It's amazing how otherwise intelligent people will wrap themselves in deep denial because a) admitting the truth would require giving up pleasure, and b) they subscribe to very poor sources of information - namely corporations that don't care one bit about their health. Same way it took so long for the truth about cigarettes to come out - big money backing a lie and people willfully in denial.
Holding a powerful microwave transmitter against your head is going to have effects. In Europe they use something called the precautionary principle, whereby things are banned and considered dangerous with less evidence, just in case. After all, why play games with your health, and especially your children's health (as they are less informed about the dangers of these 'toys')? Funny thing - not once has the precautionary principle turned out to be unwarranted.
Look up Dr. Nick Begich - a brilliant researcher with tons of data on his website on this and other relationships between technology and the human body. I've seen Dr. Begich speak and he is no fool. http://www.earthpulse.com/src/category.asp?catid=13
Regardless, many people would rather risk their health - they do in so many other ways from eating nasty chemicals posing as food to lack of exercise. Why should this be any different? So easy to believe those studies paid for by the cell phone industry, and reported on by big $$$ media corporations (both of which happen to be owned by the same conglomerates).
And for the record, fluoride was indeed used to subdue POWs by the Nazis, who also considered putting it in public water supplies for the same purpose. It was used to inhibit thyroid function at doses lower than what is in toothpaste. Educate yourself for real before you speak trash. Fluoride is highly nasty stuff. Same for the mercury in vaccines which is indeed linked to autism.
Y'all aren't as brilliant as you imagine, just very clever at living in and justifying denial. Cleverness does not equal intelligence. Cleverness makes bombs; intelligence discards them.
We now see step 2 of Novell's traitorous deal. We knew MS is evil. But now it's clear that Novell has moved to the other side, having nothing genuine to do with freedom.
As for MS, this is how fascists operate - they go to war for control. To them, it's simply about money and being the biggest bully. It has nothing to do with what is fair or reasonable. They will bring all the legal and financial pressure they can against OSS in an attempt to crush it. As they are aligned with a fascist (aka American) govt, the courts will favor them to a great extent, as they do the RIAA and MPAA. Observe the way MS's anti-trust lawsuit dissolved. MS's crimes aren't going to go away until the larger system supporting their crimes is addressed.
Well, again, the idiot factor will always find a way to exert itself. Writing down passwords does have its drawbacks, but a) they can be kept as secure as your other financial documents, and b) they can be written down in obfuscated form - either coded, or simply not making it apparent to a snooper which password goes with which account.
Most people also have more of a sense of how to secure a piece of paper in their possession than how to secure 'data'. It is also a bit easier to track down who may have had access to it.
It is still an imperfect solution, but compared to what is going on, a better one in many cases. If nothing else, it limits the number of people with potential access - they need physical access.
IMO adding more and more layers of 'security' does no good. If users can't choose a random password and write it down, as well as check to make sure they are on the real site, no amount of tricks is going to do any good. If you don't have the sense to check for phishing, you don't have the sense to check your site-key. This study demonstrates that.
Now banks are asking for lists of personal questions and answers in the hope this will make a difference. All it really does is make your personal details spread - just like the ubiquitous mother's maiden name. For those of us capable of remembering and not sharing a simple password, this is just ridiculous and unnecessary - it provides less security, not more.
Another example is the 'forgot password' link. Thanks - now all someone has to do to access every account one has is to snoop on one's (generally unencrypted) POP session, get the password to read the email, and they've got access to the password of every account. No way to disable the 'forgot password' link at most sites.
IMO sites should assign a completely random password which cannot be changed. This would force people to write it down, instead of trying to remember it or reusing the same password for every account (another common security gaff). The password should be changed periodically, and if it is forgotten, that should require an in-depth interview and time-out period while the (real) user is contacted. That will give people incentive not to lose it.
There is just so much you can do to protect people who can't maintain their own security. Punishing everyone and degrading security to appease them is not the answer.
I switched to Kubuntu and am very happy with it. I appreciate what SUSE contributed but I simply don't trust them at this point - mainly because I know better than to trust MS.
Who are you sleeping with? Answer that and I can tell a bit about you.
I originally went to SUSE from Windows because it was reported to be a good bridge. It was decent, but since Novell's deal I've switched to Kubuntu (KDE Ubuntu), and I can tell you that I find it easier, faster, and more pleasurable to use than SUSE. SUSE always had a corporate-stupidity feel lurking there (I was not too surprised by the merger with MS - disgusted, but not surprised).
I find Ubuntu a very well automated OS, especially for software installation and upgrade. Much more trouble-free than SUSE. Hardware installation/configuration can require a little more attention in Ubuntu, but it's worth the little bit of research sometimes required. A lot of my chronic problems vanished when I went to Kubuntu (network issues in particular).
