You create a file with all your passwords, encrypt it with, say, pgp and use SSS to split the master password in several pieces. You then give a piece to each of your friends/family. When you need it back you ask for the pieces. The beauty of this is that you can generate, say, 10 pieces, and set it up such as with any 5 or 6 pieces you can get the original back. Thus if some of your keepers lose their piece, you're still good to go. For linux there's the ssss utility that takes care of this.
For those of you who don't want to read all the transcript, this is what the judge said:
Oracle: I think the law with respect to infringer's profits, rather than damages, only requires us to show that there was a product that contained infringing material and that the product produced revenue, and then the burden shifts to the other side. If I'm wrong about that, I still think it's possible to demonstrate a nexus by showing that speed was very important to Google in getting Android out, and by copying they accelerated that.
Judge: We heard the testimony of Mr. Bloch. I couldn't have told you the first thing about Java before this problem. I have done, and still do, a significant amount of programming in other languages. I've written blocks of code like rangeCheck a hundred times before. I could do it, you could do it. The idea that someone would copy that when they could do it themselves just as fast, it was an accident. There's no way you could say that was speeding them along to the marketplace. You're one of the best lawyers in America, how could you even make that kind of argument?
Oracle: I want to come back to rangeCheck.
Judge: rangeCheck! All it does is make sure the numbers you're inputting are within a range, and gives them some sort of exceptional treatment. That witness, when he said a high school student could do it--
Don't know about this new version, but I tried btrfs on ubuntu a few months ago, on a box I use mostly with photo and video editing software. It was slow to the point of being completely unusable. Specially for non destructive photo editing, where the software creates and modifies (replaces) small files with metadata for each action you perform on the images. Have being using ext4 since then, and everything is ok.
Exactly what I was thinking. Here in Brazil these kinds of ATM robbering using explosives make the news at least once a week, but I can't remember hearing even once that they were after customer data. Actually I ever thought that the ATMs were more like dumb terminals to start with. There's no need to store any kind of customer data on them.
As for the robbering, what banks are doing is to mark the bills with ink when the ATMs are forced open, and there's even regulation in place that say people and commerce should not accept marked bills.
Seconded. Support is terrible, my mysql databases got corrupted several times a month because server crashes or shutdown, and they warned me that my account could be syspended because I was hosting a collection of about 30k images (all photographs made by me and others for our website, mind you). There you go with their "unlimited" plan. I still have an account with them, but just because I couldn't find the time to fully migrate over to a new host. Now I use Slicehost and couldn't be happier. At least they state their limits and honor them.
I was in the same situation: using linux at home and windows on the company provided notebook, with default company stuff.
One day I took the initiative, formatted the notebook with ubuntu and put a kvm/qemu windows vm for the company stuff that didn't run on linux.
Now I can use linux for most of my work and when anything goes wrong I just switch to the windows vm, for which I can get support from the company helpdesk. Just for the record, I haven't need to use that vm for several months now, and on the other hand, 2 or 3 more people on the company are using linux because they saw what I did.
From the article: >But after about 24 hours, water pressure on the silk begins to collapse the bell, so the spider makes a break for the surface to grab another bubble.
Their website (http://www.projectviking.org/equipment) says: "Equipment We innovated upon and continued the trend of low-cost flight platforms, building our craft entirely from off the shelf components for close to 75 dollars."
Also, they say they had sponsorship for the GPS unit and Helium.
>>Amazon is establishing a separate cloud drive for each user
Then there's this funny thing called data deduplication, that I'm sure amazon is using on their storage systems. This could mean that if you and I upload the same MP3 file to our individual personal cloud drives, they'll end up being physically stored as a single set of 0's and 1's at the lowest level. Where do you draw the line on this?
The augmented reality part is indeed very impressive. But no so much the translation. I found this youtube video that shows more real world uses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45SeN7TWcbE
It seems that it translates word by word, which is not the very best approach.
