use a second computer, a laptop, plugged in at another location. Remotely access it with an encrypted connection to do your dirty work. The second computer should be running TrueCrypt, as per the advice already given here. Should the device become inaccessible, assume it is found and in the hands of authorities. Create another "criminal" laptop and place it at a different location. Don't go looking for the old laptop.
Haven't kids these days learned anything from watching TV?
Wouldn't have helped much with the Police here in the UK, you can get thrown in jail for not handing over your encryption password/keys.
Which is worse, the jail time for not divulging the password, or the jail time for what they find if you do?
If they had any actual evidence against him wouldn't they just come out and say it?
Not if their investigations was part of a wider, deeper project to root out Muslim terrorists hiding in the US, plotting their next attack innocent civilians.
Check out "Natural City". This movie is not a sequel of "Blade Runner", but the look of the city is there, the tech and the weird plot. If approached carefully, prequels and sequels could be very cool. And ripe for being turned into an on-line RPG.
If the guy had that important kind of data, then I would think that he would keep it and use it to blackmail money from other people far richer than he to truly get a pay day. I would take all of the drives, carefully store them somewhere non-obvious, and then blab ferociously how I destroyed the drives. The price for destroying evidence would seem to be far less than the actual crimes you are guilty of. The potential benefit to make sure the information didn't reach the public would be worth millions.
And if it were to be manned it wouldn't be a return trip so to allow for a sufficient genetic variation the crew needs to be at least 1600 individuals.
Otherwise the risk of genetic degradation would be too great.
Ah ha! That is why in the movie Pandorum, they had 1600 people on board. And here I thought they were just pulling a number out of thin air for a movie plot.
Um, the reason they are using telnet is because it's trivial to hack, in other words the headline should read "hackers hacking easiest to hack service on poorly configured machines, also water is wet, details at 11"
If I had a mod point, you would have it. This is so true. The hackers can only hack what you've left connected and unsecured. What happened to the policy of closing every port, then open up the one's you actually need.
I have the streaming + 1 DVD at-a-time plan. My cost went up a whole $1. This is all still far cheaper than driving to the rental store and paying what is now an outrageous price. $4 to rent a DVD? No way. My wife and I may go through 7 DVD's per month, but the streaming part is used on a daily basis. We canceled DirecTV years ago, so the kids couldn't watch Backyardigans anymore. Well, problem solved. The entire Voltron series? Got it. Macross series? Got it and the kids love it. They like giant, flying robots. The wife get to enjoy the TV series we have now with DirecTV gone. We are totally caught up on Psyche seasons 1 to 4. We are on season 3 of Monk, watching one episode a night. I've watched a few other series through to their ends that I always liked (like Farscape, highly under-appreciated).
Regarding the math in the original article...well, duh! Of course the postal service is more expensive.
NF does have recent movie available. I recently watched Inception via NF DVD. Now, if they could track down a DVD of "Leap of Faith", I would be happier. But, my DVD Q is full-up for 3 to 5 months of movie viewing.
TV. My way. And no commercials. I love it.
Science. Religion. They are not a competition. Religion answers questions for us that Science cannot. Science answers questions for us that Religion doesn't address. Many famous scientists from bygone ages were devout believers in God, or Allah, or (insert other deity here), and yet made great strides to science. They didn't see the two as mutually exclusive. I blame arrogance and intellectual hubris for thinking that you can live without one or the other. Learn to accept both, and you will be a much happier person.
Intel will drop VGA from their chipsets and this will be a boon for video card makers. Video card makers already cater to the those who need better video, or different ports, or more ports, or whatever. As long as monitors include a VGA port, card makers will, too. Intel has the luxury of being able to drop it. It will save them money. They also know that no one is being left behind thanks to card makers. It is a win for both sides.
All I'm saying is that it's a good thing EMS services don't operate under the same principal...
At least my area, EMS sends you a bill if you use their services. Local taxes support equipment purchases and maintenance. The EMS agents are volunteers. If you actually use the service, you get a bill later, which under most health insurances, is covered.
