One possible solution to your posed problem is use of a Medea element. Professor Bruce Hay at Caltech has done some fascinating work developing genetic elements that ensure spread of an introduced gene throughout a wild population (see http://www.its.caltech.edu/~haylab/), specifically for the purposes of using it conjunction with an anti-malarial gene.
If you want to change the default address bar search in firefox without using a keyword search, go to about:config and search for "keyword.URL". Change the entry to "https://www.google.com/search?..." from "http://www.google.com/search?..." This will make the default search behavior in the address bar use SSL (confirmed with wireshark).
You can also use MyPasswordSafe (http://www.semanticgap.com/myps/) for Linux; it maintains compatibility with PasswordSafe files. It's in the repositories for most distros. I've used it for quite a while and it has performed beautifully.
I never buy another EA game. I was going to buy Dead Space, but since it's apparently no longer possible to actually buy an EA game, I guess I'll just pirate it. Sad they lost someone who was actually going to pay money for their games and sadder still that they don't care.
FWIW, I run LUKS FDE on my 2.2 GHz Dual-Core Thinkpad T61 (7200 RPM SATA HDD) and there is certainly no noticeable difference between with and without. My guess is that on any modern (read, multi-core) system, FDE is not going to make any major difference. It's not like it's some computationally-intensive public-key scheme.
While I agree with your sentiment to a certain extent, I would point out that VB is an excellent starting point for young programmers. Visual Basic was the first language I learned (at a fairly young age), and it wasn't terribly difficult to pick up, as its syntax is relatively forgiving and closer to natural language than some programming languages. I actually learned VB before I got into any algebra in mathematics, which then proved quite easy, the concept of variables being familiar. While it is effectively worthless for any serious computer user, I'm not certain that I would have been nearly as enthusiastic diving into C or Java at the age of 10.
Yeah, and a few people have gotten stuck with $75,000 fines from the RIAA, but that doesn't stop filesharing. Hell yes I'd risk it; my civil liberties are worth a 1/500,000 chance of being thrown in jail, and while not everyone agrees with me, enough people will to make it impossible to persecute any sizeable percentage of us.
The point is that if everyone starts using encryption (or even say 5%), you're talking about millions of people. Do you really think the government is going to lock up a couple of million people? There aren't enough jails to hold them all. You'd end up with a situation along the lines of file-sharing. Is it illegal? Yes. Can you be punished for it? Yes. But is it likely? No. So long as the number of criminals far outstrips the ability to prosecute them all, people will continue being "criminals".
Read "God's Debris" by Scott Adams. It's available free onlie; it's somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but presents an interesting argument for an omniscient/omnipotent god committing suicide rather than continuing to exist in a predetermined universe. (Yes, I know your comment was just a joke, but still, the book is interesting.)
Some people consider not being able to retrieve their data when all they did was enable encryption on a dual-boot machine bad. And yes, I know that you can chainload GRUB with Vista's bootloader, but most of us would prefer GRUB as our primary bootloader, not Vista's. This isn't someone "tampering" with the bootloader. It's just someone using a non-Microsoft bootloader. And if your drive is encrypted, who cares if someone tampers with the bootloader? Your just saying, "It's not a bug; it's a feature!"
While I grant that it is somewhat difficult to nail down the definition of "cloud computing", what does this have to do with it? I see nothing here about distributed computing and I don't see how this computer could be used for any kind of cloud computing...
Ding-dong the witch is dead
Which old witch? The wicked witch
Ding-dong the wicked witch is dead
Wake up you sleepyhead
Rub your eyes, get out of bed
Wake up the wicked witch is dead
She's gone where the goblins go
Below - below - below
Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out
Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low
Let them know the Wicked Witch is dead
I don't see how them interfacing with DirectX would present a problem. Who cares how M$'s Silverlight does it? The DirectX or voodoo API requiring functionality would be buried in their own plugin, not in the actual files we're interested in displaying.
Because you will end up with a very badly crippled silverlight on any other platform than Windows. Oh sure they might put out a decent Apple version since they aren't really playing for the high end market that Apple courts,but you can bet your bottom dollar that Linux will end up with a crappy,half baked,more likely to crash than work version if they end up with anything at all.
Luckily, we in the FOSS community don't like to rely on crippled implementations, as we'd rather make our own. Moonlight
The majority of illnesses you are going to catch in everyday life (e.g. influenza, the cold, etc.) are viral. Viruses (with very few exceptions) cannot survive outside of the human body (or some other organism they can infect) for any extended period of time. Unless if you plan on sneezing on your laptop and then having someone immediately lick it, you're probably not going to infect anyone via the computer. Airborne transmission is far more likely. If you really want to disinfect it, though, I'd recommend 70% alcohol (ethanol or isopropanol) on a paper towel. It kills just about everything and generally cleans well. You can also use a 50-50 mixture of alcohol and water. I usually use ethanol to clean my Thinkpad keyboard and screen.
I'm only twelve miles out of a major city (2 million in the metropolitan area) and I have no broadband options. Literally. I can't get DSL, I can't get cable, I can't get fiber. My only options are dial-up, satellite, or EVDO (which is what I use). So trust me, it's really not a matter of speed.
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One possible solution to your posed problem is use of a Medea element. Professor Bruce Hay at Caltech has done some fascinating work developing genetic elements that ensure spread of an introduced gene throughout a wild population (see http://www.its.caltech.edu/~haylab/), specifically for the purposes of using it conjunction with an anti-malarial gene.
Just avoid holding it in that way.