Except that the whole thing appears to be some guy trolling. Let's get to the facts: - The site (http://bobolhando.com.br) where the original article in portuguese in published is but a small blog, apparently run by a single individual. I've never heard about it also. - The "source" cited at the end of the article is a Twitter account - The Guardian seems to have picked on the story (don't ask me why) - The owner of that twitter account posted the following, soon after the Guardian article: "Amigos, trollar o Guardian, quem já conseguiu? http://bit.ly/aiVTeW Texto do @Thiago__Caetano no @bobolhando sim." which translates to "Friends, trolling the Guardian, who accomplished that? Text by @Thiago__Caetano at @bobolhando got it." http://twitter.com/#!/ThiagoTG/status/4740146524061696
So it seems that he got to not only troll The Guardian, but Slashdot also.
Your father's lens is probably in need of calibration. I use one of those and it shows none of this even when wide open. Or there's a change he got a bad copy, in which case calibration would still help, but not much.
The Ironkey should not be affected. It uses a different approach: first of all, the data on the drive is really encrypted, the drive is not only "locked" with a password. Secondly and most important, there's no validation of the password happening outside the drive (i.e. on a windows/linux/mac application). The application only lets you input your password, which is then validated by the drive itself via a ROM routine.
If it can clean the hollow tip of a needle, I'd think that dirt under your nails wouldn't be a problem.
One of the posters above is right though, this is not going to eliminate the need to wash your hands to remove the "bulk" dirt.
Slashdot Mirror
No one seems to have mentioned Shamir Secret Sharing yet.
You create a file with all your passwords, encrypt it with, say, pgp and use SSS to split the master password in several pieces. You then give a piece to each of your friends/family. When you need it back you ask for the pieces.
The beauty of this is that you can generate, say, 10 pieces, and set it up such as with any 5 or 6 pieces you can get the original back. Thus if some of your keepers lose their piece, you're still good to go.
For linux there's the ssss utility that takes care of this.
Because it's not his own company anymore, for at least 15 years.
Since I was curious about the hagfish, looked up and found this video, showing it using its slime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfyq4Zhr5Y8
>with a menu and does not even have a ribbon yet
Thanks for bringing up two of the most important reasons for which I'm a happy LibreOffice user.
For those of you who don't want to read all the transcript, this is what the judge said:
Oracle: I think the law with respect to infringer's profits, rather than damages, only requires us to show that there was a product that contained infringing material and that the product produced revenue, and then the burden shifts to the other side. If I'm wrong about that, I still think it's possible to demonstrate a nexus by showing that speed was very important to Google in getting Android out, and by copying they accelerated that.
Judge: We heard the testimony of Mr. Bloch. I couldn't have told you the first thing about Java before this problem. I have done, and still do, a significant amount of programming in other languages. I've written blocks of code like rangeCheck a hundred times before. I could do it, you could do it. The idea that someone would copy that when they could do it themselves just as fast, it was an accident. There's no way you could say that was speeding them along to the marketplace. You're one of the best lawyers in America, how could you even make that kind of argument?
Oracle: I want to come back to rangeCheck.
Judge: rangeCheck! All it does is make sure the numbers you're inputting are within a range, and gives them some sort of exceptional treatment. That witness, when he said a high school student could do it--
And I propose we investigate who'd win a fight between two men whose arms (and legs, maybe) were wired up to implants in eachother's brains.
Or Brazil and most part of South America
This.
Don't know about this new version, but I tried btrfs on ubuntu a few months ago, on a box I use mostly with photo and video editing software. It was slow to the point of being completely unusable. Specially for non destructive photo editing, where the software creates and modifies (replaces) small files with metadata for each action you perform on the images. Have being using ext4 since then, and everything is ok.
Exactly what I was thinking. Here in Brazil these kinds of ATM robbering using explosives make the news at least once a week, but I can't remember hearing even once that they were after customer data. Actually I ever thought that the ATMs were more like dumb terminals to start with. There's no need to store any kind of customer data on them.