Sense vehicular motion (including vibration) and shut down the texting function while in motion.
That won't work. The phone exists in the car's frame of motion, and there fore, unless the car experiences a change in acceleration, the objects in the frame have no direct experience of speed.
...and the number of people still willing to pay it. The population of consumers have proven that no matter the price charged, the sheep will pay it. There is no incentive for them to keep prices down, or make the plans easy to understand or convenient for the consumer. All y'all with your smart phones are helping to perpetuate the problem. Until people stop subscribing and drop their phones, in other words, speak with their wallets, the mobile users will continue to be raped for more and more money. The solution is simple: stop paying the prices. At your next change, cancel your mobile phone subscription, put the phone away.
I buy Dell computers from the refurb market. They are cheap and plentiful. I love 'em! I have nearly 150 small form-factor systems and laptops. Because of the indecently low cost I get them, I keep spares on the shelf. I don't fix them, I just swap the HD to another box. The parts are easy to swap in and out and I have experienced a high level of up-time with all of my systems. GX150 were the first systems, then up to GX260/270/280. Now that those systems are leaving the refurb market, moving up to the GX520/620. There is nothing wrong with being a box-pusher. Someone has to make the boxes and that I will eventually buy off refurb.
I didn't know you could see into the future. Amazing!
Yup, amazing what one can learn by studying the past. Today's rail system is now primarily a means of conveying coal and your Hello Kitty lunch boxes.
When the car became common, people flocked to it. Passenger rail died. The only reason Amtrak exists is because the government props it up. Just like airlines killing Atlantic sea travel, rail is too expensive and the least desirable option to get anywhere, unless you live in a city.
Rail only makes sense when your population is centralizes in dense population centers.
Otherwise, this is all feel-good spending meant to ultimately prop up the unions that supported the current socialist regime.
This is a debacle from start to finish. A complete waste of tax-player money. The project cost, once the unions are involved, will certainly balloon to $20B. The locations will be cherry-picked based on politics and won't ultimately serve the people that could really use it. It won't relieve road congestion and the airlines won't be affected. Our dependence on oil won't be touched. The problem with trains is that the track only goes to one specific destination. What if the town you want to go to isn't on that line? You will end up driving. The vast majority of the American population doesn't live in a city. They live in rural urban areas, being forced to pay for a train system that will never make a profit, just like Amtrak. Americans love their cars. We have big roads and lots of them. And that is the way we like it.
Flash is installed on too many devices, doing too many things to truly die. Will it lose popularity and become a quiet, background thing? Yes. In this day and age of computing, nothing ever really dies. OS/2 and AmigaOS live on, because nothing has to die anymore. COBOL, hated by millions of programmers, lives on, despite reportedly better languages for the task of data processing. The computer world has plenty of examples in the realm of hardware. The RS232 serial port will not die! Die, I tell you! Die! I should not have to worry about baud rates and stop bits in this modern era!
Because what some guys claim to be 7 inches long...
as opposed to those who are satisfied with the theory that life evolved from inorganic chemical compounds, totally by chance, with a series of ininitely improbable events occurring in the right sequence over and over and over again.
What a lovely caricature you've constructed there. Secondly, just like most crappy caricatures of biological evolution you also seem to conveniently gloss over the major role that natural selection plays which is not random.
Oh, yeah...explain the platypus, then.
More and more women are going braless, or are wearing a sports bra. Gone are the days of the hooks.
There is more to measuring compatibility than naming off an office productivity app. Far more insidious is the business apps that run local and have no Mac or Linux counter part. These apps are legion, because those corporations aren't software companies, so they write one version...for Windows. Where I work, the computing landscape is littered with these apps. For accounting. For sales. For engineering. For manufacturing. I have to support every MS OS in one form or another because of this. A one-off app here for Win95, another there written for DOS. A normal day in the office for me.
