You are, in fact, wrong. The Debian packages do describe their contents with a paragraph or two, which is usually enough to tell you what it does. And the GUI programs do display those descriptions. You can also use the search features to search in the descriptions.
Still a faulty analogy, seeing as the primary purpose of a crack pipe is to smoke crack in. To continue along the same vein, but IMO more accurate would be: "Owning any type of a pipe is illegal, because you might smoke crack in it. Owning crack is also illegal. The finns are saying that since it's so easy to obtain a pipe and having one does not actually directly imply any crack-related activity, the pipe is no longer illegal"
Though I do agree that FAT should be ditched, your argument about other filesystems being inherently more secure is false. The data is no more encrypted by using EXT or NTFS than it is by using FAT. About the only added complication I can see is that the attacker might in some cases need root on the box they use to read the disk - depending on whether the driver used respects access control bits.
Either one will do fine. If you want to learn the underlying system, it doesn't really matter what GUI you are running on top of it. For usefull materials, if you haven't found it yet, see The Linux Documentation Project http://www.tldp.org/
Personally, I do prefer KDE because it's standard tools let me work faster than the Gnome equivalents and have better inter-component integration.
By people that actually try to act like communists, not just authoritarians claiming to be communists? And to pre-empt the inevitable counterpoint, do note that many dictators pretend to be presidents elected via a popular election, but claiming so does not make it so.
Wrong.
You buy the disc, decrypt the movie and then watch it yourself. And that was illegal, because you did it using "unauthorized" tools.
Yes, someone might warez the movie via the same route. Too bad.
On OS X it can, because the OS X version of it is built for OS X, which includes very basic support for stdin/stdout via/usr/bin/open. On Windows it can't because the Windows version does not integrate at all with Cygwin, as Cygwin is not part of Windows, just an add on. With Monad, you should be able to do the equivalent of piping files to photoshop.
How does Photoshop acquire the ability to pipe files on Windows when you start using Monad, without being changed to do so?
Possibly by not being utter wankers like the RIAA and actually analysing the data first and only targeting the most likely matches.
For example, anyone that shows up in the logs just once is probably a false positive and can be discarded. So can anyone that does show up multiple times, but only over a single, short time period - say, an hour.
On the other hand, someone that gets logged consistently over longer time periods and even from different IPs is far more suspicious and worth investigating more closely.
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You are, in fact, wrong. The Debian packages do describe their contents with a paragraph or two, which is usually enough to tell you what it does. And the GUI programs do display those descriptions. You can also use the search features to search in the descriptions.
Still a faulty analogy, seeing as the primary purpose of a crack pipe is to smoke crack in. To continue along the same vein, but IMO more accurate would be:
"Owning any type of a pipe is illegal, because you might smoke crack in it. Owning crack is also illegal. The finns are saying that since it's so easy to obtain a pipe and having one does not actually directly imply any crack-related activity, the pipe is no longer illegal"
Have you also disabled all in-memory caching? Firefox keeps pages in browsing history in memory by default.
Though I do agree that FAT should be ditched, your argument about other filesystems being inherently more secure is false. The data is no more encrypted by using EXT or NTFS than it is by using FAT. About the only added complication I can see is that the attacker might in some cases need root on the box they use to read the disk - depending on whether the driver used respects access control bits.
Either one will do fine. If you want to learn the underlying system, it doesn't really matter what GUI you are running on top of it. For usefull materials, if you haven't found it yet, see The Linux Documentation Project http://www.tldp.org/
Personally, I do prefer KDE because it's standard tools let me work faster than the Gnome equivalents and have better inter-component integration.
By people that actually try to act like communists, not just authoritarians claiming to be communists?
And to pre-empt the inevitable counterpoint, do note that many dictators pretend to be presidents elected via a popular election, but claiming so does not make it so.
Wrong. You buy the disc, decrypt the movie and then watch it yourself. And that was illegal, because you did it using "unauthorized" tools. Yes, someone might warez the movie via the same route. Too bad.
Possibly by not being utter wankers like the RIAA and actually analysing the data first and only targeting the most likely matches. For example, anyone that shows up in the logs just once is probably a false positive and can be discarded. So can anyone that does show up multiple times, but only over a single, short time period - say, an hour. On the other hand, someone that gets logged consistently over longer time periods and even from different IPs is far more suspicious and worth investigating more closely.