Taiwan seems to have escaped from sustaining bigger damage. The waves (so far) were fairly small. This does NOT necessarily extrapolate to other locations, as tsunamis spread out in a non-uniform fashion and also depend on many different conditions, which can vary wildly between locations.
Estimated travel times of tsunami through Pacific (mirrored/relinked from the media, since NOAA and especially the West Coast Center sites are being hammered right now):
RUSSIA / MARCUS IS. / N. MARIANAS / GUAM / WAKE IS. /
TAIWAN / YAP / PHILIPPINES / MARSHALL IS. / BELAU / MIDWAY IS. /
POHNPEI / CHUUK / KOSRAE / INDONESIA / PAPUA NEW GUINEA /
NAURU / JOHNSTON IS. / SOLOMON IS. / KIRIBATI / HOWLAND-BAKER /
HAWAII / TUVALU / PALMYRA IS. / VANUATU / TOKELAU / JARVIS IS. /
WALLIS-FUTUNA / SAMOA / AMERICAN SAMOA / COOK ISLANDS / NIUE /
AUSTRALIA / FIJI / NEW CALEDONIA / TONGA / MEXICO /
KERMADEC IS / FR. POLYNESIA / NEW ZEALAND / PITCAIRN /
GUATEMALA / EL SALVADOR / COSTA RICA / NICARAGUA / ANTARCTICA /
PANAMA / HONDURAS / CHILE / ECUADOR / COLOMBIA / PERU
Do you know that? You can't possibly! In fact, these days it's enough to know someone, who knows someone, who is interesting to someone else to get into the dragnet. Besides, the being of interest part used to be a fairly real-time affair. Now with things saved even officially in various locations for several months or years or forever, the accumulated data can be searched and mined again and again. So you may not be of interest today (or any of your friends), but that is now always subject to change at any time for as long as you live (think Google and them having never deleted ANY search result as of yet. Extrapolate to the rest of your activities and life.)
> jumping through hoops to obfuscate my activity on a regular > basis would arguably make me a more interesting target.
Another, IMHO, probably baseless assumption at worst or the surveillance state at its best (self-censorship etc.). Where's the line anyway? Using HTTP? Using SSL? Using SSH tunnels? Using Tor or your own private VPN and Proxies? Many of these are perfectly legit and who knows how many millions of such connections are going on this very second simultaneously. So what's to be afraid of?
Interesting feature (see settings) is the ability to save your search preferences without a cookie by using a generated URL, which you then use for your Bookmark. Also of note is the proxy view option of search results.
Don't have enough experience with this....but can you turn off the actual phone functions, incl. the regular checking-in at the nearest cell tower, and just use (smart) phones for their apps in quasi local-only offline mode?
All phones I know/owned turned on everything when you turned on the phone itself...
> 1) Ad hominem attacks on Germany > 2) Comments about installing Linux for your grandmother and her never having to ask for help for the last 5 years > 3) Comments that hardware creators are not open enough > 4) Random attacks on Microsoft's OS from the perspective of Windows 95. > 5) Random attacks on Mac owners. > 6) A "BSD is dying" post > 7) A "this is news?! Where's the Slashdot I used to know" post > 8) A comment about the inconsistency of the periods I used to end each of my points
Well, whatta'ya expect from a bunch of german Nazis, who ain't anywhere near as cool as my Linux-loving grandma, in fact, Nazis quite similar in personality as hardware-creators with a superiority-complex, who cynically cry OpenTears, while randomly shooting volksverhetzende Mac-owners to meet a gruesome death...not unlike the death the underground BSD group has been meeting...all the while the world sits back barely batting their eyes, which some say would never have happened in their younger days when facts and news were delivered almost instantaneously, then debated vigorously, but now hardly a comment from anyone upon these tragic events unfolding, thus diminishing the global outrage this situation should surely justify into an almost unnoticed an occurrence as the inconsistency of periods at the end of online postings.....
> Users have, it claims, also complained of missing functionality, a lack of usability and poor interoperability."
We had Vista forced down our throats. Users also complain of "missing functionality, a lack of usability and poor interoperability" and that with good reasons. Yet the very company responsible for those poor products will make even more money, because unlike Linux and FOSS, it will never be put into question. Besides, as we've all known for the last 20 years or so...the NEXT version will be REALLY GOOD(TM) anyway!