Ultimately, the compatibility these kids are missing out on in the name of coolness is that they are unprepared for how business function computer-wise. I have to deal with these "Apple Idiots" on a regular basis who are so enamored with the "Apple Way", but have zero clue that 99% of the business apps out there, only run on Windows.
"But, you could run them under emulation!"
Why? Why, when I could just run actual Windows and reduce my support complexity?
Check out the list of the top CAD/CAE/CAM packages and what OS they support. Windows. Windows. Windows. Windows. Etc.
If all you do is word processing, some personal spreadsheets and browse the internet, have your Mac. You've just paid far more money for a machine than you needed to, and deserve what you get.
Besides, real geeks have one of everything and never settle for just one system. THAT is so yesterday. "Oh, you only own a mac? That is so sad."
There many reasons why one would want to get rid of a book, like say, when you have too many and you want to make room for other things. And maybe your local library doesn't carry the geeky type books you target. A store like Half-Priced books is a testament to the fact that many people get rid of the books they buy. The eBook era is great in that is frees up the need for trees, but due to the way DRM works, you are stuck with the ebook for all eternity. Unless, of course, Amazon decides to take the book away from you.
I don't buy DRM-laden e-anything. It must be a DRM-free MP3 or PDF. Am I a thief looking to redistribute it? No. But I like having the freedom to move the file from one computer to the next with me. Or giving it to a friend and deleting it off my system -- which I do. DRM only hurts honest people who don't care to seek out the DRM-cracking programs.
The way Amazon is selling the eBooks, they aren't cheaper (to address another responder), and it is more akin to a license that can be revoked without any warning to you.
We consumers are stuck in either case. Authors looking to insure that only NEW copies can be bought, or publishers keeping the lion's share of a books price.
eBooks aren't being priced to be benefit the consumer.
Honestly, I don't get this. If you live in the middle of nowhere, you have a point. But good libraries will have virtually any book worth reading, or at least the vast majority (including tech books), and its freeeeeeeeee.
So if you don't plan on keeping the book, why buy it in the first place? And if you're not sure, borrow it first, then buy it.
I mean, i understand this DOES remove an option from you, but most of the time, that option was worthless in the first place.
Shados, you've bought a book, then?
And think about what you just wrote...libraries lend books. Does your library lend out eBooks?
I imagine that many of the authors that this greatly effects are the ones that do this as a full-time job. If no one buys their books NEW, then they see no money, or maybe no future book deal. The profit margin approaches 100% after enough time and copies have sold. This allows the good authors to write full-time and not have to worry about asking if we want fries with our order. Book sales trail off after release, so the most money is to be made in that first year, though some books enjoy a long life of sales popularity. So, good for the authors.
This is a very bad deal for consumers, in the end. My copy of "Nothing: The History of Zero" was a fun read. Now that I am done with it, I can give it to a friend, sell it, trade it in at Half-Priced Books, etc. In this way, I can recoup some of my cost. And the book can be purchased and resold many times, profits staying in the hands of the seller each time. The author makes nothing. The DRM on the eBooks prevents you from selling it, or giving it away.
Thus, in a sly maneuver to make big publishing look like evil bastards (not a difficult task), the authors conveniently and quietly take control of book distribution and remove the freedom of the consumer to control the end product themselves. This is bad. Very bad.
Thus, I am conflicted. Yay for getting what you deserve to be paid. Boo for limiting my ability to resell the book.
I've seen Compiz, and I must admit that a user like me simply not impressed by the bells and whistles. I use my computer to get stuff done. I want the primary interface to get to my apps to stay out of the way and NOT take up the memory I would rather my apps have. In Windows, I set the performance options to maximum performance. Yes, I turn off all of the animations and -- as I see it -- completely unnecessary visual effects. I use my computer for the apps, not to waste time with pretty-pretty icons, swoopy sound effects and transparents fade-ins/outs. For me, it is about the utility of the device. I want the OS to be stable and do its job efficiently. Just get me to my applications and leave my CPU to making my app faster.