I'm currently taking SUSE off all the machines in my care. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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It's amazing how otherwise intelligent people will wrap themselves in deep denial because a) admitting the truth would require giving up pleasure, and b) they subscribe to very poor sources of information - namely corporations that don't care one bit about their health. Same way it took so long for the truth about cigarettes to come out - big money backing a lie and people willfully in denial.
Holding a powerful microwave transmitter against your head is going to have effects. In Europe they use something called the precautionary principle, whereby things are banned and considered dangerous with less evidence, just in case. After all, why play games with your health, and especially your children's health (as they are less informed about the dangers of these 'toys')? Funny thing - not once has the precautionary principle turned out to be unwarranted.
Look up Dr. Nick Begich - a brilliant researcher with tons of data on his website on this and other relationships between technology and the human body. I've seen Dr. Begich speak and he is no fool.
http://www.earthpulse.com/src/category.asp?catid=13
Regardless, many people would rather risk their health - they do in so many other ways from eating nasty chemicals posing as food to lack of exercise. Why should this be any different? So easy to believe those studies paid for by the cell phone industry, and reported on by big $$$ media corporations (both of which happen to be owned by the same conglomerates).
And for the record, fluoride was indeed used to subdue POWs by the Nazis, who also considered putting it in public water supplies for the same purpose. It was used to inhibit thyroid function at doses lower than what is in toothpaste. Educate yourself for real before you speak trash. Fluoride is highly nasty stuff. Same for the mercury in vaccines which is indeed linked to autism.
Y'all aren't as brilliant as you imagine, just very clever at living in and justifying denial. Cleverness does not equal intelligence. Cleverness makes bombs; intelligence discards them.
We now see step 2 of Novell's traitorous deal. We knew MS is evil. But now it's clear that Novell has moved to the other side, having nothing genuine to do with freedom.
As for MS, this is how fascists operate - they go to war for control. To them, it's simply about money and being the biggest bully. It has nothing to do with what is fair or reasonable. They will bring all the legal and financial pressure they can against OSS in an attempt to crush it. As they are aligned with a fascist (aka American) govt, the courts will favor them to a great extent, as they do the RIAA and MPAA. Observe the way MS's anti-trust lawsuit dissolved. MS's crimes aren't going to go away until the larger system supporting their crimes is addressed.
Well, again, the idiot factor will always find a way to exert itself. Writing down passwords does have its drawbacks, but a) they can be kept as secure as your other financial documents, and b) they can be written down in obfuscated form - either coded, or simply not making it apparent to a snooper which password goes with which account. Most people also have more of a sense of how to secure a piece of paper in their possession than how to secure 'data'. It is also a bit easier to track down who may have had access to it. It is still an imperfect solution, but compared to what is going on, a better one in many cases. If nothing else, it limits the number of people with potential access - they need physical access.
IMO adding more and more layers of 'security' does no good. If users can't choose a random password and write it down, as well as check to make sure they are on the real site, no amount of tricks is going to do any good. If you don't have the sense to check for phishing, you don't have the sense to check your site-key. This study demonstrates that.
Now banks are asking for lists of personal questions and answers in the hope this will make a difference. All it really does is make your personal details spread - just like the ubiquitous mother's maiden name. For those of us capable of remembering and not sharing a simple password, this is just ridiculous and unnecessary - it provides less security, not more.
Another example is the 'forgot password' link. Thanks - now all someone has to do to access every account one has is to snoop on one's (generally unencrypted) POP session, get the password to read the email, and they've got access to the password of every account. No way to disable the 'forgot password' link at most sites.
IMO sites should assign a completely random password which cannot be changed. This would force people to write it down, instead of trying to remember it or reusing the same password for every account (another common security gaff). The password should be changed periodically, and if it is forgotten, that should require an in-depth interview and time-out period while the (real) user is contacted. That will give people incentive not to lose it.
There is just so much you can do to protect people who can't maintain their own security. Punishing everyone and degrading security to appease them is not the answer.
I switched to Kubuntu and am very happy with it. I appreciate what SUSE contributed but I simply don't trust them at this point - mainly because I know better than to trust MS. Who are you sleeping with? Answer that and I can tell a bit about you.
I originally went to SUSE from Windows because it was reported to be a good bridge. It was decent, but since Novell's deal I've switched to Kubuntu (KDE Ubuntu), and I can tell you that I find it easier, faster, and more pleasurable to use than SUSE. SUSE always had a corporate-stupidity feel lurking there (I was not too surprised by the merger with MS - disgusted, but not surprised). I find Ubuntu a very well automated OS, especially for software installation and upgrade. Much more trouble-free than SUSE. Hardware installation/configuration can require a little more attention in Ubuntu, but it's worth the little bit of research sometimes required. A lot of my chronic problems vanished when I went to Kubuntu (network issues in particular). I'm currently taking SUSE off all the machines in my care. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
The day after I read about the Microvell deal, I began removing SUSE from my systems and installed Kubuntu. Done deal. No bitching.