Why is the free market failing so badly in this area??
> How hard would it be for a foreign hacker to hack some email provider's web servers and grab the private SSL cert? > Is that completely impossible in today's IT environment? Then, back in their home country, do a "man in the middle" > and intercept the SSL traffic destined for the email provider, etc. etc.?
They don't even have have to in most (governments) cases. All they need is their local friendly and trusted CA to sign a few MITM certs for them....
> (1) As far as encrypting the data on the phone itself, I'd recommend Blackberry if you can swing it. It's the only phone I know of > that has the capability of actually encrypting the filesystem, though maybe that's changed.
Since you have full access to the OS, can you do a full LUKS, perhaps even on LVM, setup on the N900? Anyone know?
> there is nothing secure about communications, however well encrypted they might be > as people in Egypt found out when the entire country's net went dark.
Electronic communication. There are more ways to (securely) communicate than calling and texting. The usual paradigm also applies here: The more complicated and high-tech a system you're relying on is, the higher the likelihood of it failing (or deliberately being made to fail).
Slashdot Mirror
Taiwan seems to have escaped from sustaining bigger damage. The waves (so far) were fairly small. This does NOT necessarily extrapolate to other locations, as tsunamis spread out in a non-uniform fashion and also depend on many different conditions, which can vary wildly between locations.
Estimated travel times of tsunami through Pacific (mirrored/relinked from the media, since NOAA and especially the West Coast Center sites are being hammered right now):
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/bild-750254-190518.html
Tsunami warnings, that is.
So far no warnings in effect for California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska. Keep watching though and err on the side of caution!
Japan already got smashed. Further warnings for:
RUSSIA / MARCUS IS. / N. MARIANAS / GUAM / WAKE IS. /
TAIWAN / YAP / PHILIPPINES / MARSHALL IS. / BELAU / MIDWAY IS. /
POHNPEI / CHUUK / KOSRAE / INDONESIA / PAPUA NEW GUINEA /
NAURU / JOHNSTON IS. / SOLOMON IS. / KIRIBATI / HOWLAND-BAKER /
HAWAII / TUVALU / PALMYRA IS. / VANUATU / TOKELAU / JARVIS IS. /
WALLIS-FUTUNA / SAMOA / AMERICAN SAMOA / COOK ISLANDS / NIUE /
AUSTRALIA / FIJI / NEW CALEDONIA / TONGA / MEXICO /
KERMADEC IS / FR. POLYNESIA / NEW ZEALAND / PITCAIRN /
GUATEMALA / EL SALVADOR / COSTA RICA / NICARAGUA / ANTARCTICA /
PANAMA / HONDURAS / CHILE / ECUADOR / COLOMBIA / PERU
> Pay in cash whenever practical. It's amazing how many databases
> this will keep you out of.
And don't use loyalty cards, since that defeats the point of paying cash in the first place. Might cost you certain discounts though. Ditto for CC's.
> I don't interest anyone enough to bother
Do you know that? You can't possibly! In fact, these days it's enough to know someone, who knows someone, who is interesting to someone else to get into the dragnet.
Besides, the being of interest part used to be a fairly real-time affair. Now with things saved even officially in various locations for several months or years or forever, the accumulated data can be searched and mined again and again. So you may not be of interest today (or any of your friends), but that is now always subject to change at any time for as long as you live (think Google and them having never deleted ANY search result as of yet. Extrapolate to the rest of your activities and life.)
> jumping through hoops to obfuscate my activity on a regular
> basis would arguably make me a more interesting target.
Another, IMHO, probably baseless assumption at worst or the surveillance state at its best (self-censorship etc.).
Where's the line anyway? Using HTTP? Using SSL? Using SSH tunnels? Using Tor or your own private VPN and Proxies? Many of these are perfectly legit and who knows how many millions of such connections are going on this very second simultaneously. So what's to be afraid of?
Another search engine claiming to take your privacy serious:
https://startingpage.com/
Interesting feature (see settings) is the ability to save your search preferences without a cookie by using a generated URL, which you then use for your Bookmark.