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If you want to change the default address bar search in firefox without using a keyword search, go to about:config and search for "keyword.URL". Change the entry to "https://www.google.com/search?..." from "http://www.google.com/search?..." This will make the default search behavior in the address bar use SSL (confirmed with wireshark).
You can also use MyPasswordSafe (http://www.semanticgap.com/myps/) for Linux; it maintains compatibility with PasswordSafe files. It's in the repositories for most distros. I've used it for quite a while and it has performed beautifully.
Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/411/
Yay for Godwin's Law!!!
I never buy another EA game. I was going to buy Dead Space, but since it's apparently no longer possible to actually buy an EA game, I guess I'll just pirate it. Sad they lost someone who was actually going to pay money for their games and sadder still that they don't care.
FWIW, I run LUKS FDE on my 2.2 GHz Dual-Core Thinkpad T61 (7200 RPM SATA HDD) and there is certainly no noticeable difference between with and without. My guess is that on any modern (read, multi-core) system, FDE is not going to make any major difference. It's not like it's some computationally-intensive public-key scheme.
Oh, I agree wholeheartedly, but this was 8 years ago and before I had even heard of *nix. Now I'd certainly recommend Python.
While I agree with your sentiment to a certain extent, I would point out that VB is an excellent starting point for young programmers. Visual Basic was the first language I learned (at a fairly young age), and it wasn't terribly difficult to pick up, as its syntax is relatively forgiving and closer to natural language than some programming languages. I actually learned VB before I got into any algebra in mathematics, which then proved quite easy, the concept of variables being familiar. While it is effectively worthless for any serious computer user, I'm not certain that I would have been nearly as enthusiastic diving into C or Java at the age of 10.
Yeah, and a few people have gotten stuck with $75,000 fines from the RIAA, but that doesn't stop filesharing. Hell yes I'd risk it; my civil liberties are worth a 1/500,000 chance of being thrown in jail, and while not everyone agrees with me, enough people will to make it impossible to persecute any sizeable percentage of us.
The point is that if everyone starts using encryption (or even say 5%), you're talking about millions of people. Do you really think the government is going to lock up a couple of million people? There aren't enough jails to hold them all. You'd end up with a situation along the lines of file-sharing. Is it illegal? Yes. Can you be punished for it? Yes. But is it likely? No. So long as the number of criminals far outstrips the ability to prosecute them all, people will continue being "criminals".
Read "God's Debris" by Scott Adams. It's available free onlie; it's somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but presents an interesting argument for an omniscient/omnipotent god committing suicide rather than continuing to exist in a predetermined universe. (Yes, I know your comment was just a joke, but still, the book is interesting.)
Some people consider not being able to retrieve their data when all they did was enable encryption on a dual-boot machine bad. And yes, I know that you can chainload GRUB with Vista's bootloader, but most of us would prefer GRUB as our primary bootloader, not Vista's. This isn't someone "tampering" with the bootloader. It's just someone using a non-Microsoft bootloader. And if your drive is encrypted, who cares if someone tampers with the bootloader? Your just saying, "It's not a bug; it's a feature!"
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/30/204241&from=rss Just reading that would make me gravitate towards PGP or TrueCrypt.
Okay, got it; thanks. Am I the only one who's frustrated over the overuse of this new buzzword? :-/
While I grant that it is somewhat difficult to nail down the definition of "cloud computing", what does this have to do with it? I see nothing here about distributed computing and I don't see how this computer could be used for any kind of cloud computing...
Ding-dong the witch is dead
:-)
Which old witch? The wicked witch
Ding-dong the wicked witch is dead
Wake up you sleepyhead
Rub your eyes, get out of bed
Wake up the wicked witch is dead
She's gone where the goblins go
Below - below - below
Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out
Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low
Let them know the Wicked Witch is dead
Bah! There is only one true sport. I'll be concerned when robots can beat us at this.
Does anyone have contact information so that we might protest this? TFA is /.ed...
I don't see how them interfacing with DirectX would present a problem. Who cares how M$'s Silverlight does it? The DirectX or voodoo API requiring functionality would be buried in their own plugin, not in the actual files we're interested in displaying.
Because you will end up with a very badly crippled silverlight on any other platform than Windows. Oh sure they might put out a decent Apple version since they aren't really playing for the high end market that Apple courts,but you can bet your bottom dollar that Linux will end up with a crappy,half baked,more likely to crash than work version if they end up with anything at all.
Luckily, we in the FOSS community don't like to rely on crippled implementations, as we'd rather make our own. Moonlight
The majority of illnesses you are going to catch in everyday life (e.g. influenza, the cold, etc.) are viral. Viruses (with very few exceptions) cannot survive outside of the human body (or some other organism they can infect) for any extended period of time. Unless if you plan on sneezing on your laptop and then having someone immediately lick it, you're probably not going to infect anyone via the computer. Airborne transmission is far more likely. If you really want to disinfect it, though, I'd recommend 70% alcohol (ethanol or isopropanol) on a paper towel. It kills just about everything and generally cleans well. You can also use a 50-50 mixture of alcohol and water. I usually use ethanol to clean my Thinkpad keyboard and screen.
And for the record, IAAB (...biologist).
Not to doubt you, but [Citation Needed].
I'm only twelve miles out of a major city (2 million in the metropolitan area) and I have no broadband options. Literally. I can't get DSL, I can't get cable, I can't get fiber. My only options are dial-up, satellite, or EVDO (which is what I use). So trust me, it's really not a matter of speed.