As for the robbering, what banks are doing is to mark the bills with ink when the ATMs are forced open, and there's even regulation in place that say people and commerce should not accept marked bills.
Seconded. Support is terrible, my mysql databases got corrupted several times a month because server crashes or shutdown, and they warned me that my account could be syspended because I was hosting a collection of about 30k images (all photographs made by me and others for our website, mind you). There you go with their "unlimited" plan.
I still have an account with them, but just because I couldn't find the time to fully migrate over to a new host. Now I use Slicehost and couldn't be happier. At least they state their limits and honor them.
I was in the same situation: using linux at home and windows on the company provided notebook, with default company stuff.
One day I took the initiative, formatted the notebook with ubuntu and put a kvm/qemu windows vm for the company stuff that didn't run on linux.
Now I can use linux for most of my work and when anything goes wrong I just switch to the windows vm, for which I can get support from the company helpdesk. Just for the record, I haven't need to use that vm for several months now, and on the other hand, 2 or 3 more people on the company are using linux because they saw what I did.
From the article:
>But after about 24 hours, water pressure on the silk begins to collapse the bell, so the spider makes a break for the surface to grab another bubble.
Their website (http://www.projectviking.org/equipment) says:
"Equipment
We innovated upon and continued the trend of low-cost flight platforms, building our craft entirely from off the shelf components for close to 75 dollars."
Also, they say they had sponsorship for the GPS unit and Helium.
>>Amazon is establishing a separate cloud drive for each user
Then there's this funny thing called data deduplication, that I'm sure amazon is using on their storage systems. This could mean that if you and I upload the same MP3 file to our individual personal cloud drives, they'll end up being physically stored as a single set of 0's and 1's at the lowest level. Where do you draw the line on this?
Live news stream here (at least as of posting this comment)
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/foxtokimekitonight
Seconded, although I'd rather have Kotoko.
Must be MEDUSA's doing.
The augmented reality part is indeed very impressive. But no so much the translation. I found this youtube video that shows more real world uses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45SeN7TWcbE
It seems that it translates word by word, which is not the very best approach.
Brazilian here.
Except that the whole thing appears to be some guy trolling. Let's get to the facts:
- The site (http://bobolhando.com.br) where the original article in portuguese in published is but a small blog, apparently run by a single individual. I've never heard about it also.
- The "source" cited at the end of the article is a Twitter account
- The Guardian seems to have picked on the story (don't ask me why)
- The owner of that twitter account posted the following, soon after the Guardian article: "Amigos, trollar o Guardian, quem já conseguiu? http://bit.ly/aiVTeW Texto do @Thiago__Caetano no @bobolhando sim." which translates to "Friends, trolling the Guardian, who accomplished that? Text by @Thiago__Caetano at @bobolhando got it." http://twitter.com/#!/ThiagoTG/status/4740146524061696
So it seems that he got to not only troll The Guardian, but Slashdot also.
Native brasilian here. Your translation is correct. Unfortunately this doesn't change the fact that what he said is obviously bullshit.
That's what Firegpg (http://getfiregpg.org) is for.
Your father's lens is probably in need of calibration. I use one of those and it shows none of this even when wide open. Or there's a change he got a bad copy, in which case calibration would still help, but not much.
Not sure about being run over by cars through; a titanium cased one perhaps?
An Ironkey would do it. Tested and verified
The Ironkey should not be affected. It uses a different approach: first of all, the data on the drive is really encrypted, the drive is not only "locked" with a password. Secondly and most important, there's no validation of the password happening outside the drive (i.e. on a windows/linux/mac application). The application only lets you input your password, which is then validated by the drive itself via a ROM routine.
If it can clean the hollow tip of a needle, I'd think that dirt under your nails wouldn't be a problem. One of the posters above is right though, this is not going to eliminate the need to wash your hands to remove the "bulk" dirt.