Also of note is the proxy view option of search results.
> http://www.duckduckgo.com/
https://www.duckduckgo.com/
TFTFY!
> > What does the average slashdotter do to preserve their privacy
> Post AC, duh!
Using HTTP and without a proxy...no, you don't post AC!
Regards,
Your ISP, TLA, etc.
> > windows 7 is too good to bother with other OSes
> Microsoft has finally perfected the OS and there is simply no valid
> or rational reason to even have more than that...
But does it run in 640k RAM?
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg? :-)
Don't have enough experience with this....but can you turn off the actual phone functions, incl. the regular checking-in at the nearest cell tower, and just use (smart) phones for their apps in quasi local-only offline mode?
All phones I know/owned turned on everything when you turned on the phone itself...
> This the itanium team; but could they have chosen something a little less, er, pessimistic?
Well, this IS Project Mayhem...! :-)
> 1) Ad hominem attacks on Germany
> 2) Comments about installing Linux for your grandmother and her never having to ask for help for the last 5 years
> 3) Comments that hardware creators are not open enough
> 4) Random attacks on Microsoft's OS from the perspective of Windows 95.
> 5) Random attacks on Mac owners.
> 6) A "BSD is dying" post
> 7) A "this is news?! Where's the Slashdot I used to know" post
> 8) A comment about the inconsistency of the periods I used to end each of my points
Well, whatta'ya expect from a bunch of german Nazis, who ain't anywhere near as cool as my Linux-loving grandma, in fact, Nazis quite similar in personality as hardware-creators with a superiority-complex, who cynically cry OpenTears, while randomly shooting volksverhetzende Mac-owners to meet a gruesome death...not unlike the death the underground BSD group has been meeting...all the while the world sits back barely batting their eyes, which some say would never have happened in their younger days when facts and news were delivered almost instantaneously, then debated vigorously, but now hardly a comment from anyone upon these tragic events unfolding, thus diminishing the global outrage this situation should surely justify into an almost unnoticed an occurrence as the inconsistency of periods at the end of online postings.. ...
> "Users have, it claims, also complained of missing functionality, a lack of usability and poor interoperability."
"Help! I am trying to QUIT and I can't find the START button! This Linux crap is SO not intuitive!!"
> I thought this is the year of Linux on the desktop!
It is!! *
* except in Germany
> Switzerland and Spain are doing great with OSS in government.
Citation needed.
> Users have, it claims, also complained of missing functionality, a lack of usability and poor interoperability."
We had Vista forced down our throats. Users also complain of "missing functionality, a lack of usability and poor interoperability" and that with good reasons. Yet the very company responsible for those poor products will make even more money, because unlike Linux and FOSS, it will never be put into question. Besides, as we've all known for the last 20 years or so...the NEXT version will be REALLY GOOD(TM) anyway!
Why is the free market failing so badly in this area??
Monopoly Vendor - meet locked-in Users. Locked-in Users - meet Monopoly Vendor.
> http://freedomboxfoundation.org/
https://freedomboxfoundation.org/
TFIFY!
> you can probably generate several gigabytes of one-time pads
Now all we need is a mail client, that can actually use that generated random data for OTP encryption...
> How hard would it be for a foreign hacker to hack some email provider's web servers and grab the private SSL cert?
> Is that completely impossible in today's IT environment? Then, back in their home country, do a "man in the middle"
> and intercept the SSL traffic destined for the email provider, etc. etc.?
They don't even have have to in most (governments) cases. All they need is their local friendly and trusted CA to sign a few MITM certs for them....
> (1) As far as encrypting the data on the phone itself, I'd recommend Blackberry if you can swing it. It's the only phone I know of
> that has the capability of actually encrypting the filesystem, though maybe that's changed.
Since you have full access to the OS, can you do a full LUKS, perhaps even on LVM, setup on the N900? Anyone know?
> there is nothing secure about communications, however well encrypted they might be
> as people in Egypt found out when the entire country's net went dark.
Electronic communication. There are more ways to (securely) communicate than calling and texting.
The usual paradigm also applies here: The more complicated and high-tech a system you're relying on is, the higher the likelihood of it failing (or deliberately being made to fail).